There's Gonna Be (Another) Avengers Cartoon
Posted at 10:08 AM Oct 08, 2008
A real one. Like, a 26-episode cartoon series. Not a straight-to-DVD movie, and hopefully better than the previous Avengers cartoon from the late '90s that managed to air at 5:30 a.m. in select podunk markets. Or, so says the Hollywood Reporter.
Film Roman, the company behind "The Simpsons" and "King of the Hill," has been tapped to produce the 26-episode series, which will be available for broadcast in 2011, in time for Marvel Studios' releases of the tentpole live-action movies "The First Avenger: Captain America" and "The Avengers."
Producing the series is Ciro Nieli, whose credits include "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!" and "Teen Titans," based on the DC Comics title. The series' story editor is Christopher Yost, who has worked on the Marvel cartoons "Iron Man Armored Adventures" and "Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes."
As you can see, it's very stylized, giving most of the character's very oddly shaped heads. It kind of looks like it's trying to be Bruce Timm-esque and violently anti-Timm-esque at the same time. I'm not sure how I feel about that. At any rate, for those playing at home, this is Marvel cartoon series #5, after the Iron Man: Armored Adventures (with disturbingly teenage Tony Stark), Wolverine and the X-Men (where Wolverine leads the X-Men), Superhero Squad (with the kiddie versions of Marvel's mightiest) and Black Panther. I'd say this also clears up why Stark is so young in Armored Adventures—so he can be a grown-up in Avengers.
Someone accused Topless Robot of having a Marvel bias, but honestly, the only Marvel or DC comic I've bought in the last decade has the been Mark Millar's Ultimates stuff. I have no vested interest in either company. The only difference is that Marvel is getting newsworthy shit like this done.
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I dig it. Marvel hasn't gotten to the quality of the DC cartoons yet, but they are getting there. It's interesting that the line up is the exact line up of movies that are slated for the Marvel/Paramount deal.
Posted 10/08/2008 at 10:09:29 AMI wouldn't call it a bias.
Posted 10/08/2008 at 02:56:43 PMI mean seriously, WTF has DC done lately that's worth a shit?
Outside of a fantastic cinematic Batman franchise they have really fallen off.
I concede to spacekicker that the DC cartoons do tend to be a little better than the Marvel cartoons, but I'm not watching either so...
DC cartoons suck, ever since they killed JLU for some reason. Marvel's cartoons have pretty much always been plagued by censorship and generally being cheesy and poorly-written. It also looks like they're (yet again) going for an intentionally silly approach. Notice how NONE of the people involved with this show have made a superhero show before, other than Christopher Yost. However, the only comic show he made was X-Men: Evolution and it was terrible. Just awful. X-Men: Evolution, The Batman, Teen Titans... they all suck because they're making them for kids. Not all ages. Kids. Bruce Timm's stuff wasn't like that at all. They respected kids enough to realize that they don't have any problems with shows that don't turn everything into a joke. And I guarantee that the creators will, at some point, be pressured by the TV execs to add more actual kids to the show. Why do these retards think that kids only like characters that are kids? On Halloween, how many kids want to go as Robin? Just look at the shitty new Iron Man bastardization. Everyone's a teenager, and the fact that it's on Nickelodeon means that it'll be censored any time it starts becoming serious. Nick does that to everything. I want to ha e hope for this show, but recently it has dawned on me that people who make superhero shows are by nature, idiots. Total fucking loonatics. Bruce Timm gave us 12 years of brilliance, but everything else is controlled by idiots. Retards like Tom Rothman pull the strings in every single superhero show, and refuse to listen to peple who know what they're talking about. I swear I could keep post this going forever.
Posted 10/10/2008 at 02:19:10 PM