Saturday, April 30, 2005

Jack Spicer’s back. But this time he’s an “evil boy genius” with “his custom-built robot army” in the anime TV series, Xiaolin Showdown. The series’ website goes on to call Spicer as a

wannabe bad guy that dresses in goth clothing and is bent on world domination. He has a bad attitude, and will always chew out the people who don't agree with what he thinks is best.

Sounds about right, tho the clothing is a bit stylish. Co-incidence or in-joke? On a show whose title is that prosodically cool? The series runs, so far as I can tell, on WB Kids.

My thanks, if that’s the right word, to George Kalamaras, who first found it & passed it on to Kent Johnson, who sent it here.