Tag Archive: Animation

Jan 13

The Dark Knight Returns Part 2 Review

This past September, DC Home Animation embarked on a new challenge. Splitting a landmark story into two home releases. When The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 released, I wrote about how enjoyable I found the entire experience. It shed a lot of the issues I had with the source material while leaving a pretty remarkable …

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Jan 02

Mai Tunes: Young Justice

Young Justice and Green Lantern make their return to the DC Nation this weekend after being randomly yanked off the air back in Sept of 2012. While we still don’t know the entire story, or any of the story really, it will be nice to get the shows back. One thing that has always stuck …

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Dec 18

Mai Tunes: Mighty Max

This one is a bit of a stretch, and just the odd ways my brain works at times. Last night, I read that Disney is set to reboot Max Steel. A franchise I have no real connection to, but I do love reading animation news. But before I saw the trailer, I was trying to …

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Oct 07

Poll Position: Favorite Ninja Turtle Character

With the launch of a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon last weekend, Nerds on the Rocks took it as a chance to go green.  Earlier in the week, we put up a review of the two-part premiere and this past Friday we did a very special episode of Nerds on the Rocks focused on …

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Sep 16

Review Shooter: Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1

I’ll be upfront, I’m not the biggest fan of The Dark Knight Returns. I know it is held as one of, if not the, best Batman graphic novels of all-time,but it never really connected with me. I couldn’t pinpoint an exact reason why that is, but not necessarily needed for this review. Over the past …

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Sep 11

Review Shooter: Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise Part 3

Writer: Gene Luen Yang Artists: Gurihiru & Michael Heisler Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise, aside from being a mouthful of a title, continues the story of Aang and his friends after the end of the original series. We reviewed the first part of this arc earlier in the year, and now we return for the final …

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Sep 07

Nerds on the Rocks 108: Batman: The Animated Series

20 Years… 20 Glorious Years of Batman: The Animated Series. We celebrate one of the greatest animated series of all-time with special episode. We attempt to be objective at first talking about our least favorite episodes, but that quickly turns into an hour of gushing about this amazing show. If you want to hear us …

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Aug 29

Batman The Animated Series and I

Batman: The Animated Series. What is there to say about the show that you don’t already know? We absolutely love the show here on the site. It has been our featured theme at least 3 different times, and it is currently the main poll on the site. With the show turning 20 in just about …

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Aug 16

Top 7: TV Episode Naming Conventions

There are some things we take for granted. Either because we don’t find them that important or they are never presented with a public face. One such thing is how TV series’ episodes are generally named. Due to the fact that most episodes titles never appear on screen, it is never a big deal on …

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Aug 02

Talk of the Town: Bat Man of Shanghai

The DC Nation has been a fairly strong block of animation. Headline by blockbuster shows, Young Justice and Green Lantern, and while they are the stars, there is more to the block. Perhaps, the things that offer up the most discussion on some weeks i the DC Nation Shorts. We have a sneak peek at …

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