Category Archive: Cartoons

Apr 21

Top 7 Batman Origin Tales

It is quite the year for The Dark Knight, if you care to hear his origins again. Earlier in the year, it was announced that Scott Synder would be bringing a new twist to his origins in the “Zero Year” and just last week Warner Bros announced that “Batman Arkham Origins” will be hitting all …

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Mar 29

Nerds on the Rocks 128: Yo Joe, Transform and Roll Out

In this week’s episode, we take a look at Hasbro movies, past, present and future. We start off with a discussion on the Transformers trilogy, and how much joy it has bought to millions around the world! Then we dissect GI Joe: Rise of Cobra, which we all do love… unironically.. and finally Battleship, the …

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Mar 05

Nerd Madness Round 1: Day 2

  As noted this past Friday, Nerd Madness will be running wild all throughout the month of March here on the site. To kick it off, Round 1 competitions will run for about a week with each day of voting getting 2 days to determine a winner. Let’s get to some first-round match-ups. As a …

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Feb 14

Nerds on Valentine’s Around the World

This year instead of beating several dead horses to death, we’re just going to share some of our favorite Valentine’s Day images for your viewing pleasure. Portal Valentine’s- This is just awesome. Valentine’s Day Penis Card- We’re immature, what can we say? Mario and Peach Kiss- Gaming’s first couple Call me Maeyb- A somewhat topical …

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Feb 10

Top 7 De-Aged Cartoon Franchise

When a smash series’ success starts to diminish and possibly fade into the background, there are a lot of tricks and tools that companies use to revive interest in it. Tools of the trade includes reboots, revivals, change of settings and so much more. One that was a bit more common, especially in the 80s, …

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Dec 30

Best Of: 7 Entertainment Revivals of 2012

Originally this was going to be a Top 7 lists, but since it crosses genres and mediums, it would be extremely difficult and even foolish to try and compare them as better or worse. Instead, what you will get is a list of 7 revivals that we felt were impactful in their special way. We …

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Nov 27

Mai Tunes: The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog

We mentioned yesterday that this weekend marked the 20th anniversary of Aladdin, but we noted it wasn’t the only anniversary this past weekend. While, we did a mini-write up on Sonic the Hedgehog 2 already, there were other Sonic projects that came out of that era. One such project was The Adventures of Sonic the …

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Nov 26

Mai Tunes: Aladdin TAS

This weekend marked the 20th anniversary of two major brands. We already discussed Sonic the Hedgehog 2 on Saturday with a brand new Sonic Saturday column. But November 25th also marked the 20th anniversary of the release of Disney’s Aladdin onto big screens. Aladdin, like a lot of things in 1992 I found out, was …

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Nov 21

Mai Tune: Captain N- The Game Master

Welcome to the latest, and who knows how longest, feature here on Nerds on the Rocks. This one shall be fairly simple and straight to the point. Every weekday, we shall attempt to post a theme song from a TV show, cartoon or anime just to start your day with some music. To kick it …

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Oct 05

Nerds on the Rocks 110: Turtle Power!

After an extended break, the Nerds are back in the sewers for this Green-powered episode as we tackle the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The lean mean green fighting machines have been entertaining the world for nearly 30 years and with a new cartoon on the air, we thought it was finally time to sit down and talk …

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