Thundercats: Omens

All-Star Animation

Well, the time has finally come.  The All Star Superman animated movie hits the stores today.  Does it hold up?  Or does it miss the mark?

Like any adaptation, All Star should be judged on two levels.  First, as a standalone movie, and secondly as an adaptation.  I have to confess that the first is a bit tricky for me, because I am so familiar with the source material.  So let's do this backwards, and talk about the adaptation first.but I'll do my best.

Thundercats, Huh?

Apparently, there's a CGI movie coming out, independent of the new cartoon, and Bleeding Cool has some footage:

It doesn't grab me as well as the art for the toon did, possibly because the lighting makes it hard to figure out exactly what is going on.  That, and my allergy to goofy schtick. :)

But it's not THAT bad, I guess.  And I doubt I'm the target audience, anyway.

#1 Super Guy?

More Thunder, slightly less Cat

Via the twitter of Thundercats writer Todd Casey (and Bleeding Cool):

Raijin. Raijin! Raijineko! HO!!!!!

 

According to news reports, these are the designs for a new ThunderCats series.

Looking at Cheetara, I suspect there's little chance of the "they never wore clothes before" bit from the original, but at least Lion-O lost the belly shirt this time. :)

Orange Socks?

Because some characters are too good to fade into obscurity:



For those curious, that is indeed the voice of Jeffrey Reanimator Combs.