Wolverine and the X-Men Cartoon Is an Exercise in Fan Wankery
I said some pretty harsh stuff about Wolverine and the X-Men when it was first announced, mainly because I hate when Wolverine gets put in charge, because it’s obvious that it’s because he’s popular, and not because of any kind of storytelling. Well, I still hate that (the animators do attempt a cop-out by having Professor X’s ghost demand Wolverine take charge to avoid a dark future), but it seems everything else in this trailer looks good. There’s Emma Frost, Kitty Pride, Cyclops and no Jean Grey (which is about the only time he’s interesting), Sentinels, Domino, Mojo, Gambit?shit, it’s like the ’90s cartoon all over again, but with slightly better animation. I don’t know if kids’ll dig it, but it seems like X-Men comic fans should be masturbating furiously in joy.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.