Bravestarr: Volume One
Here we have thirty-three episodes of westen-style space opera, as the good marshal battles numerous outlaws on New Texas. |
Turok: Son Of Stone
The Gold Key dinosaur fighter returns in this unexpected film adaptation that brings plenty of action but a less than likeable hero. |
What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season
Scooby gets a little post-modern, but it’s still the same gang. |
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
Warner kicks off its Peanuts collections with three specials focusing on Charlie Brown’s (lack of) love life. |
A Charlie Brown Valentine
Three Charlie Brown specials look at love in the Peanuts corner of the world. |
The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One
Camp reigns supreme in the second incarnation of Super Friends, where we meet to the lame yet appealing Wonder Twins for the first time. |
The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 1
Two heroes of yesteryear see their legacies handled nicely by Filmation. |
Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season
This season has some of the dumbest episodes yet but also a scary season-long arc that ends with Raven’s demon father bringing armageddon. |
The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season
The fourth time’s the charm for this series, which finally begins to emerge from the shadow of its predecessor at this point. It did this by developing better villains, better stories, and bringing Robin onto the show at last. Not only is Robin cool, he even makes Batgirl work better. |
Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three
Donald remains as entertaining as ever in this third volume of his classic shorts, and the specs on this one aren’t bad either. |
Jerry's new book, and Warner's Blu announcement
Unfortunately, the slowness of holiday mail has meant that our latest supply of screeners is quite late, so the promised reviews are…still being promised! I did receive one wonderful surprise, though, on Christmas Eve. Insight Editions, publisher of an astounding array of fine books (including a couple of very cool Star Wars limited editions) was […] |
The Hanna-Barbera Treasury
Jerry Beck brings animation fans another treat. The text in this one may not bring any revelations, but the book fulfills its intended purpose as a very cool scrapbook. |
Return To Never-Land: Pixie-Powered Edition
Call us crazy, but we really liked this Disney sequel, though the special features don’t offer any sort of upgrade over the previous DVD edition. |
TaleSpin: Volume 2
This well-done, typical Disney Afternoon show comes in a pretty mediocre DVD set. |
DuckTales: Volume 3
The initial season of the show comes to an end here, plus this set includes the two extended specials that comprised the series’ “second season” and introduced Bubba and Gizmoduck. Collectors will continue to be disappointed in the care Disney took with putting this show on DVD, but the quality of the series itself still shines through. |
Beetle Bailey: The Complete Collection
The comic strip army private struggles to satisfy his superiors, not to mention weak scripts and limited animation. |
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
Firestorm joins the team in this last hurrah for The Super Friends. |
Shrek The Weak reviewed, Enchanted leads box office
Ben’s away for a couple of days, and promises to see straighter when he returns from laser surgery. However, if you wish to see how he saw things before his peepers went under the light knife, be sure to read his latest reviews. He examined Ratatouille at the end of last week, where he did […] |
The Adventures Of Aquaman: The Complete Collection
This early DC Comics cartoon holds up surprisingly well, in a goofy Silver Age comic kind of way, and the 2-disc set also offers up a nice featurette about the character. |
The Archie Show: The Complete Series
The first of a planned series of DVDs spotlighting the shows based on the Archie Comics series offers plenty of nostalgic fun in this nicely-packaged set. |
Josie And The Pussycats: The Complete Series
The legacy of Dan DeCarlo is celebrated by this DVD set of the cartoon show featuring his characters from Archie Comics. The show invites comparisons to both The Archie Show and Scooby-Doo, but these comparisons are favorable. |
Superman – Doomsday
The first “DC Universe Animated Original Movie” takes on a story too big for its own good, but the extra features are very nice. |
Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume Three
The final volume of the Hanna-Barbera spoof delivers lots of yucks for adult viewers who can handle the desecrating of old favorites. |
BCI brings Iron King to DVD
No, it’s not a cross between The Lion King and Iron Giant. It’s not even actually animated. Nevertheless, many of our readers may be curous about this particular November 6 DVD release from BCI, courtesy of their Ronin label. Iron King is one of those gloriously loopy Japanese television shows (this one hails from 1972-73) […] |
Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series
This season is marginally better than the early ones, with the addition of Firestorm adding some interest, not to mention the spectacle of seeing Darkseid crushing on Wonder Woman. |
The Muppet Show: Season Two
This could be one of the finest seasons of any TV show in history. Jim Henson and his collaborators were in their prime, and the guest stars this season are amazing. |
Birdman & The Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series
Thanks to a watering down of the Hanna-Barbera artists that season, this show is not quite as special as Space Ghost & Dino Boy, but it still has that Toth magic touch. |
Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series
This show is a favorite of Hanna-Barbera devotees, largely due to the design work by Alex Toth, who gets a terrific feature-length documentary on this set. |
Looking ahead to the long weekend
We’re just about at the Labor Day weekend here in the U.S. and Canada (well, it’s actually Labour Day in Canada), and I for one am looking forward to the days off of work. Why? Well, I have a lot of catching up to do in terms of writing DVD reviews for the ol’ site. […] |
Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
While even the best episodes fail to reach the heights of similar fare, the show remains good-natured. The video, audio and packaging are mediocre, but fans at least get dang for their duck with 27 episodes. |