Frisky Dingo

Reviewing the Adult Swim DVDs has been educational and occasionally entertaining.  I find the third series, Frisky Dingo Season Two, the most enjoyable because it takes absurd situations and characters and uses smart humor to get its point across.  The series, about Killface, an alien super-villain come to Earth and his struggles against the heroic Awesome X, pokes fun at the conventions of animation, super-heroics and action flicks.  They ratchet things up in season two, collected here, as Killface finds himself accidentally solving Global Warming and running for president.
Now the humor sharpens as creators Adam Reed and Matt Thompson skewer politics and does so while serializing the campaign across most of the twelve episode season, which ran on Cartoon Network from August – October 2007 and March 2008.  The escapades build as Killface’s newfound popularity has him begin ton contend with the political machine and rivals begin to figure out how to campaign against him.
Robert Greenberger

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There’s been no shortage of comics jumping to the screen lately, but there are still a lot of great stories out there flying below Hollywood’s radar. In this recurring “Adapt This” feature, we’ll take a look at comics that merit attention from filmmakers — and offer some thoughts on why (and how) they should be brought to the screen.
The Story: “The Adventures of Dr. McNinja” by Chris Hastings
What It’S About: Hastings’ long-running webcomic, which is also available in print collections, follows the exploits of Dr. McNinja — a doctor who also happens to be a ninja. Faced with the contradicting responsibilities of healing and killing, McNinja (his first name is never actually given) fights crime and cures the sick alongside his mustachioed 12-year-old sidekick Gordito Delgado, his raptor Yoshi, his assistant Judy (a gorilla) and a clone of Benjamin Franklin.
Along with settling the occasional familial
Rick Marshall

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