This is one of the many great things about this show. It really got a lot of kids interested and a lot started looking into the comics. Even me, I liked comics but this show definitely started to get me focusing more on X-Men. It was a simple transition. For the most part you could go from watching the show and then go pick up an X-Men book and pretty much get what was going on. Kind of brilliant.
Honestly that's a big misstep in my opinion today with comics. Marvel currently has such popular movies but if you were a kid and decided to pick up some current comics you wouldn't understand anything or anyone. It seems like it would just be a turn off.