Dungeons & Dragons

And then

like, you know, like to me, it's just about, I'm going to watch the Dungeons and Dragons animated show all the way through, you know? So I, I don't care so much, but Jeremy does.

That's Jeremy.

Jeremy really cares about that shit, but, but better.

But watching it today, I was like, actually, as an adult, I've taken something else from this, but we'll get to that.

But yeah, so I think the one that stuck out to me in that period was Dungeons & Dragons.

Yeah,

yeah.

Because I was massively into fantasy stuff, reading fantasy game books, had the Dungeons & Dragons thing.

And it was Dungeons & Dragons and it was a cartoon.

Ranger, Barbarian, Acrobat, all that kind of stuff.

And it was great.

I'm your host, Andy Godoy, and I'm back again with another fan commentary.

So today I'll be doing another episode of Dungeons & Dragons.

Really looking forward to this episode.

I'm...

That is a good point.

What would actually happen if his glasses got broken? You know, like if I lose my glasses, I've got to somehow be taken to an optician and then get like a new set of glasses put in.

But here there's no spec savers in the realm of Dungeons and Dragons.

This guy's badass, whoever he is.

good.

Does this remind you of, like, the old Dungeons & Dragons cartoon a little bit? A

little bit in that it's very self-aware.

Yeah.

We talked about that in one of our previous episodes.

Dungeons & Dragons, I believe.

Mm-hmm.

Now, these ads were so well received that the next year, a five-episode miniseries was commissioned for syndication, set to air on September 12, 1983, and would be renamed The Mass Device once it became part of the rotation of the full weekday series a couple years later.

you had an orthodontist clone him.

Now, this introduction was done with the reluctance of season two's showrunner, Buzz Dixon.

one of the most prolific writers of the prior season, and we'd seen some of his work on our Dungeons & Dragons cartoon episode.

Buzz didn't want to bring in someone who has always been higher than Cobra Commander, but when Hasbro kept pushing the new guy, he offered Cobra making a new leader out of frustration with the Commander's failures, or Cobra secretly being part of a grander secret society.

He was a co-founder of Malibu's Ultraverse, where he wrote Sludge and Exiles.

And then for people our age, you know, the, his best known work, even though a lot of people don't know he's did th- these things, was that he worked on Thundarr the Barbarian, the '80s Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, the first season of the original G.I. Joe cartoon, and the third season of the Transformers cartoon.

Legion of Night was a two-issue prestige format miniseries, which means it was perfect bound, published by Marvel in 1991.

Tells the story of the formation of a new team of characters in response to the imminent awakening of the demon, Fing Fang Foom.

... you know, this will happen

... do you remember that kids TV show, um, Dungeons and Dragons?

I do, yes.

Where the gang would never get home.

He's having a lovely old time is what Dani Güiza's doing.

Speaking of checking things in the break, we've got a little update here from producer Rory.

"No, the characters in the Dungeons and Dragons animated series never officially made it home during the televised run."

How crap is that for children?