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Podcast: Critically Acclaimed Network
Episode: Canceled Too Soon #34 - X-Men (1989)
Description: They're some of the most popular superheroes ever created, but before a hit animated series and blockbuster film franchise turned the X-Men into a household name, they were featured in PRYDE OF THE X-MEN, a pilot episode for a different animated series that failed to take off. Back in the late 1980s/early 1990s, X-MEN was one of the most legendary failed pilots ever, even though it got a lot of things wrong, like making Logan (a.k.a. Wolverine) really, really, REALLY... Australian? But was X-MEN... canceled too soon? Join film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Sei...