The 80s were full of toy-based animation with Transformers & GI Joe up front. Fantasy & sci-fi was big with He-Man first picking up the ball, but a rival appeared thanks to toy/game creator Ted Wolf which he titled Thundercats. For the entire article, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2026/01/thun...

Danger Dames are good girls from the Golden Age of comics! Daredolls such as Black Phantom, Miss Victory, Kitty Carson, Betty Boyd, Kazanda, and Madam Zero. 80 pages long! You can download this now at site.drivethrucomics.com/product/5484... and in paperback at www.lulu.com/shop/mini-ko...

Happy 64th Birthday to C. Martin Croker! #cmartincroker @claymartincroker

During the late Golden Age, a series of ads appeared in various comic books from war, western, romance, funny animals, and teenage comedies for vending the amazing new weight loss product, the Spot Reducer. For the whole review go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/redu...

If anyone remembers the story from Whispers Of The Heart that the main character was writing, then this is that story. You can see the entire review at animeanyway.blogspot.com/2026/01/ani-...

For the next original production from Netflix Animation Studios, they got Alex Woo to direct and write the somewhat originally titled, In Your Dreams. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2026/01/ani-...

Valkyrie was pretty much the Bad Girl before Bad Girls were even a thing. For the entire article, go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2026/01/valk...

When funny animals meet superheroics during WWII, you get Wonderworm Vs. Axis Ants! 48 pages long, and in color! You can download this now at www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/5... and in paperback format at www.lulu.com/shop/mini-ko...

Arion is an anime movie from 1986 based on the manga Neo Heroic Fantasia: Arion by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko who is the legendary animation director behind the original Gundam anime. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/12/ani-...

The Mitchells Vs. The Machines was Sony Pictures Animation's biggest direct-to-Netflix release before K-Pop Demon Hunters. Originally intended to premiere in theaters, the pandemic prevented that plan it ended up on streaming. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/12/ani-...

Decades before Critical Role was even a thing and getting animation based on their campaigns, creators Ryo Mizuno and Hitoshi Yasuda would print out prose reproductions of former sessions of the various RPGs, mostly D&D. For the entire article, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/12/reco...

R.I.P. Bob Burns III. Last of the ORIGINAL Ghostbusters.

R.I.P. Rob Reiner, "Taking it up to 11".

Arthur Christmas was the second fully-CGI animated movie produced by Aardman Films who started out as steadfast stop motion animators. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/12/ani-...

Frank Frazetta's first work published by a major company was in the one-shot Tally-Ho Comics from Baily Publishing Co. in 1944. For the entire article, go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com

Patches is a long-lost special from the Golden Age of Comics. Patches is a boy who when he's not hearing about adventures of his ancestors by his grandma, he's getting into capers with his circle of friends, the Secret Seven. You can download this now at www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/5...

The world of Fate is probably the single most complex franchise in all of multi-media. For the entire article, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/12/fate...

Takaya Imamura started out as a character designer for Nintendo who worked on Star Fox, F-Zero, and Legend Of Zelda. He eventually left Nintendo and went on to create his own manga titled Omega 6 first printed in French. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/12/misc...

Aviation Press only had one series that lasted for a year titled Contact Comics. With WWII still on, fighter pilots were in over-the-top tales but the one that takes the cake is the flamboyant Flamingo drawn by John Giunta. For the whole article go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/into...

Disney's first Pixar release of 2020 came out just at the dawn of the coronavirus, so Onward already had an uphill battle trying to get anyone to dare coming out to the theaters. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/12/ani-...

Punks Of The Golden Age are juvenile superheroes from the dawn of comics! You can download this now at site.drivethrucomics.com/product/5444... and in paperback at www.lulu.com/shop/mini-ko...

The Mouse And His Child was the first full-length animated movie put out by Sanrio along with what would eventually become Fred Wolf Films who animated the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. For the entire review go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/11/ani-...

Elio was Pixar's attempt at doing an original movie since Elemental, even though on its own that borrowed heavily from their parent company's film Zootopia. You can see the entire review at animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/11/ani-...

The Fox And The Hound was Disney's 24th full-length animated theatrical release based on the book by Daniel P. Mannix which has a radically different ending from the one adapted for the movie. For the entire review go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/11/ani-...

Farrell Publications had several imprints when it was in swing during the mid-Golden Age, one of which was Four Star Comic Corp., but like many of the Farrell's titles they would reprint stories from former publishers. For the entire article go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/have...

