A Game Of Thrones Comics Review

Since Game Of Thrones is due to air it's final season next year (yes you can expect a review of the finale btw) I thought i'd take a look at something that perhaps not alot of people know about and that's the Game Of Thrones comic book series starting with the adaptation of the first book A Game Of Thrones.

Even tho this is an adaptation of the first book's story it's a shockingly faithful adaptation and for those who havn't read the first book or seen the show the plot of that first book and this adaptation is several noble houses fight a civil war over who should be king while an exiled princess tries to find her place in the world and the kingdom is threatened by some rising supernatural threat in the north. Boom. I know that doesn't even scratch the surface but that's the best summery I could find and I do have to say that while I do praise the comic for sticking close to the books storyline I personally would have preferred it if they also added in some scenes.

The art for the book was done by Tommy Patterson who's mostly worked on the Grimm Fairy Tales comic book series and I have to say that I really enjoyed his artwork on this series he really did a good job of making this fantasy tale fit in with the comic book medium but tho I do have to say there are some scenes near the end of the series were Daenerys looks like an anime character which does go against the visual look this book is going for.

The biggest issue I have with this series is that it's only twenty four issues long and that's not enough for a story and world this rich and epic and because of how short the series is alot of key scenes from the book aren't in this series we don't get to see Robert and Ned's banter just after Robert arrives at Winterfell and alot of the stuff with Viserys while present is cut down and that's to name but a few of the scenes that didn't make the cut.

All of the characters from the show are present and correct but tho we now sadly cannot skip the boring chapters which means for the first time in a long time I had to read Jon Snow's scenes and I have to say I was impressed with this book handled him since he is one of the franchises most popular characters I thought they would have made him look like this goody goody good guy who can do know wrong but no they actually present him as a real person who does make mistakes.

What really shocked me was this book took three years to fully publish and I have no idea why that was the story was already there in book form and so where the characters so all they had to do pretty much was just put this series out there but perhaps they were taking there time because of how successful the show was and thus wanted to make sure they got it just right.

The show is famous not only for having great writing , acting and visual effects but for also being very bloody / violent among other things and I have to say apart from one scene with Tyrion that was for some reason cut from this series this book is very freaking violent when you get to the horse heart scene you see some of the veins in the heart. 

In all honesty when we got to a certain famous scenes with Ned I really thought they would go all out with the gore but they really subtle with how they did it literally my only issue with that scene is the fact it's in issue 21 and the fact they spoil it on the freaking cover. If I was writing this series I would have had that scene take place in either issue twenty two or twenty three just because there's not much story after we get to that point and I wouldn't have had that scene be on the cover for that issue that's just bad marketing right there.

The book is famous for having pages upon pages of descriptions and characters thoughts well since this is a comic book we don't need to hear how things look as for the inner thoughts of characters they are actually present in the book as little boxes and I thought it was cool that the makers of this book would include that little detail since they didn't really have to that at all.

Overall this was a pretty good series like I said before I wish that it was longer since that would served the story better and as you can tell by the picture they are also adapting A Clash Of Kings which as of this writing is only nine issues in so I give A Game Of Thrones a solid 9 out of 10.

  

The Boss Baby: Back In Business Review

Well then here we are with another Dreamworks movie turned into a Netflix TV show and I think it's about time that they learned that not every movie deserves it's own series so here is my review of The Boss Baby: Back In Business.

The plot of this show is as simple as it gets The Boss Baby and Tim have to juggle life at babycorp and being a family but there's also a small story about a character called Bootsy Calico who loves cats and wants to get rid of babies. Yeah the story for the show is pretty much the same as the first movie the problem is the first movie did the story better there was no creativity at all when it comes to the story the story goes where you think it will.

The series doesn't star Alec Baldwin but stars someone who doesn't sound like him in JP Karliak heck they even replaced the kid actor with Pierce Gagnon and both actors don't sound like their original actors. Now it's understandable that they couldn't get back Lisa Kudrow and Jimmy Kimmel but they could have at least got some actors who sounded like them instead we have Hope Levy and David W. Collins.

