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Saturday morning cartoons. If it’s, one thing I miss about growing up is waking up every weekend on Saturday to a host of cartoons from 7 in the morning until noon. The only thing better was coming home from school on the weekdays and catching the likes of GI Joe and the Transformers starting at 3. They’ll never be anything like it and sadly these new generations won’t even know how great it was.
One of the best weekly cartoons was X-Men and in 1997, this Marvel series was the pinnacle of TV adapted comic book fandom. It wasn’t just for the children. Oh no. The plots, action and consequences of actions were very much adult in its execution and it was a sad day when the show went off the airwaves. Seeing all your favorite mutants, especially Wolverine for me, was the apex of show and now we all can cheer as Disney+ and Marvel Studios are continuing the series right where it left off with its new show X-Men ’97. These days, the nostalgia bug is biting all of us and this is the top of the mountain in terms of that feel good emotion we all had as a kid.
Disney+ has unveiled a brand new and nostalgia drenched trailer along with key art that screams 80’s so suit up and become a kid once again with X-Men ’97! You’ll thank me later.
X-Men ’97 revisits the iconic era of the 1990s as The X-Men, a band of mutants who use their uncanny gifts to protect a world that hates and fears them, are challenged like never before, forced to face a dangerous and unexpected new future.
X-Men ’97 features an impressive voice cast including Ray Chase as Cyclops, Jennifer Hale as Jean Grey, Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm, Cal Dodd as Wolverine, JP Karliak as Morph, Lenore Zann as Rogue, George Buza as Beast, AJ LoCascio as Gambit, Holly Chou as Jubilee, Isaac Robinson-Smith as Bishop, Matthew Waterson as Magneto and Adrian Hough as Nightcrawler.
Watching the trailer certainly brings back all those wonderful and inviting memories and when the series debuts on March 20th, I’ll be there with my Saturday morning cereal in hand.
