Saturday Morning Cartoons make better Comics
So what Saturday morning cartoons did you watch?
I loved He-Man but never She-Ra.
Voltron but never Thundercats.
Snorks but never, ever the whiny Smurfs.
Later I would wonder what drew me to those particular cartoons. He-Man is obvious – why would I watch some lady run around when I could watch a shirtless man and his cat friend? I mean, DUH.
Voltron had better animation and I liked the pink chick. Thundercats had too much action and the weird combination of people merged with cat characteristics really freaked me out.
The Snorks were just more, I don’t know, edgy. They constantly faced certain death when their little snorkel gill things got plugged up or tied in a knot. The Smurfs just bickered and I guessed face some kind of danger by that wizard Gargamel – even though he sucked at magic.
Now, had I known the Smurfs were a comic? I may have had more love for them.
The Savage Critic takes a look at a certain smurf storyline, King Smurf. You gotta love any post that starts out – “This is the story of the day the Smurfs became terrorists.”
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Here’s where I give away my age, again! Looney Tunes, Deputy Dog, Huckleberry Hound, Spiderman, … those are the first to come to mind. And I actually saw The Flintstones and Johnny Quest on their first run on primetime! Also watched Scooby Doo, that not-a-cartoon show with sleestacks (sp?), and a bunch of other stuff with my niece and nephew.