Great Week for Cartoons

So the last week was great for Cartoons. There was not one, but two really good animated features on Cartoon Network. Firebreather and Young Justice.

Firebreather was a very solid program. It's loosely based on the comic book by Phil Hester and Andy Kuhn. The basic premise is a high school kid who is the son of a dragon and a human. The only real negatives about the entire feature was that in the not so action oriented scenes, the animation is weird. The move like the old animatronic band at Chuck E Cheese. This also was not an issue during the fight scenes. The other negative was an extremely out of place parkour scene which was stupid and unnecessary (like every Parkour scene in every movie ever). Those two things aside, Firebreather was very entertaining. I don't know if they have any future plans for it, but I would certainly hope so.

The other new cartoon was Young Justice. This got a little bit of noise a while back when they revealed the black Aqualad. He still looks goofy as hell, but at least he looks cooler than the Aqualad from the Teen Titans cartoon. This was only the pilot for the series that is planned, and the show really knocked it out of the park. Every character has a great introduction to the viewer (which is important in a show about several characters). It was bound to ruffle nerd feathers when they didn't follow the old Young Justice series (which is an amazing comic in it's own right), but it was really great. Everything was executed perfectly and there was nothing to change. Well except for Aqualad's blond hair. Sisqo looked stupid 13 years ago, and it looks just as dumb today as it did back then.

Both of these can be found fairly easily online (although when I was looking for Young Justice, I came across quite a few scame sites so don't go to a website you don't trust while looking for it) and I would recommend watching both of these if you have some time to spare (both are less than an hour each).