Blog post! =P

So I was watching a bit of TV the other night, and came upon the old Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends animated show that they're replaying on Jetix (block of animation - I think this was on Toon Disney). Kinda funny to be seeing the old show, with the weird voices, bad acting, crude animation, etc. etc. Especially funny to catch the end credits, where they usually show the montage, with the apartment the 3 of them live in - you know, the one where they pulled the statue switch and the apartment converted into their secret crime-fighting lair thingy? =D

Anyway, I happened to tune in when Spider-Man is dealing with Juggernaut. Which is a tad unusual, since we all know Juggy is more associated with the X-Men. (But then again, Spider-Man's hanging out with Iceman, so bleh.) This just caught me off guard, since while I do remember watching the show as a kid, I apparently didn've see very much of it, because I don't remember hearing of Juggernaut until the 90's X-Men cartoon. In fact, I don't remember even hearing of the X-Men themselves back then.

Which brings me to my next point. Juggernaut's making his usual rant about how he's going to his half-brother Charles Xavier's mansion (and it seems like he always addresses him as such, right?) to destroy the X-Men. So Spidey goes off to warn them. Cut to the X-Mansion, and all of our usual gang is there. Well, 60's version, anyway...Angel's present, Cyclops has his skull cap look, and they're introducing Firestar to "new" recruits Storm and Wolverine. Unfortunately now it goes into Firestar explaining her back story...but then Juggy crashes the party (GET IT I'M SO FUNNAY), Spidey shows up, Juggy's stopped with the ol' "remove his helmet and Prof. X will mind-numb him" bit, the day is saved blah blah blah.

So the weird thing for me was seeing the X-Men I'm familiar with, but in a show I had known about but hadn't actually seen this particular episode. It's like, I should've seen this before, but I don't remember hearing of the X-Men until high school (the aforementioned cartoon).

And of course, the funny bits: Juggernaut explaining the origin of his power almost entirely unprovoked...and Wolverine. With 2-foot long claws. And an Australian accent.


Of course, Firestar is not to be confused with Starfire (HEY HEY! Look at me segue!) (segway?)
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While reading this hilarious "Superman is a dick" thread (http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=58040), there was an explination of the Crisis on Infinite Earths series. And in there was a cover of an issue of Teen Titans. There, of course, was Robin, and Starfire (I had seen her before with the gigantic head of hair), and Beast Boy, and Kid Flash...but what also caught my surprise, was Raven and Cyborg. Now, Raven was understandable... I had just never heard of her before, and it made sense that that is where she came from. Cyborg, however, was the weird one. I was under the impression that Cyborg was a normal adult superhero (of what affiliation, I don't know), and that they just selected him and made him a teenager to fill out some missing demographic when compiling heroes for the new show. I hadn't realized he was actually a Teen Titan.

OK, OK, not entirely shocking, but I at least thought it was interesting.

posted by Tim at 3:15 AM