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90's cartoons and beyond... - Comic Book Resources Forums
Unlike the 70s and the 80s, I think the 90s and onward has been a better time for animation.
Especially in terms of story telling.
For me, the 70s and the 80s are the dark ages.
The 70s for being just mediocre, and the 80s for schlocking us with half hour toy commercials.
So, my top 90s cartoons and beyond...
Gargoyles
Words cannot describe the love I have for this series.
Yes, I am biased.
Very biased. But it just hit all the right notes.
Beautiful animation, great characters, storytelling on a level not seen before or since in American animation.
It didn't just create some great adventure stories with fun characters, an entire mythology was weaved into a beautiful tapestry here.
It was a technical and a creative achievement, and I don't think we're ever going to get another series quite like it.
A shame that, although it was popular, it remains an underrated masterpiece.
Batman: The Animated Series
For me, this will always be my Batman.
More so than the movies, more so than the comics.
People still talk about this series today, it truly is definitive.
Kevin Conroy is Batman, and no one argues about it.
While Mark Hamill does have some competition from Heath Ledger, they are both so good, that debate will never be settled.
The style of animation was ground breaking.
It wasn't hyper detailed like many other previous action shows, but instead, we got actual animation.
A classic for the ages.
Cowboy Bebop
I cannot describe in words the affection I have for this series.
I can relate, in some way, to each of the characters.
It's like that great, classic album, but animated.
The soundtrack is beautiful.
The animation is stunning.
Spike's battle with Vicious in the cathedral alone is enough to make this a classic, but really, this is just gold.
And one of the few exceptions where the English dub is superior to the original Japanese.
Spike Spiegal, Jet Black, Faye Valentine, Ed, and Ein...
Yes I just want to hang out and waste my life with them.
Exo-Squad
One of the greatest TV shows that no one remembers.
I watch this and can only conclude that no S&P executives knew this show existed.
It had balls. This was a World War II allegory, and they didn't dumb it down.
Genocide took place, and on screen.
And it wasn't aliens or some other fantasy race being exterminated, it was human beings.
The antagonist, Phaeton, well, to call him Hitler would not be invoking Godwin's Law.
It's finally coming to DVD, and I for one can't wait.
The Spectacular Spider-Man
This is Spider-Man.
The series has been nothing but quality, and twenty-six episodes in, no real missteps.
The voice acting is perfect, the stories are well thought out, intelligent, and sharp.
The animation is breathtaking, and the theme song is incredibly catching.
The best adaption of the wall crawler yet.
Should it last long enough, I expect it to rival "Batman: the Animated Series".
Beast Wars
Transformers written by writers who gave a damn about plot arcs and character development.
A distant sequel set hundreds of years after the Great War between the Autobots and the Decepticons ended.
A Megatron who is actually a competent and credible enemy (a master of the Xanatos Gambit) and wants to wipe millions of years of history clean and start over.
The CGI is dated, but if you're interested in checking out the Transformers universe.
I recommend you start here, and honestly, stop here as well.
The Venture Bros
Ah, Johnny Quest.
That kid was put into all sorts of dangerous situations by his super-scientist father.
Now, imagine if Johnny Quest grew up to be a bitter failure of an asshole constantly living in Dr.
Quest's shadow. Meet "Dr." Thaddeus "Rusty" Venture (he's not really a doctor, he dropped out), his two sheltered and stupid sons, Hank and Dean, and their badass, one man army of a bodyguard, Brock Samson.
Throw in an arch-enemy, the Monarch, just as pathetic as Rusty, and a Guild of Calamitous Intent led by a shape-shifting David Bowie, and the smartest use of pop culture references in years, and well, you have this show.
It's a show about failure.
Beautiful, sublime (I love using that word) failure.
Berserk
This series is not for everybody.
I love it to death, but I always hesitate to recommend this one.
It does not sugarcoat the Dark Ages.
At all. Torture, torment, suffering, mutilation.
It's all there. But, it defies a lot of stereotypes, especially in the character of Griffith.
Griffith is intelligent, beautiful, pure, cunning, charismatic, inspirational, and loved by all who follow him.
Kind of like an animated Sir Galahad.
Oh, and did I mention that in addition to all those things, Griffith is pure evil?
The realization that he is hits you like a truck.
In contrast, our protagonist, Guts, is dark, dirty, vicious, poorly educated, and is basically a vengeful thug.
If you have a high constitution, I recommend this one.
Justice League
A show with a cast this big should not have worked, but they managed to pull it off.
It had a rocky start, but from season two onwards, it was almost the perfect superhero team-up show.
Not without it's flaws, they overused Lex Luthor, and I thought that final season with the Legion of Doom was unneeded and unnecessary.
But, it was a nice cap to a universe that began in 1992.
Quite an achievement, especially in the American animation market.
South Park
Ah, yes.
My weekly dose of Libertarianism.
Keep it coming. I tend to find that most of the time, I agree with this show's messages and politics.
It aims to piss off everyone, and if it hasn't pissed you off yet, give them time.
Also, major kudos to Matt Stone and Trey Parker for exposing Scientology, Comedy Central's cowardice, and, of course, Family Guy.
Pinky and the Brain
Narf.
Poit. Egad. "One is a genius, the other is insane." Although, re-watching it, it's harder to tell which is which.
Gotta love Pinky, and Brain was Charles Foster Kane meets a benevolent Dr.
Doom.
Transformers: Animated
I did not expect to like this show.
I didn't. Yes, it probably shouldn't be here, but I enjoy the series.
It harkens back to the old series, but takes inspiration from the much more recent, and superior, "Beast Wars".
Also, Corey Burton portrays the second greatest incarnation of Megatron yet.
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I like quite a few of them, but none come close to the greatest cartoon of all time, Kim Possible (2002 - 2007).
Quality amination, quality writing, fun, there is nothing better.
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Despite loving the 80s and the like of thundercats,jayce and the wheeled warriors, Galaxy high school,mask ect ect i would agree the more modern toons where/are better at telling a story.
And no love for Samurai jack?.
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