Yes it is official Reboot one of my favorite animated TV shows of all time is being revived by Rainmaker Animation, into multiple movies and a comic.! I’ve been a reboot fan since the VERY beginning and I cant wait to see what Rainmaker Animation is going to do with the awesome franchise. But when it comes down to it, more than anything the cliff hanger must be finished up, so that we can get closure on the series. After that they can always start making changes to the show but just as long as all the regulars are there i.e. Dot, Bob, Matrix, Andraia, Mouse, even Ray then I will be a happy fanboy.

I’m just not sure what the target audience is going to be for the new movies and comics though, maybe the old fans and adult. Or maybe a new generation of fans all together. I think that with the new technology, it would be possible to make ReBoot more life-like while still retaining everything about the characters that we know and love but only time will tell I guess.

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“Batman: Gotham Knight” is an animated collaboration between six different artists/writers who will be using Japanese Anime for the animation. The animated movie takes place in between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. It is going to be similar to another movie project that attempted the same type/style/art and directing called “The Animatrix“. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the Animatrix movie since some of the short stories were brilliantly done while others were just plain mediocre. A few of the Japanese animation companies that will work on the segments will be Madhouse, Studio 4*C, & Production I.G. (Of Ghost In The Shell fame.)

The movie will be directed by Bruce Timm, co-creator and producer of Batman: The Animated Series and he will be collaborating between six different writers, which are: Josh Olson, David Goyer, Brian Azzarello, Greg Rucka, Jordan Goldberg, and Alan Burnett.

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As picky as fanboys usually are about changes to traditional costumes in comic/toy/cartoon-to-film adaptations, it’s my guess that very few straight male fans will complain about how Scarlett looks.

It’s early Saturday morning. You’ve just poured yourself a heaping bowl of Boo Berry cereal and are getting ready to settle in for the highlight of your week: Saturday morning cartoons! Flipping to ABC, you are treated to one of your favorite opening theme songs, featuring four men who made a living “exterminating” previously-exterminated humans.

In this inaugural edition of Saturday Flashback, we’ll take a look at what made The Real Ghostbusters so alluring. And no, it wasn’t just Ray Parker Jr.’s incredibly infectious groove.

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