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Macaluso posted:Mandy did 9/11 Was that really a plot element? I never read the comics but I saw them on the front page all the time.
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Bass Bottles posted:Was that really a plot element? I never read the comics but I saw them on the front page all the time. The comic's equivalent of Loss.jpg is the reveal that Mandy (from Billy and Mandy) caused various large scale disasters during the episode she was the Grim Reaper, including the then-extremely recent Indonesian Tsunami and yes 9/11. I would post it but I actually don't want this thread to turn into the Bad Webcomics Thread Mk. III. vvv It's more like Cartoon League of Extraordinary Gentlemen but without any of the positive qualities that phrase implies. mycot fucked around with this message at 06:24 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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mycot posted:I am the traumatized soul who can't imagine a serious myth arc based Powerpuff Girls without remembering Bleedman and Deviantart. Things we can be glad this reboot isn't: -PPGZ -Bleedman Bass Bottles posted:Was that really a plot element? I never read the comics but I saw them on the front page all the time. It was in a different cartoon where Mandy and Grim got married and their kids wanted to gently caress each other. It was basically a guy trying to make a Tim Burton story through the lens of 90s/2000s cartoons
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Feb 12, 2016 06:21
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JACK WAS THEIR UNCLE And Grim proposed to Mandy as Brad Pitt. You know, from Meet Joe Black.
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You know I'm just going to take this moment to talk about how people misattribute the inspiration of the Powerpuff Girls all the time. Yes it's obviously anime inspired, but it's super old-school anime, and an arguably shallow take on that too. Mojo Jojo literally talks like a bad Sixties dub. That's why trying to transpose it as an unironic magical girl thing always comes off as wrong.
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Feb 12, 2016 06:29
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mycot posted:I am the traumatized soul who can't imagine a serious myth arc based Powerpuff Girls without remembering Bleedman and Deviantart. Well why do you think Professor Utonium was trying to make little girls in the first place? 
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mycot posted:You know I'm just going to take this moment to talk about how people misattribute the inspiration of the Powerpuff Girls all the time. Yes it's obviously anime inspired, but it's super old-school anime, and an arguably shallow take on that too. Mojo Jojo literally talks like a bad Sixties dub. That's why trying to transpose it as an unironic magical girl thing always comes off as wrong.
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God drat that PPG art style looks bad. There's been such a homogenization of both style and substance in cartoons over the past few years and this isn't helping. Not only that, but the poses are so uninspired and the animation is bland as all get-out. The part where Buttercup hurls the dude into the distance looks especially bad, so from what we've seen so far it doesn't look like there's anyone with any sort of competence in fight scenes involved in this project.
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I'll give one thing to McKraken. What he lacks in art sophistication he makes up for in excellent timing and knowing how to make the most of every frame. His work on Wander Over Yonder continues to impress, and he did great with the Power Puff Girls. If he's not at the helm of the new series I don't have high hopes for it. PPG without McKraken's particular animation talent is just a bunch of ultra-simplified characters jabbering in high voices. Speaking of voices, is that Billy West as the lumberjack?
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Sleeveless posted:Slowly but surely edging toward every Cartoon Network show having the exact same art style. Is McKraken involved in this new one? Because yeah, aside from the girls nothing about that clip looked PPG-ish to me, everything else looked like that style that was novel when it was just Adventure Time but not so much now that every new Cartoon Network show looks like that.
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I swear I'm the only person that thinks the original PPGs was "meh". Granted, it had it's strengths and certainly wasn't a "bad" show but honestly I don't think it was THAT good either. It was The animation was weak, the humor hit or miss, and the fact that all of the villains were pushovers robbed the show of any sort of stakes or dramatic weight. Even back in the 90's/00's I never thought much of it. Sleeveless posted:Slowly but surely edging toward every Cartoon Network show having the exact same art style. Eh, the original was part of a huge lineup of shows that had the exact same problem so it's fitting really.
