While grew up on animation and saw a lot of styles over the years with it, there was one area I was really resistant to. And that was the CG animation side. We saw a lot of strides made in … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 10: Your Favorite CG Animation Series
When we didn’t have much in the way of superhero films of the live-action variety, fans managed by animation, through direct-to-video movies and the few TV series we got here and there over the years that featured the usual characters. … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 9: Favorite Superhero Film
Though I tend to lean a lot harder into the DC Animated Universe and TV series range of properties when it comes to my love of superhero shows, the one that stands out the most for me whenever the question … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 8: Favorite Superhero TV Series
We all look for different things when it comes to the animated features that we enjoy and some directors deliver on that better than others. Action may be in the wheelhouse for some but emotional connectivity is what drives others … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 7: Favorite Animation Director
As I continue to do my best to avoid just making every answer about Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the latest question follows up on yesterday’s where we wanted to look at the leading men of animation. This one gives us … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 6: Favorite Female Character
There are a lot of days in this challenge where I just want to say Batman: The Animated Series and be done with it. But I’ve resisted through the first four questions to bring the show up at all for … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 5: Favorite Male Character
Theme songs for animation go back decades (and are a huge, lucrative business in Japan) and when it comes to Western animation they tend to be short, catchy, and designed to hook you into keeping the TV on a little … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 5: Favorite Animation Theme Song
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
With so many projects out there year to year, and sometimes a love for a particular property that is so strong you can look past their faults, there’s a lot of bad out there. Typically, people look to the really … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 3: The Worst Show You Still Love
While there was a lot wrong with 2020 there was also a lot of good stuff, particularly in the animated arena as a slew of TV series landed this past year. While some projects saw delays, others were able to … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 2: Best Animated TV Series Of 2020
We’re getting our newest challenge underway here and we’re going to go back to what started it all for many of us. That first animated feature film. There’s definitely going to be some differences in experiences here, especially those of … Continue reading 30 Day Animation Challenge Day 1: Your First Animated Feature Film
With the conclusion of our 30 Days of Music Challenge yesterday, we’re getting ready to move onto the next phase! We’ve had a lot of fun running the last couple of these with the comic book challenge, Disney, films, anime, … Continue reading 30 Days Of Music Challenge: Epilogue
As we finish out this round of the challenge, and I’m writing it in the waning days of 2020 as opposed to here in whatever it is that 2021 looks like so far, we’re going to take one more look … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 30: Music In 2020
One of the things that I was introduced to early on that really clicked for me was the “concept album” release. Essentially, a release that was telling a story across all of its songs. These aren’t all that common overall, … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 29: Best Concept Album
There are a lot of performers that work in music that leans heavily into comedy, though some may think that’s just a Weird Al gig. Those of us who grew up on Dr. Demento know better, however. So we want … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 27: Best Comedic Song
Welcome to the weekly TV thread! As I’ve long said going back to the earliest days online doing this, one cannot live on anime alone. And compared to twenty years ago, there’s so much more content out there now and … Continue reading Couch Avocados: TV Discussion Thread
Being a child of the 80s meant that we had a lot of opening theme songs to TV shows, something that faded as the 90s went on – which was hilarious since the Friends opening theme song was one of … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 27: Best TV Series Opening Song
I’ve had a mixed relationship with cover versions over the years for a number of reasons, mostly because I’ve found the original version to be the better one. But sometimes the cover version can get a lot more attention than … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 26: The Best Cover Version Of A Song
While most of us expect our funeral moment to be something somber or even just, well, standard in a way, there are those that put some thought into how they want things to go down and sometimes that can really … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 25: Your Funeral Song
While working through a variety of different lists and suggestions for challenges, one that came up pretty regularly that I hadn’t touched on before was this one. A song that you really like that has someone’s name in a title. … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 24: A Song With Someone’s Name In The Title
One of the things that felt like more of a thing “back in the day” but does continue to this day is the creation of a “supergroup” made up of members of different big acts. These tend to be controversial … Continue reading 30 Day Music Challenge Day 23: The Supergroup Question
