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Friday is cartoon night at our house.  Both the Cartoon Network and Nicktoons provide a blazing lineup of cartoon action including Iron Man:  Armored Adventures, Wolverine and the X-Men, Star Wars: Clone Wars (part 1 of the season finale on Friday), Batman Brave and the Bold, Teen Titans, Johnny Test, and Speed Racer.  It is definitely a little testosterone heavy but combined with a D’Augustinos Pizza it is a great night.  This Friday, two new series are premiering on the Cartoon Network, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, 7:00, and Generator Rex at 7:30

Ben 10 is one of our favorite cartoons, maybe our absolute favorite.  Ultimate Alien is the 3rd incarnation of this series.  Ben 10 was a young boy that found a watch (the Omnitrix) that can turn him into one of 10 different aliens (my favorite is a big red guy with four arms, called Four Arms.  Then as a teenager, there was Ben 10:  Alien Force.  He teams up with his sister Gwen (who is a sorceress) and his friend Kevin (turns into the material he touches).  His watch had new aliens like Humongasourus and Way Big.  Now, in Ultimate Alien, his watch is called the Ultimatrix.  There are new aliens and there are also Ultimate versions of old Aliens.

Ben 10 has great action, interesting stories, powerful alien characters, and great bad guys.  Ben 10 is also one of the funniest cartoons out there.  Ben’s bumbling faces criticism and sarcasm from Kevin and Gwen and there is quite a bit of name calling among friends.  Ben’s watch malfunctions constantly and he turns into the wrong alien at the wrong time.  If your kid is into superheroes, tune into Ben 10.

The makers of Ben 10 have a brand new series called Generator Rex.  Rex is a boy who can turn parts of his body into different weapons.  He has Smackhands that are huge fists to bully bad guys.  His arm can turn into a rocket launcher and jet packs come out of his back.  He can control other machines and actually cure evil machines as well, turn them into good guys.  Rex has lost all of his memories so this is sure to be recurring theme as he tries to figure out who he is, if he has a family, and even his real name.

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