Finally saw Ralph Bakshi's Spicy City. This was a six episode series from HBO that had the "misfortune" of premiering after the Spawn animated series. Animation-wise Spawn in much more detailed and better looking and one can see why, given the choice, people turned off. The other reason people turned off is that the show isn't good as a whole. These are noir pulpy stories reset in a future city that looks like a mix of Bakshi projects (Cool World, Wizards...). Its animation is couple of steps up from Saturday morning cartoons. Actually the animation is fine for what it needs to do,as is the look o the show, the problem is the stories which are all stretched from about 10 minute tales to 30 minutes of screen time. It pulls the life out of them and they are often so cliché that you know how its going to come out. It was nice to finally see them but after two episodes I was scanning through them for the art.
Review of Spicy City
