During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly reflecting on his long career in Hollywood, Alan Cumming cited 2003’s X2: X-Men United as “the gayest film [he’s] ever done.”
X-Men ‘97's love-letter continuation of the original X-Men animated series is not just a chance to revisit the world left behind by this particular take on Marvel mutantdom, but incorporate more ideas and interpretations of the metaphor mutantkind has provided across decades of comics.
This morning brought our first good look at X-Men ‘97 in action, and while there’s a lot you can say about Marvel’s return to nostalgia for the
Kurt Wagner’s relationship with Mystique and Destiny has long been a messy, divisive one–but as the current era of X-Men comics is more explicit about their
