Thoughtnami™

Before I begin, I want to thank you all for keeping patience with me these last couple of weeks. If you've read The X Bridge, you knew that I had to take a hiatus for a while to watch over my grandfather, who's recooperating from a stroke that left him pretty much lethargic and bedridden. He's doing much better now, but he has his good days and bad days, just as always. Now, for the business at hand. It's all comics. That's the moral and lesson of what I'm going to say in this rant of sorts. I'm presenting it loud and clear in case it gets lost in the stream of consciousness that a lot of folks tend to bypass in this type of article. I know I get a little wordy at times, so the overall lesson of why I have to say isn't lost. But if you want to continue reading and wondering what I'm talking about and how I got to that conclusion, go right ahead. There is a kind of controversy going on in the manga fandom that has kind of torn it asonder. Well, not re

While I'm pondering the need for a Top Ten Biggest Turning Points in Animation list, I know that Jerry Beck had a lot of material to ponder. He made great choices. Even the questionable ones like Ren and Stimpy and Gerald McBoing Boing made sense if you think long and hard about it. Here's the list Mr. Beck made: GERTIE THE DINOSAUR (1914) STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928) SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937) GERALD McBOING BOING (1950) THE FLINTSTONES (1960) FRITZ THE CAT (1972) AKIRA (1988) THE SIMPSONS (1989) THE REN & STIMPY SHOW (1991) TOY STORY (1995) But ten isn't enough. It should have been a Top 25 Biggest Turning Points in Animation. I'm just taken aback that there Mr. Beck didn't mention any Fleischer, MGM, nor Warner Bros. shorts at all. Perhaps, subconsciously, this was his protest against Time Warner and Cartoon Network for removing those shorts from the more availiable Cartoon Network to Boomerang, almost totally removing Looney Tunes from public view, an