/co/ - Comics & Cartoons

The bar they've set themselves is fairly high. Even the mediocre episodes haven't been all that prolific.

https://soundcloud.com/alephine/get-schwifty-shit-on-the-floor-remix

Dat remix.

>>238229
What does Helga or whatsherface has to do with Rick and Morty?

>>238315
This is /co/ general.

Is the 90s Tintin cartoon any good? I got Amazon Prime and it's one of the shows that comes with it.

>>238372
I grew up with the cartoon so my perspective may be a little partial, but the cartoon is basically the comics translated 1:1 into animated form (minus allowances made for running time and budget), so if that's your bag then I'd definitely recommend it. I've got the box set, and the series covers all the albums (except the first two for painfully obvious reasons), but if you're looking for original stories with Tintin, Haddock, Calculus and the gang then there are a few animated movies out there that might appeal (having never seen them I can't vouch for their quality, mind).

>>238372
It can be a bit dry at times. But it's a good background watch.
I recommend it.

>>238372
To be frank, I always found them kinda boring. It's basically James Bond/Indiana Jones junior, with more wacky sidekick characters and a dog. It's just that frankly, Tintin himself is not a really interesting character, and the mystery is usually not that much. I was very disappointed in the Spielberg movie too.

>>238372
Btw, I heard you guys get Lidl in the USA too- in Hungary they are selling Tintin movies at a discount, for about 3.5$ apiece.

You probably all heard about the unofficial Kelvin stickers where he is pissing on stuff.

Well, today I saw a man wearing a t-shirt with grumpy Kelvin and the words "New York attitude".

>>238563
Oh shit son.

>Rick and Morty x Gravity Falls crossover

I would literally shit myself. Shit would come out of my ass.

Steamboat Morty:

//youtube.com/watch?v=yN4PkePrtJk

>>238571
Well, there was the entire coffee cup and notepad thing.
They CLEARLY want to keep putting crossover hints in there.

I've only read the first issue of Rat Queens, and I figured that was enough. However, I've heard from some people that it's gotten better... is that true?

>Alex De Campi

Jesus Christ that poor soul, it is really sad /co/ prime has been right about literally everything in terms of racial diversity, sexual harassment and numerous other bullshit tumblr pandering shit companies have been lying about.

Also surprise, surprise, 75% is literally Berganza's fault because literally anytime you are talking about an evil dirtbag in comics whose name you can't mention it's Berganza. Fucking comicbook Voldemort.

>>238672
>/co/ prime has been right about literally everything in terms of racial diversity, sexual harassment and numerous other bullshit
/co/ thinks DeCampi's lying. They always think they're lying.

>>238676
You think they would have learn by now, after the Sklyer Page incident along with Yale Stewart. But yeah, it's terrible Alex De Campi will be blacklisted, while all the awful people in the comics industry continue to work.

Who is Alex De Campi and what happened to her?

http://alexdecampi.tumblr.com/post/129003838049/you-can-only-find-the-best-version-of-wonder-woman
>Kids, there are five known big-name, vindictive harassers in comics, and about three bad drunks. Two harassers are writers employed by DC; one is a DC editor; two are writers employed by Marvel.

I'm guessing one of the ones at Marvel is Nathan Edmondson.

Just finished the 1st season, it's a great show. I like the nice cynical/philosophic touches and the humour style. Way better than Justin's old stuff.

>>238688
You talkin about Rick and Morty? Remember this is the /co/ General so it's good to specify, I wasn't sure what you were talking about at first.

It's fine to talk about R&M here though, and yeah I think it's great. I honestly believe it's as good as Simpsons was during its prime seasons, I just hope they can keep it up.

>>238688
Agreed. I like it how sometimes it puts the cynicism behind and lets sincerity out when its necessary to the character development.
Sometimes tongue in cheek, but it happens.

>>238676
>>238677
I dunno what it turned into but when I was there it was a calm discussion and very supportive of her situation.

So, uh, South Park came back for a new season last night. I get what they were going for with PC Principal and all that, but…uh…did the endi—no, strike that, reverse it, did the whole episode just kinda fall flat for everyone else?

In any case, I think that’s the last new SP episode I’m gonna watch for a good long while. Not because I was offended by it (as if), but because it was just so…boring.

>>238695
The only part I disliked was the ending. It felt like it deliberately pulled back at the last moment from delicious payoff. Kyle totally blueballed me.

