Episode title: Dead Man’s Hand
Original air date: March 21, 1999
Another old school villain makes their debut appearance this week let alone their first appearance in the DC Animated universe as the episode sees the return of “The Royal Flush Gang” who return to Gotham to embark on another crime spree, while their leader King is equally keen to have his revenge against Batman.
Episode: The Day of the Robot
Original Airdate: 02/08/1974
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day (where I live anyway). Today millions of people will drink green beer and eat green eggs and green ham and get drunk and piss themselves! Also – 10.4 million people will tune in to see what Scoot from Damian Thomas Films Etc and I have to say about the brilliant “Day of the Robot” – an exciting episode which features the most slo-mo robot fighting the 70s ever produced! Let’s see what happens here…
Episode Title: “Dawn of the Dead Man!”
Original Air Date: January 16, 2009
This series has been on a roll offering us sharp juxtaposition of settings within the DC comics universe, and this episode continues that trend by starting with a post apocalyptic world, and then taking us to a ghost story set in London. Sometimes this technique makes for a rich, intriguing experience, and sometimes it feels disjointed. I fear that this episode is closer to the latter than the former. Continue reading Batman: The Brave and the Bold S01 E07
Episode Title: Video Man
The greatest Christmas present I ever received was the Atari 2600. Laugh if you must, but we didn’t care about the low-res graphics…we could play Missile Command in our own homes and that was enough. When Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends debuted, the video game craze was in full swing. The Pac-Man Fever album was less than a year away. So leave it to Electro to cause trouble for the Spider Friends by bringing a video game character to life. Get ready, true believers, for Video Man. Continue reading Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends S:1 E:7
Episode Title: Spider-Man
Original Airdate: 10-8-12
Welcome to another Webseries Spotlight where you don’t just have to read about the shows we cover here, but you can actually watch them. This time around I’m featuring an animated webseries from Klomp Animation based out of the Netherlands about superheroes having a bad day, appropriately called Bad Days. Like with We Might Be Superheroes we will be sharing an episode, a part of our conversation with lead animator and co-founder Junaid Chundrigar, and some behind the scenes pictures each week every Thursday. But if you can’t wait, feel free to check out the rest of the webseries at Stan Lee’s World of Heroes and CineFix. The series starts off with Marvel’s poster child who has recently come back into the cinematic fold, Spider-Man.
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The Powers saga continues, and I don’t use that word lightly. The pacing is a slow burn, exposing the story little by little, rather than providing neatly encapsulated episodic stories. This time around, fallout from Calista’s falling out shows us how each character reactions to that little encounter, and Johnny makes his move…
Episode Title: Who You Really Are
Original Airdate: 3-19-15
I (Bubbawheat) am just here for one episode while Shah is off on vacation (lucky so and so) but he will be back to continue discussing the rest of S.H.I.E.L.D. next week. After a great set up last week for the entire Inhumans-not-mutants situation, this brings in one of my favorite guest stars from last season Jaimie Alexander as Lady Sif, but what it really does is focus on the inner workings of the team dynamics and how Skye’s change has shifted everything completely. This is one of the few superhero shows outside of Arrow that is not on its first season and so it’s more able to focus on the characters and team dynamics rather than all the world building that needs to be done on the other shows. Not only that, but the characters here already have gone through changes and arcs and are the farthest thing from one-dimensional. And besides all of the character interactions, there are also a small handful of important revelations in this episode that have far reaching consequences.
Continue reading Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. S:02 E:12
Hello, folks! Stefan Gagne here, contributing to Channel Superhero; in my spare time (hah! who has spare time?!) I write serialized novels, so reviewing serialized television content seems right up my alley.
Episode Title: Pilot
Original Airdate: 3-10-2015
Welcome to the world of Powers, where superheroes clash with supervillains somewhere in the background as we focus in on the lives of ordinary folks caught up in the power-obsessed culture that has spawned around them. Instead of directly examining particular caped crusaders, the series builds an intriguing world of celebrity culture and fanatical fandom which destroys as much as it inspires…
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Episode title: Shriek
Original air date: March 14, 1999
After the hiccup which was the previous episode “Heroes” it’s good to see with this episode the writers get the show back on track while at the same introducing another villain to the “Batman Beyond” rogue’s gallery, which at this point has honestly been kind of lacking what with Blight barely getting a chance to strut his stuff as Powers instead chooses to play puppet master in the various schemes he runs, with Inque being the only real noteworthy edition until this point as this episode gives us the first appearance of Shriek.
Episode: Operation Firefly
Original Airdate: 02/01/1974
Happy Sunday! Today we have a special surprise for you. After finding a slice of success overseas, I am pleased to announce that we have a second host joining us today (and from here on out) to parse out these episodes of everyone’s favorite cyborg! Damian from Damian Thomas Films Etc is here to get in on the fun and to get swingin’ in the 70s! HUZZAH and THREE CHEERS! Jolly good, Old Cock and all of that!! Let’s see what happens! (P.S. Damian also goes by “Scoot”)
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