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Keep 'em coming!
So glad to see Superfriends brought to life on DVD. This was hands down my favorite Saturday morning cartoon. Volume 2 delivers the lesser seen 1977-78 season of episodes that were excellent. The animation was really starting to develop here. The best are Battle of the Gods, Batman: Dead or Alive, Terror From the Phantom Zone and Attack of the Vampire. The latter being a prequel to Superfriends Meet Frankenstein (one of the all time best episodes where the 3 Superfriends are combined into one monster and Robin finally gets to save the day as a true superhero). The worst episode in this set is definitely the Anti-Matter Monster which is more of a who-dunnit from a Scooby-Doo episode than the Superfriends saving the world. <
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>There is also a humorous retrospective from 30-something "celebrities" which is worth a watch. <
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>I wish they had done more to enhance the sound and picture, but I'll take this collection over the VHS ebay hacks that we've had to endure until now. This is a must buy for all Superfriends enthusiasts. Looking forward to the next season!

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A bit of a letdown...
The Super Friends were riding high after just coming off of the incredible "Challenge of the Super Friends" series, which success was arguably lent to the presence of the Legion of Doom. So to build on this success, what did they do? Raise the Hall of Doom? No. Have a select few of the most amazing villains ever (Black Manta, Sinestro and Cheetah) battle the Justice League? Nope. What they did was scrap all the known and beloved villains! No more Lex Luthor, no more Scarecrow, not even The Toyman. Instead we get lame...er new baddies such a Dracula, robot cowboys and a big green thing that likes to hold Superman. <
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>I know everyone hates them, but I feel a special place in my heart for the Wonder Twins and Gleek. They had that cool sounding intro to their powers and Zan could only be water-based objects. Trust me, if we had never of had the Wonder Twins, then we could never have been given that awesome episode of Harvey Birdman where we see Wonder Woman bathing with Zan as the bath water!

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DC = Donnie and marie Clones! Someone, please kill me.
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>Shape of an out of chronological order DVD set! Form of borderline litigious crosses between Donnie and Marie and Vulcans joined by that popular trope that ruined many a Hanna Barbera cartoon in the 1970s and 1980s, the oft-nonsensical (oftener still-animal) sidekick (see: Fonzie's dog on the Happy Days time travel cartoon, the pig drill sergeant on Laverne and Shirley, Baby Plas on Plastic man, Son on Captain Caveman and Son, "the dangerous not to cities, just himself" Godzookie on Godzilla, and the anti-Christ: Scrappy-Doo) this time being Gleek, a blue monkey. <
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>Yes, coming from the same period that saw the Fantastic Four trade in the Human Torch for H.E.R.B.I.E. (they were afraid kids would set themselves on fire, but replicating the piling on of rocks that turned Benjy Grimm into The Thing was perfectly fine) and predated those half hour commercials for products that would dominate the mid-late part of the 1980s (My Little Pony, Potato Head Kids, Care Bears, Transformers, Rainbow Brite. You played with them. Rep-ra-ZENT!) the latest installment of the HB releases of The Superfriends cartoon. <
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>Is it good for nostalgia? Yeah, sure. It's just far enough on this side of "sane" that you aren't like the forty-something virgin denizens of comics shops who ditched their jobs to wait in line for Episode III (Gee, d'ya think he really turns into Vader at the end?) The animation isn't as bad as, say, the Filmation stuff from the late 1960s or the mid late1970s superherowise, but still, of all the periods of the cartoon, this was my least favorite. <
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>Why the Marvin and Wendy period is being avoided like a hand grenade with Herpes, I have no idea. This is the same company that has yet to touch any of its late 1950s/early 1960s cartoons like Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound and/or Quickdraw McGraw. Who knows? <
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