The Iron Giant

I was wondering if anyone would mention it! By far one of the most influential animated films of my youth, might have even been the reason I continued to enjoy animation past my childhood.

It flopped in theaters because despite test audiences loving it, Warner Brothers dropped the ball on marketing and nobody even knew it was in theaters. But from what I heard it gained a massive cult following, and I remember it being shown every holiday season for years as a kid.

After all these years, the final “Superman” still gets me…

I thought I was the only one.

I studied computers down to the transistor level. I know many of the different cells in the immune cascade. I’ve researched child psychology.

But ask me to explain what a car’s transmission is and the only thing in my brain is dial-up tones…