Static Shock – 47nowyousee

Static and Gear must contend with Speedwarp, a super speedster who has eyes for Daisy.

Media by Bird Boy
Review by Matt Zimmer

"Pretty Young Thing"
Written by Shawn Ivy, Marques Houston, Jerome Jones, Tony Oliver and Kelton Kessee
Performed by B2K
Courtesy of Epic Records by arrangement with Sony Music
Licensing

Voices:
Phil LaMarr as Virgil Hawkins/Static
Jason Marsden as Richie Foley/Gear
Crystal Scales as Daisy
James Arnold Taylor as Eddie / Speedwarp
Alan Young as Dr. McDonald
Paula Tiso as Counter Girl
Richard Tatum as Omar
 

Static goes up against a speedy villain who can warp time called, uh,
Speedwarp.

Daisy is being followed by a guy from her and Virgil’s science camp called Weird Eddie. It turns out that he is working for a scientist and has stolen his time warping machine making himself superfast which he thinks will impress Daisy. While in a tussle with Static and Gear "Speedwarp" messes up time so he can peek under Gear’s mask, finding out his and
Static’s secret identities; after losing that encounter Static and Gear rush of to the scientist who created the time warper who tells him that
Eddie must have stolen it and that he has incriminating evidence of this. Gear uses his data to creat a timewarp device for Static so he can fight Speedwarp on his terms but warns that the time-belts should never come in contact with each other. While stalking Daisy at a B2K concert
Speedwarp is confronted by Static. Speedwarp tries to takes Static’s belt and is frozen in a different time stream, moving extremely slowly.

This episode is pretty boring. Speedwarp isn’t a very interesting villain and seems like a rip-off of the Flash especially with his red costume. I suppose it wouldn’t have been so bad if Static had made a snarky comment on their similarities but as is it seems like a cheap knockoff.

The animation was okay this episode as I didn’t notice any mistakes but the time warps themselves were kind of uninteresting. I just couldn’t get into this episode and thought that it was underwhelming.

Story: **
Animation: ***
Average: **1/2