My suspicion is that we'll be seeing more of PC Principal and Cartman facing off and it'll end with a Tennerman-style revenge scheme.

>>238695
Oh no. You're very clearly offended.
Your stance, your diction tell me that you are offended. Your diction is dismissive, you carry something that weighs you down. I smell it on your very breath.

>>238696
Yeah. I think it's pretty clear they're going to use him to fuel the rest of the season.

>>238697
We got a 90's anime villain here.

>>238699
>doesn't look remotely like Chris Sanders' art
Boo.

>>238699
>Joe the Barbarian

>>238695
I actually thought it was pretty funny. Not amazing, but definitely alright. It could have used more jokes than it had, and definitely relied too much on the fratboy pc thing, but I thought it was better than most episodes in the last few seasons have been.

At the very least, I'm curious about where they'll take the show this season and what kind of humor they'll rely on.

>>238711
Whoops, yeah I meant Dave.

>>238735
It's an awesome show. I laughed myself silly. Kisscartoons had it on since last week, though. When are the other episodes coming?

>>238735
People kept talking about the next iteration of Avatar being in the 80s. Seeing all that Big Hair I could see it looking a lot like this.

>>238761
That doesn't seem like a fair comparison.

Dazzle is way smarter than Korra was.

>>238737
>>238765
It's both.

https://twitter.com/scottgairdner/status/621545200150667264

>>238763
>An adult is way smarter than a teenager.

>>238780
You just said the dumbest shit possible because you just got angry someone was belittling Korra, Dazzle, you would know if you watched the show is a petty idiot.

If you had ignored that he'd have just seemed butthurt about Korra,, everyone was ignoring him, but you 1 upped his asspain.

>>238781
Lay off the salt, nigga.

>>238782
This is Tiki we're talking about. They're living pillar of salt.

>>238782
>>238783
Yeah, fair enough, I'll try and pull the rebar out of my ass.

>>238691
(later reply)
Yeah, I just saw the OP and assumed it was a thread for the show, my bad.

Werner Herzog was on Rick and Morty.
I'm just continually weirded out when people like that appear on shows like this.

No complaints, just... Weird.

>>238799
>Also I've made a hobby of reading quarterly shareholder earnings report transcripts of publicly traded companies, when did I become so boring?

To me that sounds interesting as fuck and pretty useful to know about.

Is there a central hub for that kind of thing? I wouldn't mind knowing a bit more about business.

So Wabbit premiere seems...like a cartoon. Maybe a 3/5.

>>238808
Careful, you stack that praise on any fainter and a gentle breeze might blow it away.

>>238794
>Werner Herzog was on Rick and Morty.
>I'm just continually weirded out when people like that appear on shows like this.
>No complaints, just... Weird.

It's always jarring when Serious Arteests turn out to be as big a bunch of nerds as the rest of us. It's validation that our geeky interests are as legitimate as any other artistic pursuit, which is always nice.

I'm just looking forward to the day when I'm at an Islington champagne party and I overhear Germaine Greer and Salman Rushdie saying "yo, the latest Steven Universe was the shit" "I KNOW RITE?"

>>238809
>a gentle breeze might blow it away.
Just like my memories of it 5 years from now.

Gosh it's kind of uninteresting.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-box-office-hotel-transylvania-2-the-intern-green-inferno-everest-maze-runner-scorch-trials-20150927-story.html

Hotel Transylvania set a September opening record. Happy to hear that for Genndy.

I've never watched either, how are they? At the least the art style is less offputting than Para-Norman.

>>238924
Both films benefit from Genndy involvement so it has good animation gags and cues. But I've heard the second one is still good in spite of Sandler and his bullying for more production control.

>>238965
Looks Better than the Croods cartoon designs at least.

Then again, they're clarly working off the old Ward designs.

>>238966
Croods was massively creative. Unlike Disney and/or Pixar who keep lying in their trailers about what their movies are about. And you get crap instead of what you expected, but because your expectations were so high, you leave the movie overhyping that garbage.

Examples:

Up looked like a drama about some old guy getting his life under control again. But it was a dumb movie about dogs in planes with a strong beginning.

Frozen looked like an epic where someone tries to defeat her sister despite she being evil, leaving her conflicted. Instead, it's overhyped cutesy garbage, which, just because Disney adapted to becoming more deep like other movies loooong ago, is massively overhyped.

