Here's some of Eric Wight's concept art for Buffy Animated.
In an interview with USA Today Eric talks about spending a couple of years working on the development of the series, only to have the network fail to pick it up.
Joss Whedon commented, "We were handing them bags of money, and they didn't want to take them."
Oh well. Maybe the concept art floating around, and the comic, will spark interest in a return of Buffy to the TV screen.
'til Buffy the Musical (Wait! They already did that!)
We loved the look of the Buffy animated series, but after producing the pilot, none of the networks picked it up. Too bad, going with an animated series would have opened up a lot of plot possibilities, similar to what the Buffy comic has done.
The animated series isn't totally forgotten. This statue, available in early 2008, utilizes the look from the Buffy animated series and makes me wish even more that the series had been picked up.
Could there ever be anyone that was less of a superhero than Wally Cox?
Despite that, I loved Underdog as a kid.
Underdog figure from Dark Horse Deluxe
Even with Wally's un-heroic appearance, somehow he was just right as the voice of Underdog and his alter ego, Shoeshine Boy.
Yeah, that was his name, Shoeshine boy.
Underdog spoke only in rhyme, which I think was intended to annoy his enemies as much as anything else. "When we battle for what is right, we must not give up the fight."
A few years ago the Underdog theme song was one of the toons featured on the great Saturday Morning CartoonsGreatest Hits CD. Covered by The Butthole Surfers it's a pretty rockin' tune.
I'd tell you to go to iTunes and download it, but it's not on iTunes. Why is this CD not on iTunes? How else can you get The Ramones singing Spiderman, Matthew Sweet singing Scooby Doo, Sublime singing Hong Kong Phooey or Liz Phair singing the Banana Splits Song?
You need this CD.
I'll guess you'll have to order it from Amazon.
Until it arrives, break out a box of Pink Panther Flakes, a glass of Tang and sing it yourself:
There's no need to fear! Underdog is here!
When criminals in this world appear And break the laws that they should fear And frighten all who see or hear The cry goes up both far and near For Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder Fighting all who rob or plunder Underdog. Underdog!
When in this world the headlines read Of those whose hearts are filled with greed Who rob and steal from those who need To right this wrong with blinding speed Goes Underdog! Underdog! Underdog! Underdog!
Speed of lightning, roar of thunder Fighting all who rob or plunder Underdog. Underdog!
'til Polly Purebred get's captured (again) by Simon Bar Sinister
The other morning while I was sitting at a table with a group of people, someone made a point of commenting on how "some group of adults" had put together a campaign to save "That damn Kim Possible," a show that was most certainly going to corrupt their two daughters. Why "these adults" would even watch a "cartoon" was beyond them.
Now they didn't come out and identify this "adult" they were referring to, but it was pretty obvious.
Since I was that adult, I have one suggestion:
Change the channel. You control the lives of your pre-teen children.
Thankfully I am an adult and I can do as I please, and if I like to watch quality animation with my children I most certainly will.
'til Kim Possible is the worst thing your children are exposed to