The only actor they did bring back was Eric Bell Jr. as The Triplets and that's it literally every character who's in the movie has a different actor in the series and the only actors i'd say are decent is the voice actor behind The Boss Baby and the new voice actress for Staci and that's really it everyone else puts in little to know effort.

 

As you'll know the animation was handled by Dreamworks Animation and while I expected there to be a downgrade in animation quality but at least in the movie the animation looked finished here it just doesn't everything just looks unfinished from the character designs to the way the characters move to me it feels like the makers of the show where given a deadline first and were then told to make the show when it should've been the other way round.

The show does also use some 2D flash animation which honestly doesn't look that bad especially when you compare it to the CGI it's just a shame that the whole show wasn't done using this technique if Trolls: the Beat Goes On! can pull it of then why not this series?.

Now I know what you're thinking " This is a kids show it's not meant to for you so don't be hard on it" well it's for that exact reason that i'm being hard on it because in a world where kids have shows like Adventure Time , Steven Universe and Star Vs. The Forces Of The Evil all of which have proven that kids shows can be smart and challenge you this show right here takes all of there hard work and goes "Nope we just want to show you babies doing things and put in little to no effort" say what you will about the Trolls netflix show but at least there's some kind of effort here there's nothing at all.

Now I know i've said alot of bad things about this show but I did find it funny at times and alot of the jokes came from who i consider to be the best character in the show Staci I could honestly watch a whole series based on her if I were to describe her it would be picture Harley Quinn but as a baby that for me would be the most accurate description.

The theme song for the show a terrible rap song who ever thought to have a rap song open each episode should be fired because that is a terrible idea and the person who thought that the rap song they went with was OK should also be fired because it's freaking terrible it's an insult to the ears I cannot wait for that song to be over because of how bad it is.

Overall this is worse then the trailer for the show at least with The Beat Goes On! I was surprised by how good it was this makes the trailer look fantastic avoid this show at all costs don't even show it to kids it gets a 1 out of 10 from me and that's me being fair.

Ducktales 2017 Review

Disney fans the time has finally come after not talking about the show since it's premier episode I have decided that now is the perfect time to get a review about it done so here is my review of the Ducktales reboot woo-oo!

What makes this show standout from it's 1980's counterpart is the fact that it actually has a story going on and the story is what happened to the boys mother and I think it's great that this show is finally tackling that subject as it bothered alot of people when the original show came out so it's only wise that this show would tackle that story and so far it's being really well told it's going to last the whole of the first series so as of now we can only guess but I cannot wait to find out the answer.

Returning as Donald Duck is Tony Anselmo who for this series is joined by David Tennant as Scrooge McDuck , Danny Pudi as Huey Duck , Ben Schwartz as Dewey Duck , Bobby Moynihan as Louie Duck , Velma as Webby Vanderquack , Beck Bennett as Launchpad McQuack and Toks Olagundoye as Mrs. Beakley. Now I have to say that while the cast for the original series is made up of legends the new cast more then live up to the legacy left behind and you can tell that all of the cast are really having fun playing there characters.

Like the original show this show has a different adventure every episode and while some of the adventures are indeed fun there are times where I wish they would go back and visit the mystery about the mother storyline since that to me is more interesting but that's a very minor issue.

The animation for the show was done by Disney Television Animation (for those who don't know they mostly do the animation for Disney's TV output and they also did work on Clerks: The Animated Series) and I have to say that the animation in this series is freaking fantastic you can tell from the get go that alot of love and care has gone into making this show and I think that's because they had a lot of fans of the original series working on this one and so they want the show to be as good as it can be.

Thank the lord for Webby if your like me and you watched the original show then you'll know that Webby in that show was annoying as hell and pretty much served no purpose and had the personality of a rock but in this show she is such a great character and she has tons of personality for me she is the best character on the show gone is the Webby of old and in her place is new and more awesome Webby and long may she reign.

