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A Primary Influence on Doctor Baer

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The Palace of Doom! The Roof of the World! The Pit of Chaos! The Amusement Part of Terror! These are the wild locations in my favorite 100-odd minutes of animation. The Revenge of Cobra mini-series is a huge influence on my upcoming book, The Inscrutable Doctor Baer and the Case of the Two-Faced Statue. The world-spanning MacGuffin chase, the alliance-building of the heroes, and the internal dysfunction of the villains is just perfect in this mini-series.

I’ll probably be creatively chasing the feeling this cartoon gave me for the rest of my life.

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Heavy Metal War – Four Million Years Later, episode 16

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Prime channels Judge Dredd! Megatron cheats! Starscream won’t shut up! Two Constructicons don’t talk at all! Wait, what are Constructicons?? Find out in this episode of FOUR MILLION YEARS LATER!!

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GoBots

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As Hoover and I explored repeatedly on the Four Million Years Later podcast, GoBots was a brand I hated as a boy, but grew to love as I got older.

I learned to appreciate another take on the transforming robot scifi genre (as if there should only be one!); the fact that they had female-presenting robots fully integrated into the series (unlike TF that didn’t have a female main character until the third season), the human characters were much more diverse, there’s very little gunplay, and the voice acting is terrific!

Oh, and the theme song isn’t bad:

Here are a few GoBots drawings I did while teaching myself to ink with a brush.

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Thunder Punch Daily 116 – “It Doesn’t Hold Up”

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Today I let myself get a little angry as I talk about a common misconception concerning cartoons and stories aimed at young people. Too often I hear a criticism leveled at these materials that runs along the lines of “it doesn’t hold up” after experiencing them as an adult. I share a few thoughts on how we need to consider the intended audience before jumping to conclusions on the quality of a work. And also why these people are dead wrong.

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