It’s always a strange feeling reaching the end of a season when you know there’s more to come. There’s comfort in it — a sense of relief and safety. Whatever chaos we’ve just watched unfold, the ma…

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS AND DETAILS FOR X-MEN 97 SEASON 2 The X‑Men have crossed paths with countless mutants who had nowhere to go, and met allies who refused to fight for someone …

Death is a fact of life in reality, but in superhero fiction it often feels more like an administrative inconvenience. For decades, the old rule was that only Uncle Ben and Bucky stayed dead — unti…

Death is a fact of life in reality, but in superhero fiction it often feels more like an administrative inconvenience. For decades, the old rule was that only Uncle Ben and Bucky stayed dead — unti…

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS AND DETAILS FOR X-MEN 97 SEASON 2 The X‑Men have crossed paths with countless mutants who had nowhere to go, and met allies who refused to fight for someone …

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We have a confession to make here at X‑Cess Minutiae: we love Lorna Dane. From the moment this writer first met her during Peter David’s critically acclaimed X‑Factor run in 1991, she’s been a pers…

The original animated X‑Men series broke the mold when it came to continuity. Its first season was a fully structured arc, with each episode leading directly into the next — a common practice now, …

The original animated X‑Men series broke the mold when it came to continuity. Its first season was a fully structured arc, with each episode leading directly into the next — a common practice now, …

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS AND DETAILS FOR X-MEN 97 SEASON 2 You cannot tell a story about Apocalypse unless you start at the beginning, which I’m told is a very good place to start. T…

The X‑Men fail this week—catastrophically and devastatingly. As Hank suggests in Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2), perhaps they were always meant to be here; perhaps they had to be. Magneto’s naïveté, o…

The X‑Men fail this week—catastrophically and devastatingly. As Hank suggests in Rise of Apocalypse (Part 2), perhaps they were always meant to be here; perhaps they had to be. Magneto’s naïveté, o…

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS AND DETAILS FOR X-MEN 97 SEASON 2 You cannot tell a story about Apocalypse unless you start at the beginning, which I’m told is a very good place to start. T…

If the season premiere was about scale, then this one is about differences — the ideological fractures between mutant teams, the moral lines they draw, and the consequences of crossing them.

After two years of waiting, X‑Men ’97 roars back into action for its second season, and this opening chapter throws us straight into a time‑travelling epic centred on one of the X‑Men’s most enduri…

If the season premiere was about scale, then this one is about differences — the ideological fractures between mutant teams, the moral lines they draw, and the consequences of crossing them.

After two years of waiting, X‑Men ’97 roars back into action for its second season, and this opening chapter throws us straight into a time‑travelling epic centred on one of the X‑Men’s most enduri…

Might makes right when Charles becomes unstoppable

Destiny Unleashed isn’t an easy episode to sit with, and it certainly isn’t the kind of story you expect from a Saturday‑morning cartoon. It’s still a jarring episode if one considers the sta…

Cry Vulture is the first episode of Spider‑Man Unlimited that genuinely pulls the rug out from under you. Up until now, the series has been content to play with its setting — the dystopian skyline,…

Enter the Hunter sounds like a straightforward villain‑of‑the‑week episode, but don’t be fooled. This isn’t just another costumed bruiser for Spider-Man to web up. The Hunter is something far nasti…

One of the truly wonderful things about comic book characters is that, traditionally, they never age. It’s a trick of the medium — a way to keep heroes familiar and accessible to every new generati…

We’re told from a young age not to judge a book by its cover — or, in Spider‑Man’s case, not to judge someone by the mask they wear. This episode opens with a perfect example of why. With nothing m…

We’re all haunted by our pasts. In comics, that’s practically a requirement — every hero and villain carries scars that shape the choices they make. On Counter‑Earth, that truth is magnified. Even …

We’re all haunted by our pasts. In comics, that’s practically a requirement — every hero and villain carries scars that shape the choices they make. On Counter‑Earth, that truth is magnified. Even …

We’re told from a young age not to judge a book by its cover — or, in Spider‑Man’s case, not to judge someone by the mask they wear. This episode opens with a perfect example of why. With nothing m…

Spider-Man’s arrival on Counter‑Earth throws him into a world that feels wrong in every direction — familiar enough to unsettle him, alien enough to disarm him. Overnight he goes from New York’s fr…

Spider-Man’s arrival on Counter‑Earth throws him into a world that feels wrong in every direction — familiar enough to unsettle him, alien enough to disarm him. Overnight he goes from New York’s fr…

One of the truly wonderful things about comic book characters is that, traditionally, they never age. It’s a trick of the medium — a way to keep heroes familiar and accessible to every new generati…

The X-Men must liberate Cecilia and Charlotte from the clutches of the Neo!