My Adventures with Superman Premiere Review

 

Greetings Ladies and Gents! The Shaman of Animation back once again with a new review! The last decade plus, there have been multiple attempts at modernizing The Man of Tomorrow, Superman. Ramping up the Christ allegories in a more cynical post 9/11 world. Giving him children and focusing on the Midwestern values he himself was raised on. Making him a dictator and showing how absolute power corrupts absolutely. But on July 6th 2023, a show would premiere and dare to ask a question no piece of Superman media before it dared to ask: What if Superman was anime as fuck?

Without ado folks, let's dive into the premiere of My Adventures with Superman!

Avatar The Last Airbender Book 3 Review

 

Warning: Spoilers ahead.

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back once again! Today marks the 6 year anniversary of this blog, and with it comes a new Avatar review, and it also marks the last season of Avatar I have yet to cover. So, without further ado, let's dive into Avatar Book 3: Fire!

SCOOB! Review

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back once again with a new review! I feel bad for today's movie, because this was supposed to be Scooby's return to the big screen and from the initial character reveals and the first trailer, it looked like it was gonna be a fun time in theaters. Then a global pandemic happened and now everything's gone to hell. But on the bright(?) side, the movie's available digitally to watch, and since Scooby has some history here on this blog, of course I'm gonna talk about it! Let's dive into SCOOB!

I went to AEW Dynamite!

Didn't expect THIS to be my first post of 2020...

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back once again for something I haven't done in...over 3 years, damn dawg. Anyway, it's time for some wrestling talk! This past Wednesday, I attended AEW Dynamite in Atlanta, and I'm here to give my thoughts on my experience at the show in the State Farm Area and of the show overall. Without further ado, let's jump right in!

Avatar The Last Airbender Book 2 Review

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back once again! You know, it's crazy to think it's been five years since I created this blog. Doesn't feel anywhere near that long. But alas, another year, another season of Avatar to review. Let's not waste any time and hop into Avatar Book 2! Warning: Spoilers will come your way.

Spider-Man Far From Home Review

WARNING: Minor Spoilers ahead.

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back once again with a new movie review! 2018 was a great year for Spider-Man: The new comic run under Nick Spencer has been a great return to form, The PS4 game was a smash hit, Into the Spiderverse won an Oscar and Venom...happened. With all the great Spidey content in 2018, all eyes were on Marvel Studios' live action take on the character to really bring the heat in this sequel to Spider-Man Homecoming. Does it deliver? Let's take a look at Spider-Man Far From Home! Also, there will be Avengers Endgame spoilers so if you're one of the few who HAVEN'T it, tread carefully.

Spider-Man Homecoming Review

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I The Shaman of Animation back once again with a new movie review! I know that with Far From Home (which I have seen) out in theaters now, there's no real point in doing this, but after rewatching this film in preparation and with the MCU'S take on Spider-Man being something of a huge talking point amongst fans of the webhead, I figured it best to get how I feel about this film & this version of the character out there in the ether now so people know how I feel. Also, it's been 4 months since I last posted on this blog so...

Without further ado, here's my review of Spider-Man Homecoming. 

Captain Marvel Review

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back once again with a new movie review. Captain Marvel is the newest (or maybe not so new considering when this movie takes place) hero to grace the Marvel Cinematic Universe; and oh boy, for me personally, this movie had an uphill battle to fight. Nothing in the trailers made the movie must see for me. Well, besides this:

This is just great...

On top of that, all the online bickering surrounding this movie, whether it was people thinking this was "SJW Propaganda", or the people that thought you were a misogynist if you weren't excited for this movie really soured it for me. But, I finally went to see it and that's what brings us here. Let's dive into Captain Marvel!

Blast From The Past: Static Shock Episode 8

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back once again with another installment of Blast From the Past; and for this latest installment, I figured we'd mix things up a little. Usually when I do one of these, I'm talking about the first episode of the show, but seeing as today marks the end of Black History Month, I figured we'd cover a very special episode of this series. So without further ado, let's dive into Static Shock!

Dragon Ball Super Broly Review

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back once again with another review! When it was announced that Dragon Ball's 20th movie was going to be a 4th Broly movie that reworked the character into the modern Dragon Ball continuity, I thought the franchise had just given up on anything original or creative and was just relying on hype and cheap fanservice (some in the DB fandom would argue that happened years ago, but that's neither here nor there). 

But as more trailers came out, like a sucker, I bought into the hype and last night I went out to watch the film. How does it hold up? Let's find out as we dive into Dragon Ball Super: Broly!

Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show Review

Warning: Spoilers for a near 10 year old movie.

Greetings and Happy New Year Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back with a new review; and it's one that makes me feel a little old. Today marks the 20 year anniversary of Ed, Edd n Eddy. Growing up. EEnE was one of my favorite cartoons and it along with Dragon Ball Z were the reasons I was such a diehard Cartoon Network kid. I was thinking of the perfect episode to review to celebrate such an accolade, and then it hit me: 2019 isn't just the 20th anniversary of the series' premiere, it also marks the 10 year anniversary of its finale. 

Without further ado folks, let's take a look at Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show!

CW Elseworlds (Part One) Review

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back once again! I didn't go into this expecting to write a review but I was so entertained with what I saw, I needed to further elaborate just how great it was. That is the first night of CW's Elseworlds.

Scooby-Doo Month (2018): Daphne & Velma

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation and welcome to the finale of this year's Scooby-Doo Month...well after the month of October ended. Sorry guys, I really tried to get this done on Halloween but I let time get away from me. But after Curse of The Lake Monster Scooby-Doo, as far as Live Action goes, had fallen back into the abyss the original films put him in. That was until this year when a new live action movie came out from outta nowhere like an RKO; and let me tell yo, when I first found out about this film, I was none too thrilled. I mean, a Scooby-Doo film without the Great Dane himself but about the early days of Daphne and Velma's friendship? That'd be like giving The Joker his own solo movie.

I'm reminded that this is a thing. Why is this a thing? I hate that this is a thing...

I digress, is this movie as dumb as I think? let's find out as we dive into Daphne & Velma!

Scooby-Doo Month (2018): Curse of The Lake Monster

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation and welcome back to Scooby-Doo Month! Today's installment is one that I actually own a physical copy of (It was $5 at a CVS) and it inspired this year's theme. With The Mystery Begins being a huge ratings success, a sequel was developed and released the very next year. Was it worth my 5 bucks? Let's find out as we dive into Scooby-Doo! Curse of The Lake Monster.

Scooby-Doo Month (2018): The Mystery Begins

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is The Shaman of Animation and welcome back to Scooby-Doo month! With Scooby-Doo Monsters Unleashed not meeting Warner Bros. box office expectations, any plans for the 3rd film was scrapped and Mystery Inc's live action days seemed to be over. That was until September 13, 2009 When Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, a made for TV movie celebrating Scooby's 40th anniversary, premiered on Cartoon Network. How is it? Let's dive in and find out!

Scooby-Doo Month (2018): Monsters Unleashed

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation and welcome back to Scooby-Doo Month. Scooby-Doo '02 was a big hit for the box office, so naturally, a sequel was guaranteed. With Raja Gosnell returning as director, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed was released in theaters in 2004. How does it fair compared to its predecessor? Let's dive into the film and find out!

Scooby-Doo Month (2018): Scooby-Doo (Movie)

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation and welcome to Scooby-Doo Month! Yes, after dropping the ball on it after the inaugural one in 2015, the month long coverage of Scooby media returns and what better way to bring this back than spending this month looking back at the Great Dane's forays into live action. Scooby-Doo Month begins with the 2002 film!

Avatar: The Last Airbender Book One Review

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Greetings Ladies and Gents! It Is I, The Shaman of Animation back again! Four years. Four years this blog's been going on. I've Reviewed a lot of cool stuff, reviewed a lot of shite, but out of the hundred plus posts I have here, there's one franchise I always come back to; and seeing that I've covered the Legend of Korra Animated series...and I don't feel like covering the comics at this current juncture, it's time to take a look at Korra's predecessor: Book One of Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Shaman's Thoughts: Marvel's Spider-Man

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, The Shaman of Animation back with a new installment of Shaman's Thoughts. In case you all have been living under a rock for the last 3 weeks, Marvel's Spider-Man is finally released; and from the moment the first trailer for this game was released back in 2016 during Sony's E3 conference, I was excited. And as more was revealed about it, everything pointed to it being a slam dunk, which also made me weary, this game had a lot of hype surrounding it, surely it couldn't live up to it and all its expectations right? Yes. Yes it could.

Shaman's Thoughts: Teen Titans Go Away?

Greetings Ladies and Gents! It is I, That Shaman of Animation back once again. So, as the top picture may imply here, I've seen the trailer of Titans and I'm not looking forward to it. DC Universe can have my $7.99 next year when Young Justice Outsiders is released. But everything I could say about this trailer has been said already. So instead, I want to focus on a much larger topic, one that I don't think people might not want to talk about. Maybe...it might be time for the Teen Titans to go away.