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raditts posted:Is McKraken involved in this new one? Because yeah, aside from the girls nothing about that clip looked PPG-ish to me, everything else looked like that style that was novel when it was just Adventure Time but not so much now that every new Cartoon Network show looks like that. Nope, he isn't involved in the new one at all.
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Macaluso posted:Mandy did 9/11 Dexter cradling Dee-Dee's dying body after she was shot in the head and saying "Stupid Sister" Pakled posted:Nope, he isn't involved in the new one at all. The new producer is Bob Boyle, who's been hanging around TV cartoons for over 25 years, created Yin Yang Yo, and, uh, was the guest of honor at Anthrocon 2009. Corek fucked around with this message at 17:31 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Feb 12, 2016 17:12
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readingatwork posted:Eh, the original was part of a huge lineup of shows that had the exact same problem so it's fitting really. Yeah but back then they were all copying PPG.
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Applewhite posted:Yeah but back then they were all copying PPG. Assuming we mean the "Cartoon Cartoons", PPG was actually one of the last ones released then. The only other major one was Ed, Edd n Eddy. (There was Courage the Cowardly Dog too but he's a little more distinct from the PPG art style).
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computer parts posted:Assuming we mean the "Cartoon Cartoons", PPG was actually one of the last ones released then. The only other major one was Ed, Edd n Eddy. I'm talking PPG, Dexter's Lab, Fairly Oddparents, 2 Stupid Dogs and pretty much any other cartoon where a cylinder would be expressed like this:  which, as near as I can reckon, was kicked off by the huge success of Tartakovsky and McKraken's cartoons.
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I liked that new clip. I'm cautiously excited for that show. I caught up on Miraculous, just in time for this week not to have an episode. 
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Senerio posted:I liked that new clip. I'm cautiously excited for that show. I'm not yet sure what to think of Miraculous, but I'm still watching it so far. Some points: * The dialog is pretty bad, but I'm guessing the english dub is at fault on that one. * I really don't like the design of those fairies that power Ladybug and Cat Noir. It's like a chinese bootleg of a Digimon. * Man, the identity of the big bad is really obvious. * Lastly, Ladybug's superpower REALLY reminds me of that Action Man CGI show from the 90s: https://youtu.be/J0g8SsFLCfg?t=1115
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Corek posted:Dexter cradling Dee-Dee's dying body after she was shot in the head and saying "Stupid Sister" He's also worked on Fairly Oddparents and is probably the inspiration for Bob, the boil.
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readingatwork posted:I swear I'm the only person that thinks the original PPGs was "meh". Granted, it had it's strengths and certainly wasn't a "bad" show but honestly I don't think it was THAT good either. It was The animation was weak, the humor hit or miss, and the fact that all of the villains were pushovers robbed the show of any sort of stakes or dramatic weight. Even back in the 90's/00's I never thought much of it. It was a comedy. Why would it have "dramatic weight"?  computer parts posted:Assuming we mean the "Cartoon Cartoons", PPG was actually one of the last ones released then. The only other major one was Ed, Edd n Eddy. What are you talking about? Almost all of Cartoon Network's mid-late 90's output came out of the What A Cartoon show, and Powerpuff Girls was the first one to get its own series. raditts fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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"I'm bad and looking down on you." "Yeah, well that makes me mad." *a few seconds of action with zero dynamism or humor* I really hope new PPG's writing and animation can do better than that because goddamn. Art style is okay though, I don't mind it so far. e: forgot to mention the sound. Those whip cracks are definitely worrying me. Doctor Soup fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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Just watched the OWCA Files special. It was noticeably weaker than the rest of the series but I thought Doof's teamwork song was pretty good. There's no I on teamwork but there are bits of all of us  (T and O from Doofenshmirtz the Ocelot, E and K from Karen the Cat, A and R from Harry the Hyena and M and W from Maggie the Macaw.)Edit: Although Doofenshmirtz making those missile launchers is completely out of character - he doesn't do weapons, it's not his style. He finds them amateurish, like if you have to pick up a gun then you've already given up. BioEnchanted fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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horriblePencilist posted:Action Man CGI show from the 90s I like that show, but only because one episode briefly took place in the state I was raised in which never gets a mention on TV.
