WB Toons of the Future...literately!!

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Two words.

Chuck.

and

Jones.

The best Looney director/creator ever.

...that's eleven words...

 

[Klaus]

Preview is up at AICN:

http://www.aintitcool.com/downloads/LoonaticsPreview.mov


Go on. You know you want to...

 

[Mad Mac]

Did they take it down? I'm getting nothing...

Just the names are painful though...Taz=Spaz. Daffy=Duck. Duck? Duck!? Thats an improvement? Bugs=Buzz, Wile=Slick, Roadrunner=Roadster, Lexi=Lola(Lola sucked anyway, but I guess they needed a girl)

As a general design principle, characters whose names are adjectives can be problamatic. A whole team of them, (supposedly calling out each others names, superhero style) is just asking to be unintentionally funny, in a sad sort of way.

"Spaz! Spaz! Spaaaaazzz!"

 

[Wombat]

**sigh**

Okay, that was worse than I thought.

I shall forward the link to all I know, simply out of protest...

 

[Umbran]

My first thought exactly. It's like that bunny wants to smash my face into the pavement.

Yeah? Well, think back a bit - think about the things Bugs did to Elmer Fudd and Yosemite Sam, the Tazmanian Devil and even Daffy. Bugs was no peacenik, gosh darn it! He blew people up, slammed heavy weights on 'em, droped them off cliffs, everything!

At least this one has a look that matches his actions

Really, I have to go with the folks who say we're getting old and crochety. Remember the difference between "I don't like this" and "This is fundamentally wrong".

 

[Ranger REG]

Meh. Looks like the artsy folk who did Batman Beyond is doing this one.

 

[Terath Ninir]

All we have is a poster and a news story. I'll grant that it does not get me all that excited, but one never knows. They could insert some nice homage pieces, something only older folks who have watched the other cartoons a lot would get. It could be good, or not. Maybe we should both talk again when we've seen clips.

As I've said, I saw clips, probably of the intro to the show, on GMA yesterday. And it looked like CRAP. Not nostalgia speaking. Taste.

 

[jester47]

*ahem!*

"What's Opera Doc?" was released in 1957. Damn funny, and not (totally) for kids.

But I think you're right about the PC-ness, or lack thereof, in the cartoons. My guess is it is hard to find or see many of those cartoons now. Are there Speedy cartoons on the DVD's?

The 50's had merit, but they were in decline at that point.

There are SG episodes on the collecter DVDs. The second one has a lot of the older material. Even has the one that got Avery fired.

Aaron

 

[Richards]

Which one was that, and why was he fired over it?

Johnathan

 

[Ranger REG]

As I've said, I saw clips, probably of the intro to the show, on GMA yesterday. And it looked like CRAP. Not nostalgia speaking. Taste.

"This is not your daddy's Looney Tunes."