So people are upset at the lampooning on the animated Boondocks. How do I, a whitebread guy who can count the number of black people i know on one hand, to comment on this? We lampoon white people in The Simpsons and Family Guy but it's so easy to dismiss the buffoons of those shows as, "nothing like me." Do we lampoon mainstream white dominant culture enough? But that is not where I am going. I find myself with more questions and not many opinions that don't make me self censor. I am fearful of political incorrectness as much as the next person. January 30 06

The whole thing that makes the DC World animations so great is that they obviously they take themselves just seriously enough, knowing that 40somethings are watching but their audience is kids. They are cartoony but heroic. But with Ultimate Avengers, why do I just cringe? Obviously inspired by the Ultimate Universe over at Marvel, they are doing an animated movie. But weren't The Avengers already called The Ultimates? I fear that while Marvel does much better at the Hollywood blockbuster end of things, trying their hand at animation might just get pretty bad. Just look at the previous X-Men cartoons, which were sooooo standard saturday morning schmaltz. (via Gushie) January 16 06