SPOILER WARNING: ALL OF THEM, NONSTOP

In which we put the comics on hold to take a look at X-Men ’97; it is still always Inferno in here; Wolverine is best used sparingly; a Marvel show finally embraces politics; Wolverine is best in small doses; Madeylne Pryor still always deserves better; Jubilee grows up; and we are all in on this series.

X-PLAINED:

• “Beyond Good and Evil”
• X-Men: The Animated Series and our respective feelings about it
• X-Men ’97, episodes 1-5
• Watching X-Men ’97 with and without context
• Making animated Cyclops work
• The Magneto’s-hair-length morality index
• Politics
• Voices
• Adaptation pacing
• Agency
• Abcissa
• Foreshadowing
• Time compression
• Horniest Rogue
• Death in cartoons
• A metaphor
• Nonbinary identity in 1997
• Character evolution

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