Previously on DogRat I posted this old TV cartoon…
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I promised to scan and post the story from the Silver Age of comic books that the cartoon was based on. Click the picture below or here to see it in the gallery.
Compare and contrast the comic with the cartoon. Extra credit if you can name the original comic book issues.
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Who else but fanboy Stephen Colbert would open a show with a comic book reference? There was no pass-off segment from The Daily Show tonight, but I often think of that and Colbert’s opening as being the best parts of the show.
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At the recommendation of son Eric, we’re watching Serial Experiments: Lain, a 1998 Animé series. I can see how one might wonder if the concept behind it had some influence on the The Matrix.
The character design for Lain was done by Yoshitoshi ABe, who also came up with the design for the previously-mentioned Niea 7. ABe self-published a manga called Haibane Renmei, which he later animated.
In honor of Stephen Colbert inheriting the shield once held proudly by the late Captain America, I present a video of Cap in pitched battle against his evil Nazi nemesis, the Red Skull! The red, white and blue warrior must wrest the awesome power of the Cosmic Cube from the Skull’s grasp and prevent the enslavement of all mankind!
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The animation in this 17-minute cartoon is next to non-existent, and except for the drawings that were lifted directly from the comic book stories, the art is downright awful. But the music and voices add a lot to the atmosphere of these old Marvel Super Heroes cartoons.
I’m in the process of scanning the original comic book stories that were the basis for this cartoon. I’ll post them in the gallery later for comparison.
Note: This video by itself is over 100 MB — bigger than all of the storage provided by the first hosting service I used five years ago.
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It’s been announced that Steven Spielberg will produce a series of Tintin movies. Tintin, if you don’t know, is a hugely popular and influential cartoon character from Belgium, created by the late Georges Remi, who worked under the pen name of Hergé.
An excellent documentary about Hergé, Tintin and I, was on PBS last year. The video player above has the first few minutes.
With Captain America now deceased, who gets his shield? Stephen Colbert!
