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Fantastic Four Animated Series

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-about-galactus dept.

pillageplunder writes "CNN is reporting that Marvel Enterprises has cut a deal with Frances Antefilms Productions to make an animated TV Series based on the Marvel superheros.

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  1. Fantastic Four: The animated series by BobWeiner · · Score: 4, Interesting

    A Fantastic Four animated cartoon would be great -- tho no doubt the powers at be at Marvel will some how bastardize the TV version. Still, it's better to see the focus on characters other than the X-Men and Spiderman.

    Forget the whales, and bring back Power Man and Iron Fist!

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  2. Re:Hrm... by Masker · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Wait a minute. You're complaining because TMNT looks all chopped up, and you think you're getting old?

    Christ. About 6 years ago, MTV started showing Speed Racer re-runs, and I thought: "Cool! I can relive part of my past by watching Speed Racer again! But, Pops, I know I can win the transcontinental race!"

    After trying to watch an episode, I realized that:

    1) There is no coherent plot to a Speed Racer episode; it's just a bunch of random clips all spliced together.
    2) I still didn't know if Trixie was Speed's sister, cousin, lover, whatever. And what was her relationship to Spike, the mechanic?
    3) Somehow I tolerated Chim-chim and the little brother (can't recall the name just now), but I don't know for the life of me how.
    4) You just can't go back.

    So, I know I'm getting old & crusty, but I think that if you watched TMNT as a kid, you're probably still too young to gripe about it. Sorry.

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  3. Re:Four again, and again, and again.. by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 2, Interesting
    God.

    The '60's FF, Captain America and Spiderman....
    SLIDESHOWS! Some were taken from Jack Kirby panels, with an almost Gilliam-style of cut-and-paste animation applied.

    I worshiped this stuff at 4-5-6 years.

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  4. Who was fan of this comic series? by anactofgod · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I dunno. I never could get into this series of comic books. X-men, Spiderman, Hulk, The West Coast Avengers...I liked almost every other Marvel series better than F4. Two of the four team members (Reed and Sue Richards) had lame superpowers and the plots seemed kinda hokey and dated.

    Johnny was alright. And Ben Grimm/Thing was good in his own series...esp those times he faced off with The Hulk.

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    1. Re:Who was fan of this comic series? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

      Reed Richards didn't have the most amazing powers, but he was the gadget-master for the group. He had more gadgets than Iron Man, and his gadgets drove many of the plots.

      My favorite Reed Richards moment was in a John Byrne comic: he was trapped in a seemingly solid cell (by an enemy who knew he could easily stretch to escape an ordinary cell with bars). But there was a single rivet hole with no rivet. He sat there, and meditated, and relaxed, and r-e-l-a-x-x-e-d, and poured himself through the rivet hole. With good writing, even a lame power can be interesting.

      Sue originally just had the invisibility, but later on they decided to grow her a bit and she gained the ability to make force fields. She even began to be able to use the force fields to do things: push things around, pick things up, attack things. I'm pretty sure that the cartoon will have the force-fields version of the character.

  5. Re:Hrm... by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 3, Interesting
    There's no coherence to most Japanese stuff. The ambiguousness is there, deal. Stop worrying about it...it's a symptom of the Western mind.

    Yeah, TMNT sucked pretty badly...I can't understand how anyone liked it. It's a pretty freaking far cry to call it 'classic'. The comic was okay, though, although when it was out and I was 15, I was a bit old for comic books.

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  6. Anyone else? by BackwardHatClub · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Am I the only one here who remembers a Fantastic Four series from about 10 years ago? Ran back to back with Iron Man usually? In my market it was on Sunday mornings at 6AM (great time slot). I just looked through this whole thread and I didn't see one mention of this cartoon, now I'm wondering if I'm the only one who remembers it.

  7. Re:as long as... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    It's not baby-ized, that's a style and I like it. I also like how they do "chibi" versions of the characters sometimes.

    If it were baby-ized, Raven wouldn't be pissed off and irritable all the time.

    Don't worry, they will probably do another TT series later with a different style. How many X-Men cartoon series have there been by now?