The new computer still locks up from time to time now, but the scanner finally works. No, not the mindblowing Michael Ironside kind of Scanner but the one that I can put artwork in and magically make it appear inside my computertron thingy. So now it’s just the freezes and sound that need fixing.

The Boodocks season 2 DVD set is out and Newsarama’s Steve Fritz did his usual job of writing a good review of things that he knows about. He mentions in one of the commentaries mentions someone that comic fans have been bugging him about for years: Caesar. Yes, Caesar. For those who don’t know, Michael Caesar rolled into the Boondocks comic strip later into the run, hung out with Huey, and just tried to get the poor dude to lighten up a bit. They formed an unstoppable tag-team that fought injustice, tried to get Condoleezza Rice a man and hosted “the Most Embarrassing Black People of the Year Award” ceremonies. Word has it that they are waiting for the right time and voice actress to bring Caesar to life. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Brooklyn’s favorite son gets his chance to shine in animated form.

Before reading this, please remember that all items have been sorted according to cranial capacity, shoelace length and use of rotoscoped stock footage.

1.) In the “I’ll probably have a better time remembering this if I slap it in a blog post” department, I need to get an issue of Cereal:Geek, a magazine that’s all about 80’s cartoon. A great side effect of not being an animation snob is that I still love the 70’s and 80’s animation that a lot of people seem to hate. Well, I still don’t like the first season of Super Friends (except for the episode where they played the H-B Fantastic Four theme), but I’m only human. Anyway, it looks interesting and I’ll have to pick up that first issue to help support the cause.

2.) In the last post I mentioned the idea that I had of adding tags to the PHP flat file-based gallery system I crappily put together for the site. Last night, I finished it and it’s working on my hard drive’s test copy of the website. The artpages can display the tags of a picture and clicking on a tag name will take you to a gallery with all the pics with that tag. As a living brain fart, I don’t even know how I got it to work last night.

3.) In the “Oh my!” department:
YouTube.com video: Superpoderosas video with Batgirl, Catwoman and Wonder Woman

Gotta go… another thunderstorm’s brewin’… AGAIN…

It’s a bit creepy how much some of the press releases from Cartoon Network sound more like solicitations in Previews. Lets take a look thanks to ToonZone.com.

Ben-10: Hero Generation

This new series will focus on a slightly older Ben and Gwen as they team up and mentor a group of children who have similar powers to Ben. The age shift will introduce new, more mature issues, but the target demographic will be the same as the original Ben 10.

Ben 10 is a pretty nice cartoon, so I’m guessing that the new version won’t be quite as emo as the press release makes it out to be. This next one just cracks me the hell up:

Kids Next Door: The End

Cartoon Network has announced that their hit series Codename: Kids Next Door will air its series finale this November.

This one-hour special event will focus on the last mission of the Kids Next Door, with one member not returning from the mission.

There aren’t enough pixels in the internet to make an :eyeroll: emoticon big enough to capture what I felt reading that. If only there were a way to give this episode a variant cover. It’s bad enough that almost every single comic arc has to have someone die or ‘never come back’ but having it happen in a cartoon like KND just makes the concept look even more ridiculous. What, are they going to… kill one of the Kids Next Door? If they do, can we get the drawn out death speech in hushed, desparate tones while a string ensemble plays in the background?

dying KND: “Don’t worry about me… **cough** I’m… I’m done for. These wounds… too much. Only slow you down. Just… just take the cookies. Those delicious… buttery Tollhouse cookies that those dirty, damned grown-up sons of bitches tried to hide from us. Us! **cough** Don’t they know who the f#$% we are? We’re the Kids, baby… **cough-cough-wheeze** we’re the kids… ” **head rolls to side and corpse turns grey**
other KND: “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
**everyone outruns giant fireball as the neighbor’s house explodes**

Sigh. I miss the good old days when cartoons would just update themselves by adding annoying new characters to appeal to kids but would eventually kill the ratings or get rid of old characters when their toys weren’t being produced anymore. Oh well.

Note: yes, I know that the internet isn’t made out of pixels. So shut it.

January 31st, 2007 will forever be the known as the day that the Mooninites tried to take away our beautiful, wonderful freedoms.

Boston devices a cartoon marketing ploy
FNC dedicates an entire hour to it
On Slashdot

Then, the authorities kick it up a notch:
Arrest Made In Boston’s Hoax Device Incident

I hope whoever planned the whole thing has proof that they alerted the authorities before it happened. By proof, I mean proof that they have in their hands since the police can just throw away any embarassing evidence on their end. Well, evidence more embarassing than an Atari 2600-styled alien flipping them the bird. And besides the fact that the other cities that they did this in (and notified the authorities) didn’t go apespit.

I think TestPattern has my favorite description of events so far:

It’s been pretty hilarious to read the national media coverage of this, especially watching reporters who obviously have never heard of “Aqua Teens” try to describe it. They try so hard to be formal, to be precise, to follow AP style, even with the most ridiculous content. The resulting language makes it sound like no one in the mass media even owns a TV.

Sure, it’s not as funny as Evil Bert cold lampin’ with Osama Bin Laden but this really has made my week and it’s not even over yet.