While you weren’t looking, Saturday morning cartoons officially died. A cultural phenomena lasting nearly 60 years, gone. I’m sure none of you continued to wake up on Saturdays to watch, giant bowl of cereal in hand....
Read MoreSuper hero parody has become so popular and dense that it’s practically its own genre. While comics, movies and television are rife with them, one stands out above the rest, The Tick. Originally a comic character from the...
Read MoreYears after the Turtle crazy died with the original 1987 series, 4Kids and Mirage rebooted the series in 2003. With a mature art style and direction that followed the comics more closely, the results were ultimately mixed....
Read MoreThe legacy of Batman: The Animated Series was still continuing with Justice League Unlimited in 2004. Despite this, a new Batman show was launched, albeit with a different take, The Batman. With the Bruce Timm produced universe...
Read MorePokémon. The property is a dynasty. While I was entirely too old when the show started airing, I still caught a few of the earlier episodes thanks to my younger siblings. Being a Nintendo product (yes I know it’s...
Read MoreFollowing up Disney’s fantastic run of hits on Disney Afternoon was Goof Troop, a cartoon that tried to replicate the formula of previous successes, modernizing Disney classics. The Ducks (twice even), Bears, and...
Read MoreVideo game cartoons are notorious for their quality, both good and bad. As video games rose into prominence with Atari in the early 80s and again with Nintendo a few years later, the marketing machine went to work, churning out...
Read MoreAfter Marvel seemingly vacated the cartoon space in the 90s, DC continued to dominate with shows like Justice League and original content such Batman Beyond. Not content with adapting or evolving established characters, Warner...
Read MoreThe year was 1998. The Power Ranger crazy, and the many pretenders that followed, had begun to fade. Saban, needing their next cash cow, decided to try something slightly different. Eschewing the popular (?) sci-fi genre, they...
Read MoreAs the 90s wound down, so did many of the superhero cartoons. By 1998, Batman had been over for a few years, X-Men (1992) had just ended and Spider-Man (1994) was coming to a close (yes, Superman was in its prime). With the...
Read MoreSaturday Mornings lineups had many pitfalls. Often, tough decisions were made about what to watch. Do you watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, or Batman: The Animated Series? A tough choice indeed (but by then, it was totally...
Read MoreVideo game based cartoons are thankfully few and far between. Some are perversions with many being outright atrocities. Occasionally, there’s a decent one, but even then they’re not that good. Mega Man falls...
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