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Drawing Lots and Lots of Little Pictures- A Cartoon Thread

Exposition Owl

Exposition Owl

more posts about buildings and food
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MetManMas said:
I acknowledge that there's the generational gap and all, but also I am so tired of seeing loads and loads of shows and comics and games that are all into torture and murder and Poopy Gore Land and horrible people being assholes.

Like, I get that this is and always has been Adult Swim's M.O., but it'd be nice to see a lot more mature cartoons that are actually mature, you know?
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Totally agree. I find myself thinking of the kids on the Internet who reacted to Wind Waker by saying that they wanted a “mature Zelda” instead, where “maturity” meant blood and guts and brooding and misogyny. It’s funny how “adult” in a pop culture context usually means “adolescent.”
 
Sprite

Sprite

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It’s definitely a show for the creepypasta generation. Feels like the natural endpoint for Adventure Time’s dominance as an influence.
 
Kirin

Kirin

Summon for hire
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Finished up season one of Owl House. Good stuff! Like a lot of its ilk, it takes a bit to get going... the early episodes were so focused on "good lessons for children" that we almost didn't make it through , but it starts picking up interesting world-building here and there before really shifting into plot drama big-time in the last couple episodes. And of course a bit earlier there's the Grom Queen ep where I was like "ah yes, here's the exact moment where TT fell in love with this show".

I see there's currently a half-season block out - do we know when the rest of S2 will drop yet?
 
jpfriction

jpfriction

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Nothing that I’ve seen and Dana Terrace has already said the show isn’t a favorite among the top brass so Disney might do its disney thing and quietly dump it all on streaming with little fanfare. They do seem to be getting handful of extra long episodes for season 3 to wrap things up at least.
 
Octopus Prime

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
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I’ll be perfectly honest; Earthworm Jim, completely divorced from its creator and being extremely upfront about that fact, is something I’ve wanted for years.

So, “me, Octo”
 
Beta Metroid

Beta Metroid

At peace
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Coming in with an extremely hot and highly relevant take: Over the Garden Wall is a Really Good Thing. It's something that I simply never got around to seeing until this past autumn. It turns out that the highly acclaimed and beloved mini-series with a stellar cast and showrunners that would go to work with other highly regarded cartoons is an extremely appealing recipe. Who knew?

About all I knew about it going in was that it was highly acclaimed, that it leaned hard into the fall setting, and I had a general idea of what turned out to be the basic plot of the second episode. I didn't know the cast that was involved, I had no knowledge of any of the twists, and it was just a delightful way to start my morning for a couple weeks. I rarely go into something this blind these days, and rarely do I feel like a bit of foreknowledge worsens an an experience for me, but it was extremely satisfying to experience this completely fresh. This is pretty much my ideal tone for fall/Halloween viewing, and is just delightfully charming, bizarre, and emotional in its own right. I definitely anticipate this becoming annual viewing for me.
 
FelixSH

FelixSH

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I'm sure that comes as a surprise to everyone, but The Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon is a lot of fun. Might be my favourite Spider-Man cartoon.

I love, how there are three factions, as soon as the Green Goblin is introduced. Jameson is a ton of fun, but also more human than he ever was and Tombstone is a way more interesting villain, at least here, than the Kingpin ever was (and how he and Spider-Man work together, from time to time, is just nice). And there is a really nice amount of both action and regular life.

Not my favourite version of Dr. Octopus (that would be Olivia Octavius), but you can't have everything.
 
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Octopus Prime

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
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FelixSH said:
Jameson is a ton of fun, but also more human than he ever was
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Nonsense! Ask anyone! J. Jonah Jamesons heart is as big as all outdoors, anyone who says anything is just buying into the nonsense that wall-crawling menace is spouting! Jameson is the name people associate with honesty, integrity and warmth!

The show got real creative with fight scenes when it had the mind to, as well. One that always stuck me was a fight against the Goblin where he throws him off the roof of a building; then proceeded to *run down* the side of the building at the same speed, punching him all the while.

It's been, like, a solid decade since I saw that and it's stuck with me the entire time
 
FelixSH

FelixSH

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FelixSH said:
I'm sure that comes as a surprise to everyone, but The Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon is a lot of fun. Might be my favourite Spider-Man cartoon.
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Just wanted to reemphesize this. And wanted to mention that it's interpretation of Mysterio is the absolute best. Such a melodramatic weirdo, glorious guy.

