…have bold outlines, in the style of those small-television days, and the colors remain bright despite the age of the shows. The puppet shows get a “3”, while the cartoons…

…deserved their reputations. With Disney’s DVD release of Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, I was able to tick another film off of my list. I think it’s safe…

…to the role of the girl who is the same age as the boys, and yet just a little ahead of them. Staging of the action is quite good as…

…then they’re off in their glove balloon on their quest for the forest. Mickey Go Seek is the final episode, and has the simplest plot. The whole episode is about…

…course, there is the infamous group of evildoers that populate the show. While the bad guys typically died at the end of each story in the comic strip, they were…

…both the strengths and weaknesses of the show. The animation and design of the movie are very appealing, there is the odd laugh to be had, and the action is…

…There is not the traditional squash and stretch of the Fleischer shorts, but there is still a bounce and enthusiasm in the animation that one expects. There is also an…

…Of Isis. And thus was born the combined series The Shazam!/Isis Hour. Based on the success of Shazam!, the idea was obviously to create a new character that the female…

…characters (particularly in the early Popeye shorts) were definitively from the Fleischer school of drawing, including the initial use of very non-Segar-like anthropomorphic animals. Gags were often of the mechanical…

…topper. The Superman titles began publication again with Reign Of The Supermen, for my money the most exciting part of the whole epic. Each of the four Superman books told…

…a starting entry, given that so much of the cartoon features the characters out of uniform and away from the base. Nevertheless, it was the start of a modest series…

…least of the three segments on George Of The Jungle. Puns remained plentiful on this show, just as they had been on the other Ward productions. The stories are consistently…

…gone overboard on cleaning these up to the point of destroying the original look of the cartoons. I will, however, complain that the picture wavers horribly during the titles for…

…the He-Man characters. The back of these cards provide a brief bio for the artists. Of course, the meat of the special features is contained in the two new documentaries…

…Disney and the many innovations they were implementing at the time – including Stereophonic sound. They also discuss the character of the Ranger and the voice work of Bill Thompson….

…and the rest of the Mystery, Inc. gang travel to Japan for their latest adventure. There, they explore the delicate relationship between modern Japanese culture and ancient Japan. The Sweatbox…