There's something I have to talk about and it's about Disney XD we went for months without any news or any new episodes in fact the only way I could watch new episodes was through online streaming and that's not something I would recommend doing if you want to see the show succeed but tho due to the fact that Disney wouldn't tell us anything about new episodes (heck even now we don't have a set return date) people who run streaming sites are going to getting alot of views because of the fact that they have new episodes of the show.

I consider this to be a comic book series since it's based of the Uncle Scrooge series by Carl Barks who also created the character and the show does indeed reflect his designs especially with the Scrooge character gone his blue over coat and it's replaced with a red one which is what he wore in those books.

I do have to say that apart from fixing Webby the show also gave the boys individual personalities as well Huey is very organised and loves to follow rules , Dewey is adventuress and Louie only wants to make money and have fun.

The humor in the show is at times really good i've lost count at how many times i've laughed at the jokes in this series but then there times where the joke just isn't funny which granted for this show is very rare but it does happen and when it does it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Overall out of all the reboots that are out there this one is easily the best one and i'm glad that it's getting a second season I just wish Disney would release more episodes so we can get our Ducktales fix this show gets a 9 out of 10 from me.

Top Cat Review

Cartoon fans Hanna-Barbera have produced alot of shows over the years but one show that nobody really talks about is the show that i'm going to talk about today so here we go with me review of Top Cat.

Now this is actually one of the shortest HB produced shows with only a single season of thirty episodes being made to put that into prospective the original Wacky Races technically had thirty four episodes while Scooby-Doo has had many many shows so when I say this is the shortest show they produced you can take that to the bank.

In America the show was indeed called Top Cat but when the show began airing in the UK the title was changed to Boss Cat the reasoning behind this was because there was a cat food company called Top Cat but tho even tho they changed the title they didn't count on the fact that the shows theme song says the word Top Cat quite alot and they didn't remove the name from the opening and closing credits so it became known as Top Cat anyway.

For those who either didn't know or straight up forgot the show was started airing on September 27th 1961 and finished on April 18th 1962 and was aired on ABC. The basic set up for the show was that Top cat and his gang would try various get rich quick schemes only to be cought by officer Dibble and I have to say that this set up does indeed work as it makes the plot of each episode feel fresh and different from the one that came before it.

The cast for this show consisted of Arnold Stang as Top Cat , Maurice Gosfield as Benny the Ball , Allen Jenkins as Officer Dibble , Marvin Kaplan as Choo-Choo , Leo De Lyon as Brain and Spook and original Mr. Slate actor John Stephenson as Fancy-Fancy. As with all previous HB shows the voices were impressions of famous celebrities of the time but for the life of me I cannot remember who they were impersonating but I can say that the acting really wasn't that bad all of the actors did a good job and they all put in a funny performance.

What I found out while watching the show was that even tho the show is set in New York there's only one character that speaks with a New York accent and it's Choo Choo (the above image FYI) and I can't figure out why that's the case since all of these characters are meant to be from New York wouldn't it there for make sense for them all to have an accent?.

What i thought was even more shocking was the fact that every episode was written by someone called Kin Platt I was shocked because it takes along time to produce a single episode of an animated show so having one writer write the whole thing start to finish was even in those days kind of unheard off.

The show was not only produced by Hanna-Barbera but the pair also directed all of the episodes heck no wonder they stopped at thirty episodes both the writer and the producers / directors most of been worn out. I will however say that the animation is pretty much the standerd HB affair with repeating backgrounds and in some episodes extremely limited animation but what kind of annoyed me was whenever they would show an overhead view of the city everything would be still even the people (if there were any) would just be still I know HB did things on the cheap but I didn't realise they were that cheap.

Here's something that might possible ruin alot of childhoods but Top Cat switches from being a con-man to a member of the mafia and to a confidence trickster really think about it for a second he cons the rest of the gang into giving him there money , he tricks people by saying that they are the best at what ever they do and there are episodes where he has to act like a mafia boss and most of the time he gets away with all of it Top Cat is the world's best criminal.

