Captain Planet is heading into a new era courtesy of Dynamite Entertainment, and with it comes a major redesign. The environmental crusader has been absent from the pop culture landscape for over 30 ...

Running for six seasons, Captain Planet and the Planeteers was notable among superhero cartoons of the 1990s. While most children’s programming of the era was focused on selling toys, Captain Planet ...

“Every comic creator has their own personal white whale — that singular property they’ve been itching to make their mark on — and for more than a decade Captain Planet has been mine,” said writer ...

The classic Captain Planet cartoon was not famed for its subtlety. Indeed, with villains named Hoggish Greedly and Verminous Skumm, it frequently drew fire for how it painted big business as ...

This story is part of Grist’s Summer Dreams arts and culture series, a weeklong exploration of how popular fiction can influence our environmental reality. Like many older millennials, I spent quite a ...