Larry Houston

Exactly.

And, you know, the creators of the show, the original show, Eric and Julia Leewald and Larry Houston, who was the original director, you know, we always say, Like, why hasn't society learned the lesson that we were trying to teach with the first go around? And that Stan Lee, you know, was trying to teach with his comics, you know, that civil rights and human rights and women's rights, you know, we're all in this together.

The LGBTQ community, diversity, you know, isn't it? what makes the world an interesting and beautiful place.

Like if we were all the same, wouldn't that be pretty boring?

Can't wait to ask him why nobody allows him to babysit in real life anymore.

Alongside Larry Houston, Jake Castorena, Ron Wasserman, and Bob Skier.

And for those of you who don't know, Larry is the director of the original X-Men The Animated Series, as well as an executive producer on this one.

Jake is a supervising producer on X-Men 97.

You're kind of cute in a creepy sort of way, I think she says to him.

And Larry Houston, who's our original director, he worked on a lot of Spider-Man shows, too.

Mm-hmm.

I don't know if you know that, but he's got quite a few Spider-Man series to his credits.

And I feel like we're blessed.

We have an amazing team.

Larry Houston, again, our original director, used to say, you know, when all the elements came together for X-Men, the animated series, it was like lightning in a bottle.

Yeah.

He's had parts of movies ranging from Oh Brother Where Art Thou to Heaven Can Wait.

The Alpine character was also a favorite of animator, storyboard, and future X-Men cartoon head Larry Houston.

And Larry made sure Alpine got a good spotlight moment in the now famous intro sequence for the G.I. Joe movie.

Love that theme song.

You know, and you come into the series, um, with 30 years of knowledge of, of X-Men.

You know, Larry had a wealth of knowledge, Larry Houston had a wealth of knowledge of X-Men.

Will Meugene had an e- you know, just another, um, you know, wealth of knowledge of X-Men.

Eric and Julia, the, you know, Lewalds, are learning to write as they're learning about the X-Men as they're building the series.

Yeah.

It wasn't, like, to the exclusion of the Lee Walsh.

It wasn't, like, the, you know, the exclusion of me or Larry Houston.

But I mean, you know, there is Sidney saying, you know, "This is a series that is a, that is, you know, a serious series about a serious subject, and we're gonna take it as seriously as a heart attack." And so, you know, it wasn't like Eric giving, you know, wonderful credit to the audiences.

Yeah.

Well, hey, you know, shout out to Larry Houston.

He's doing a stream.

He's back

in X-Men.

That's true.

They did bring Larry Houston back in, which is a big deal because that man did the original X-Men series.

So, I mean, like, I can't fault anything that Larry, any ideas that Larry has.

Roboto going head-to-head with He-Man, holding him back with his built-in laser blaster, while holding up the Bashosaurus piloted by Teela in his other hand, really did illustrate a hella powerful dude.

Written by Christy Marx and art by Larry Houston and Alfredo Alcala, The Battle of Roboto naturally tells the origin of Roboto, who like any artificial being, wasn't born, but built by He-Man's closest friend, Duncan, officially designated as Man-At-Arms.

Basically, the most important individual in Roboto's story moving forward.

As the story goes, Duncan needed a tireless, invulnerable defender to bolster the heroic warriors.

The Big Iron Fist is just the beginning, so let's get into it.

The original mini-comic packed with Fisto was The Clash of Arms, a personal favorite of mine, illustrated by Larry Houston.

And that comic places Fisto front and center in a genuinely tense action story.

He starts out scouting the borderlands of Eternia on Stridor, when Skeletor's goon squad of Triclops, Clawful, Webstor, and Jitsu ambush him.

How y'all doing? There we go.

Well, how are you doing, Petula? Because, of course, this week on Bloodbath, which, of course, is our comic book-centric podcast, Package of Bloodbath, this week's episode of The Drop was your interview with Larry Houston.

Yeah, I mean, living my X-Men dreams, re-watching the long-awaited second season of X-Men 97, just because it's kind of my comfort show.

Less emotionally... draining than season one, but no less entertaining.

There you go.

There you go.

So, of course, you can definitely check out her interview with Larry Houston, of course, animation director, writer, producer and a producer on X-Men 97.

Of course, one of the the minds behind X-Men, the animated series.