Turanga Leela: The Burden of Competence
It is easy to reduce Turanga Leela to one eye and a roundhouse kick. That misses the point entirely. Her real superpower…
Read MoreIt is easy to reduce Turanga Leela to one eye and a roundhouse kick. That misses the point entirely. Her real superpower…
Read MoreThere is something deeply satisfying about a good mystery. It is even better when the one cracking the case is a talking…
Read MoreKlaus Heisler is a man trapped in a goldfish bowl, but his spirit is trapped in the forever-online cycle of modern culture.…
Read MoreRoger Smith is quite possibly the greatest sitcom character ever written. Why? Because while every other character is locked into their personality,…
Read MoreIn the late 1950s, movie detectives were all grit and cigarettes. Hanna-Barbera looked at that whole hard-boiled world and made a cat…
Read MoreThe first time I stumbled onto The Herculoids, I was a kid clicking through reruns, and I was sure I had landed…
Read MoreEvery great cartoon needs a great villain. The hero is only as good as the monster trying to stop them. So here…
Read MoreBefore gritty reboots and sprawling cinematic universes, Saturday morning television was a much simpler, weirder place. In 1967, Hanna-Barbera gave us Birdman…
Read MoreHere is the thing about loving Berserk. Once Guts and his brutal, tragic world get under your skin, most other anime feel…
Read MoreI have an unfair bias when it comes to tiger cartoon characters, and I am not going to pretend otherwise. The moment…
Read MoreNobody should be this fun to watch lose. Yet the most insufferable egos in animation are often the characters we quote the…
Read MoreEvery great cartoon needs an agent of chaos. This is the character who kicks over the anthill and ignores the rules of…
Read MoreEver wish you could just leave the ground behind? Anime grants that wish constantly, and it does it in wildly different ways.…
Read MoreFlight has always been the ultimate power fantasy in animation. But looking back at the greatest flyers in cartoon history, it is…
Read MoreIn modern animation, world-building usually implies spaceships or magic kingdoms. But Craig of the Creek achieved something much harder: it turned a…
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