Spicy City – Halfway to Heaven

Lately, we have been watching old cel animation from the US. First, we watch Spawn. The first season was okay, the second tedious, and the third a mess, what a telenovela! We found Spawn character particularly insufferable. You know that friend who is always asking for advice, but never listens, and actually argues with every suggestion you give? Well, that’s Spawn.  Then we switch to Spicy City, with some crazy stories that are refreshing in the current climate of animation. Yet, it’s nice to see that studios these days allow stories to grow and a world to be built by authors. The main problem with both Spawn and Spicy City, is that you can feel the intervention of external forces in the story and production of the series, which resulted in the sensation that you are taking a train to nowhere with the story.

Anyways, in the last of Spicy City, the voluptuous femme fatale Raven sang this song that should be El Corruptor’s anthem.

“Don’t light the fire

If you ain’t gonna cook”

Versions of the same song

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We’ve never been big fans of the 80’s; for us, it’s the decade when things stopped being fun. Yet this Raf song has been playing on repeat at El Corruptor HQ. Watching the AI retouched version of Baningna’s video, directed by William Friedkin (The Exorcist), we can see some charm in it… which, again, is not a good sign of our current time. You don’t want to romanticize the 80s!