Category Archives: Animation
WTF Is Wrong With DC Comics, The Blue Beetle Edition
So, as a company DC has spent the last 3 years promoting the Blue Beetle title, fighting off naysayers, hyping the surprisingly consistently good reviews of the title, and this week they announce it’s cancellation. BLUE BEETLE #36 Written by Matthew Sturges Art by Carlo Barberi Cover by Rafael Albuquerque Say goodbye to the bravest [...]
Finally: Talking Toilet Chains And Piledriving Vegetables Come To TV
I’m very, very conflicted in my response to this. Via Cynopsis, a pair of new cartoon series in development, aimed squarely at kids: The Adventures of Brush Lee and Jackie Chain an animated series about an evil toilet chain and a heroic brush in a kung-fu battle comedy. From the UK-based production company Naughty Tortoise. [...]
Mighty Marvel Marching Society
If this doesn’t make your life a little better, I can’t help you.
Fanboy And Chum Chum Heading To Your TV
This morning was the first I’d heard of Fanboy and Chum Chum, but apparently the just-greenlit Nickelodeon series has been very publicly in development for quite some time. Taking a quick look through these postings detailing the show’s developmental process on the Fredrator blog, I’m immediately looking forward to it. Looks like good, clean, superhero-y [...]
Octopi In Love
This animated short, found via the incredibly good Drawn.ca, is an amazing bit of student animation. Legitimately great, I’d go as far as to say this piece is up to Pixar levels. Goddamn, the future’s great. EDIT: Aw, man – it’s down. Here’s a very cool “Making Of” video, though. The level of detail they [...]
Next Summer’s Con-Season Fashion Must – Anime Eye Contact Lenses
I’ll be downright shocked, if not completely disappointed, if folks don’t notices cosplayer after cosplayer sporting unnaturally large pupils as they giggle and skip down crowded aisles. For $30 or so, there’s really no excuse for these exaggerated – and borderline creepy – contact lenses not to be all over the place inside of a [...]
