Welcome true believers to X-Men Horoscopes where each week our host Lodro Rinzler is in conversation with a special guest to discuss the X-Men issue that aligns with a significant month and year from their life and what that issue reveals about their future.
This week we have co-creator of X-Men: The Animated Series Julia Lewald on the show to discuss not just the early days creating the original show but also how the return of X-Men '97 came to be.

We discuss the X-Men issue that came out the same time as the show (adjectiveless X-Men 13) where Professor X - and every other character - has to come to terms with their past through punching.

Also in this episode:

• The important role Pryde of the X-Men played in the creation of X-Men: The Animated Series
• Wolverine’s Australian accent (and how we got it)
• Why they killed Morph
• Why they brought Morph back from the dead
• Carter Ryking’s outfit is “perfectly appropriate” for the time
• Why Kitty Pryde was left on the cutting room floor for X-Men: TAS

All this plus the unrevealed story of how Julia wanted to wrap up the original series. What does any of this mean for her future? Tune in to find out!

Bonus: we get some Eric Lewald in this episode too!

Julia Lewald is a writer, story editor, developer and showrunner on a wide variety of animated and live-action series. She and her husband Eric met while working at Disney TV Animation on the Disney Afternoon shows. Over 30 years later, they continue to love what they do. While listeners of this show may know them for their part in the creation and production of X-Men: The Animated Series they have also helmed The Tick, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers and many other classic shows. They serve as executive producers on X-Men ’97. You can find them on Instagram here.

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