I’ve been an X-Men fan since I first received some action figures of them at random during the Xmas of 1990. Received the first three episodes of the series on VHS back in ‘93—one episode per tape—anyone else remember those days? I fell in love with those episodes, and being only age nine at that time, I didn’t know they actually made a TV series. I discovered that randomly one Saturday morning with the Colossus vs Omega Red episode. I watched the series loyally to the end since then.
Being a fan of Deadpool before the character really hit their popularity stride later on, I always hoped there would be at least one episode featuring him. We did get two quick cameos with his character on screen, and I’m sure it was some sort of licensing issue that prevented more screen time for him.
Point being, this book also has two sketches of Deadpool in it. Sketches of most of the Morlocks featured in episode four, to most of the refugees featured in that episode with Cyclops vs The Purple Man, Age of Apocalypse characters, Sinister’s Nasty Boys: Most of these characters are featured in this book. That—to me—is not what I expected. Which makes me extremely happy—that I finally have an artbook with some of the original sketches of characters that were one offs or easter eggs give this significantly more meaning to me as well as hitting a nostalgia factor I never expected it to pull off.
This book is a wealth of animation sketches and material, as well as stories from the creators, storyboards—they have a tidbit about the short, bald dude in the green costume running at the X-Men at the end of the intro sequence, which I always thought was a random character made for the show. He wasn’t. There’s some serious love in this book. Is it perfect? No. I would’ve loved to see more sketches and storyboards from the Asteroid M, Bishop vs Fitzroy, and final four Apocalypse episodes (in Season 4). However, the sheer volume of content this book has provided is impressive.
If you were a fan of this series growing up, you won’t be disappointed with this book.
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