I could have sworn that I’ve seen this footage online before, but maybe I’m just crazy. Regardless, it’s totally worth checking out this unaired pilot for The Real Ghostbusters created by producer/director Richard Raynis and animators Kevin Altieri and Eddie Fitzgerald when pitching the show to ABC back in the 80s. Of course, the coolest […]
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The 90s were a turbulent time for Marvel Comics. While they nearly saw financial ruin, they also met with success by teaming with Saban Entertainment to introduce two of the most beloved animated series of the decade: X-Men: TAS and Spider-Man: TAS. Boosted by their success with Saturday morning cartoon, it wasn’t long before Marvel […]
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If there’s one thing we were fed a healthy dosage of during the 90s, it was the importance of being “environmentally safe.” Even cartoons went eco-friendly on us with series such as Swamp Thing, Captain Planet and even Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reminding kids what role they plated in keeping the Earth clean. Among these […]
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When Impel first released the megaton nuke of a card set known as Marvel Universe (Series 1) in 1990, they must’ve known that a cash cow was born because the company quickly scooped up several other major franchises for card series—all using the same general layout/designs as with MU. And while knowing is half the […]
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While Marvel Comics has dabbled in animation since the mid-60s, it wasn’t until 1999, when they joined forces with Saban International and 20th Century Fox, that the publisher offered up it’s first animated series based on The Avengers. The series, The Avengers: United They Stand, was heavily promoted and much hyped. The collective fan response […]
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First appearing in 1978, Jim Davis’s Garfield, about an orange gluttonous cat that hates Mondays and loves Lasagna, is something of a pop culture icon. In fact, that’s a complete understatement when you consider how much profit one single item of his merchandise raked in during the eighties. I speak, of course, of the Garfield […]
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I think one of the two reasons why Bruce Timm’s iteration of Batman continues to be such a celebrated staple of animation is that Timm didn’t just take Batman seriously, he took his audience seriously. Before then, if you wanted to see an animated version of Batman, you had to watch Super Friends, or the […]
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(Re)Animations: X-Men: Evolution (2000)
After director Bryan Singer helped revive comic book properties as bonafide moneymakers with X-Men, his 2000 adaptation of the Marvel series, the comic book team was primed for an animated reboot. Like many other companies before them, Marvel and Film Roman took the youthful approach by establishing a new continuity of the “merry mutants” in […]
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“Let’s get warty!” Premiering in the U.S. during Thanksgiving weekend on FOX Kids (1992) the Battletoads pilot episode was a clear attempt by DIC to tap into the popularity of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Based on the NES beat’em-up of the same name, Battletoads boasted a massive fan base and was ripe for an animated […]