And George-dude – the Smurfs are AWESOME. You ever read that graphic novel “King Smurf?” It’s half the reason I vote Democrat (the other half, well, three words: free cookies).

You think Smurfs is better than The New Frontier?

The New Frontier was one of the better new films this past week!

If anything, it improved on the comic book by getting rid a lot of the extraneous sequences and cameos that plagued the comic. It FORCED the WB animation team to get to the point and actually develop a coherent plotline for the story!

If there was anything that really bugged me about Cooke’s original comic (other than the inexplicably pacifistic Hal Jordan who’s the only fighter pilot in the USAF that wouldn’t fire his guns — he would have been discharged long before the end of the Korean War in real life! Your politics betray common sense, Darywn!) it’s the fact that Cooke wasted an issue or two of the series sort of meandering around. You just didn’t know what the whole point of it was for a while.

JLU was ended on a high note before it became a parody of itself like just about anything else on TV that’s run more than five years. Even comments by Bruce Timm himself seem to indicate he wasn’t sad to see it end when it did. We should stop trying to put words in people’s mouths or wish things went on forever and ever.

Sometimes when we get our wishes, we get crap like the Star Wars prequels or the continuing adventures of Star Trek: The 24th Century! Uggghhhh….!