Felix Vasquez Jr. is a pop culture and movie fanatic born and bred. He's a lover of all things horror, admires Superman, loves to listen to classic rock, drowns himself in nineties nostalgia on his free time, and has been writing for almost twenty years. His writing can be found on various online outlets including Crave, Joblo, and Beyond Hollywood; He's also currently running his own movie review website, Cinema Crazed.
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Even today, Gargoyles is one of the most beloved animated series of all time. And yet, it’s still such an under-utilized franchise. Premiering in 1994, during a time where Disney was really trying to create series with mythos and complexities, Gargoyles stands out as one of company’s most ambitious animated series of the past decade. […]
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No matter how classic or profitable a series or franchise is, studios are always in the market of appealing to a younger audience with a new version of the property. With the success of shows like Muppet Babies and The Flintstone Kids, Hanna-Barbera decided to revisit the formula in 1988 for Scooby-Doo. As many already […]
Tagged with: 90s, animation, cartoons, Hanna-Barbera, Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo
With the success of his iconic adaptation, Batman: The Animated Series, in 1994, creator Bruce Timm was asked to produce a companion series to the darker crime drama. The natural jumping off point was Superman, the equally recognizable and ever immortal character from DC Comics. With Batman: TAS ensuring the success of DC translating in […]
Tagged with: 90s, DC Comics, Superman The Animated Series, Warner Bros.
By the late nineties Warner Bros. had reached the nadir of their animated series lineup, creativity just kind of depleting into abysmal series after abysmal series. Two really bad efforts in particular mark WB’s run of awful animated series in the late nineties. The first is Histeria!, the product of censor badgering for an educational […]
Tagged with: 90s, Animaniacs, cartoon, KidsWB, Pinky and the Brain, Steven Spielberg, Tiny Toon Adventures, tv series
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[EDITOR’S NOTE: Seeing as how this Halloween falls in the year 2013 the crew at SKC decided to invite 13 of our blogging brethren for a monster-sized countdown, weekdays now until Halloween day, celebrating each person’s favorite Halloween movie or animated special.] I’d say the best marketing The Last Halloween ever had was on a […]
Tagged with: 90s, aliens, candy, Halloween, Halloween 13, The Last Halloween
Every time I read up on The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest, someone eventually remarks on how much of a disaster this series was. And every time I still think “Really? This show was a disaster? In what sense?” All I can remember is sitting down every night in the summer, putting on Cartoon Network, […]
Tagged with: 90s, animation, Cartoon Network, Jonny Quest, remake, tv series
“Let’s Get Dangerous!” On Friday September 6th, Darkwing Duck celebrated its 22nd Anniversary airing of its first episode, and what better way to commemorate the occasion than by raving about the show? Back in the 90s, Disney was crazy for ducks. Most shows they produced had some kind of duck character and, lo and behold, […]
Tagged with: animation, Batman, Darkwing Duck, Disney, Walt Disney Studios
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With the end of Tales from the Crypt in 1996 came the death of the anthology television show. Once a common television format, anthologies have gone all but extinct nowadays. Before completely dying off, however, FOX took one last stab at re-inventing the formula with their introduction of the mystery anthology show Beyond Belief in […]
Tagged with: Beyond Belief, Fact or Fiction, Jonathan Frakes, Night Gallery, Tales from the Crypt, television
“The Power is Yours!” If you remember the nineties, you remember that a lot of the decade was based around causes that are brushed aside or ignored today. Literacy, eating healthy, and avoiding drugs were consistent themes on children’s television. Then there was Captain Planet and the Planeteers, a rally cry for the environmental (and […]
Tagged with: 90s, animation, Captain Planet, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, superheroes, Ted Turner
I remember watching this pilot on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim and wondering “When is the next episode coming on?!” Little did I know that this show never went beyond the pilot. For some reason Adult Swim never set it up for a series… perhaps they were too busy producing more comedy from Tim and Eric […]
Tagged with: Adult Swim, Dork!, Evan Dorkin, Milk and Cheese, nerd humor, The Big Bang Theory, Welcome to Eltingville