Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 2 and 1970s Volume 2

Review by KC Carlson I was very pleased to see another go-round of Warner’s Saturday Morning Cartoons compilations. They make very interesting samplers of what was happening in kid-vid in both the 1960s and 1970s, so they’re prime fare for baby boomers like me. Although you have to keep in mind that it’s not a complete snapshot of the era. Due to licensing restrictions (or possibly availability), the selections are pretty much limited to properties that Warner currently controls, represented […]

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Justice League: The Complete Series

Review by KC Carlson Out today is Justice League: The Complete Series, and I can’t think of a better gift for any superheroic animation fan — even if it’s a gift that you give yourself. The set features all 91 episodes of both Justice League and Justice League Unlimited on 14 DVDs, plus ALL the Special Features that appeared on the previous DVD collections — all wrapped up in a nifty collector’s tin. Plus there’s a bonus 15th disc, featuring […]

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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

Review by KC Carlson Reasonably faithful to the original source material, the new Superman/Batman: Public Enemies animated feature plays much better than some of the recent DCU animated films but still has some problems in both animation quality and story. Based on the opening salvo in DC’s Superman/Batman comic book (the story arc was originally called “The World’s Finest” in tribute to the long-running comic that the original Superman and Batman team-ups appeared in), the six-issue comic story was a […]

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Green Lantern: First Flight

Review by KC Carlson This has really been Green Lantern’s year. His ongoing comic book is one of DC Comics’ top titles; he’s starring in this year’s DC Big Event, Blackest Night; actor Ryan Reynolds has just been announced to play GL in 2011’s big-screen theatrical release; and he’s debuting in the full-length animated feature Green Lantern: First Flight. GL: First Flight is great fun and extremely well-done — one of the best films in this series of DC Universe […]

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Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection

Review by KC Carlson There are a lot of good reasons to recommend Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection, the new two-disc collection from Warner Bros. The first is right there in the title — it’s all of Chuck Jones’ Tom and Jerry cartoons, whether as a producer, director, writer, or various combinations of all three. There are 34 cartoons in all. In fact, except for two notable non-T&J omissions, this set represents all of MGM’s theatrical cartoon releases […]

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Saturday Morning Cartoons: 1960s Volume 1

Review by KC Carlson In preparation for watching this excellent idea for a cartoon set, I made sure I went to bed the night before wearing my footie pajamas (the ones with the penguins), got up really really early, trudged downstairs with my blanket and pillow in the dark to spread out on the floor in front of the TV, made myself a big bowl of cereal (Rats! No Fruit Loops or Cocoa Krispies!) — making sure to bring the […]

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Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1942

Review by KC Carlson First of all, the title is confusing and possibly in error. Although called Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1942, the Fleischers were only involved with the first nine of the 17 Superman cartoons collected here on two discs. The remaining eight were produced by the company set up by Paramount after they forced the Fleischers out of their own studio in 1942. That company was called Famous Studios and included many of the same artists and animators that […]

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The Zeta Project Season 1

Review by KC Carlson Former killer robot and spunky gal-pal make good! The Zeta Project is one of the lesser-known WB Animation/DC Comics projects. Lead character Zeta was spun off from a second season episode of Batman Beyond. The series first aired on Kids’ WB beginning in 2001 and ran — sporadically — for two seasons. It initially struggled to find an audience, but since then it has become a worldwide cult classic. As introduced in the Batman Beyond episode […]

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