Golden Age Heroes
Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti is producing this series of heroes and villains in their later years. With Emerald City Comicon just behind us, these seem somehow appropriate.
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Avatar Recap: Book 3, Chapter 1
For those of you who have been paying attention, Amy and I got all caught up on Avatar: The Last Airbender a few weeks back, via DVDs borrowed from friends and rented from Netflix.
Well the time has finally arrived for the new season to start up. Book III: Fire picks up a few weeks after the last chapter in season 2. What has become of Aang and his crew? And did the show live up to the high expectations it has created for itself? Hit the jump to find out.
BEWARE: SPOILERS ABOUND
Howtoons - for future geeks
Howtoons.com just launched a web version of its kids instructional comic series which is perfect for the geek in training, or geek parent to pass along to their geek kids. Howtoons is a one-page comic strip that shows you how to make awesome stuff, including a zoetrope, springloaded chopsticks, and a bottle submarine. Most kids don't have school for a few days yet, why not keep them occupied with a fun project?
See this? This is what I was talking about.
Some lady named Paige MacGregor over at a website called Film School Rejects posted an article a little bit ago about why a Thundercats movie must absolutely be made. Remember a while ago how I told you to stop thinking that everything made in the 80s was the height of entertainment? Yeah, here's a great example of that. It's so bad, in fact, that I'm not entirely sure it's not supposed to be satire. Somebody please tell me if it's supposed to be satire.
Go ahead over there and check out the article then come on back and read the rest of mine. I'm gonna be a mean horrible person and completely deconstruct and destroy her reasons. Why? Hello, and welcome to the Internet. That's what we do here. Also, feuds are good for generating traffic.
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Impressive Calvin and Hobbes student film
From the sadly sinking ship that is Table of Malcontents today, I give you this amazing treat.
Italian student Donato DeCarlo made this Calvin and Hobbes animation for school, and it's amazing. Watch it and dream about what could have been if Bill Watterson wasn't such a shut-in.
Take off your rose-colored nostalgia glasses.
As a child of the 80s, I grew up watching the cartoons that defined our generation at the time. I'm sure a good percentage of our listeners here at the ol' Dubya Jee share a similar history. And as geeks, we paid a lot more attention to our cartoons than the average kid. Like video games came to be, toons were an escape for us. We had our He-Man, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, etc. We had a giant proliferation of toys to go with our favorite shows. By most accounts, the 80s were the golden years for cartoons. Well guess what, those "most accounts" are dead wrong. That's right, I said it. I am getting sick and tired of all these 80s kids declaring that "all cartoons today are crap" and that everything we grew up on was vastly superior to what is on now.
That line of thought is patently wrong and I'll tell you why.
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