Universal war wages between two prehistoric alien races. One of the races is the heroic Kherubim while the other is the evil Daemonites. This was a great cartoon. I remember getting up early on the weekend to catch this show. It really did well to get me into the comic books. I started buying them every chance I got.<br/><br/>I recently saw it on cable again and realized something: this show had some bad decisions on voice actors. The only really well cast parts were Marlowe, Spartan, Void, Zealot, and Helspont. However, Maul sounds like a big black guy when he gets large, but he is a white guy normally. Grifter sounds like a little guy trying to force a bad gruff voice. Voodoo sounds like a screechy little girl. Pike sounds like a well mannered white guy, but is supposed to be black. Choices like these didn't bother me as a kid, but now they seem odd. Maul should have been played by a gruff voiced guy like Ron Perlman. Grifter by anyone that actually sounds like a a gruff person and not someone just doing it for show. Voodoo would have been voiced well by someone with a more seductive voice (children's show I know, but in the comic she's a stripper). Pike should have been voiced by someone like Keith David (Goliath, Spawn). It's kind of distracting after having not seen the show for so long to go bad and hear the voices are wrong.<br/><br/>But, all in all, this was a great show that worked well and translated the comic well. Ah yes, it was the early nineties (about 92 to be more accurate) and a new company called Image had just began composed of famous comic creators Todd McFarlane, Rob Liefeld, Marc Silverstri, Jim Lee, and Jim Valentino. Though let us not forget Whilice Portacio who had to leave the new company for personal reasons. Jim Lee's entry was WILDC.A.T.S a X-Menish little book boasting great art (as Lee's work always is) and some crazy characters. I had little to no idea what was going on. I've read the first four issues of that book so many times, closely trying to decipher it's plot. As with many Image books it lacked in plot. All I could make out was superheroes, aliens, bad-guy aliens, Orb, Timetravel, fate of the world in the balance, Liefeld's Youngblood shows up, and Vice-President Dan Quayle is possessed by an alien for some reason. Boy that guy got no respect during his time in office.<br/><br/>Now the cartoon. What can I say? Bad animation. Poor story telling. I bet the audience was as confused as I was when I read the book. At least the book had great art. I know the people at Image wanted their books to make great impacts on and off the page as Marvel and DC had, but it never happened. They just didn't have the soul or the writing. This cartoon's qualities were too poor. I didn't even care about the stripper chic that they dressed up, naturally. I don't remember anything of the two episodes I probably saw, however I do remember how bad the animation was. Let's play taps for Image comics and their dreams of stardom.
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