Category Archives: Cartoons
The Badass, Anime Red Riding Hood You’ve Always Wanted
The animation director behind the genius Red vs. Blue is now turning his sights to some kind of werewolf-killing anime version of Little Red Riding Hood.
You can learn more about Rwby Red on its Facebook page. Rooster Teeth do amazing work. The last few seasons of Red vs. Blue have been action packed, with breathtaking fight scenes and insane action choreography. A lot of the early humor may be gone, but no one does an action or fight scene like Rooster Teeth. As you can plainly see in the above trailer.
Rwby Red comes out in 2013, and you better believe I’m going to be there to see it!
It appears that Red may have some friends
Animated Axe Cop Wishes You a Happy Halloween
The words ‘animated Axe Cop’ alone should be enough to make your eyeballs melt with buttery excitement.
And the fact that he’s voice by Ron F&cking Swanson is just perfect. Who hired him for the voice? They deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. We’ve known for awhile now that Fox’s Animation Domination is working on an Axe Cop cartoon, and this video appears to be a test animation to see how it’s coming along. I declare that it’s absolutely perfect!
What’s That? New Venture Bros. Footage? I’ll Take It!
Apparently it’s been almost two years since the last new episode of The Venture Bros. Has it really been that long? Jeez…Well a new Halloween special will air this Sunday, and here is a teaser/preview! It’s a little meatier than the Iron Man 3 teaser/preview at least.
Man, is it good to get new Venture Bros. stuff! If you couldn’t tell from the very theme of this blog, we here at Henchman-4-Hire are huge Venture Bros. fans! New episodes are cause for celebration!
A Couple of Marvel Trailers
First up, the debut trailer of Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United confirms my suspicion that it will be crappy.
Stiff, stilted computer animation looks like it was done by a freshman design student. The dialogue appears to be nothing but cheap one-liners and weak banter. The villains are just a bunch of robots and/or additional Iron Man suits. This is a flimsy, boring work of drivel from a company that produces the best superhero stories and movies in the world. I expect better.
Next up is the latest trailer for Marvel Heroes, the upcoming Marvel-themed Massive Multiplayer Online game. I don’t know why I haven’t written about this game yet, probably due to lack of interest. And I don’t know why I’m not very interested in this game. It looks to be the next evolution of the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance games, and those were great.
Marvel Heroes wisely forgoes DC Comics’ attempt at an MMO, and instead lets you play as the actual superheroes. DC went with a City of Heroes-style game, where you design your own superhero and then fight alongside the Justice League. Marvel is going with a Diablo-like game, where you get to play as their superheroes in a dungeon-crawler-like environment. They’ve done a good job with that kind of series in the past, like I said, but something about this game has yet to really grab me. I think it’s the generic-ness that I’ve seen from the previews so far.
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 was based heavily on Civil War, the comic series that pit hero against hero. It was full of exciting cameos (Multiple Man! Prodigy!), and got really in depth for a video game. Marvel Heroes, so far, seems to be striving to be as generic as possible, probably to bring in as many players as possible. Plus all of the characters they’ve revealed so far are not among my list of favorites. So there’s nothing to get excited about…yet. If anything changes, I’ll let you know.
What do you guys think of movie and this game? Are you looking forward to both? Hating them both? Share your thoughts in the comments!
Who Needs a Live Action Justice League Movie
When we can have one made out of LEGOs instead!
Despite the mouthful title of LEGO Batman The Movie: DC Heroes Unite, this is going to be a full length LEGO Batman movie, based off the recent video game (which I sadly have not played). It’s going to star Batman and Robin teaming up with the entire Justice League to take on the Joker and Lex Luthor!
So why even bother with a live action Justice League movie? There’s no way it’ll be as good as this. Heck, why bother with traditional animation anymore? All future superhero movies should be made out of Lego.
We’re living in a golden age of superheroes
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