A slightly shorter Bad Dads this week as we ditch the kids section due to the crushing obligations of real life but we more than make up for it with Sidey and Reegs sharing a little Valentine's Day get together to discuss Sam Smith's trousers, Chinese weather balloons and our Top 5 Animated Characters. Some of our picks might surprise you, some might appal you and some might make you question our taste. But we stand by our choices, no matter how much I can't even remember what they were or how questionable they may seem to be in retrospect.
THE WALKING DEAD co-creator Robert Kirkman adapted his own Image graphic novel series INVINCIBLE for Amazon Prime in 2021. An animated tv drama, it follows the story of Mark Grayson, a seemingly normal high school student who just happens to be the son of the world's greatest superhero, Omni-Man. As Mark's own superpowers develop, he starts to realise that being a superhero is less glamorous and more complicated than it seems, especially as he begins to uncover a much darker truth about his father and the true nature of his powers.
Using the vibrant colour palette and simple clean lines of original comic book artist Cory Walker as an inspiration, the tv series features a distinctive combination of 2D and 3D animation techniques allowing for incredible detail and fluidity whilst also being stylistically reminiscent of 90's superhero cartoons like X-MEN: THE ANIMATED SERIES which makes the extreme violence and gore all the more unexpected when it arrives. And there is a lot of it, violence being a deliberate creative choice that serves multiple purposes in the show's narrative and world-building. An impressive and diverse voice cast including Steven Yeun, J.K. Simmons, Sandra Oh, Mark Hamill, Zazie Beetz, Walter Goggins, Mahershala Ali, Zachary Quinto and Clancy Brown helps to bring the characters to life and classic father and son themes, discussions of the nature of identity, detachment and the consequences of absolute power make the series stand out as a unique and compelling addition to the superhero genre.
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