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October 2001
X-Men Evolution's Hank McCoy
Courtesy of Comics Continuum
Hank McCoy is joining the cast of Kids' WB!'s X-Men: Evolution beginning with this Saturday's episode.
Hank will be an adult in the show.
Story editor Greg Johnson provided The Continuum with the following description of Hank's character in the series:
"Hank possesses a generous heart, a poet's spirit, a genius's intellect, and a pro-wrestler's body. Having graduated Bayville High years ago as a star athlete, Hank has since pursued a career in teaching, and has just recently signed on at Bayville as the new chemistry teacher. But he's also serving as the school's head coach, this double duty allowing him to do what he loves most in the world - work with kids. It fills him with passion. But Hank also fears all of his progress, his dreams, his ambitions, will vanish if ever his desperate secret is revealed."
"Hank is a mutant. His entire life, he's been forced to deal with the fact that he possess keen animal instincts, large powerful hands... and a feral savagery that he's only managed to control through sheer willpower. When he does feel his blood starting to boil, he's able to keep a lid on it by reciting the calming passages of Shakespeare."
Hank's first appearance will be in the "Power Surge" episode.
March 2002
New X-Men
Issue 118-123
Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Normally... Frank Quietly. It changes from comic to comic so who knows.
What's this? The latest New X-Men series with Beast as his latest incarnation, a big blue lion creature. Simba eat your heart out. ;)
Beast's role: Not much at first. Hank was not seen much and when he was he was just a big, incoherent shaggy blue creature that people call Hank. I know, he had his brains almost turned into scrambled eggs by Cassandra Nova. But they didn't have to do that in the first place and so he shouldn't be a blubbering creature! He did manage to pull himself from his coma and warn the X-Men about Cassandra Nova in Xavier's body, that's something at least. In # 123 he is awake, articulate and on his way to recovery, even back in his beloved lab studying viruses, and recently beaten bad guy technology to help his fellow X-Men. In #124-125 he's back to his semi-normal self, even cracking more jokes and fighting with the best of them. But there are diffrences now in Hank, we'll see if they become more pronounced or not. He did say something which made me sit up and take notice and dearly hope it was just a joke from the writers. Read # 125 and judge for yourself.
Good Hank Quote: Not much at first "Grrr, rumble, blubber" Only in more recent comics has he come out of the coma and is more or less back to his normal self in terms of team relations and the things he says. But now this stuff with Cassandra Nova has given him a complex. He's afraid he's going to de-evolve into a worm, and he's really afraid of Cassandra Nova.
My rating: Art: 7/10 - Story: 7/10 - Overall: 6/10 - Beast's Appearance: 3/10 - Beast Writing: 7/10
Great, good, bad or ugly: Now that he's woken he's much more articulate, and beginning to spout his one liners, jokes and general good humor. Gettting better but I've still got many bones to pick with Quesada, his artists, his writers and his grand "changes". And the art still leaves a ot to be desired in my book.
July 2002
X-Men 2 - The Movie
Courtesy of Comics Continuum
Brian Cox will play Stryker, the lead villain, in the X-Men sequel, which has
begun production in the Vancouver area.
Cox, 56, is a veteran of more than 40 films and is currently featured in The
Bourne Identity. He also starred as Hannibal Lecter in the 1986 film Manhunter,
below. Fox describes Stryker as a former Army commander who holds the key to
Wolverine's past - as well as the future of the X-Men.
The studio also described Kelly Hu's role as Stryker's assistant, Yuriko
Oyama, who has her own surprises for the heroic team. The character's name
would be consistent with Hu's recent description of the character as Lady
Deathstrike.
Fox also noted that Shawn Ashmore is returning as Bobby Drake (Iceman) and
Aaron Stanford's Pyro will be John Allerdyce. The studio said the young mutants
will be called "the X-Kids."
Although writing credits are not final, the studio lists the screenplay being
written by David Hayter and Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris, based on a story
by returning director Bryan Singer and Hayter.
Returning actors listed by Fox include Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Halle
Berry, Ian McKellen, Famke Janssen, James Marsden, Bruce Davison, Rebecca
Romijn-Stamos and Anna Paquin. Alan Cumming is the newest addition, playing
Nightcrawler.
The studio is also listing Tom DeSanto as a returning executive producer
X-Men 2 - Beast Confirmed
Courtesy of Counting Down
According to a very trustworthy X2 source: "Beast does have a cameo. It's a small part but he's going to look great and maybe we'll see more of him in the 3rd installment."
In other X2 news, three cameos remain uncast: Colossus, Jubilee and Siren.
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