Wild C.A.T.S: Covert Action Teams

This was a great show. It outdid X-men the animated series both the original and today's lackluster kiddie version in all departments especially the action. The characters were well developed the heroes as well as the enemies. My personal favorites were Grifter and War Blade. The animation was fantastic and the character designs by Jim Lee were amazing it is a shame not many people got to see this show because of such bad press. It was one of the three great Image/Wildstorm cartoons which includes the now defunct Spawn and The Savage Dragon. Someday I wish this will be released on video so I can relive the battles between the heroic Wild C.A.T.S and the deadly and frightening Daemonites.

I must confess I only have vague memories of this show; what I remember the most of it is its amazing theme song, which is incredibly catchy and cool to this very day.

I remember it being similar to the X-men cartoon, but I still found it cool. Hope to have the chance to rewatch it one day, and I hope to have the chance of reading the original comics, which are a bit hard to find in my country.

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.

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.

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.

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.

But, all in all, this was a great show that worked well and translated the comic well.

I don't remember ever watching this show on TV when it first aired, but I've seen the DVD and many of the characters seem familiar. As a big fan of the original X-Men animated series, I can easily see similarities between the shows. But I can't help but say that some of the animation in WildC.A.T.S is sub-par. The story is interesting, though the cartoon script does not seem to have been well-written. Some of the lines the "Cats" use are corny as all get-out. "Pounce and pound 'em, Cats" and Voodoo saying "I'll do the Voo" probably tie for the funniest. The disc has a lot of extra features, though. Maybe I'd be more satisfied with this show if I'd seen it as a kid and had fond memories of it or something. After all, I loved Legend as a kid (still do), but usually when I watch it now I realize that it really wasn't that great of a movie.