Is it any wonder I am aesthetically warped?

6 thoughts on “Is it any wonder I am aesthetically warped?”

1. Cap, FF, and Hulk, but not Spidey? ;_;
   I can sing three of those. 🙂
   Not Thor, though.
   Quick – who was the voice of the Thing in the 60s FF cartoon?
   Bud Collyer, the voice of Superman, was the voice on the radio show and the in the 1940s theatrical cartoons, too. Did you know that kryptonite was introduced on the radio program?
   I remember watching Spidey on TV in the 80s and noticing something familiar about the story and dialogue. I grabbed my copy of Amazing Spider-Man #6 and read along. They kept Stan’s words! 😀

   Reply

2. True, I managed to miss the old / original Spider-Man cartoon. Though I remember watching that for the first time long after its first run. Well, relatively long.

   I also missed Jonny Quest.

   Reply

3. Oh man, Johnny Quest had such an air of cheesy racist that even as a kid I could barely watch it.

   Mmmm, Space Ghost! How about the Herculoids? Thundaar the Barbarian? The Star Trek animated series?

   Live action cheese: Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, HR Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost.

   We are sooooo doomed. Kids today don’t know how good they’ve got it with their rebooted series and animation that isn’t a static figure with the background moving behind it . . ..

   Reply

4. * Jonny Quest “had such an air of cheesy racist that even as a kid I could barely watch it” … well, it was a recycle of every cheesy B-plot spy/SF/adventure movie one could imagine, so it’s not surprising that everyone, including the Americans, are stereotypes, often (to modern eyes) pretty bad ones. That said, it can just be damned fun.

   * “How about the Herculoids?” Yup, another favorite — and, like JQ and Space Ghost, Alex Toth designs and lots of gorgeous dark inks combined with H-B’s trademark limited animation.

   * “Thundaar the Barbarian?” That came out a lot later … but I confess I now have the collected set.

   * “The Star Trek animated series?” Another later entry, but (very limited Filmation animation aside) a lot of fun.

   * “Live action cheese: Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, HR Pufnstuf, Land of the Lost.” I always loved the SF side of LotL, not so much the goofiness. HRP was not my favorite Kroft entry (that would probably be either Lidsville or the Bugaloos). I never got into EW&DG, but Shazam and Isis on the other hand …

   But, again, all of those are a decade, at least, after what I was linking to.

   Reply

5. I still enjoy Jonny Quest. I remember seeing Forbidden Planet the first time and remembering the JQ episode where Jonny used a bucket of paint to expose an invisible monster. Deja vu!

   Loved Herculoids and Space Ghost. I wanted to like Thundarr because of Steve Gerber’s association, but it never really worked for me. 🙁

   Star Trek was quite good for a Filmation series. And Larry Niven adapted “The Soft Weapon” for it! Of course, I didn’t realize that until I started reading Niven five or so years later. Oh, and I just got Hal Sutherland’s autograph on one of my videotapes. 🙂

   I wasn’t too crazy about most of the Krofft shows. I did watch Land of the Lost, because dinosaurs are cool. And I put Chaka in a D&D game around 1980. 😉

   Reply

6. I still enjoy Jonny Quest. I remember seeing Forbidden Planet the first time and remembering the JQ episode where Jonny used a bucket of paint to expose an invisible monster. Deja vu!

   I loved that episode. And Katherine wouldn’t watch it for some time because of how scary it was.

   I didn’t appreciate the Gerber and Kirby association with Thundarr until well after the fact. I just loved the whole post-apocalyptic riff.

   I very much enjoyed the Known Space incursion into the Star Trek realm, esp. as I was reading Niven’s stuff at the time.

   Reply