Brave looked like a cool, dark film about Scottish folklore. It was a dumbass movie about a girl trying to hide her bear-mom.

And, the worst contender here, Inside Out looked like an interesting movie which analyzes psychology in a fun way, but instead it's a road trip featuring Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie only.

>>238967
Uh...I meant the designs for the Croods cartoon series that's coming up. Not the movie...

>>238967
You know these movies are targeted at children right?

>>238968
Dawn of The Croods, coming in December, but they haven't said anything else yet.

>>238970
We've seen the designs though. You posted them yourself.

>>238967
I'm thinking either obvious bait or "I hate popular things because they're popular and my tastes are so superior."

>>238979
Kids movies don't get to be excused for being bad, but anyone who expected Up to be
>a drama about some old guy getting his life under control again
needs to remember who these movies are made for.

>>238981
Your choice of words is wrong, but your point is right.

Watched a few minutes of the Danger Mouse reboot series.

Not gonna make that mistake again.

>>239019
Awww. After the Thunderbirds reboot turned out miraculously not-shit, I was actually looking forward to that. Silly me.

Third episode was funny with the Welsh alien

Does anyone have that picture Bruce Timm drew of everything they weren't allowed to show on Batman: The Animated Series?

>>239045
Doesn't it look like any other cartoon today?

>>239049
so do 80% of them, at least that ones writing and premise are very fun.

>>239070
I really don't get breaking glass.

>>239071

I guess the reasoning was something like 'Batman jumps through a window, he looks super badass. Kid jumps through a window, he gets sliced to shit and now we have a lawsuit."

>>239070
>child endangerment
What's hilarious about this one is that they had to rewrite one scene for this in "See No Evil" (the one with the invisible man who tries to kidnap his daughter from his ex-wife), yet earlier in the same season "Be a Clown" had a climax where the mayor's son was on a roller coaster with Batman, headed toward broken rails while Joker was throwing bombs at them.

>guns
What? Batman: The Animated Series has guns as over. Granted, not hitting anyone like that.

>>239071
Jumping through windows was supposedly imitable. Reboot has a similar restriction, hence the scene where Glitch suddenly makes a window disappear before Bob crashes through it.

It's an idea that's totally forgot nowadays. Shows nowadays can show defenestration (for action or comedy) and still be Y7.

>>239070
In Mask of the Phantasm there is breaking through glass.

>>239073
The trick with batman is that the tommy Guns they used were so archaic that they "didn't count" as guns.

>>239074
Wasn't Mask of the Phantasm released direct to video and not allowed to be shown on TV until years later?

>>239077

Nope. Theatrical release.

>>239078
Fair enough, I guess what I should've said was "non-televised until after the show was already off the air." As in "Wouldn't be affected by S&P."

>>239075
Yeah, but there are also a bunch of handguns (of vague design, like the one Joker is holding in that picture) and shotguns (mostly trench guns, which are also old-looking but still seen commonly).

Oh, and looking around it turns out another thing they couldn't show was "homeless people that are not adult men".

>>239080

>another thing they couldn't show was "homeless people that are not adult men"

But…“The Underdwellers”…

While I’m thinking about it: HOLY SHIT THE RICK & MORTY SEASON FINALÉ.

>>239081
Oh right, then it's another rule they came up with after they already did it in another episode.

That was probably allowed because all those kids ended up going to child services, while the scene the network thought was too depressing just had homeless families hanging around.

>>239082
I need to catch up on that, clocked out at the half season mark.

So Sony is doing an Animated Ghostbusters film as well as the reboot thing for next year. Think they'll be smart and put someone like Genndy on the project since he's got his own project in the works now.

>>239073
Batman: TAS and other cartoons of that era were produced for network television. Nowadays I believe most TV cartoons are made for cable: CN and Disney and their ilk. The impression I get is that since they're more directly involved with the production process they don't need to set down strict prohibitive guidelines but instead handle each show on a case-by-case basis. This does risk arbitrary sanctions whenever an exec takes a gut-feeling dislike to a show, but on the other hand it allows creators to game the system more - take Alex Hirsch putting one really out-there gag in an episode, being told to remove it, and thus letting the edgier gags he actually wanted in the episode to pass under the radar.

>>239097

Hirsch's approach has long been one that animators have taken to get around S&P-style restrictions—and the funny thing is, it almost always works.

