Holy-cow-I-am-so-excited!! The first episode of the two-part finale of Strip Search will be on the Penny Arcade YouTube channel today. The level of my excitement is so high, the theme for this week’s playlist is cartoons and comics in honor of the show.
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In honor of all things geek, I give you the first in an occasional series of cartoons which celebrate geek culture.
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Next up–Wild West Mars!
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GeekMom visits with voice actress Tara Strong about returning to work with the cast from Teen Titans on the new Teen Titans Go! and life as a mom and an actress.
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Watch Gravity Falls tonight at 9 PM (8 PM Central) on Disney Channel.
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Teen Titans Go! is set to premiere Tuesday, April 23 at 7:30 PM EST on Cartoon Network.
Continue ReadingThe 1977 animated television adaptation of The Hobbit – like its title character, perhaps – holds up far better than expected, 35 years later.
While the story has been compressed to a TV-friendly 77 minutes and there are some visual and …
Continue ReadingSomething to cure your post-Back Friday sticker shock blues: episodes of the wonderful 1040’s Superman cartoons, whose stylish look strongly influenced the late 1990’s Superman: The Animated Series, have been put on YouTube by Warners in their remastered DVD-quality glory. …
Continue ReadingWe take a look at some great sandwich art that a GeekDad fan makes every schoolday for his kids.
Continue ReadingIt’s October. That means movie theaters are overflowing with blood and sharp objects, zombies are taking over shopping malls, and the total number of Kit-Kats you can cram into your mouth at once is what’s truly frightening. My mind’s been …
Continue ReadingScooby-Doo, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck will greet visitors and pose for pictures at the Spooky Saturday Halloween 2012 event on October 27. From 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills. Warner Bros. …
Continue ReadingHow does a show set entirely in the summer possibly manage to do a creepy seasonal episode? O ye of little faith! Halloween (much like love) always finds a way.
Continue ReadingThe surreal fantasy world of Pen Ward’s Adventure Time has been going strong for four seasons, and it shows no signs of stopping. A brand new DVD collection, the third such budget sampler and the first since this summer’s epic …
Continue ReadingWhile trying to convince my wife to join the rest of the family in watching the latest episode of Disney Channel’s Gravity Falls I was asked to describe the show. I went on to tell of an animated series that …
Continue ReadingIf Mario is Nintendo’s Mickey Mouse then surely Kirby is its Goofy; he’s a distinctive second banana with a history and appeal that’s all his own, but still a character that’s been slow to break through to true icon status.
Continue ReadingHaving tried out Little Space Heroes with some friends a few months back I was excited to hear that a fully fledged cartoon would be available soon. The cartoon takes the world of the online game down a more traditional …
Continue ReadingAttention bronies and pegasisters: on the off chance that you haven’t already circled it on your calendar, today marks the release of the latest My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic DVD from Hasbro and Shout Factory. Like its predecessor, The …
Continue ReadingI got some great feedback on my review of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorporated last week. This is a great show that’s kind of languishing in its timeslot, and could come and go before many folks even realize it’s there. I’m …
Continue ReadingEarlier this week Adventure Time‘s phenomenal debut season finally made its way to DVD. In addition to all 26 of season one’s delightfully bizarre episodes, the two-disc set also features commentary, bonus shorts, animatics and a trio of behind-the-scenes featurettes.
Continue ReadingAdventure Time is a regular component of my family’s entertainment diet, and it’s one of those rare cartoons that I likely enjoy even more than my kids. So, like most fans, I’ve really been looking forward to a proper DVD …
Continue ReadingThe Internet is abuzz with Brave, the new fantasy-fairy tale animated movie from Pixar and Disney that opens nationwide on Friday. Much ballyhooed is the fact that it’s the first feature cartoon from Pixar with a strong female lead. Here, …
Continue ReadingAs I sat with my young son on the couch watching the “plot” of our first episode of the new Transformers: Animated series unfold, I couldn’t help but state the obvious.
Continue ReadingDisney XD channel’s Motorcity is set firmly in the future – things like robots, laser barrages, floating buildings and robodogs are dead giveaways – but there’s plenty to the tone, theme and feel of the the half-hour cartoon, that echoes …
Continue ReadingOne of the holidays where movies tend to disappoint me is Easter. Other than the Charlie Brown Easter special, nothing has ever really caught my attention. Last year, a new Easter movie with updated jokes and a great beat was released. Hop became an instant favorite with my family. The story centers around EB Bunny, […]
Continue ReadingOur friends over at DC Nation sent along this exclusive video with one of their artists demonstrating how to draw Robin from Young Justice, which runs on Saturday mornings on Cartoon Network, once again making Saturday morning cartoons something awesome.
Continue ReadingYou know your favorite geeky character has hit the big time when they are immortalized in Pez dispenser form. The problem with Pez dispensers is, once the grainy candy has been consumed via the complicated dispersal system, you are left with a little plastic shell, most likely with beady little eyes staring at you and pleading, “Please, don’t throw me in a […]
Continue ReadingI’ve had the Transformers Prime theme song running through my head lately, because I’ve been catching up on Season 1. Shout Factory provided me a with an early review copy of the DVDs, and I’ve been going through the 4-disc …
Continue ReadingNostalgia works on a bit of a sliding scale; not all properties are created equal. While shows like Transformers and The Smurfs are nigh universally remembered with a sort of detached fondness, it’s rare that we think of the scores …
Continue ReadingNostalgia works on a bit of a sliding scale; not all properties are created equal. While shows like Transformers and The Smurfs are nigh universally remembered with a sort of detached fondness, it’s rare that we think of the scores …
Continue ReadingBefore Gomez and Morticia snapped their fingers, before Thing fetched the mail, before anyone was “altogether ooky,” Charles “Chas” Addams created the Addams Family and other strange characters in his many cartoons. Over a nearly 60-year career, Addams drew more …
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