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Phantom 2040, 1995

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I was looking for more info on the upcoming live action show for The Phantom, reading through an article from Variety, when I saw an interesting mention

Phantom 2040. Oh, there's a new comic? Does Variety know that there was a TV show this comic is pulling from?

And then I looked up the webcomic and read through Comics Kingdom's promotional article for it....

... Do these people know there was already a Phantom 2040??? Like, they have to because they're using the name, but they seem to be completely ignoring its existence. I get that I'm a 90s kid and that show was more on the obscure end, but the cartoon is also the first thing that comes up when you search Phantom 2040. And, judging from the first couple of chapters of the comic, the cartoon is much closer in spirit and style to Batman Beyond... Because they were made in the same era.

I don't know. I don't want to just completely brush off this comic, but I am put off because it directly invokes a show I watched as a kid while having nothing to do with it.

#Phantom 2040 #Personal opinion

If I had a nickel for every 90s cartoon in which a familiar comic book hero is thrown into a high-tech cyberpunk setting and ends up friends with a killer robot who broke its programming and grew a conscience....three nickels.

Left to Right, in order of them tackling this plot: The Phantom 2040 (1994, where a shapeshifting Biot named Heisenberg is basically one of his super friends), Spider-Man Unlimited (1999, featuring a VERY loose adaptation of Jack Kirby's X-51 The Machine Man), and Batman Beyond (also 1999, his robot buddy Zeta even got his own show).

#ironically the best known one came last in terms of doing this plot #lee falk #lee falk's phantom #the phantom #the ghost who walks #phantom 2040 #spider-man #spider-man unlimited #90s cartoons #90s tv shows #Batman #Batman Beyond #terry mcginnis #the zeta project #cartoons #90s trash checking in #comic books #machine man #jack kirby creations

I recently found out about a show called Phantom 2040, which was produced/aired around the time I was born! How terrifying!

I love the design of the characters (all the art for the show is just stunning. Sound design is bad, but I'm taking it as the mark of a small/cheap production studio).

Anyway. Really love General Graft. LOVE that this kids' comic book show from the '90s had the guts to show some shades of gray within the villains.

#illustration #hubert graft #phantom 2040 #shows from the 90s #90s baby