What X-Men Can Teach About Storytelling

Recently, I found one of history’s greatest cartoons among Hulu.com’s goodies: the 90’s hit X-Men: The Animated Series, a show that redefined what it meant to make children’s entertainment. What, you might be asking, does a twenty-ish year old cartoon have to do with being an awesome writer? And that would be an excellent question and one I’m happy to answer. So let’s begin, eh?

THINK BEYOND THE ONE EPISODE (OR BOOK)

Back when X-Men TAS premiered, Saturday morning cartoons were only concern...