This is a thing I had on a "watch later" list for years, after discovering it on the Internet, which I finally got one day (and it was amazing). Apparently a really good composer wrote the score, as well as really quality songs. That was good enough to remember.
So I watched it, and I liked it. Yes it's dated, but in a way I like. It came from a mind of a visual genius and a lover or classical music, and a man very much stuck in the 60s/70s, Mike Jupp. He put together a team and somehow managed to get funding tow make 2 seasons, and lucky enough to get commissioned for 2 more. Oh, and it's a show from Britain.
The premise is that on a planet (just a planet) one half is the Land of Dreams (see: utopia) with little to no conflict and the residents getting pleasant dreams at night from a wizard, and the other side being the Land of Nightmares (clever name) with a population being more-or-less parody of working class british men ruled over by lord of all nightmares. Pretty much every episode the lord of nightmares sends his very british minions to the other side of the planet to steal the Dreamstone, a dream transmitter or close to it, to send everyone constant nightmares. The underlings frequently succeed, but thwarted at the end by various means.
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>>482546 To me the stark contrast makes comedic sense because it highlights that while Zordrak himself may be a threat, he's forced by circumstance to rely on these bumbling underlings who'll always foil their own master's schemes due to incompetence.
Zordrak was often a figure of fun also. In the first story, he gets dumped into the mud pit surrounding his throne. And then there were eps like pic related...
This has been a slow year for us furries, didn't have to start a topic all year. But then again, much of the new reveals happen at the obscure anthro character discord nowadays.
Just posting her about a godsend I received recently - I have been trying literally for years to get Mutant Rampage: Bodyslam to work on a Philips CDI emulator (yes, that infamous system - and yes, that same company who made the creepy Zelda animations made this game). Well, that still didn't succeed, but the next best thing did, a guy I found on spriterresources managed to extract the sprites from the game! So now I can finally check out the naked Centaur and Cheetah ladies, topless Rakshasi, and sexy swimsuit Gazelles and karate-robed Lionesses up close, not to mention the boss of Animorpha Roma, Tina Felina!
>>482547 Must be from after the initial cancellation. I don't remember any of those, or maybe I just wasn't paying attention. I do vaguely recall a few of the background chars from when he was playing in traffic like Anakin Skywalker.
Bit of a spoiler but Trek lizard dude is actually an energy being who uses that form to interact because it's more comfortable. Name's in the last panel, second page.
>>482547 Hazel is a fan name for the squirrel from Sword in the Stone. Which IS old Disney, 60s to be specific. Hazel is so accepted as a name, that's the E6 tag.
Got the 4:3 version released on Amazon (I think in Germany only), they NEVER put it on Bluray. A shame, it is the original uncropped version.
>>482567 >For example? I didn't have a particular starting point in mind when I made the thread (the Eclipse Comics Hobbit OP pic notwithstanding). So far as comic-book adaptations go, our options would, once upon a time, have been mostly limited to the somewhat kitsch, fairly uniform style of the Classics Illustrated library. Today though we're almost spoiled for variety.
>I've read a Lovecraft comic adaptation (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, by I.N.J. Culbard) and I quite liked that one. From SelfMadeHero, yeah? I've had my eye on their M.R. James adaptations. Nice to hear they've done right by Lovecraft. Is there anything in particular that makes it stand out for you?