Comics/Cartoons: Love them or leave them?

Bill and Mandy is embarrassing. Spongebob is fine, but please end it in 2003 and stop saturating the fuck out of it. Being obnoxious goes so far.












Or... DOES IT?

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Originally Posted by Finch

Being obnoxious goes so far.

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Funny hearing that from you.

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you make me feel so old. shit

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I watched a lot of the 80's cartoons too, they just weren't my favorites.


And yah, Billy and Mandy suuuuuuuucks.

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Originally Posted by Rated E

Funny hearing that from you.

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It's not funny at all.

neither are you

Please. We're talking about cartoons here.

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Originally Posted by Finch

I can believe a lot of this. Scott Pilgrim requires you to be comfortable with being a hipster fuck nerd, though.
Also add Goodbye, Chunky Rice. Forget that Craig Thompson is a giant whiney douchebag and pretend you're just reading a darling story.

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I'm pretty ok with that yeah.

I have Chunky Rice! I'm sort of on the fence about it though!

Its all about early Tom and Jerry imo.

If we're going to include old cartoons, Tom and Jerry is funny stuff. Old Goofy cartoons are soooooooooooo fucking funny too. Goofy quitting cigarettes is amazingly true to life. Oh Walt Disney.

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I have Chunky Rice! I'm sort of on the fence about it though!

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It's so darling and unpretentious and cute and full of truth! How couldn't you like it?

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Originally Posted by Tracer

IMO the Nick Toons shows are cruddy. I've taken a good long look at the man in the mirror, and determined, that these shows aren't any better or worse than the shows we had as kids. That said, they're good for kids, but they're definitely not "good."

Hate on.

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I think the first wave of Nicktoons really helped to revitalize TV animation and pull it out of that wasteland it became in the '80s when all we had was garbage like Thundercats and GI Joe. Ren and Stimpy really changed the way a lot of animation was written and concieved, and Rugrats (and later Klasky Csupo stuff like Duckman) was pretty influential too. Sure, Rugrats wore out its welcome being on the air for 10 years (that might be what's happening to Spongebob too) but yeah, the Nicktoons started off good.

I read comics pretty regularly until 13 or so. Then I dropped off because it was too expensive and convoluted to keep up with. Got into anime pretty young and that's grown into an appreciation and love for animation in general. My girlfriend loves Spongebob and I get why people like it, but I don't laugh at any of it.

Been slowly getting back into comics by way of trade paperbacks. I love the fact that I can get something with volume, that covers some sensible arc of story. Right now I've been big on Ultimate Spiderman (before they "reset" it), and Scott Pilgrim, along with single-run stories on Batman (Dark Knight, Hush) and Superman (A Superman for All Seasons).