Most of us here were in some form of consciousness for the mid 80's rise of the Saturday Morning Cartoon: Masters of the Universe, GI Joe RAH, Transformers, Ninja Turtles, etc etc. Followed by the early 90's Comic Book/Nickelodeon/MTV craze with everything from Batman to Ren and Stimpy. Then came the late 90's and things went down-fucking-hill. Suddenly Ren and Stimpy and Rocko's Modern life gave birth to these incestual abominations of ADD style cartoons designed for kids with attentions spans of a commercial break. I remember being disgusted with the incredibly shitty animation styles and lack of direction and plot of many a forgetable animated show that aired on commercial tv on saturday mornings and whatever and whenever on cable.
Things got a bit better once we reached the millennium, I could stomach the Spongebob, it was palatable but not something I'd seek out. Pokemon/Digimon/Yugioh etc had hit its stride and were chewing up TVs, vhs/dvd players, and Gameboys color cartridges. CGI started taking prominence, thanks to Dreamworks and Pixar's outings at the cinemas. oh and Anime... oh anime, while they created memorable acid-trip like stories in the 80's with Voltron and Starblazers... now they were simply edited to hell to please the "Will Somebody Please Think of the Childrens" wolf-criers.
This brings us up to now...
What is on out there that you enjoy? I'm talking about commercial tv shows and whatever is on cable and satellite. What modern "cartoons" do you enjoy?
I personally dig the Marvel shows, while I catch the occasional Wolverine and the X-Men episode, I wholeheartedly dig Iron Man Armored Adventures and The Spectacular Spider-Man. They're really really good times to be had. Batman The Brave and the Bold almost feels like I'm reading an old school comic as it balances seriousness and moral tales with stylized character designs and humor.
I've fallen for the nickelodeon original series Avatar The Last Bender. Its something I had dismissed until its Series Finale. I caught bits of it and was blown away by just how well the whole damn thing was put together. League of Super-Evil is a quirky series that tries to amalgamate the early 90's Nickelodeon cartoons with the media-darling Superhero genre. And naturally I just really dig The Clone Wars, which being pure CGI, is better exectuted than Episode 3 and gives the star wars fans a both a literal and metaphorical 3 dimensional take on the future Darth Vader.
Things got a bit better once we reached the millennium, I could stomach the Spongebob, it was palatable but not something I'd seek out. Pokemon/Digimon/Yugioh etc had hit its stride and were chewing up TVs, vhs/dvd players, and Gameboys color cartridges. CGI started taking prominence, thanks to Dreamworks and Pixar's outings at the cinemas. oh and Anime... oh anime, while they created memorable acid-trip like stories in the 80's with Voltron and Starblazers... now they were simply edited to hell to please the "Will Somebody Please Think of the Childrens" wolf-criers.
This brings us up to now...
What is on out there that you enjoy? I'm talking about commercial tv shows and whatever is on cable and satellite. What modern "cartoons" do you enjoy?
I personally dig the Marvel shows, while I catch the occasional Wolverine and the X-Men episode, I wholeheartedly dig Iron Man Armored Adventures and The Spectacular Spider-Man. They're really really good times to be had. Batman The Brave and the Bold almost feels like I'm reading an old school comic as it balances seriousness and moral tales with stylized character designs and humor.
I've fallen for the nickelodeon original series Avatar The Last Bender. Its something I had dismissed until its Series Finale. I caught bits of it and was blown away by just how well the whole damn thing was put together. League of Super-Evil is a quirky series that tries to amalgamate the early 90's Nickelodeon cartoons with the media-darling Superhero genre. And naturally I just really dig The Clone Wars, which being pure CGI, is better exectuted than Episode 3 and gives the star wars fans a both a literal and metaphorical 3 dimensional take on the future Darth Vader.