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raditts posted:It was a comedy. Why would it have "dramatic weight"? I'm not using the term "dramatic weight" in some Shakespearian sense. I'm talking about a basic emotional investment in the events occurring. If our heroes have zero chance of ever loosing the entire "action" element of the show falls apart. So Mojo Jojo is trying to conquer the town. So what? A mall cop could thwart his sorry rear end. Why do I care? I'm not saying we need to be genuinely afraid for the characters every episode like this is GoTs for kids or anything, but having the PPGs arch nemesis actually be kind of dangerous would have made the show a whole lot more interesting to me.
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readingatwork posted:I'm not using the term "dramatic weight" in some Shakespearian sense. I'm talking about a basic emotional investment in the events occurring. If our heroes have zero chance of ever loosing the entire "action" element of the show falls apart. So Mojo Jojo is trying to conquer the town. So what? A mall cop could thwart his sorry rear end. Why do I care? what the gently caress?
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Powerpuff Girls is a comedy about superheroes, not a comedy-action show.
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Plus Mojo almost defeated them all the time, as did many of the villains so  But yeah it was a show may more concerned with being funny and the action was, at best, secondary but it wasn't an action show so once again
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they DID actually manage acouple of more dramatic episodes, like Speed Demon and Knock it Off. But it's mostly just about six year old girls going around punching really silly supervillains, not everything has to be Crying Breakfest Friends.
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Fun Cartoon Network show idea: goons explaining to kids why they shouldn't enjoy whatever cartoon
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Are we seriously going to recreate that AV Club article about how We Bear Bears spends too much time being funny instead of tackling social issues?Corek posted:Dexter cradling Dee-Dee's dying body after she was shot in the head and saying "Stupid Sister" Eat your heart out Steven Universe fans. mycot fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Feb 12, 2016 |
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The Amazing World of Gumball is still great. I never expected a cartoon to have a reference to howtobasic.
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Sockser posted:He's also worked on Fairly Oddparents and is probably the inspiration for Bob, the boil. The Hartman/Boyle group, which grew from Johnny Bravo kept the thick-line stuff going, but away from CN.
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mycot posted:Are we seriously going to recreate that AV Club article about how We Bear Bears spends too much time being funny instead of tackling social issues? Well you can't mention something that stupid and not link it.
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I tried googling it and then I discovered they do multi paragraph reviews of every episode nah I was wrong but there's nothing funny in it frank.club fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baK5USEFubc
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mycot posted:Are we seriously going to recreate that AV Club article about how We Bear Bears spends too much time being funny instead of tackling social issues? "This episode of Merry Melodies dropped the ball big time when they showed Bugs Bunny in a dress and he kissed Elmer right on the lips. They could have made a great commentary on the gender binary and deconstructed traditionally assigned social norms, but Bugs just zipped off-screen and seconds later they acted like none of that happened."
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readingatwork posted:I'm not using the term "dramatic weight" in some Shakespearian sense. I'm talking about a basic emotional investment in the events occurring. If our heroes have zero chance of ever loosing the entire "action" element of the show falls apart. So Mojo Jojo is trying to conquer the town. So what? A mall cop could thwart his sorry rear end. Why do I care? I hope you never watch Teen Titans Go or your head might literally explode.
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TwoPair posted:Well you can't mention something that stupid and not link it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Bare_Bears#Critical_response readingatwork posted:I'm not using the term "dramatic weight" in some Shakespearian sense. I'm talking about a basic emotional investment in the events occurring. If our heroes have zero chance of ever loosing the entire "action" element of the show falls apart. So Mojo Jojo is trying to conquer the town. So what? A mall cop could thwart his sorry rear end. Why do I care? Kid Next Door went more in the dramatic direction and became a worse show because of it.
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Gaunab posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Bare_Bears#Critical_response it became a loving bonkers crazy show because of it but it couldn't well have just gone on doing the same thing forever without diminishing returns so i'm glad for how KND went nuts.
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