Phantom 2040

I like this version of The Phantom because it has lots of futuristic details, including vehicles, character designs.

It has the way to attract their fans to see this one. The reason I watch it because I like The Phantom and I really want to know what really happen at the train station, where all the incidents happen at first.

Well, I like this one. Especially The Phantom's designs, vehicles and weapons.

The Amazon prime cut is unwatchable. It's a tragedy, because it's a really intelligent show. You can't even see the faces in most of the scenes. I would estimate about 100 resolution. My system handles HD and 4K, it's the copy not my system.

I watched it decades ago when it first came out.

Is there any place to watch it in high res? IMDB doesn't note that it's a bad copy when they list who is offering it. I wish they would.

Who loses when such a bad copy is distributed? The people who made the show and the viewers. Even the distributer loses, so why do they do it? I contacted Amazon and complained. We all need to do that.

Phantom 2040 is probably the best animated action-adventure series I've seen. It doesn't cater to a low-intelligence audience: you've really got to watch this, and watch it carefully, to follow everything that's going on. Lots of intricate inter-plotting of episodes and characters, somewhat sympathetic bad guys (Ron Perlman's Graf in particular, one of the "grayest" villains ever), funky artwork, and a well-developed future society (compare it to, say, "The Magician" (1998)). Hopefully someone will carry this in repeats at some point (Sci-Fi Channel, maybe), because it's a show that should have stayed on forever.

I remember this show appearing sporadically on Indian television (which had a ridiculously poor selection of good cartoons) when I was a kid. Whenever it appeared it was practically an event for me and my brother; we loved it. It was just so cool and different, and I do remember it being totally unlike the tacky cartoons that made up most of kids programming in those days.

Its also different from other quality cartoons like WB's Batman or TMNT. Its really atmospheric and the ideas and sci-fi tech are very unique and cool (for example. Phantom uses these two cylinders as guns/weapons).

The character designs are a little weird. Everyone is quite... elongated.

Totally recommend it, I hope it comes out on DVD so I can catch the episodes I missed.

Like me you've probably never heard of Phantom 2040 and, up until this point, are only familiar with the Ghost Who Walks through the campy 1990s live action movie which, as your first exposure to the superhero movie genre, you now look back on with rose tinted specs.

Like me you've been raised on Batman, Spiderman and all that other syrupy Marvel / DC material that now suffocates pop culture consciousness and obscures knowledge of anything before or after.

Like me you didn't know that The Phantom was the first masked vigilante / superhero. Like me you thought Batman Beyond, as a dark futuristic superhero narrative - featuring a younger successor to a mysterious and near legendary vigilante - was a pretty rad original idea.

Enter "Phantom 2040".