New address
By Kurtis Findlay | May 15, 2008
I’m glad you have found this site, however, I have moved it to a new domain. Please visit Animated Superheroes’ new home.
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Mutants Everywhere! New Wolverine and the X-Men Trailer!
By Kurtis Findlay | May 7, 2008
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| The cast expands in a big way. |
Colossus! Angel! Blob! Rogue! Avalance! Quicksilver! Scarlet Witch! Magneto! Iceman! Sentinels! Mystique! Polaris! Domino! Wolfsbane! Forge! Veritgo! Gambit! Pyro! Maverick! Dust! Spirl! Mojo! …and Hulk?
These are a few of the many mutants in the new trailer for Wolverine and the X-Men that Marvel posted an their site yesterday. Check it out! It makes this show look real good! You get to hear a lot of the characters’ voices, a lot sounding like thier movie counterparts. The animation looks clean and smooth and the story is gonna be epic!
It also seems that Emma Frost will have her secondary mutation, her diamond form, but Beast doesn’t seem to have received his yet.
This trailer has made me quite a bit more excited about this show. After seeing Marvel bomb several of their shows in the 90s due to ultra campyness, it’s nice to see them treating their shows these days as seriously as Bruce Timm and Paul Dini treated Batman: the Animated Series.
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X-Men and Iron Man heading to Nicktoons
By Kurtis Findlay | May 6, 2008
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| Wolverine and the X-Men promo art |
I know I’m a few months behind on this breaking news but, hey, I’m new here. To coincide with the upcoming movie X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Marvel has partnered up with Toonz Entertainment and First Serve International to produce 26 episodes of a brand new X-Men cartoon series that will be aired on Nicktoons in early 2009. Here’s the official promo:
“Wolverine and the X-Men”
The story begins as an explosive event shatters the lives of the X-Men and takes away their mentor, Professor X. The beaten heroes, including Beast, Storm, Cyclops and Nightcrawler, walk away from it all but then they are given a rare glimpse into the future, where they see a world in utter ruin…ruled by giant destructive robots. They discover the world has spiraled out of control because the X-Men have given up. So now the most legendary of all X-Men, Wolverine, must take the lead on the ultimate mission–to prevent the world’s destruction—while fending off enemies Magneto and The Brotherhood.
This looks like it has real potential. The character designs are sharp and accurately represent the team’s current costumes. It also looks like they are trying to capitalize on the success of the Astonishing X-Men comic book as the cast from that book is featured in the promo art (Cyclops, Wolverine, White Queen, Beast and Shadowcat) along with Storm and Nightcrawler.
If you haven’t seen it yet, take a look on youtube for a trailer that will give you a feel for the animation and a look at some of the other characters that will be featured in this series.
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| Iron Man the Animated Series promo art |
Hot on the trail of the blockbuster feature film, Iron Man will be featured in a new animated series. This will be the third time that Shell Head will be featured in his own series, having already been featured in a segment of 1966’s The Marvel Superheroes and in Iron Man, part of the Marvel Action Hour in 1996.
“Iron Man: The Animated Series”
Tony Stark, heir to a billion-dollar corporation, lives a life of luxury, free to pursue his chief interests—seeking extreme thrills, solving scientific mysteries and creating mind-boggling inventions. But everything goes horribly wrong when a tragic accident robs Tony of his father and nearly costs him his own life. Now dependent on his own impressive technology for survival and dedicated to battling corruption, Tony must reconcile the pressure of teenage life with the duties of a Super Hero. Inside his remarkable invention, Tony Stark is geared for high-speed flight, high-tech battles and high-octane adventure! He is Iron Man.
Like Wolverine and the X-Men, this series will also contain 26 episodes and will premiere on Nicktoons in early 2009. Iron Man: the Animated Series is produced by Marvel Entertainment and Method Films.
There is some speculation whether or not Tony Stark will be a teenager in the series. Marvel found success with the teen version of the X-Men in X-Men: Evolution and is currently getting good ratings with the teen version of Spider-Man in Spectacular Spider-Man so it wouldn’t surprise me if they try the same formula again. I hope it works.
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Spider-Man: The Mutant Agenda on DVD
By Kurtis Findlay | May 6, 2008
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| Wolvie and Spidey |
We Canadians will be treated to something special today. Morning Star Entertainment is releasing Spider-Man: The Mutant Agenda, a DVD featuring a few episodes from the 1994 Spider-Man series. Morning Star actually has a few superhero releases coming up, but I’ll talk more about those another day.
While this is only a re-release of an old VHS from the late 90s it is nice to see some more of the Spider-Man episodes on DVD since Disney, the current rights holders, doesn’t seem to want to do anything with the property.
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| OMG! We're missing Survivor! |
Out of all the Spider-Man: TAS VHS releases, Mutant Agenda was the second most popular of the lot (the most popular being the Venom Saga). This is probably because it was a fanboy’s dream come true to see Spidey team up with everyone’s favourite mutants. The X-Men cartoon was at the height of its popularity at the time of this cross-over and the producers of Spider-Man flew the entire X-Men voice cast from Toronto to LA to do the voice sessions for these episodes. The result is one of the most memorable moments in the series.
Included on this disc are two bonus episodes of Iron Man which makes me think that this DVD was released not because of the Spider-Man episodes, but because the Iron Man episodes will tie in to the movie.
If this release is exactly the same as the VHS, here are a list of the episodes on this DVD:
Neogenic Nightmare, Part 4: The Mutant Agenda
Neogenic Nightmare, Part 5: Mutants’ Revenge
Neogenic Nightmare, Part 6: Morbius
Iron Man to the Second Power, Part 1
Iron Man to the Second Power, Part 2
Pick it up today!
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Theme Song: Spider-Man: the Animated Series
By Kurtis Findlay | May 5, 2008
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| Spider-Man title card |
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| Venom and Spider-Man |
Here is the first of many theme songs I plan on posting on this site. This one is the theme to the Spider-Man: the Animated Series from 1994.
The theme song was written by Aeorsmith guitarist Joe Perry. When composing this piece, Perry wanted a modern feel that paid tribute to the classic ‘67 series. You can sort of hear this come out in the main guitar melody. The words also pay tribute to the ‘67 theme song.
Perry also performs the guitar riffs and the ripping guitar solo. He speaks the lyrics through a vocoder to give them that digitally distorted sound.
I pulled this theme off a real cheaply produced Spider-Man DVD so the quality is even worse than you would normally find on YouTube. Hopefully I can post a better one at a later date.
Also, I’m pretty sure that this is the Season Three version of the theme song.
Spider-Man
Spider-Man
Radio-mutated Spider-Man (x3)Spider blood
Spider blood
Radioactive spider blood (x2)Spider-Man
Spider-Man
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