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How many is too many X-Men? That’s the eternal question for the creators ofX-Men ’97 and its predecessor, X-Men: The Animated Series. Even when that first series began in 1992, Marvel had enough mutants to fill five monthly comic books, and yet the show narrowed the list down to seven regulars. Across two seasons, X-Men…

This past April, when writer Benjamin Percy stopped by X-Men Monday #337 to discuss Wade Wilson: Deadpool, he teased, “When I was writing Wolverine and Ghost Rider… I couldn’t resist pushing them together. That’s not an official announcement. That’s just math that makes sense.” As Punisher is Ben’s other ongoing Marvel series, it was only…

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X-Men ’97had one major flaw that Marvel Studios needs to fix before it’s too late. Marvel Animation’s continuation of X-Men: The Animated Seriesand its predecessor are widely celebrated for their breathless density, achieved by packing decades of comic book storylines, characters, and status quo into short seasons of roughly half-hour episodes. Some of the key…