(AfroGamers.com) Growing up on Toonami, I fell in love with the loner. You know the one. Posted up in the corner while the rest of the cast cracked jokes and passed the food, arms crossed, eyes low, not a word out of him because the quiet itself read as untouchable. ...
(AfroGamers.com) The industry has quietly figured out that some of its safest money does not come from whatever premieres next season. It comes from what a whole crowd of grown adults already loved back when they were broke and twelve. So who makes up a valuable part of the audience ...
(AfroGamers.com) Freakazoid is one those 90s cartoons that often gets brought up last or at random when folks are remembering old toons. Usually you’ll get Animaniacs, Rugrats, Daria, Tiny Toons, Powerpuff Girls, Batman: The Animated Series, and Pinky and The Brain to name a few. Hell, you’ll hear Taz-Mania and Gargoyles ...
(AfroGamers.com) While digging through some things, I found an old Viz Comics catalog. These catalogs had all of the subbed and dubbed anime available during the late 90s on VHS. Now, the prices for a tape featuring two episodes were always dicey but you were guaranteed to find something you’d ...
(AfroGamers.com) The Sega Genesis, like any console, had standalone games or short-lived franchises that make you go “Why are you even here?” or “What’s with this spinoff?” I constantly wander who asked for a particular game but I’m someone who can see potential or something decent in most games. Maybe ...
(AfroGamers.com) Those of us who grew up during the pre-streaming and cable marathon era of TV tend to hold up Saturday morning as the golden era for cartoons on TV. It was for good reason. The Saturday Morning Cartoon Landscape Depending on the network, the Saturday morning block was must-see ...
(AfroGamers.com) My brother and I have been watching All Def’s Great Taste series and one of the topics the SquADD went into was the best Saturday morning cartoon. Now, this is a video from four years ago but most of the selections were great. Let’s go into the best toons ...
(AfroGamers.com) There were several U.S animation studios formed during the black and white era of film and television. The most notable were Warner Bros, Disney, Fleischer, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal, and Hanna-Barbera. Of those, Warner Bros, Disney, and Hanna-Barbera had the longest influence and were able to continue producing popular animated shorts, ...
(AfroGamers.com) When I was younger, it wasn’t unusual to see spinach advertised by the cartoon character Popeye. The branding was “Allen’s Popeyes Spinach” and my mom got it all the time. Now, I was a big Popeye fan from watching the cartoons on what was then The Family Channel and ...
(AfroGamers.com) One of the biggest pieces of geek news for 90s and 00s kids is not only is Powerpuff Girls getting a live-action show but the leads of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup have already been cast. The show will be a part of The CW’s teen-oriented broadcasting which includes a ...