Comic Casual Issue #2: Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) 1-4

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back again with a new installment of Comic Casual. I actually wanted to have one of these out sooner than I did, but we're here now with something more current. In July last year, Sega announced the end of its partnership with Archie, resulting in the cancellation of the Archie Sonic comic series: The longest comic based on a video game character. But you can't keep the blue blur down, his games more than prove that.

Sorry, couldn't help but reach for that low hanging fruit...

Not even a week later, the official Sonic Twitter page announced that IDW would be publishing for a new Sonic Comic; and as the months rolled out we got more information on the new series: Veteran Sonic comic writer Ian Flynn would be returning to the book along with various artists familiar with the hedgehog and that the 1st 4 issues would come out on a weekly basis to help usher in this new era. How do they fare? That's what we're here to find out!

The current state of mainstream cartoons

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back again with another installment of Shaman's Thoughts. This past weekend, The Internet got a first look at 'Thundercats Roar': a new reimagining of The Thundercats, with a lighter and more comedic tone (as opposed to the more serious 2011 reboot). The internet took to this as well as the internet takes to many questionable reboots/reimaginings of beloved old cartoons (Spoiler Alert: It wasn't good). Some of the criticisms thrown the show's way were just, like the fact the show seemingly looks the same as a lot of Cartoon Network shows nowadays.

But I'm not here to insult Thundercats Roar or the crew working on it, for all I know the show could come out & it could wow folks of all ages proving to be ahead of its time. But when I first got word of this series one thought entered my mind: What the hell happened to action cartoons?

Shaman's Thoughts: The Dragon Ball Heroes Anime

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back again with another installment of Shaman's Thoughts: One try-hard's attempt at being an intellectual. Yesterday morning I woke up, got ready for work and in doing so, I checked my phone, to see what's going on in my Twitter circle and I see tweets about Dragon Ball Heroes getting an anime adaptation; and upon further research entailing a 2 minute Google Search, this is confirmed happening, and I couldn't be more excited.