If ever a costumed superhero fared worse than The Phantom, s/he slipped right past me. The serial was bad enough (though Tom Tyler, who'd done such a remarkable job in THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MARVEL, looked good in "the very first costumed superhero" costume): with the aid of his four-legged sidekick, Devil (a wolf, here played by a dog), he lords it over a tribe of (apparently) lost White Men (some of whom sport some ridiculous greasepaint). The serial featured some solid stuntwork, but was, overall, a bit of a disappointment. The feature version, with Billy Zane, was better, but, it, too, suffered from inconsistency (as when our hero, on horseback in pursuit of a truckload of fleeing ne'er-do-wells, simply jumps up on the horse's back and springs through the air... to land atop the speeding vehicle). But the worst of the lot- by far- has to be this anime wannabe. So simple-minded in conception and execution is it that even fast-forwarding through it becomes tedious. Just one more letdown in an ongoing series of same.

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.

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.

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.