The Super Hero Squad show debuted September 19 on Cartoon Network
If you haven't checked out the video page on Marvel.com, you owe it to yourself to get over there right away. Along with trailers and featurettes on upcoming comic, movie, television, and game projects, the site also posts full length episodes of Marvel TV shows both past and present.
This week, the site presented the first three episodes of their new animated endeavor The Super Hero Squad Show, a series based on the popular 2-inch action figure line from Hasbro.
At first sight, the grinning, cartoonish designs seem to make real all of the nightmares you've been having about the future of the Marvel characters ever since the news of the Disney buyout hit. However, upon a viewing of the pilot episode, it's clear that this show is something else completely.
All of your favorite characters are here, with their personalities mostly intact. However, instead of the universe you know and love, they exist in a very tongue-in-cheek Saturday Morning Kid's Show environment that is actually quite laugh inducing.
If the Smurfs had been bathed in gamma rays, bitten by radioactive whatevers, or been birthed from the pen of Stan Lee instead of Peyo's, you'd get The Super Hero Squad Show. In fact, the show's main protagonist Dr. Doom shares a lot of characteristics with Gargamel. Actually, the comic book incarnation of Doom is also very Gargamel-ish if you think about it. Hmmm... that's an article for another day.
While some narrow-minded fanboys might dismiss this show and cry foul over a dimunuitive, bulbous-headed Captain America, keep in mind that it's no where near as bad as those TV movies from the 70s. At least they got the costume right.
Check out the pilot episode, then decide whether or not the show's worth sacrificing 23 minutes of your MUA2 time on Saturdays at 8:30am on Cartoon Network.
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