Category Archives: Cartoons
Just Darth Maul Being a Badass
The next season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars is coming up soon, and even though I don’t watch it, I love me some Darth Maul. I love Darth Maul so much that I even bought and read one of the novels about him. And I absolutely read that Dark Horse comic book series that was released around the time of Episode 1. So seeing more Darth Maul compels me to post about The Clone Wars.
Also, Darth Maul vs. Palpatine is extremely badass.
Star Wars Jokes Will Outlive Us All
The pop culture comedians of today continue to mine Star Wars for every possible bit of parody and humor they can find. Apparently there’s going to be a new animated series based solely around Star Wars jokes. It’s made by the guys from Robot Chicken, who’ve already had great success mining Star Wars jokes. I guess they’ve found some more.
It’s going to be called Star Wars: Detours.
There’s no premiere date set or even a network on which it will air. But those boys sure are making it. Looks…alright. There were some funny jokes in that trailer. And you can watch some clips here. But there comes a time when you’ve got to push away from the table and admit when you’re full.
Here’s the show’s description:
Star Wars Detours™ is an animated comedy that explores what daily life is like in a galaxy far, far away. There are no Empires striking back or attacking clones here. Instead, Star Wars Detours focuses on the universe’s regular folks and their everyday problems… which, to be fair, do frequently involve famous bounty hunters, crazed Ewoks, and even a Dark Lord of the Sith.
And oddly enough, they’re very specific on the fact that it will be set between the two trilogies. So…more Star Wars!
How Dark Knight Rises Should Have Ended
This greatness of ‘How It Should Have Ended…’ is back, baby!
Love the animation, love…most of the jokes. These people continue to produce some of the best stuff on the Internet. But if I’m being completely honest, I think they’ve lost touch with their original mantra. These videos usually now just make fun of various parts of the movie rather than focusing on creating an ‘alternate’ ending to show how a movie really should have ended.
And they are obsessed with their Superman and Batman sitting in a cafe gag! It’s like they spend more time coming up with jokes for those scenes than on actually riffing the movie. If you watch that video, when they finally get to the end of Dark Knight Rises and show what should have happened when Alfred was looking on Bruce and Selina…they just fall back on their Superman character rather than telling us how the movie really should have ended
Oh well, that’s just my pathetic two cents. Still a great web series.
Zubatman: The Animated Series
That this exists is a testament to the power and majesty of the human spirit. I am speechless in its awesomeness.
A Zubat, of course, is a pokemon, in case you couldn’t tell. Brought to us by Terminal Montage, who deserves some kind of trophy for winning the Internet.
Robot Chicken DC Superhero Special Looks Awesome
The Robot Chicken Star Wars specials were brilliant, and it looks like the DC Special is going to be just as awesome! This stuff is hilarious!
The Special premieres on Sept. 9 on Adult Swim. Should be fantastic.
