Out today in the US is Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention, a six-part series that aired on the BBC at the end of 2010. Wallace & Gromit’s World of Invention In this show from Aardman Animations, Wallace and Gromit act as hosts, introducing real-world inventions to viewers. Here’s the official description: Wallace & Gromit’s [...]

by KC Carlson Following up on my piece about the complete Underdog box set, here’s some more information on the other cartoons that ran with Underdog, produced by Total TeleVision as back-up features. In each half-hour episode, Underdog occupied two of the four cartoon slots. The primary back-ups were Go Go Gophers and The World [...]

review by KC Carlson One of the more interesting things about Underdog is the number of misconceptions many people have about him. Misconception #1: Many people think the the very popular Underdog balloon is still a part of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It’s not. The balloon was retired in 1984 — after debuting [...]

As promotion for last week’s release of Justice League: Doom, which had a number of fun bits, many of which involved Nathan Fillion voicing Green Lantern, Warner Home Video has provided this interview with Fillion. Fillion previously was the voice of Green Lantern in Green Lantern: Emerald Knights, which also resulted in some promotional interviews. [...]

This month brings the famous young explorer to Blu-ray and DVD in two ways. The Adventures Of Tintin: Season Two (Digression: I’ve been engaging in various icebreakers this week with remote work colleagues. When I mentioned I review comic books, an Indian-born coworker asked me if I knew Tintin. We in the US still don’t [...]

Based on Mark Waid’s Tower of Babel story, Justice League: Doom features Vandal Savage putting together a villain team of Star Sapphire, Cheetah, Metallo, Bane, Ma’alefa’ak, and Mirror Master to defeat the Justice League. We see the hero team first after a battle with the Royal Flush Gang, where the League backs up Batman. Then [...]

Review by Roger Ash One of Warner Brothers’ supporting cartoon characters finally gets his day on the Looney Tunes Super Stars: Pepé Le Pew DVD. Created by director Chuck Jones, Pepé Le Pew is the popular French love-addled skunk with the voice of Charles Boyer who pursues cats he mistakenly believes are skunks. Pepé was [...]

The newest Young Justice DVD, Season One Volume Three, contains four episodes, continuing from where the previous release left off. “Bereft” gives me what I’d been waiting for since the start of the series: a significant role for Artemis (Stephanie Lemelin) with the team. Unfortunately, the group is all split up, with no one remembering [...]

The Secret World of Arrietty, the newest Studio Ghibli movie, is out today, and I’m bummed that I’m too sick to go. To whet my appetite for it (and yours), here’s a series of promo clips provided by Disney (the U.S. distributor). Arrietty (Bridgit Mendler) and her parents (Amy Poehler and Will Arnett) discuss the [...]

Warner Bros. Animation has announced that the DC Nation animation block will be debuting on Cartoon Network on Saturday, March 3, at 10 AM. (That’s a month before Marvel’s similar project.) This hour is being promoted as “exclusive kids’ television programming and shorts based on DC Comics characters … full of action and humor”. The [...]

Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best Not from me this time. Warner Bros. is offering its Warner Rewards members a chance to win its new Looney Tunes Super Stars: Pepe Le Pew: Zee Best of Zee Best collection, being promoted for Valentine’s Day. Featuring 17 cartoons, this DVD has all the amorous skunk [...]

Jem and the Holograms: Season Two Jem and the Holograms: Season Two comes out on DVD on February 14. Thanks to Shout! Factory, I have a copy you can win before then! In case you’re not familiar with the show, KC did a writeup of the Complete Series when it came out on DVD last [...]

Warner Bros. changed its release plans halfway through putting Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated on DVD. While the first 12 episodes came out on individual discs, sold separately with four episodes per disc, this volume, labeled “Season 1 Part 2″, has the remaining 14 episodes in a two-disc set. Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Season 1 Part 2 Personally, [...]

Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous I guess there wasn’t an appropriate Avengers story to put out for the movie … Marvel has announced that the next release in the Marvel Knights line of motion comics will be Astonishing X-Men: Dangerous. This is a return to the characters from the first entry in the Shout! Factory DVD series, [...]

Underdog: The Complete Series There’s no need to fear… Underdog is here! It’s the classic animated superhero parody, all three seasons, on nine discs, in the Complete Series DVD set, due out February 21. Per Shout! Factory, “the set also includes beloved shorts starring Go Go Gophers, The World Of Commander McBragg (quite!), and Klondike [...]

On February 17, Disney will release the newest Studio Ghibli movie: The Secret World of Arrietty. Here’s the trailer: As pointed out, this is based on the classic series of novels that began with The Borrowers by Mary Norton, about a family of little people who live in the walls of houses and live off [...]

Marvel has announced that they will be launching “two all-new ongoing comic book titles for comic fans of all ages” in April. The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes Adventures will be written by Chris Yost and drawn by Adam Dekraker and contain two stories told “through the eyes of Agent Coulson.” Ultimate Spider-Man Adventures will be [...]

Although it’s been available on Blu-ray, Ralph Bakshi’s 1977 Wizards is being rereleased for its 35th anniversary in a hardcover book package on March 13 from Twentieth Century Fox. The book includes 24 pages of art from the film, some never-before-seen images, and “a special message from Bakshi”. List price is only $19.99, which means [...]

Universal has announced that they are releasing Hop (the Easter Bunny movie with the voice of Russell Brand as the rabbit) on Blu-ray and DVD on March 23, ready to put in all those Easter baskets. The story involves the bunny (animated via CGI) making friends with “Los Angeles underachiever Fred (James Marsden, in live [...]

Following the lead of Cartoon Network’s DC Nation programming block, Disney has announced the creation of “Marvel Universe”, launching April 1 on Disney XD. From the press release: Marvel Universe on Disney XD will be the ultimate place for fans to find exclusive Marvel content, including new animated short-form series, live-action interstitials, and the series [...]