That’s right, I completely forgot he was originally a comic character. I feel so lucky though to have grown up in the era of cartoons that I did (Rocko’s Modern Life, Animaniacs,Danger Mouse, The Tick, etc). I find it fairly interesting too that you can often see some pretty direct influences that some of these older cartoons had in a lot of the current comedy animation on Adult Swim. Or even in something like The MIghty Boosh which is essentially as close to a live-action cartoon as you’re going to get.

I fear the children of tomorrow will have zero sense of humor growing up in the age of pretty much only having things like Yu Gi Oh and Bakugan and the like. Although some of the newer stuff like The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack as well as the League of Super Evil are a glimmer of hope in an otherwise humorless anime world. Even the superhero stuff sucks these days (Super Hero Squad I’m looking at you) when compared to growing up with Batman The Animated Series.

Ok, cranky old man post over before I begin a sentence with, “Back in my day…”

And Bananaman, most definetely British, he was (or maybe still is) a character from the dandy!