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THE X-FILES | 6.02

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All good things… Alas, X-MEN ‘92 finishes its run with issue No. 10, so with this final cover, I just wanted to send one giant, gushing love letter to the team, the era, and its fans. THIS is how I remember the team–those colorful Jim Lee designs, filtered through the cartoon show and Marvel vs. Capcom. Just trying to crystallize that feeling the best I could.

Had a blast working on this series with the incredibly talented Chad Bowers Chris Sims Alti Firmansyah Jordan D. White and Heather Antos. Can’t wait to read those last three issues, you guys!

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Here’s my piece that I made for the Steven Zine! I was holding off, because I wanted time for the zine to sink in. 

Giant Kaiju battle!!!!!!!

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Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet were incredibly big influences on my sense of humor growing up, and likewise Toonami’s presentation helped inform a lot of what I consider “cool” even today.

I still remember the first time I saw the “Table Read” episode of SGC2C, and was finally able to put faces to the voices that had been such big fixtures in my youth. I think that was also the first time I realized Zorak and Moltar were voiced by the same guy, which kind of blew my mind. It also really helped humanize the production of those programs for me, and made me realize they really were sort of rogue experiments like Moltar talked about during those early Toonami bumpers. Just stuff some dudes put together to fill time on a nascent cable network and to amuse themselves, which ended up amusing a lot of other people too.

Thanks for everything, Clay. You’ll be missed.

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C. Martin Croker, the voice of Zorak and Moltar (and Dr. Weird and Steve from Aqua Teen Hunger Force), animator, and a key fixture of Cartoon Network/Toonami/Adult Swim/Williams Street, died yesterday.

I spent a good chunk of my childhood taping Space Ghost: Coast to Coast episodes off TV and onto VHS tapes (between episodes of Gargoyles and DBZ) and downloading low-quality .wav files of episodes to make into computer sound effects on Windows 95. I don’t know where I’m going with this other than SGC2C was important to me and C. Martin Croker’s art and voice were also important to me and I’m sad he’s gone.

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1977 x Space - Magic Fly

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The dope rides of Dope Rider.

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TESB: This rarely seen Ralph McQuarrie painting depicts the familiar AT-ATs in very unfamiliar settings. Yes, this is Hoth, but far from the battlefields near Echo Base. These AT-ATs have gone for a quiet midnight stroll to burn off some steam. Have they been separated from the rest of the pack? Is this an exercise of some kind before the huge battle that would take place the next day? We may never know…

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Are You a YAPPIE? “This booklet, published along with the August 1984 issue of The Anime magazine, is a fascinating reminder that we didn’t always have a pithy term to describe Japan’s legions of anime-obsessed young adults. Although the now commonplace “otaku” made its official debut the year before in a column by Akio Nakamori, it wouldn’t become widely used until the end of the decade, and then mainly as an epithet. In the meantime, The Anime produced this pamphlet in an attempt to hang a name on a growing subculture that undoubtedly included a large segment of its readership. The word they chose was “Yappie,” a contraction of “Young Anime People.”