Everything else is still great, too. A shame, that there are only 26 episodes.

Edit: The show seems to know what I'm thinking, and showed me a Russian, who put of his shirt to wrestle down a rhino. An I guess he has a pet lion, who he tends to wrestle with, too? I guess we just introduced Kraven.
 
ArugulaZ

ArugulaZ

Fearful asymmetry
He was on Mr. Show? The show starring David Cross? How the hell did he manage to stay there with those kinds of views?!
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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ArugulaZ said:
He was on Mr. Show? The show starring David Cross? How the hell did he manage to stay there with those kinds of views?!
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I mean, that show is over 20 years old and views tend to evolve/fester over time. I suspect this isn't like Victoria Jackson on SNL and more like "he seemed normalish once and then was subsumed into a terrible destructive worldview." There are a lot of people who have more or less been lead down a rabbit hole from normality to something more insidious. Considering repeatedly appearing in a lot of comedy shows as a regular where he ran with similar crowds, it was likely either that or he simply didn't share them (I mean, his role on the show was usually similar to Tom Kenny's, which was wacky voices and gestures). If the former, I feel like the real question is when did it begin?
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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Now that's interesting. Because I always feel like when people get work, particularly in the more tight knit areas of the comedy community, I feel like a lot of it is "I know him and I like him." Particularly in a show like Bob's Burgers, with a lot of people from the 90s LA "alt comedy" scene.
 
Johnny Unusual

Johnny Unusual

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Sure but you know an actor can pretend to be things they aren't. Also, the picture that article uses for Jay I can only hear in the Jimmy voice.
 
Bongo

Bongo

excused from moderation duty
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Staff member
I got caught up on "Adventure Time: Distant Lands." This was a really good limited series! The quad-length structure really let them breathe. Not sure how they managed to pull off making it feel like a side story to, or beyond the scope of, as expansive and eclectic a series as Adventure Time, but boy howdy if they didn't do it.

I must wonder if the third and fourth episodes were transposed, though. An adventure in which Finn and Jake reunite in the afterlife feels a lot more like an epilogue to the whole shebang than an adventure in which a rejuvenated Peppermint Butler goes to wizard school. On the other hand, that former was kinda heavy, so the latter makes for a nice palate cleanser.

All in all they kinda made me want to go back and rewatch all ten seasons of the show. I'm not gonna, because that's a ton of 'toon, but it's a good impression.
 
FelixSH

FelixSH

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Has anyone watched Marvels Spiderman? The cartoon with three seasons, that also seems to include the Spider-Island arc?

Can anyone tell me if it's good? I need to fill the Spiderman void in my soul.
 
jpfriction

jpfriction

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If the 2017 Disney XD one, I think I caught a bit and it was similar to the ultimate spider-man from a few years back. Not super great.
 
FelixSH

FelixSH

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Patrick said:
The 90’s show? It’s ok. Spectacular Spider-man is a lot better though.
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No, I meant that newest one, I think it's even still running? I liked the 90s show a lot, when I watched it in the early 00s, but rewatching a few episodes made it look less great.

I'm working with the assumption that I reached peak Spiderman with Spectacular. But I'm always looking for more Spidey.

jpfriction said:
If the 2017 Disney XD one, I think I caught a bit and it was similar to the ultimate spider-man from a few years back. Not super great.
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Ultimate was the one, where they did Into The Spiderverse style storyarcs, right? Well, I can work with that. Watched that show a few years ago and had fun with it. Good enough for me.

If there is one thing I don't like about Spideys TV shows, it's that the naming scheme is REALLY BAD. Spectacular, amazing and ultimate (or whatever other words they used over the decades) are basically interchangable. I will never remember which show is which.
 
Octopus Prime

Octopus Prime

Mysterious Contraption
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FelixSH said:
If there is one thing I don't like about Spideys TV shows, it's that the naming scheme is REALLY BAD. Spectacular, amazing and ultimate (or whatever other words they used over the decades) are basically interchangable. I will never remember which show is which.
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At least three of them are just called Spider-Man
 
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