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Even for Disney having only a handful of examples to work off and zero help from their once golden goose pixar left them facing an uphill battle.
I just realized that Secret Lab was behind Dinosaur, so something tells me that Dinosaur not making the money they were hoping for was what led to Secret Lab shutting down years later. Which sucks because Secret Lab was behind actual groundbreaking special effects in film history, so Disney delivering the final blow should've been a sign of shit to come from them.
 
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This is the most badly aged comic I've read, not because it's racist or anything but by all metric Anime has wiped Cartoon's ass in humiliating fashion. This comic has to be some form of satire at the cost of cartoons because it wasn't written in any form of irony it blatantly projecting.

Notice how all the examples of cartoons are very old. We're talking Hanna-Barbera old-school cartoons, and the newest on the cartoon side are 90's characters (Dexter and Homer Simpson). Even the anime side is filled with pre-90's anime. While this take seems like it was made by a Dobson-esque boomer with a very small pool of references, it unintentionally highlights how they had to use old examples, because in the last few decades, cartoons have been filled with "woke" stuff, CalArts slop, and Rick and Morty wannabes.

Maybe, if we compared only old shows, I would say anime and cartoons were about even. I would even give cartoons the edge because some classics had some legendarily good rubber animation (Looney Tunes, etc.). But if we made a modern comparison, the Western side would get crushed. It's not even close. I struggle to remember a recent cartoon where I don't feel like I'm being lectured or was seeing an inferior version of what I could see in an anime. Would you rather watch Gen;Lock or Gundam?

Don't get me wrong. I am not a weeb. I am just feeling bad that Western media is going trough a rough patch , and I do miss when they had many quality projects. There was a time were I though shows like Avatar, or Justice League, proved the west could go toe to toe with whatever Japan was doing. This is not the case anymore.
 
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Notice how all the examples of cartoons are very old. We're talking Hanna-Barbera old-school cartoons, and the newest on the cartoon side are 90's characters (Dexter and Homer Simpson).
The comic was published in 2002, so the 90's were only a decade away, this is like making this comic in the modern day and it uses Flapjack, Chowder, and Adventure time.
 
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This is the most badly aged comic I've read, not because it's racist or anything but by all metric Anime has wiped Cartoon's ass in humiliating fashion. This comic has to be some form of satire at the cost of cartoons because it wasn't written in any form of irony it blatantly projecting.
I think the most unbelievable part about this comic is that you have Pokémon and Digimon co-existing in the same space.
 
While this take seems like it was made by a Dobson-esque boomer with a very small pool of references, it unintentionally highlights how they had to use old examples, because in the last few decades, cartoons have been filled with "woke" stuff, CalArts slop, and Rick and Morty wannabes.
More like because it's over 20 years old and those characters didn't even exist then. Mike Kazaleh is one of the founders of Rowrbrazzle in the early '80s, one of the original proto-furry zines.
 
More like because it's over 20 years old and those characters didn't even exist then. Mike Kazaleh is one of the founders of Rowrbrazzle in the early '80s, one of the original proto-furry zines.
What was that comic even from? It feels like mad magazine but mad tended to alter names for the sake of "parody."


Was it an indie web comic? User really should have cited a source.
 
It's funny and sad that DC Animation, though having rough patches, is one of the Western works that could keep up with anime. For a while at least. Then everything became anime-esque. Not sure if it's better or worse than Cal Art-ification.
Not a weeb. I am just waiting for anime to become lame and for cringe nerds again.
 
Cracked. Paper Cracked.
Although I'm aware they were a second rate rag before being a bottom bin website only surpassed by vice. I'm amazed they put that comic out in 2002. I always thought the last time cracked was ever given any major recognition was that one mention in the simpsons. (Where skinner made bart a hall monitor and offered him Dibs on all the confiscated goods including magazines like mad, cracked, and crazy) speaking of which.
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Ahh mad even in your old age you still managed to hit it outta the park every now and then.

Though the adventure time shade may be a little inaccurate and sounds like something a then (2012) literal boomer would say not knowing AT beyond the surface.
 
>Executives lack of confidence in Madonna's acting abilities
>Disney & Madonna's music entities could not reach a deal

Honestly, they dodged a bullet. 90's/2000's Madonna is when her talent started to take a nosedive (including Hung Up, which is just a Abba rip-off). She peaked in the 80's.
 
Watched all of OK KO.
I'm just fucking sick and tired of shows that devolve into the creators taking their cancellation out on the show itself. Why can't they be like Sym-Bionic Titan and face their death with dignity?
Because modern animators are teenage faggots stuck in adult bodies that use the cartoons they work on as their therapy. Because they are shit wokeists, this behavior is in line with their unrelenting urge to constantly meld fiction with reality.
 
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