I believe I can credit being a modern day geek to a single source. Don’t get me wrong, I watched cartoons like everyone else; unlike everyone else, a single source in the late 80’s started me down a horrible dark spiral of which I never returned. A single twenty-two minute episode of television aired one day in 1989 which completely captivated me. The neighbour we were babysitting had just left and Glowworms was finally ending (thank god).
Then it started. I was instantly drawn to the killer theme song and these new characters were so incredible! I was just standing there, my hand glued to the television, motionless until the commerical break.
I had just witnessed the opening for “Pryde of the X-Men” a Marvel special which highlighted the X-Men in all of their mutant glory. Almost four years before the Fox X-Men cartoon started, the X-Men got their day in the sun for only a single half-hour.
I instantly fell in love with these characters. Without question Colossus was the coolest character I had ever seen on my television set up to that point; to this day he is still my favourite comic character. The villains were intimidating, the heroes had contrasting personalities and I was going to marry Kitty Pryde; she could walk through walls!
Basically one block of after school programming turned me onto the X-Men, which then lead to comics. I was always a creative kid, but give a child the ideas found in the X-Men cartoon & comics before he even turns 10 and there are no limits to how the mind will react. Had I not discovered comics so young, I doubt I’d grow up so attached to them. I would not be the same person I am today.
For you enjoyment I have located “Pryde of the X-Men” in it’s entirety. Enjoy!
Edit: I promise I’ll try to avoid these walls of text in the future!
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