While the slick animation, strange villains and Japanese locales of Marvel Entertainment's recent string of anime adaptations may make the series feel different from past TV efforts, the company is still placing a premium on the authenticity of its effort.
Aside from initial stories written by comics scribe Warren Ellis, the anime series produced by Japan's Madhouse studio and airing Friday evenings at 11:00 on G4 (so far "Iron Man" and "Wolverine" serials have debuted) also include actors who are well known to comic fans. Former "Heroes" star and occasional comic creator Milo Ventimiglia voiced Wolverine for the mutant's solo series, and starting on October 21, viewers can hear "Friday Night Lights" actor Scott Porter take on the part of Cyclops in the new "X-Men" serial.
A longtime comics reader, Porter has been a fixture at comic conventions for years, but 2011 saw his very first official work on a mainstream comics property. The actor voiced new character Adrian Luca in the just released "X-Men Destiny" video game, and now with Cyclops is bringing his love of everything from the classic Chris Claremont X-Men comics to Ellis' own "Astonishing X-Men" run to bear on his work. Porter told CBR News about what it took to meld two eras of X-Men comics in anime, the challenge of dubbing a previously finished film and his own personal picks for comics.