Category Archives: Cartoons

Animated Miles Morales!

The world announced today that Donald Glover, from Community, was going to voice Miles Morales in the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon – which means that Ultimate Spider-Man finally gets to appear in Ultimate Spider-Man! That’s good news and all, but I’m even more excited for animated Miles Morales! He’ll probably never show up on the big screen, but this is cool nonetheless.

Glover is pretty awesome in the role. I kind of want to watch Ultimate Spider-Man now.

And for anybody keeping track, I totally owe you guys a review of the last issue of Miles Morales: The Ultimate Spider-Man. I’ll get to it, I’ll get to it.

Holy Crap! There’s a New Floating Hands X-Men Parody!

How is this possible? How did the Internet bring this about? Enough rhetorical questions! Let’s just enjoy this two-part parody of the Messiah Complex! It makes sense that the first video in 6 years parodies a storyline from 6 years ago.

Part 1

Part 2

Heh, those are still great. And Part 2 includes Multiple Man! How cool is that? I hope this is a sign that the good people at Floating Hands Studios will be making even more! I’ll definitely be posting Part 3 when it comes along – which, based on their current rate of production, should be some time next year! Stay tuned!

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Doctor Who: The Animation too great to happen

From artist and Doctor Who fan, Stephen Byrne, this clip is for the opening of a Doctor Who cartoon that would be too fun to ever exist. Enjoy!

6 Best Ninja Turtle Knock-Offs

After serious contemplation, I think my favorite cartoon growing up in the 80s was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There were a lot of cartoons to choose from, but the Turtles were my favorite. They were great characters, their show was just a lot of fun, and I loved the toyline, which had even more awesome mutants. I loved that there was this endless supply of funny, cool, and radical mutants to collect.

So I’m pretty excited to see the new live action Ninja Turtle movie, even if it threatens to be as soulless as Michael Bay’s Transformers.

Be brave, old friends; you will get through this

But there’s a dark side to my love for the Turtles as well, and that is my love for all of their crappy knock-offs too. Like all successful franchises, the Ninja Turtles spawned more than their fair share of crappy rip-offs. But whereas other companies can’t steal the Transformers without being obvious, it wasn’t that hard to make an action cartoon about anthropomorphic animal superheroes.

Join me after the jump for the best (or crappiest, depending on your point of view) Ninja Turtle knock-offs!

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The Ninja Turtles Sure Have Changed

Somebody at HalloweenCostumes.com has the greatest, most fun job in the world. They get to make neat stuff like this! Most likely to honor the upcoming new movie this weekend. Anybody going to see it?

Turtle Infographic 01