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♫Tony Stark
Makes you feel
He's a cool exec
With a heart of steel. ♫

…except when he’s reimagined as a teenager who’s never held a job (let alone an executive position), kissed a girl or done any of the stuff that makes think of Tony Stark as cool in the first place.
Welcome to Iron Man: Armored Adventures.… Continue

Halfway through watching “Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Vol.2” I realized that I didn’t watch those cartoons on Saturday mornings at all. I may have been born at the time but I didn’t actually tune in to see them until a few years later when they were in syndication, running weekdays after school on the local UHF station (in D.C. it was channel 20- anyone remember the host, ‘Captain Twenty’? Blond Vulcan in a turtle… Continue

It was only a few weeks ago that I was reviewing the 1970’s collection of Peanuts TV Specials when the first thing pop up on the screen was an advertisement for this ‘Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Vol. 2 ‘DVD collection. I felt a twinge of pity (and some schaedenfreud) for the poor bastard who’d have to sit through f… Continue

What’s hard about writing for an audience of such divergent ages is that I don’t know what the Peanuts cartoons mean to you collectively. As child growing up in the 70s - long before there was any concept of YouTube, DVR, DVD or at home VHS- watching “A Charlie Brown Christmas” or “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” were events! You waited all year for CBS to broadcast them (God forbid you should forget which night) and they were almost as enjoyable as the respective holiday it… Continue

Inspired by the new "Where the Wild Things Are", this week on The League of Extremely Ordinary Gentlemen we delve into one of our favorite subjects: Comic book adaptions!

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