> ... And ultimately, the story, characters, and writing can matter more than the art. That is a highly subjective conclusion, and worth consideration. I stil

> ... And ultimately, the story, characters, and writing can matter more than the art. That is a highly subjective conclusion, and worth consideration. I still remember watching Ren And Stimpy as a kid when it aired, and later Invader Zim and have a way of recalling the skits/gags in a way that I can only due to those shows hook was the art: mainly because how remarkable it looked for it's time. Ren and Stimpy was something like a cross-between Dali and Goya surrealism (specifically the grotesque works when they did close-ups) that to this day stand up; I recall they sold the rights and it was on some other channel when I was in university on cable tv and it looked like a badly made knock-off as a cash grab so after the short lived nostalgia you realized how bad it was because they didn't take the time to do it like in the 90s. The same can be said about the Nick era plot/art of Vasquez's work with Invader Zim, the art was so unique and it looked like the harshness in his comics and the plots were always weaving between dark and light in such a way that one questions who this show was really written for; the later Netflix stuff (while more advanced in it's appearance) suffered so much, and I felt the sane way about the comics and kind of dissapointed by his claim to only ever agree to do more Invader Zim work if it could explore the darker side more as he did when Nick canceled syndication. The Moofy was such a whimsical take on the dark foreshadowing of the way media and short lived celebrity would define the coming decades with social media. And then there were the early Rick and Morty eps which contradict this where both the art is mediocre and generic, and even the characters are clear back to the future rip-offs but the plot and story and execution is so well done that it doesn't need a huge art budget (the Unity episode specifically).