Greetings sir with great anticipation to add your 4th book to my shelves. Come a long way since the clipart in the 1st book.
You’ve advertised my radio show before back in college, and now it’s back…..in podcast form! Same musical oddities and video game/wrestling music tossed around. Hope you enjoy!
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Thanks, Brian, enjoy the plug.
The SmarK DVD Rant for The Fantastic Four - The World’s Greatest Heroes: Season One
Never let it be said that Marvel is shy about marketing their creations these days. On the heels of two mediocre Fantastic Four movies, we got a mediocre animated adaptation!
OK, that’s not fair. Certainly my original review was a little harsh on the four-episode "Volume one" that Fox released last year, but in fact watching the entire season left me pretty impressed overall compared to the slim pickings of the single disc. While the show is taken very faithfully from the original comic source material, the characters have been altered for the new century, with surprisingly witty writing and dialogue, almost a deconstruction of the superhero genre if you really want to get deep about it. I must be getting soft in my old age. After three volumes of randomly-selected episodes from the first-and-only season on the Cartoon Network, they’ve decided to compile the 17 aired episodes, plus another 9 which didn’t make it to air before the show was put on permanent hiatus, for a full season of 26. For those expecting the cheesy animation of the 90s version, this is a more anime-influenced take on the team, with lots of goofy reaction shots and mindless action.
