Saturday Morning Cartoons: A Loki Morning
Leigh Lahav wonders what all the fuss was at San Diego about Tom Hiddleston showing up…
And if you’re wondering what all the fuss was about yourself, here’s what happened:
He has an army…
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Previously, on X-Men…
What…? I mean… WHAT?!?
You know, I never thought I’d think of the Chris Claremont days as the uncomplicated days of X-Men, but…
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Saturday Morning Cartoons (kinda): X-Men Stop Motion
The 1990s “X-Men” cartoon holds a special place in the hearts of many a fan, but that theme song– great the first 50 times, but if you’ve ever been at a comic convention next to a dealer that had the thing playing on a loop, you wanted to tear down their booth with your teeth after an hour.
Anyway, the team of Kyle Roberts, Nathan Pope, Zach Zellar and Colin Nance have created their own take on the famous opening. Take a look:
Shout! Factory brings ULTRASEVEN to US DVD
HenshinJustice.com reports that Shout Factory will release the second series in the legendary Ultraman franchise, Ultraseven on DVD in time for Christmas.
The eponymous hero, from The Land Of Light in the mysterious Nebula M-78, visits Earth and is fascinated by its creatures, especially humans. Taking the visage of a man he saved from a climbing accident, he pledges himself to protecting the world from various aliens and monsters that plague it. Taking the name “Dan Moroboshi”, he works with the human military force the Ultra Garrison, and unbeknownst to them, fights the monsters hand-to-hand in his giant form.
The series, the first of many sequels to Ultraman, was first broadcast in Japan in 1967. Ted Turner’s syndication company originally planned to dub the series into English back in 1985, the project was not completed and broadcast until 1994 on their cable channel TNT. Not all episodes were completed, and while the adaptation was fairly well done and not “camped up” in any way, there were some edits to some episodes for tone and violence. One episode, “Crystallized Corpuscles” was banned entirely, and never broadcast.
At this date, it’s not been specified if the episodes will be the uncut Japanese originals, or if they will feature English subtitles or the TNT dubbed soundtrack. Watch this proverbial space for more detail.
Amazon has already listed the set (ahead of Shout’s official announcement) as being released December 11th, with a price of $34.98, already nicely discounted from its list price of $49.97.
Twentieth anniversary Power Rangers series revealed: Power Rangers Megaforce
The folks at JEFusion.com shared footage from this year’s Power Morphicon of Saban Entertainment’s promo reel for next year’s Power Rangers series. Their seventeenth series, Power Rangers Megaforce, will be based on the thirty-fourth of Toei Company’s Super Sentai series, Tensou Sentai Goseiger.
Starting with the original Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers in 1993, based on Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, Saban has been producing series using costumes, props and action footage from the Japanese originals. The series have remained a perennial hit in the States, as the original series has done in Japan for the past thirty-six years.
It’s not the first time the name has appeared in entertainment either. One of the original sentai series had “mega” in the title; Denji Sentai Megaranger, which was used to create 1998’s Power Rangers in Space. Action film fans may remember the Hal Needham directed MegaForce, starring Barry Bostwick and Persis Khambatta. More important to the toy manufacturer side of the process, MegaForce was a line of military adventure vehicles from Kenner in 1998. It’s assumed the trademarks for those series have already lapsed, otherwise Saban might have to pull a “Metro” and change the name (as Microsoft has been forced to for its new Windows 8 interface).
In addition to using footage from Goseiger, the new series will also be using footage from the sentai feature film, Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle. This was the film release for the NEXT Sentai series, Kaizoku Sentail Gokaiger, which featured a massive battle where all 35 of the sentai teams to date united to fight a massive alien threat. However, since Megaforce is the anniversary series in America, the reunion footage will be used there. Footage of the battles in the promo reel included shots of all past sentai teams, including series that were never used for American series, much to the delight of the audience. Saban said there’s no confirmation if those non-MMPR heroes will appear in the final series. They had asked Toei to film sequences featuring only Zyuranger forward – it’s unknown how much of the all-heroes footage will be used in the final product.
The promo reel was well received by fans at the convention, especially footage from the 199 hero great battle. Saban has been experiencing a resurgence of popularity of the series. After several series produced in association with other companies including Disney, the current series, Power Rangers Samurai, is the first they’ve produced on their own since 2001. Saban has brought the Internet into their marketing in a big way- their website and Facebook page appeal to both new and long-time fans of the series. They’ve also released DVD sets for the previous series, including a 40-DVD set from Time-Life of the first 7 series.
Power Rangers Samurai is currently running on Nickelodeon.
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Saturday Morning Cat-toons: The Cat Of Steel and The Dark Kit
Because, gosh darn it, we want web traffic and we’ve been told there’s nothing better to get traffic than cute cat videos:
Wait– we’re supposed to run cute cat videos on Fridays? We thought we were aware of all Internet traditions, but this is news to us. Perhaps we should take down the… aw, look at them playing with the thing on a stick!
Where were we? Never mind. Go look at the cats, and wonder why DC licensed these costumes in the first place.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: A “Calvin & Hobbes” Winter Wonderland
We were thinking of titling this tribute to Bill Watterson’s most famous creations “Just So We Can Get Peter David’s Hopes Up Again” but that’s horrible for search engine optimization. Enjoy.
Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Dark Knight, 60’s Style
With Christopher Nolan in town this week shooting The Dark Knight Rises, we’ve come across a possible version of the opening credits…
Hat tip to Steve Saffel and Peter Sanderson.
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Halloween Costume Contest — Send Us Your Marvel Super-Hero Pictures!
Kids and adults are no doubt dressing up for school and office parties in celebration of Halloween. Many of you will no doubt be dressed as Marvel characters and we want to see them.
Not only that, we want to publish your pics and name two as the best, awarding lucky winners with a complete set of [[[Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes]]] courtesy of our friends at Walt Disney Home Entertainment. That’s right, all four volumes can be yours if you impress us. Just go to our Contact Page, select “I’d like to submit a file for review!”, fill out the form and upload your picture.
Submission constitutes permission to publish your name and picture. The submission must be accompanied with your full name and address so winners may receive discs. Submissions must be timestamped by 11:59 p.m. Monday, October 31. The judgement of ComicMix’s expert panel of judges will be final.
Happy Halloween!
And as part of our Saturday Morning Cartoons section, here are some clips from the DVDs in question:
AVENGERS: VOLUME 3 – IRON MAN UNLEASHED
V3 Clip: Walk in Both Worlds (Iron Man, Thor, Black Panther)
AVENGERS VOLUME 4 – THOR’S LAST STAND
V4 Clip: Stuck in the Realms (Hulk, Black Panther, Iron Man)
V4 Clip: What Needs To Be Done (Giant Man, Ultron, Iron Man, Hulk)