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For being the first animated Star Wars movie as well as the only one not released through Fox, The Clone Wars received a theatrical premiere at the dead end of summer 2008 which didn't help its box office numbers. For the entire review go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/11/star...

Monsters Of The Universe are space creatures from the Golden Age! You can download this now at www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/539736/monsters-of-the-universe-golden-age-space-beasties and in paperback at www.lulu.com/shop/mini-komix/monsters-of-the-universe/paperback/product-kvded44.html

Previously on X-Men, the original animated series ran from 1992-1997 on Fox’s Saturday morning lineup. After three more animated series, including an underrated anime, a follow-up to the 90s show was finally picked up. For the entire article, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/11/x-me...

Seen as being the original patriotic superheroine, Miss Victory was drawn by Blue Beetle and Cat-Man artist Charles "Chas" Quinlan in 1941. For the entire article, go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/miss...

Originally titled Wonderful Days, the 2003 Korean animated movie Sky Blue is a mixed media project combining 2D animation, CGI, and live footage doctored to appear animated which finally got its American release in 2004. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/11/ani-...

A terrible miscalculation in size can be a real bummer when you're planning to assault another planet, and this shows in spades in Chalton's Space Adventures #41 with another Bill Mono-drawn sci-fi oddity. For more like this, go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/are-...

Magic Knight Rayearth was a game changer as well as a genre breaker. Created by the powerhouse quartet known as Clamp, the manga appeared in the monthly Nakayoshi magazine and was split up into two halves. For the entire article go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/11/magi...

Windaria might be known to older American otaku as Once Upon A Time released on VHS and DVD originally through Harmony Gold, the same company that put out three separate anime TV shows in English under the title Robotech. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/11/ani-...

Here's my schedule for this year's CONjuration fantasy convention on Nov. 15-17 at the Sonesta Gwinnett Place on 1775 Pleasant Hill Rd., Duluth, GA. 30096. www.conjurationcon.com

Artist Bill Mono did great deal from Charlton Publishing's various sci-fi anthologies and really stood out in Issue 60 Strange Suspense Stories with the unorthodox tale of The Two-Headed Glip. For the entire article, go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-tw...

Alex Toth was one of the greatest comic book artists and animation designers of all time. Terrific Toth Tales features several amazing adventures from the legendary illustrator. It's available digitally at www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/5... and in paperback at www.lulu.com/shop/mini-ko...

Fritz Lang's 1927 classic of Metropolis was made into a one-shot manga in 1949 by the God of Anime, aka: Osamu Tezuka. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/11/ani-...

Key Publications started cranking out funny books in 1951 with several imprints, one of which was Gillmour Mazazines who's longest running title was Weird Mysteries, an anthology of horror, sci-fi, and fantasy. For the entire article, go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/tree...

If you dare to question my taste in comics, I'll get my friend who's a Trekkie to kill you.

Not too many comic villains can claim that they are "The Most Evil Man In The Universe", but Satanas gave it his all in his two comic book appearances. For the entire article, go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com

Enrique Fernandez is a Spanish artist who made his big premiere in an album-sized graphic novel of The Wizard Of Oz through Image Comics, then a few years later IDW decided to republish his mini-series, Tales From The Age Of The Cobra. For more like this, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com

Feast Of Amrita is a scarcity among other horror anime movies. For one, the entire thing was done by a single animator, Saku Sakamoto who had previously worked on Ghost In The Shell 2. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/10/ani-...

Feeling run down? Maybe you should try A Nice Cup Of Terror! Spine-chilling thrillers from the Golden Age. You can download this at www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/5... and in paperback at www.lulu.com/shop/mini-ko...

What we all wish would happen in the White House right now...

Grendel Grendel Grendel was one of the first feature-length animated movies to come out of Australia which has in recent years become a hub for independent cartoonists. For the entire review, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/10/ani-...

Bill Ward was considered one of the cornerstones of good girl art, and his character of Torchy was at the front of the line when it came to blonde bombshells. For the entire review, go to stupidcomicbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/torc...

After Dana Terrace had her groundbreaking animated series, The Owl House, cut short from its run on Disney Channel, she teamed up with Glitch Productions about doing her next project. For the entire article, go to animeanyway.blogspot.com/2025/10/anim...

"DON'T READ THIS COMIC ALONE!" Words to live by as we uncover some of the spookiest thriller comics from the Golden and Siver Age of Comics. This is available digitally at www.drivethrucomics.com/en/product/5... and in paperback at www.lulu.com/shop/mini-ko...

Tokusatsu "Wassup?"