Check the quote on "we had 9 million watching every week." That's right, once upon a time, 9 million viewers was considered a failure for prime time network scripted series.

I read one of those "complete Onslaught" collections with the original propsal and the idea was Onslaught was a classic "think he's the good guy" thing. His ultimate goal was to use his power to link the minds of everyone on Earth, believing that Xavier was too weak to do it and everyone knowing what everyone was…

You see the mess the X-Books were in 1995 and makes it even more remarkable that Age of Apocalypse was pulled off as well as it was, with a great storyline mixing well, set up nicely and a good, clean ending, something Marvel rarely did then.

Mark Waid loves to talk of how his run was a clusterfuck from the start because of editorial. He went in with the clear understanding "Onslaught was Xavier, period." Then suddenly, he's told "no, no, it's a mix of Xavier and Magneto's dark side but it has its own plan to link the minds of humanity, no, wait, we want…

I remember reading a few interviews with guys since who openly admit Lobdell would start big "mystery arcs" with absolutely no idea how to finally solve them.

Dear God, the 1990s, the decade when the X-Men franchise went from "a tad complicated" to " you need fucking road maps and full-scale encyclopedias to make sense of this."

A damn shame given how great it was but perhaps it was destined to die early in order to free Krysten Ritter to be Jessica Jones.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thought Drake was based a lot on Cage's character, albiet a bit younger and rougher.

Give him crap on some of his later parts but Cage really does a great job with these films. Take the scene where he's talking about a secret map on the back of the Declaration like it's the most logical thing in the world and of course, he's only stealing it becuase they turned him down when he asked nicely. That…

Interesting article, have to think how many sitcoms truly require proper airing order, at least in early going. Actually, heard complaints about The Middle as for some reason, the first four seasons and 6 are on DVD but not not the fifth so newbies miss all that.

Now of course, I find myself wondering who would be the dream casting for Starr. John Malkovich? J.K. Simmons? Dare I dream Mads Mikkeslsen?

But he was a bit shaken to find out the guy died because of it, clearly thought it'd be just a fun joke, didn't take in the full consequences.

Kudos to the makeup team on Arseface, looks just like the character and love they keep the "translation subtitles" just like the comic.
And the bit of Tulip in the car would be right at home under Dillion's pencils.

I do hope they keep how he refers to himself in the third person all the time.

Yeah, I'm happy they kept to the dark humor too.

In the comics, he notes that except for sunlight "everything is shite. Garlic, crosses, wooden stakes, silver, it's all shite." He even gets his head cut off once and just has it sewn back on and takes a bit to get his vocal cords healed back. But somehow, sunlight is still enough to burn him up.

The comic has aged not too bad considering it throws so much '90s stuff into it and still a dark ride, especially the later going. Worth a binge in the collections even if much of it won't be on the show.

Nah, best was the one pouring holy water with "die, you unholy abdomination" and Cassidy is just "Um, dude, the books are all crap."

That was funny and perfectly in tone for the comic, Ennis must be kicking himself he didn't think of something like it.

One bit I liked is in the comic, it goes right to Jesse but here, the Genesis power is "testing" other religious folks (like Tom Cruise) and selecting the one who's not a true believer makes perfect sense.