TallyyyyyyyyyyHaaaawwwwkkkkkkkkk!!!

Though Warner Brothers announced this a couple months ago, I thought I’d go ahead and post the news about the impending release of the Silverhawks cartoon on DVD, October 14th later this year…

Like every other cartoon I loved as a kid it’s been forever and a day since I’ve seen the show and from what I’ve been hearing it might not hold up all that well. Personally I’m not worried about it holding up. When I was a kid this is one of the shows that I was so pumped to watch in syndication after school that I memorized the theme song and would sing along at the top of my lungs when it came on. Silverhawks was the Rankin/Bass follow up to Thundercats, and though I don’t remember exact plots I do remember how much I loved the fact that nothing was off the table in terms of content. Mark Rudolph describes this factor best in the Art & Story podcast, but the show was very Jack Kirby in this manner featuring villains and heroes that used space-aged guitars as weapons (Melodia and Bluegrass respectively), a villain with a giant tuning fork as a weather controlling weapon, and Poker-Face who has slot machines for eyes.

I always used to love it when the team of heroes would "get into battle mode" by wiping their hands in front of their face which would bring down a pretty cool looking mask. It was a feature that was dearly missing from the action figures (though most of the Silverhawks had a function where you could squeeze their legs together or something to extend their arms out and unsheathe their wings.) Anyway, coming from Warner Brothers the set is a little pricey ($49.99 suggested retail), but you can pre-order it from Amazon for only $29.99 right now. The set is going to feature 32 episodes over 4 discs and should be volume one of a two volume series (as there were only 65 episodes produced.)

Also announced by Warner Brothers is the release of the second volume of the Smurfs DVDs. They haven’t set a release date yet, but here is the packing art (swiped from TV Shows on DVD.com.)