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There’s a tornado advisory in Waterloo. The thunder is very loud. The lightning is blinding. I haven’t seen any airborn cows yet.

Here’s hoping!

The Justice League is my favorite show on television right now. With season three 24 coming to a close on Tuesday, and While You Were Out/What not to Wear overload, Justice League is proving to satisfy almost all my entertainment desires in the form of Korean animation.

A kids cartoon with a sense of continuity is a tough thing to find nowadays. The sporadic storytelling in Samurai Jack doesn’t even make sense when I watch 10 episodes in a row back to back! DC has always been tops in the cartoon department. Teen Titans isn’t awful, and the Batman and Superman toons are still some of my favorites. Marvel’s Spiderman and X-Men shows great to watch if you have the background understanding from the various comic story arcs, but I always felt the visuals were weak and were never really stylistically appealing and usually quite ugly.

I think that Marvel’s foray into better cartoons have come up a little short. The new Mainframe CGI animated Spiderman has awful writing and XMen Evolution stretches the universe mythos a little too far for a fan of the books, not to mention the unsatisfying attempts at story and voice acting.

Marvel’s been doing well at the theatres and I’ll stick with their movies for a while from the outlook. DC has some hot property and some interesting movie projects in the works, and I’m hoping they can turn around the Bats and Supes movie franchises.

Back to tv! Smallville is the world’s longest origin story ever told, but the formula is getting a little weak the past two seasons. Birds of Prey, a show about the daughter of Catwoman and Bats, attemped a Buffy style show in a not dark enough Gotham, but flopped for trying too hard.

Still gotta watch the Punisher (weary!). All I need now is someone to pay me to make a live action Alpha Flight movie. I actually think that would be worth watching.