Fantastic Four

There have been so many versions of the Fantastic Four I’m going to do my best here to cover something about everything. First though you must understand the characters. The Fantastic Four are led by Mr. Fantastic. In the film version they were all astronauts and they get their “fantastic” powers after some space goo […]

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero

Guns, violence, tanks, skiing good guys with bright red beards, professional wrestling, and bad guys named Cobra are what made GI Joe what it was. I could simply stop there and you’d think this was a great show. It wasn’t. Not at all. GI Joe was a show with all the flair that never lived […]

X-Men: The Animated Series

My mother always made sure my Halloween costume matched my younger sister’s. When I was in kindergarten I was Rajah the tiger from Aladdin while my sister was Jasmine. When I was in third grade I was Rodney King and my sister was a white cop with a tire iron. In first grade though, my […]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Life has many possibilities. One of those possibilities is not turtles stepping into green ooze in a sewer then becoming human-like teenagers. I guess that’s what television for, exploring complete impossibilities. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was probably in my top 5 shows. I even remember the show making it onto my Myspace Top 8. That’s […]

Spider-Man: The Animated Series

By now we all know the story of Peter Parker, the nerdy high school photography student who gets bitten by a genetically altered spider and becomes Spider-Man. Really the only spider quality he has is the ability to shoot web out from his wrists. That’s like any fat guy making a costume then calling himself […]

Batman: The Animated Series

I wanted to start my first post here off with a bang and write about a show everyone watched no matter what race, gender, or sexual orientation. It wasn’t until I realized through other means I have already pretty much excluded everyone from my life other than straight white males so I figured I should […]