>>239019
I thought it was pretty damn good; not as good as the original, but funny in a modern sort of way; the writers for the new show seem more focused on getting the plot done, rather than the silly banter of the original

>>239098
Yeah, the one example I can really recall being the very risque bikinis they used on avatar during the beach episode to pass the designs they wanted through.

>>239128
I'm surprised they needed a sacrificial lamb for that. Those bathing suit designs were all pretty tame, and honestly probably more demure than most girls those age would wear if it had been real life, at least in the modern day.

>>239129
By 2007 tv standards, maybe. But back then "beach episode" was confined to pretty much just anime, plus cartoon execs were still pretty uptight.

>>239130
Yeah, at the end of the day, the execs were still trying to sell the show to a much younger demo than they were broadly getting. They wanted to milk that Y7 market for all the money they were worth rather than understanding that most of the numbers were in the low to upper teens.

The animation ghetto might have finally started to diminish, but the execs are holding onto it. HARD.

>>239131
Executives hate changing markets. So much so that they often pressure marketing to try and reinforce whatever markets where already set. It's simply easier for them to handle. The fact that we're seeing all these riskier shows pop up tells me that the old styles just aren't as profitable any more.

>>239214
Netflix does.

So NYCC adventure time stuff. New Intro PB still in the cottage and we've got her adventuring with Marice again.

>>239412
Everything is pandering according to them. Mainly because its not theirs. But I think its neat they are doing a bunch of kids books explaining some of the details of that city.

>>239414
>them
Aren't "they" us?

Anyway, tie-in material is almost always produced ONLY to make money.

>>239418
Sometimes spoiling plots well in advance even.
This seems harmless though.

>>239418
Past couple of years it's gotten worse with the "them" in question I think bring the newcomers mistaking what was once ribbing "trolling" as actual acceptable behavior and being actual trolls. Threads without those idiots are nice till they decide to come in and wreck the joint acting like it's a service of the common good or something.

As for cash ins, I've no problem if they enhance the lore.

>>239420
True. If you read the ED article on trolling, those who wrote it see shitting up forums as a gift that they generously share with the unwashed masses.

Moderate amount prevents hugboxing, true. But too much will also prevent any attempts at discussion from ever succeeding.

>Instead of another 5 episode pack they wrap up season 1 of All Hail King Julien and upload the remaining 16 episodes
Well that's cool now I can don't have to be left wanting more because 5 goes by so quick-
>Sudden cliffhanger season finale
AAAAAHHHHHH.

>>239508
Oh shit. I feel like his art style's a little too good for it though. Wouldn't mind him taking his crack at some other /co/ properties.

>>239511
>a little too good for it
the fuck

>>239508
Aw. I wanted ac120 to do it. Shame that never came to fruition.

https://www.facebook.com/adultswim/videos/10153623162591745/

OOOOOOOOOH SHIT, MOTHERFUCKERS

>>239538
Looks good. I should start watching the show.

>>239559
>I also maintain that every production studio should have an uncloseted mad fetishist to assist in decisions.
The instant he starts rubbing himself under the table, the episode goes back for a page-one rewrite. I could get behind that.

We must not repeat the mistakes of past generations. I want at least one cohort of cartoon-watching kids not to grow up fantasising about intercourse with Rococo furniture while dressed as a fucking bee.

>>239561

…that is an awfully specific fetish idea you’ve got there.

>>239559
Someone to suggest an episode where a bunch of animals find a bunch of human stuff they don't know what it is and decide to start wearing it as high fashion and someone else to suggest what the most absurd and totally not their fetish thing it should be.

>>239587
Must say Raven and Starfire are quite cute in that 80s mode.

>>239616
iknowthatfeel.jpg

>>239588
>>239613
>>239614
I concur.

>>239616
I vaguely remember hearing Hallelujah before reading Watchmen, but I couldn't recognize it in written form. I don't instantly associate Hallelujah with Watchmen, and if I can recall correctly, Watchmen played a different cover of Hallelujah.

//youtube.com/watch?v=23Bo2wwip_w

https://www.facebook.com/groups/228474710549025/permalink/990545454341943/

>>239820
Great description of where the link takes you.

>>239821
It's the artist of long-running comic strip Mark Trail discussing the comparatively shorter-running strip Apartment 3-G

http://toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=176&itemid=25431
Godsdamn!

>>239944
Alright biggest question about that, does it open?

>>240033
What I have heard, yes.

