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CLOVIS, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Legends Comics successful Clovis hosted different superhero-celebrity signing — this time, giving X-Men fans the accidental to conscionable 2 of the voices down the iconic animated heroes.
According to Superfan and Legends Comic's Andy Cazares, each Wednesday is caller comic publication time astatine Legends Comics. But connected Wednesday, March 26, Legends Customers were treated to the shop's latest conscionable and greet lawsuit introducing them to X-Men '97 dependable actors Cal Dodd and Isaac Robinson-Smith.
Cazares says arsenic a instrumentality of X-Men comics, X-Men '97, and its predecessor X-Men the Animated Series, helium was conscionable arsenic excited arsenic fans successful enactment to person the X-Men actors successful the Central Valley.
"It is amazing. The radical that I've work successful the comic books are what taught maine however to work English to statesman with," Cazares said. "When I saw TV, I heard their voices successful my caput arsenic I sounded up the English words - I'm going to conscionable them and archer them convey you for teaching maine English."
Cazares says since the archetypal animated bid that propelled the X-Men into mainstream media ended successful 1997, it's been a marvel to spot caller fans of the bid ticker with their parents who grew up connected the original.
"The parents are grown now, present they person their kids and they go, 'Hey, I enjoyed this arsenic a kid. Maybe you mightiness too,'" Cazares said. "They look to beryllium much fans than the parents were."
Parent and superfan Terry Rodriguez says helium remembers increasing up with the archetypal animated bid and being capable to stock the caller continuation with his woman and kids has been a blessing.
"It means a batch to me. I got to acquisition that arsenic a kid, and my kids present acquisition it with me," Rodriguez said. "We watched those archetypal 2 episodes, astonishing - and then, occurrence five, the sadness of it is conscionable crazy. It makes my woman sob each azygous time."
Rodriguez and his person Cory Patrick accidental they admit being capable to person the superfan experience, and each that comes with it, successful the Central Valley.
"We've been present since six successful the morning," Rodriguez said. "I don't deliberation we needed to beryllium present that early, but conscionable successful case. And we're conscionable excited to beryllium here."
Rodriguez and Patrick accidental they met successful a enactment astatine Legends Comics' largest meet-and-greet to day and the 2 person been bully friends ever since.
Rodriguez and Patrick accidental being capable to bask these meet-and-greets — and the camaraderie of waiting successful enactment with friends — without having to thrust hours away, is simply a large portion of wherefore they enactment Legends Comics.
"We spot this happening successful different places, the Bay area, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose - it's precise uncommon erstwhile it happens successful the Central Valley," Rodriguez said. "Legends Comics is stepping their crippled up."
Legends Comics' Staff Member Darren Hutchinson played a cardinal relation successful the X-Men's quality astatine Legends Comics and helium says he's not amazed X-Men fans person transcended generations.
"X-Men correspond 2 cardinal points," Hutchinson said. "Family successful the look of adversity and outsiders lasting unneurotic - and that's what this procreation truly needs."
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