I couldn't do a review of this show and not mention the theme song to me the theme to Top Cat is one of the best themes in cartoon history it's catchy as heck , you can very easily sing along to it and it tells you straight up about the main character it does everything a good theme song should do and it does it all in forty seconds heck it's so good they reply it at the end of each episode.

Overall I highly recommend you check out this gem from the past it has some good jokes and some not so good jokes and the Spook character really hasn't aged that well but it's still wroth watching and it's way better then the last two Top Cat movies the show gets an 7 out of 10 from me.

   

Scoobynatural Review

Hello Scooby fans and Supernatural fans it has finally happened after being announced ages ago the crossover finally happened last night and I have to say that even tho i'm not a Supernatural fan I did watch this episode so here we go.

The plot of the episode is The Winchesters get sucked into a TV that happens to be showing Scooby Doo and they have to team up with the Scooby gang to find out what's going on. I did a little digging around and I found out that the episode they get sucked into is in fact a real episode it aired as part of Where Are You and is called A Night of Fright is No Delight but I do have to say that there was pretty much no plot for this episode outside of the set up.

Starring in the episode we have Jared Padalecki , Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins as there regular characters and guest starring as the gang we have Grey Griffin , Matthew Lillard , Kate Micucci and the only cast member from the original Scooby series Frank Welker. Honestly for me the voice acting from the Supernatural cast felt wooden and I think that's because there not used to doing voice work but it's still very noticeable as for the Scooby gang there acting was really freaking good.

One of the things that had me worried about the crossover was how are they going to explain the fact that they are now in a cartoon and I think they way they did it was very natural and in terms of the Supernatural world is also kinda makes sense in a strange and weird way.

This episode uses a mixture of live action and animation with the animation being done by Warner Bros Animation and being produced by Spike Brandt who's done a lot of Scooby related stuff. In all honesty the animation for this episode was better then what I was expecting it to be I was expecting the episode to look cheap and just be nothing more then a cash grab but it wasn't the characters had a lot of great movements to them and the backgrounds looked very detailed.

If there's one complaint I have about the animation it's the fact that it looks modern imagine how much cooler the episode would have been if the animation style matched the style from the 60's it would have been a nice little homage to the original show.

I do however like the fact that the designs for the Scooby match how they looked in the original series heck even the Supernatural characters have some nice designs to them and I would consider watching another Supernatural animated series (for those who don't know there was a Supernatural anime produced) altho just to go with what I was saying before it would have been a nice homage if the Scooby gang where drawn with thick lines like they were back in the day.

Honestly there's not much I can really say about this episode but I got the feeling that the makers of the show were Scooby Doo fans because of the fact that they make fun of alot of the tropes that were present in those early years while at the same time they go along with those same tropes and yes I to would take a bullet for that dog.

Overall this was a really fun but tho it doesn't make me a fan of Supernatural sorry guys but I did give it try a few years back and it's just not for me but like I said this episode was really fun and it gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

  

  

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic "School Daze" Spoiler Free Review

Hello fans of the hit franchise My Little Pony season 8 of Friendship is Magic has finally premiered after what seems like forever and what a pair of episodes we have to talk about today so lets get ready because I think I can hear the school bell ringing.

Now incase you was wondering if the show would even mention the events of the movie the first scene makes it very clear i'm not going to say if the movie is cannon or not since this review is spoiler free so if you want to know you'll have to ask me directly.

The plot of the episodes sees Twilight and her friends opening up a school for friendship (it's two early to say if the school will be a permanent fixture or not) and it follows there attempts to run the school. I have to say that i'm glad they have matured these characters to such a degree that they are now the ones teaching other creatures about friendship instead of being the ones learning about it it makes all of the character regression from Fluttershy seem worth it.

