Watching Videos Over the Holidays December 24, 2008
The holidays are a great time to chill out and watch some old videos that are collecting dust on your shelf. Saturday, I watched 8 Man After, DBZ Treee of Might, and DBZ Dead Zone.
It’s always fun to watch old Streamline Pictures anime becuase they seem to use the same 5 voices for all of their dubs. But I still enjoy Streamline Pics like 8 Man After. Plenty of good action, nice story and good animation that holds up pretty well today. I wish it could have been fleshed out into a full series, instead of an OAV.
The DBZ movies were fun just to see how the DBZ characters have evolved over time. Gohan, the litte kid with so much hidden power. Piccolo, (in Dead Zone) is training for a re-match with his nemisis Goku! And Goku, who hasn’t figured out the Super Saiyan thing yet, relies on his Kaiô-ken to fight his enemies.
Later, I plan to watch Voltron: Fleet of Doom. I’m still mad, reflecting on my elementary school days when all my friends came in and told me how cool it was to see BOTH Voltrons TOGETHER! Of course, I never saw that episode until I was an adult. I may watch some of my DC Animation DVDs too.
What are you watching over the holidays?
Justice League: The New Frontier review February 11, 2008
It is an accomplished, serious and adult adaptation that keeps every ounce of the original story’s brilliance. What we have here is a serious adult superhero story straight out of the Silver Age, but with the weight of the best of modern age storytelling.
read more from Ain’t It Cool News
Justice League - The New Frontier (Single-Disc Edition)
“Futurama,” “Doomsday” Blaze New Markets for Old Series December 31, 2007
Doomsday has sold 600,000 units since it was released, which is 30% ahead of Warners’ own internal predictions. New Frontier is also tracking ahead of expected preorders.
Read more from Toon Zone.
New Dr. Strange Site May 21, 2007
Marvel has launched a new web site for the new Dr. Strange film:
http://www.marvel.com/doctorstrange
Grow Up? May 14, 2007
While reviewing the anime film, Paprika, Newsweek’s David Ansen wonders why Americans aren’t more open to animated films for adults.
There’s no reason the imaginative freedom that animation allows shouldn’t be unleashed on adult themes, especially when graphic novels have entered the literary mainstream and when CGI has blurred the line between live action and animation in films like “300.” Outside the United States, animators are not so likely to be confined to the ghetto of kiddie movies.
Read more at Newsweek.
Official Doomsday Site May 2, 2007
Waner Bros. Entertainment has created an official web site for the movie Superman: Doomsday.
John Semper Talks Spider-Man: The Animated Series April 24, 2007
John Semper served as the series producer/story editor for Spider-Man: The Animated Series. He was given the daunting task of adapting Spider-Man’s long comic book history onto the small screen and now speaks to The Marvel Animation Age about his work on the series.
Read more at The Marvel Animation Age
New Hellboy Comes To TV October 25, 2006
Hellboy: Sword of Storms, a new animated feature based on Mike Mignola’s graphic novel series, continues the comic-book and film series when it debuts Oct. 28 at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT on Cartoon Network’s Toonami programming block.
Read more on Sci-Fi
Hear the interview with Mignola from Wordballoon
Ultimate Avengers 2: Rise of the Panther October 16, 2006
Captain America, the Hulk, Iron Man and other superheroes join forces to save mankind from an alien invasion. Animated.
Sat 10/21 8:30 PM CST
CARTOON NETWORK
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Rated: pg-13
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Superman: Doomsday & Justice League: New Frontier September 29, 2006
The Superman Homepage has the following details regarding these two animated features…
Superman: Doomsday
In an epic tale of sacrifice, Superman battles an intergalactic serial killer in a superpowered Armageddon - “Superman: Doomsday”.
Justice League: New Frontier
Live the intense tale of the founding of the greatest band of superheroes ever - “Justice League: New Frontier”.
In this origin epic, a virtual who’s who of superheroes featuring not only Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, but also Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and Flash, these very different heroes must overcome their fear and suspicion of one another to forge an alliance against a creature so formidable that it will take all of their powers combined to prevail!
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