CBR: CCI: Producers Talk "Young Justice" Cartoon

[CBR News]

Following their brief appearance at the "Batman: The Brave & the Bold" panel, animation producers Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman spoke with CBR News about their new series, "Young Justice."


Full article here.

[froinlaven]

This show looks great. Should be infinitely better than Teen Titans and will hold me over until Avengers and Green Lantern.

[Thad]

Looking forward to it.

Of course, since it's Greg Weisman, I fear it's going to get unceremoniously yanked or retooled after two seasons.

[Squashua]

Young Justice is "set on Earth-16".

Makes you wonder what Earth "Batman : The Brave and the Bold" is set.

[BrotherUnitNo_4]

If they're giving the animated shows their own earths what does that mean for the DTVs they produced?

[ayof]

"Unfortunately, the producers could not offer a specific date or schedule for the show's twenty-six episodes."

Knowing Cartoon Network they'll sandwich this in between random reruns of Johnny Test and Total Drama.

[Xero]

Looks decent, except for the blonde hair on a black man.

[Atom_basher]

i think this looks absolutely fantastic

[maczero]

Looks decent, except for the blonde hair on a black man.

I take it you're not a fan of Sisqo.

[kossori]

I like the look of the new Aqualad.
I get more of a tribal/islander impression, myself.
And him being Black Manta's son means that DC doesn't plan to just toss him aside if the cartoon flops.

[blackphoenix]

KICK ASS!
This looks like it's gonna be ten times better than Teen Titans(um...WHY aren't they the Teen Titans again?)! One question: where the hell is Wonder Girl???

[The Xenos]

Bah. I had hopes for this, but they went in the gutter when I heard only one actual Young Justice character would be on the show. I don't give a fig about the multiverse. They didn't even try to have the same characters from the book. What's so wrong about Tim Drake and Bart Allen? I can understand Wonder Girl's legal catch 22, but to skew that far away from the characters? Forget it. It kills all interest in the series for me. Even with Greg Weisman, I just can't bother with it.

[AdamYJ]

Bah. I had hopes for this, but they went in the gutter when I heard only one actual Young Justice character would be on the show. I don't give a fig about the multiverse. They didn't even try to have the same characters from the book. What's so wrong about Tim Drake and Bart Allen? I can understand Wonder Girl's legal catch 22, but to skew that far away from the characters? Forget it. It kills all interest in the series for me. Even with Greg Weisman, I just can't bother with it.

It seems that the YJ cartoon will be its own thing rather than an adaptatio of the comic book. In fact, the idea probably came first and was followed by the title (originally they were calling it "Young Justice League").

[Thad]

Bah. I had hopes for this, but they went in the gutter when I heard only one actual Young Justice character would be on the show. I don't give a fig about the multiverse. They didn't even try to have the same characters from the book. What's so wrong about Tim Drake and Bart Allen? I can understand Wonder Girl's legal catch 22, but to skew that far away from the characters? Forget it. It kills all interest in the series for me. Even with Greg Weisman, I just can't bother with it.

Yeah! And on Batman: TAS, they combined Jason Todd and Tim Drake into a single character! And completely changed the origins of Mr. Freeze and Clayface! Boy that show sure did suck! And in Spectacular Spider-Man, they made Ned Leeds an Asian guy named Ned Lee! Worst cartoon EVER! And in Superman: TAS, Brainiac was Kryptonian -- everybody knows he's COLUAN! Jeez! And Batman appearing before Superman? Everybody knows that's not how it happened!

Maybe shave off the Comic Book Guy goatee and acknowledge that cartoons don't always adhere 100% to comic continuity and that doesn't necessarily ruin them.