Now of course we have all of the regular cast so I won't both to credit them here since there obviously going to be in the episodes but hopefully joining the cast on a more permanent bases we have Vincent Tong as Sandbar , Shannon Chan-Kent as Smolder , Maurice LaMarche as Chancellor Neighsay , Gavin Langelo as Gallus , Lauren Jackson as Silverstream and Katrina Salisbury as Yona. 

I have to say I really liked the brain in these two episodes I won't spoil what kind of role he plays but I can see the fans getting quite upset with his character and I thought that the rest of the characters were really well performed  since most of these characters are new to the show I wasn't expecting the actors to really be good but for the first time out I was surprised.

Now i'm not sure if DHX Media do the animation or not since I found out about another company called Top Cow Animation but either way I thought the animation in these two episodes was pretty good altho since the last think I saw from MLP was the dreadful Forgotten Friendship special anything would be considered a step up everything looked like it could have been in the movie thats how good it was.

We have to talk about the elephant in the room the season 8 leaks let's not pretend that they didn't happen because they did and I like most of most likely didn't watch the leaked episodes now while i'm not opposed to watching one or two leaked episodes here tho six episodes were leaked and that's just not cool at all and sadly it's something that won't be going away anytime soon it's just something we will all have to deal with it's sad but true.

Overall the ponies are back in town (if you sang that part then well done you) this was a really fun episode sorry there's not really much I could talk about since alot of it could have been considered a spoiler School Daze gets a 7 out of 10 from this pony fan.

   

Nomad Of Nowhere Review

I talk alot about cartoons and I will continue to do so but I havn't really talked about westerns and as luck would have it there's a new western cartoon out and I really wasn't planning on making this a review in fact it was just going to be me giving out some thoughts on the show with a review to come later on but then I thought screw it so here is my review of Nomad Of Nowhere.

In terms of plot there really isn't one in fact to me the plot feels more like a Road Runner cartoon where you get the basic set up and you watch it all crash and burn and honestly I don't mind the fact that the show really doesn't have a plot this review is coming out after episode 2 so one might develop later on but for now there's no plot to speak of what so ever.

Now I would like to point out that the Nomad is a mute character so the rest of the cast includes Danu Uribe ,  Elizabeth Maxwell , Ryan Haywood ,  Eddy Rivas , Stephen Fu and  Alejandro Saab. I'm going to come right out and say it the voice Elizabeth uses for the character Skout sounds alot like a grown up Applebloom and i'm not to sure how I feel about that since at times it is kinda distracting but then again it's also fun to imagine a grown up Applebloom.

Now it will not surprise me at all if I get comments from people saying they havn't heard of this show in fact the only way I found out about was due to random ad that showed up on the side of a random Youtube video and even then I have to do some research to see if it was a real advert or not.

I forgot to mention this before but this show is made by Rooster Teeth and sine the only other show of theirs I watch is RWBY I was shocked to see them handle a 2D show and I have to admit the animation wasn't that bad it's not that good either but that's besides the point there's a lot of nice and creative looking backgrounds but tho with that said the characters movements do seem to jerk around a bit.

As I mentioned before the Nomad is a mute character and for me that's where most of the show's humor comes from a character would say something to him / her and then the Nomad would do a funny reaction and I don't mind that at all since his reactions are quite funny but I could do without them using cartoon sound effects all of the time.

I don't usually like to talk about the designs of characters mostly because I have no idea what i'm talking about half of the time but I have to say that I like the character designs in this show Skout looks like how I picture a girl in the wild west would look and the nomad has a mysterious look about him that I just love.

Since RWBY cought on pretty quick with the animation community I hope the same thing happens here because truth be told we do need shows that are just plain silly fun as well as needing shows that are serious and groundbreaking we cannot have to much of one and not enough of the other and it helps that the show is also like I said before really funny.

Overall i'd say that if your a fan of Rooster Teeth then I would recommend you check this show out even if your not a fan of the team then I would still recommend it to you altho you will need to borrow some one's Rooster Teeth account to get the new episodes a week before they go up on Youtube this series scores a 7 out of 10 from moi and FYI there might be a review of the new Muppet Babies coming soon.