And hot damn, was this some of the best news Id gotten all year!
See, I have a very special relationship withX-Men: The Animated Series.
I had slept over at a friends house the morning The Cure aired.
I know this because I vividly remember promising my friend with cocksure authority (Thanks,TV Guide!)
I missed Nightcrawler to attend my brothers Bar Mitzvah.
No regrets there, but thank the gods for VCRs.
Suffice it to say, I love this show.
Remember, this was a time before The Pirate Bay.
One ornery VCR, and it was all over.
And then… came the DVD releases, and I knew it would all be okay.
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Lets be honest.
We got all those wonderful episodes, crisp and clear and bursting with nostalgia, but nothing else.
No commentaries, no behind-the-scenes featurettes, nothing to add to the experience wed already had with the show.
See, we writers?
Were not generally the slickest people on the planet.
Most of us were not the cool kids in high school.
We were the freaks, the mutants.
Previously on X-Menis a legit page-turner.
I read the first half of the nearly 450-page book in one sitting.
Its a book that, in lesser hands, would have been incredibly dry despite the subject matter.
Weve all read those books.
Instead, Eric Lewald provides the reader with a behind-the-scenes guide that is, well, juicy.
Its compelling, funny, at points a little weird, and most surprisingly… moving.
Rating:
5 out of 5
