Fantastic Four Animated Series 174
pillageplunder writes "CNN is reporting that Marvel Enterprises has cut a deal with Frances Antefilms Productions to make an animated TV Series based on the Marvel superheros.
With your bare hands?!?
Fantastic Four: The animated series (Score:5, Interesting)
Forget the whales, and bring back Power Man and Iron Fist!
Re:Hrm... (Score:5, Interesting)
Christ. About 6 years ago, MTV started showing Speed Racer re-runs, and I thought: "Cool! I can relive part of my past by watching Speed Racer again! But, Pops, I know I can win the transcontinental race!"
After trying to watch an episode, I realized that:
1) There is no coherent plot to a Speed Racer episode; it's just a bunch of random clips all spliced together.
2) I still didn't know if Trixie was Speed's sister, cousin, lover, whatever. And what was her relationship to Spike, the mechanic?
3) Somehow I tolerated Chim-chim and the little brother (can't recall the name just now), but I don't know for the life of me how.
4) You just can't go back.
So, I know I'm getting old & crusty, but I think that if you watched TMNT as a kid, you're probably still too young to gripe about it. Sorry.
Re:Four again, and again, and again.. (Score:3, Interesting)
The '60's FF, Captain America and Spiderman....
SLIDESHOWS! Some were taken from Jack Kirby panels, with an almost Gilliam-style of cut-and-paste animation applied.
I worshiped this stuff at 4-5-6 years.
Who was fan of this comic series? (Score:4, Interesting)
Johnny was alright. And Ben Grimm/Thing was good in his own series...esp those times he faced off with The Hulk.
"IT'S CLOBBERING TIME!!!"
Re:Hrm... (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, TMNT sucked pretty badly...I can't understand how anyone liked it. It's a pretty freaking far cry to call it 'classic'. The comic was okay, though, although when it was out and I was 15, I was a bit old for comic books.
Anyone else? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:as long as... (Score:1, Interesting)
If it were baby-ized, Raven wouldn't be pissed off and irritable all the time.
Don't worry, they will probably do another TT series later with a different style. How many X-Men cartoon series have there been by now?
Re:Who was fan of this comic series? (Score:1, Interesting)
My favorite Reed Richards moment was in a John Byrne comic: he was trapped in a seemingly solid cell (by an enemy who knew he could easily stretch to escape an ordinary cell with bars). But there was a single rivet hole with no rivet. He sat there, and meditated, and relaxed, and r-e-l-a-x-x-e-d, and poured himself through the rivet hole. With good writing, even a lame power can be interesting.
Sue originally just had the invisibility, but later on they decided to grow her a bit and she gained the ability to make force fields. She even began to be able to use the force fields to do things: push things around, pick things up, attack things. I'm pretty sure that the cartoon will have the force-fields version of the character.