Staff Beef: Courage the Cowardly Dog, the Gold in Cartoon Network’s “Golden Age”

Being the respective Nightwing and Blackbat of the DMV area, it’s to be expected that Taj Williams and I might find ourselves in a few sibling disagreements every now and again. But this time my Bat bro is just plain wrong and I gotta set the record straight: Courage the Cowardly Dog is and always will be a better show than Dexter’s Laboratory. Don’t believe me? Here’s a few of the myriad of reasons that a pink dog in the Middle of Nowhere, Kansas leaves a boy-genius in the proverbial dust.

The Artistry True Cartoon Network royalty knows that shuffling flat-looking characters in front of simplistic, uninspired backgrounds ain’t fit for the crown and Courage has never left us disappointed in that department. Working in a visual medium means knowing you’ve got maybe five seconds to grab your viewer’s attention and shoooooot. You want a side of gorgeously detailed landscapes that look like they belong in a museum with the 22 minute cartoon you ordered? Here you go:

But that’s just a taste of the creative abilities the Courage team is capable of. Throw in stop-motion animation, CGI, and flawless green screen effects to this already impressive artistic arsenal and it couldn’t be more apparent why you’d have to spend all your time in a laboratory just to try and compete:

Can the animation be a bit scary at times? Hell yeah, and I personally hate horror anything but yet I’m still a huge fan. Besides, that just keeps you in company with classics like The Nightmare Before Christma…