Wednesday, October 20, 2004

VOTE!! / Cartoon Chronicles: Super Madness #7

To any remaining US citizens who are still undecided on who to vote for in the coming presidential election, I'd like to endorse a website: WhyNotVote.com. It's a bi-partisan, unbiased website that helps you decide who to vote for. How? It's simple. Several political topics fly by the screen. Click on any topic you want. Two political opinions will appear on the screen. You click on which one you agree with the most, and they'll tell you whether you just agreed with Bush or Kerry. Do this with every topic, and they'll tell you which candidate you agree with the most. I already know who I'm voting for, and that site only reinforced my choice. In case you were wondering, I'm an Independent-party moderate/liberal. I was looking through the Humor section at Borders the other day, when I saw the new book America: The Book by Jon Stewart and the staff of The Daily Show. I flipped through it, and liked it. It's like a high school text book, if the book was as high as the students are. Very funny stuff. I'll have to go back and pick it up. It's time to get super-mad with yet another Cartoon Chronicle... Space Ghost Look, Ma! A generic superhero formula! Meet Space Ghost; a superhero who, despite the name, is not dead. His costume is just white, with the exception of his black mask and yellow cape. Space Ghost patrols the galaxy, looking for crime to stop. He has no real superpowers, but instead uses two power-bands he wears on his wrists. The power-bands give him the ability to fly and project energy blasts. He also has a sleek space ship, and a button on his collar that renders him invisible. Sadly, he also has 3 things no superhero should ever have: 2 defenseless teenaged sidekicks, and a monkey. See, while Space Ghost had power-bands to use as weapons, his two teen sidekicks only had that invisibility power to back them up. Not that they ever used it. Ever. In fact, most episodes would involve Space Ghost sending his sidekicks on a recon mission, them getting captured, and him having to fly to their rescue. I don't think the galaxy was ever in danger, so much that those damn kids were always in danger. And don't even ask me why the hell that monkey was there. So would I recommend it? Not really. I'd rather you watch the 1990s faux-talk show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast. And even that got old after the first year. Next time: Superfriends. This is what it sounds like when tokenism goes bad and the laws of physics don't apply. Much Love

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