Following my five-season tenure on Avengers Assemble, I took on a new role as the “go to” guy for special projects while working on the next Spider-Man series, titled Maximum Venom. Those project are presented here for your general amusement.

I've spoken before about "magic scripts" in the cartoon biz. At least once on any given season, I get a script that I can see play out like a movie in my head the first time I read it. Then the storyboard flows out of me with seemingly no effort at all. That's what this one was like. The art was sharper, the gags were funnier, and more personality made it into the finished show. In many cases, the storyboards were better than the finished animation.

Tutenstein was based on a comic by Jay Stephens and produced by Porchlight Entertainment for Discovery Kids. I drew six storyboards for the series in the spring and summer of 2003. And despite being completely outside the intended viewership, I enjoyed every minute of it.

Somehow I wound up with an odd, sporadic history with the Men in Black franchise when it became the only IP that I encountered in both my comic book and animation careers. Afterward, any time I was asked what I'd worked on, eyes often lit up when I listed the MiB opening title. More than one viewer said it was the coolest opening they'd ever seen. I will go as far as to say it's the coolest opening I ever worked on.

Of the many TV cartoons I've directed and storyboarded, It's hard to pick one that was more fun to work on than Xiaolin Showdown. It featured four kids learning martial arts, racing villains all over the world to find mystical objects called Shen Gong Wu. It was like we stepped out of a jail cell, blinking in the bright sunshine as our producer handed us the keys to a hot rod and said to drive as fast as we wanted. I love it so much, I'm doling it out one episode at a time so you can see exactly how much fun it was.