More Batman: Caped Crusader! More President! More King of the Hill!
A couple new cartoon trailers arrived yesterday, and I’m gonna share them, because it’s one of those kinds of Thursdays.
First up is a trailer for the second season of Batman: Caped Crusader, which should be glad it’s getting a second season at all. I liked the first season just fine, but it feels like such a niche show that nobody is talking about. It’s Batman in a noir setting, and it’s a good adaptation.
Show looks good to me! No sign of Robin, so that’s disappointing. But that Joker looks like fun. And the whole show looks fun. And that’s what trailers need to accomplish: make their show worth watching.
Batman: Caped Crusader returns to Amazon on July 31.
Next up is the trailer for the second season of the King of the Hill revival. I also enjoyed the first season of the revival and I welcome more episodes!
I was a fan of King of the Hill back at the beginning, then fell off halfway through. But it’s a good show, and the revival is a strong one. That first revival season was fun. I like the characters. I like the directions they’re going in. Should be a fine continuation.
King of the Hill returns to Hulu on July 20.
Lastly, we got a full trailer for the Rick and Morty spin-off President Curtis. Looks like more Rick and Morty madness.
I still like Rick and Morty. I’m waiting for the current season to wrap up before I binge it. Obviously the show has fallen from its highest heights. But it’s usually still fun. And this President Curtis trailer looks fun. Honestly, it looks like they just set Keith David up in a room by himself with a microphone and let him just shout random and funny things, then they built the show around that — which could still be fun!
President Curtis is coming to Adult Swim and HBO Max on July 26.
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Taika Waititi is Making Klara and the Sun
I still like Taika Waititi movies. The man made Jojo Rabbit based on a book I’d never heard of before. So why not do that again with Klara and the Sun? I don’t know anything about the book, and I’m not sure what the movie is about. But it’s happening, and there’s a trailer.
Looks fine. Looks maybe fun and dramatic. Looks like it could be good! And that’s really all we need from a movie trailer, right? I dunno. I just wanted to share this trailer because I still like Taika Waititi and look forward to his new movies.
Klara and the Sun comes to theaters on Oct. 23.
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Hench-Sized Comic Book Reviews – 6/20/26
Here we go again! More comics! More of our lives wasting away! Another Saturday has arrived and no, I’m not going to see Toy Story 5 in theaters. I just can’t bring myself to worry about that right now, not when I’ve got Amazing Spider-Man and Absolute Green Arrow!
Comic Book of the Week goes to Absolute Batman #21 because we finally get to see the Absolute Robins in action, and then the whole rest of the issue is neat as well.
Meanwhile, been a busy week for me, so I haven’t had much else going on. Still enjoying the heck out of Crimson Desert. Finally started the second season of The Pitt. And I’ve started reading the Dunk and Egg novellas from George R.R. Martin. Hopefully all these things remain fun and entertaining as they play out.
Comic Reviews: Absolute Batman #21, Absolute Green Arrow #2 and Amazing Spider-Man #31.
Read the rest of this entryThere’s a Lot Going on in Spider-Man: Brand New Day
A brand new trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day come out yesterday and it’s packed a lot into a regular trailer length. I won’t spoil any of it here in the opening comments, but jeez louise, there are a lot of things in this movie.
I’m not necessarily complaining. I very much have faith and trust this movie. It’s directed by Destin Daniel Cretton, the genius behind Shang-Chi and Wonder Man. The dude has proven himself very capable, so I trust both him and Marvel Studios with this new Spider-Man movie. I trust they know what they’re doing to juggle and balance all these elements. I don’t need Scorpion and Boomerang to be full-length movie villains. They’re perfectly fine as jobbers!
And I’m perfectly fine with all the other stuff in this movie.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day comes to theaters on July 31.
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I Do Not Care About the Updated Animation in Shrek 5
Because the world is hell and we are easily distracted by circuses, the uproar online is that everybody hates the new animation style in Shrek 5. They hate the very subtle, incredibly subtle, facial changes made to the Shrek character model for the new movie. I just want to go on record as saying that I could not care less.
It looks fine. We live in post-Spider-Verse world. We live in a post-The Last Wish world. Animation is going to change. It’s been 16 years since the last Shrek movie. Things change. The world changes. The world spins madly on. There are worse things in the world than Shrek’s character model getting updated for a new animation style. Jeez louise!
The real thing people should be complaining about with this trailer is the lack of Puss in Boots. The Last Wish was an awesome film! And it ended with a tease of a crossover with Shrek! So why isn’t Shrek 5 that crossover? Why doesn’t it lean into the awesomeness of The Last Wish? Wasted gorram opportunity, I tell you what.
Shrek 5 exists and it’s coming to theaters next summer and it looks fine.
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