>>240042
Excellent, still the 350 price tag is massive.

>>240359
potatofarmgirl is SUCH a good artist. that eye for cute is a fuckin' gift.

//youtube.com/watch?v=tlPD05BBOsc
The sup texts of the episode is all kinds of fuck up.
Love it!

Also yay new Stella~

>>240373
>It turns out people respond positively when you add episodes in larger batches
Might explain CO'S weekly "bomb" premiere stretches.

>>240375
*CN's

>>240375
I always did figure that was TV trying to emulate the Netflix model.

>>240417
It makes me want to see what they can do with Calvin & Hobbes.

>>240426
That is an easy mistake to make from the way they showed the growth of father/son like friendship grow between Jim and Silver. And Treasure Planet was a wonderful Disney movie, I kinda wish it was 30 minutes longer or a 2 part movie to give more characterization to everybody, especially the Captain.

>>240434
She's a badass. I like badass characters. She is also a catgirl, but that is not why I like her. She happens to also look ravishing in that uniform.

>>240438
>She happens to also look ravishing in that uniform.
Steampunk fashion looks good by default.

>>240471
Funnily enough, McCracken said the disclaimer was not something the network made them put in there.

>>239944
http://www.therobotsvoice.com/2015/11/new-images-of-lego-ghostbusters-firehouse-include-slimer-taking-a-slimy-lego-dump-in-the-bathroom.php

>>240471
>Please do not try to build or bootleg this toy yourself.
Like that's gonna stop anyone from doing it.

>>240489
Also her mother was the one that went after Randy during the Transgender thing. So yea she's going to end up being the SJW mastermind probably. Wheels within wheels.

>>240495
You know there are 2 furry threads, right? Post it over in those threads please.

>>240497
Actually, it belongs in the 9/11 thread that we don't have.

It belongs nowhere, but I hope the image does not destroy this thread.

Never too much Bluth, dang hope those numbers jump

>>240538
Why did CGI take over again? Isn't CGI both more expensive and less appealing to the eye?

>>240549
>less appealing to the eye
No anon, that is totally subjective.

CGI took over because
– It is modern technology, and modern is always cool and you are cool for liking modern things.
– It looks like reality. CGI looks like real life, with all the details, lack of outlines, and dat lighting.

2D does not look like real life, and CGI does. Maybe people really want to deceive themselves into believing what they see on the screen is actually real. That is my theory, and I am sticking with it.

However, neither medium is objectively inferior.

>>240549
CGI is vastly less expensive than hand animation. Especially high quality hand animation.

>>240553
God no it is way more expensive, the returns are just bigger.

Basically big CGI convinced everyone it's what people want.
For example, Disney made Home on the Range deliberately bad to be able to show as "proof" 2D is "dead".

I'm consistently unsurprised about how of people who give opinions about CG and 2D animation usually have never actually set foot in a studio.

>>240557
Memes vs memes.

>>240567
This has been the best season of south park in a while.

>>240573
I never got this hatred, or at least contempt for South Park.
>eh, it's not good anymore
>eh, it's gone downhill
WHY? It was always good, and never stopped being good.

>>240574

Just started hitting topics that didn't interest some people.

>>240588
To be fair, the old episodes are shit, the new ones are ok.

>>240535
I'm just happy to hear he's not out of the business. I really want something to come through for him.

>>240593
He was out of business though, for ten years. He needed a rest from 20 years of non-stop work.

>>240590
>old Oggi episodes were shit
Say that to my face motherfucker, not online, and see what happens.

>>240574
Didn't mean to sound like I had contempt for the show, I've been a fan for a long time. I just think this season is especially good. I thought last season was good as well. I thought the two seasons before that were a dip in quality but still overall enjoyable.

But yeah, I don't hate the show. It's one of my favorites.

>>240595
I always used to love it back in the day.
Glad to see it's back... or never really left?
It seems confusing. I guess it just comes and goes every so often.

>>240596
There was a time when Trey and Matt just wanted to push it to the limits and just get the show canned because they were tired of it, and then something happened. Don't know it it was the second wind or maybe being able to write coherent and pretty complex serialized story lines tying themes together into a lampooning jab seems to have helped them. Maybe it was getting to just blow of steam with a game and just pour everything they'd want straight into that product without many of the restrictions they get from television.

>>240606
I swear to god if they air this pile of garbage one more fucking time.