Category Archives: Cartoons

Guest Column – Happy Nostalgia, Charlie Brown!

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Popgun Chaos

Steven King has returned with a fantastic message about nostalgia around Christmas. Be sure to check it out and comment! How many times have we seen A Charlie Brown Christmas?  When originally written in 1965, this cartoon was seen to … Continue reading →

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Friday Shoutout – Cole Closser

Posted on December 10, 2010 by Popgun Chaos

Cole Closser is a local artist here in Springfield, and he’s a darn good one at that. His work has a classic feel and it harkens back to a simpler time of comic strips. Here is the first strip of … Continue reading →

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Batman: TAS – His Silicon Soul

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Popgun Chaos

Batman: The Animated Series was no stranger to tackling philosophical issues. The episode Tyger, Tyger questioned the nature of the universe and the intentions of God, the Forgotten explored Bruce Wayne’s tortured psyche, and the Man Who Killed Batman dealt with … Continue reading →

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Batman TAS: the Man Who Killed Batman

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Popgun Chaos

What’s an episode of Batman: TAS without Batman? Well, “the Man Who Killed Batman” addresses this very premise. This was one of those episodes that I hated as a kid, but I can now appreciate it for its greatness today.

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Batman TAS: The Forgotten

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Popgun Chaos

By all accounts, it should be a terrible episode. Logically, it shouldn’t be nearly as good as it is. Yet, Batman the Animated Series was such a great cartoon that it could take a simple, conventional, stereotypical story idea like … Continue reading →

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Batman TAS: Tyger, Tyger

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Popgun Chaos

The Tyger by William Blake Tyger! Tyger! burning bright, In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire in thine eyes? On what wings … Continue reading →

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Batman: Under the Red Hood Review

Posted on August 3, 2010 by Popgun Chaos

A quick overview of DC: Animated and a review of Under the Red Hood. Continue reading →

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Rosebuds and Grim Reapers – Why Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is the Citizen Kane of animated films

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Popgun Chaos

An analysis of Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Continue reading →

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