The nineties were a strange time for comics. A lot of the old familiars of the industry were pushed into a Dark Age by a mass exodus of their big artistic talent for the creator-owned publisher Image, and a reliance on variant covers and other gimmicks which didn't help much when the back issue market totally collapsed and nobody bought anything for a bit. It wasn't great to be a comic reader then, either, because artists were mostly terrible writers. And they didn't have a whole lot of original ideas, opting instead to just rehash the famous characters they worked on before. That's how former X-Men artist Jim Lee came to create Gen¹³, a team of teen heroes born with superpowers thanks to special genes. Hmmm. Despite the obvious rip-off, Gen¹³ not only got optioned for an animated movie, but it was even made. Just never released. Which itself is pretty weird, because 86-minute animated movies don't come cheap. The best it got was a video release in Europe and Australia. The weirdest thing, though? Flea from Red Hot Chilli Peppers starred in it.