July 17th, 2007
C.O.P.S. Fighting Crime in a Future Time While Wearing Spats
The nostaliga fueled insanity that began yesterday with FLASH GORDON stumbles blindly into C.O.P.S. “Fighting Crime in a Future Time.”
For the life of me I can’t remember anything worthwhile about this toon. Wiki reports it last about a year with 66 episodes in tow and that it was fairly popular. It couldn’t have been that popular cause the damn thing ended after a year and I’m blanking on any of the stories they featured.
Seeing the intro(look above) proves to me they were all about making the thing as stylized as the 80s could provide. A pleasant mix of 1930s prohibition crimefighting for relevance thrown into the future to make it interesting enough for an 8 year old to take notice.
In the 21st century, spats are like crimefighting Uggs.
I wasn’t 8 years old at the time but I was addicted to animation. If you haven’t noticed already. Can’t draw a lick though. My artist envy is great. So I watched the C.O.P.S. fight their crime in their future time as a time killer until something better came along.
If this “Drugs are Bad, Mkay” episode(part 1 & part 2) is any indication of a quality C.O.P.S. story, I would have been better off playing ball in the street.
