Western Cartoons/Comics

[Xabyrn]

The Regular Show is so incredibly hipster.

[Spoony]

So how about that Mission Hill huh

[Game Angel]

Even if it is, Xabyrn, that doesn't make it bad. And if I'm a hipster for watching it, then pass me the thick glasses and tight pants.

[Xabyrn]

I'm not saying that makes it bad. Just that it's so sad to see that the general idea of comedy now is "strings of unrelated jokes and events that make no sense dramatically". I mean, Dexter's Laboratory managed to be funny as hell but kept a consistent story and universe.

I just hate seeing the decline of American animated television.

[Spoony]

I don't think character based comedy shows are in any danger of fading away - maybe animated ones, but how rarely does animation actually alter the joke? How rarely would a joke be less funny if it was live action?

[Xabyrn]

Well, some things are better suited for animation. Just take the live-action Scooby-Doo movies for example. Same goes for Dexter's Laboratory. I don't think that would have been as funny live-action, mainly because a TV show back then wouldn't have been able to do the things they did with the animation.

[Spoony]

Well the live action Scooby Doo movies were just awful because they were awful. Even if they had have been animated, I doubt they would have been any good.

Yeah, there are certain shows that are better suited to animation - Pinky and the Brain probably wouldn't have worked as anything else - but personally, I'd rather watch something like Black Books or The IT Crowd. The humour is just stronger.

[BurntToShreds]

Yeah, Regular Show is pretty daisies hipster. Constant references to the 70s and 80s, references to rock music from those times, trippy-booty visuals. It's a good show, but it and Adventure time set a precedent that all of the new humor cartoons that follow will have trippy-booty visuals and oddball non-human characters. Problem Solverz is essentially marketed directly to stoners and hipsters. At least Chowder and Flapjack had some kind of interaction between characters that weren't wacky non-sequiturs. Their characters were non-human and disturbingly gross-looking humans, but the characters all lived in a world where things were somewhat coherent and nothing too insane was just made up on the spot.

[Tall-Hatted Yanimae]

I enjoy adventure time. I rarely watch it anymore though. It and the other shows on CN are childish, no doubt. Silly and slapstickish. And I admit, not the enjoyable slapstick humor the looney toons can pull off every episode. It's a fun show and the artwork is great, but it's nothing really important nor spectacular.

Same for Regular Show. I like them both! I really do but I agree with Xabyrn about it being kiiiinda hipsterish.

I dunno. I haven't seen a lot of the new episodes so maybe it's changed?


Mission Hill was pretty great. It's the show I wish more animated shows were like.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately actually and I realize that a lot of cartoons these days (or maybe it's been like this for a while) are more interested in making a super unique and cool adventure story while just putting character development and consistency on the sidelines. I mean, I realized I've been doing that with my own story ideas because I was inspired by animated shows and movies that did that! Most that I loved and watched were like that.

I guess because most Animated shows are aimed at kids so they don't care too much to give characters more depth?

[Mr. Mander]

A true shame

This is the part where I spend 20 pages gushing about Wakfu's use of characterization

[Tall-Hatted Yanimae]

I have not seen enough of Wakfu to hold an opinion of something like that on it. At least I don't feel I do. But I certainly think that the characters are more interesting than most cartoons I see. I should probably get around to downloading the episodes you gave me

[Mr. Mander]

Man, Wakfu is so good at the characters you don't even know

They took "preadolescent orphan with mysterious powers" and made it work

That is some jesus level miracles right there

[Valbrandur]

Maaaan, downloading Batman Crimson Mist now

I've read the other two vampire comics of Batman and I love these.

I saw them years ago and the memories were burned into my subconscious for a long time.

Now I'm reading it all over again and it's so awesome

[Mr. Mander]

Boy I cannot wait to cry forever

Just like in my cartoons

[Nefarious Bear]

Mission Hill was pretty great. It's the show I wish more animated shows were like.

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