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I need to reset my schedule, if you hadn’t noticed from doing two quickposts today, thanks to weather and getting new internet. Luckily Saberspark just posted something that I can utilize. Head to his YouTube channel and thank him by watching more of his videos. It’s not like he knows who I am.
I wasn’t a huge Rugrats fan, but I enjoyed it enough to be disappointed in the remake’s changes, like deaging Suzie rather than keeping her as a buffer against Angelica, or ditching Chuckie’s stepsister because heaven forbid we have an interracial couple raising their children from previous marriages together. And of course the feminist tomboy is a lesbian because this is the 2020s. Tomboys are back to being othered, only now they’re told to celebrate not being girls after fighting for years to be seen as girls and yes this is still bothering me because it’s still an issue. Stereotyping sucks!
When I was a kid, where tomboys were finally being treated the way they wanted to be, as girls who just happen to be into traditionally boy-preferred activities and hated dresses, you could tell who made a show from their art or animation style. Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears were close, given their history, but there were still subtle differences, while Sunbow and Filmation were easy to tell apart. The days of the big studio is over, at least in the US, while in Japan you can still tell Gainax from TMS.
Klasky Csupo had their own unique art and storytelling style, focusing on slice of life comedies that leaned into the benefits of animation in forming a fictional universe. Unfortunately they’re not really around anymore, or if they are it’s the same way Atari is still around…technically. What happened to the promising studio? Saberspark decided to find out, and we’re done talking tomboys. For now!
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Sorry, but yesterday got away from me and I didn’t get this week’s Sonic comic review done. So here’s some filler about the DC Vs Marvel reprints.
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You can find my reviews of the DC Vs. Marvel/Marvel Vs. DC miniseries, the sequels with Access, and both generations of the Amalgam Comics I picked up back in the day. I like the idea, but I’d like to see more crossovers, possibly with the return of Access and the continuation of his story after the cliffhanger of Unlimited Access, with Amalgam being it’s own universe and possibly some new adventures. Frankly I’d rather see more of the Tangent Universe over the Amalgam universe.
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Note that this video was dropped in May of 2022. Could any of this advice help Netflix today?
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Not making terrible live-action adaptations of anime and other cartoons would help, too. One-Piece they only got right because the creator insisted on being involved after seeing what happened to Cowboy BeBop and Death Note. Then there’s the He-Man and She-Ra content, which is a discussion on its own. I’d also recommend showcasing some of their older shows and get the nostalgic audience. Does Netflix even have shows and movies they don’t create anymore?
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(Or “I ran out of “D”s.)
I’ve complained numerous times about what I call “DiDio’s Darker DC”, because whatever issues I had with DC in the 1990s were to be blamed on the 1990s, while Dan DiDio’s time as editor-in-chief of DC Comics was when the de-heroing of the DC heroes really began. From trashing Dick Grayson and Wally West to wiping Clark and Lois’s marriage as well as Black Canary and Green Arrow’s, to the unnecessary deaths of Ted Kord and evilized Max Lord, the ruining of Batman and Wonder Woman’s reputation, a new Crisis every year, the total reboot into The New 52 after creating events like Identity Crisis and Countdown, and returning Hal Jordan and Barry Allen because he hates legacy characters (if that makes sense to you, then you’re less up on DC Comics history than Dan), there are only some of the sins DiDio has either created himself or brought in others who committed the sins under his watch and approval.
It’s been four years since Dan DiDio left DC Entertainment and now he’s working with Frank Miller to start their own publisher. Whatever keeps him off of ruining my favorite properties is fine with me. Remember, he’s also the one who pushed Transformers into Beast Machines ignoring the previous show with a darker tone, and that was just the beginning for old Danny boy. (You want to know if someone is wrong for geek media? Put him on Transformers. See also Michael Bay and Alex Kurtzman, who I’m convinced had little to do with Transformers Prime just by looking at what he co-wrote for Bay and what he’s done to Star Trek with Secret Hideout.) You’d think with Jim Lee in charge there’s be a new direction at DC Comics. While some critics maintain Lee does almost nothing his role as sole publisher, but if you ignore the activists getting in there’s so much wrong with the current DC universe that is still to be blamed on things DiDio started. It’s almost like DiDio hasn’t really left. Let me show you what I mean.
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I’m going to have to stop predicting “this is the end of the odd adaptations” because next issue looks like Casey Jones’ debut in the 2003 cartoon. More on this in a moment.
“See, I used a toothbrush this morning.”
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3
Dreamwave Productions (August, 2003)
“Attack Of The Mousers”
WRITER: Peter David
PENCILER: Lesean
INKER: Erik Sander
COLORISTS: Rob Ruffolo, Shaun Curtis, Stuart Ng, and Susan Luo
FLATS: Kenny LI
LETTERER: Matt Moylan
