• I'd love to see Studio Ghibli do The Thief of Always by Clive Barker. Yeah, the premise is a fair bit similar to Coraline's, but adaptations by Ghibli tend to play fast and loose with the source material anyway, so it would be interesting to see how they'd approach the story. Just give me a creepy-awesome Rictus and a Holiday House with the same loving attention to detail as Howl's castle and I'd be sold. And Bone has to be animated into... something. The Disney-esque comedic timing mixed with the epic scope of the story could work so incredibly well in animation. And just for the heck of it, Earthbound.

• I don't have time to go through the thread (sorry) so I'll just ask here: did anyone suggest an Army Of Darkness cartoon yet? With a shit-ton of action and Metalocalypse-style gore, please. Just as long as Bruce voices Ash, or else what's the point? But not based on the Dynamite comic book, as that's just slightly lame. Just slightly. And a big "yes please" to Firefly Animated!

• After re-purchasing the entire series on Blu-Ray, I have to put in my vote for "Firefly" to return to the small screen. It could be called "Firefly: The Browncoat Chronicles" featuring the original cast reprising their animated counterparts, and tell the further adventures of the spaceship Serenity. I know that there is a large temptation for people to turn everything into anime, but I'd love to see "FF:TBC" done in a Mike Mignola art style. The minimalism of Mignola's style pairs perfectly with the "rag-tag" feel of the original Firefly series, and his use of blacks would add to the grittiness/void of space, provided that they don't try to turn it into cel-shaded schlock. I know that Joss is currently focused on keeping Dollhouse on the air, which works out perfectly because it takes at least 6-9 months for an animated episode to finish drawing, so he can write FF:TBC eps while Dollhouse is inbetween seasons, and the cast can do their voice work months in advance. 11:30 on Adult Swim is the perfect place/time slot for FF:TBC. Time has shown that the 10pm and later hours have become a dumping ground for cancelled/resurrected/re-cancelled/re-resurrected Fox shows, and as much as I love FG and Futurama, they really do need some new programming to spice things up. (That and something needs to be done to bump King of the Hill out of rotation) At 11:30 it would be the lead-in to Robot Chicken, and considering how many Whedonverse jokes get thrown around on there, it would create a solid 45 minutes of pure nerdy delight. This needs to happen. Browncoats unite!

• Oh, more late entries!Ian M. Banks books, but pretty much only the ships with the awesome names and wonky personalities. Though if its done in Japan, we are guaranteed to get a Player of Games one. "hold on, culture! you've fallen into my trap card!"

• Someone already said this, but The Dresden Files would kick ass as long as it wasn't like the live action SyFy show.

• Too late for the contest? So what.... Kamandi: The Animated Series. By Bruce Timm and the other guys who did Batman: The Animated Series. Just for the toy line. Alternatively, I'd love to see a Spirit animated series that could be done in a modified version of Eisner's style, adapting the original stories (which would mean two stories per episode, mind you). Probably would have to be done for one of the other cable channels, not Cartoon Network, though.

• Pretty much anything by Andre Norton. Her older science fiction stuff would be great. Wraiths of Time, definitely. Studio: Ghibli. PLEASE. There WAS a rather poorly done Beastmaster movie. And a series, both live action. The writers of the movie never read the books. There's no way they read the books. I could list inaccuracies but this post would be far, far too long. And I don't mean nitpicky ones. I mean basic things like, oh, the fact that the Beastmaster novels were SCIENCE FICTION and set in colonies in SPACE and the series was set in some kind of Tarzan/Hercules world. The thing was an affront to Andre Norton's fans, and now to her memory. We deserve a REAL series based on her work, and animation would be best. Studio Ghibli did such a beautiful job with Howl's Moving Castle. Surely an Andre Norton title isn't too much to ask for.

• I know I'm too late for the contest, but I've just got to, *got to*, put this out: The Elenium and Tamuli, also by David Eddings. That would *so* rock, if done right. If not, it would suck like *Legend of the Seeker.* I'd cast Harrison Ford for the voice of Sparhawk, maybe..., hmmmn, Kiera Knightly for Queen Elana? I think she has a voice that combines youth and world weariness just right. I have no idea on the rest, I'd have to re-read the books, except maybe for Talon. Will Friedle has a knack for voice acting, and can do anything from a youthful tough-guy to a small kid, so him for Talon. Whatcha think?

• A Song of Fire and Ice series by George RR Martin. I know HBO has greenlit the series but theres no excuse not to make this into a cartoon.

• Not an entry but want to give input. I would like a anime (they seem to have the most balls over there to make something grim and dark) series basted on Cthulhu Mythos stories. It should probably be made by several studios and directors to show the very different kinds of stories from puritan H.P Lovecraft to Robert E Howard's pulp stories and Clark Ashton Smiths style. Not to mention the different eras it could take place in. And not all of the stories are Horror either. Most of the stories that takes place during Hyperborean age where more of the adventurous kind. As long as it is drawn that's OK since I'm not a huge fan of CG unless all of it is CG and it's someone really good but all of those companies makes movies and no tv-series could afford that.

• Aw Crap, too late. Anything from 2000 A.D. As it is a bottomless collection of stories and Characters ready and fully fleshed out. I have always thought that Strontium Dog by John Wagner would make a fantastic cartoon, and I think there was a screenplay written for a TV series that never got made. After the Atomic Wars of 2150, many survivors have become warped by the Strontium 90 fallout. These 'mutants' became a victimised underclass and the only job open to them is to become a STRONTIUM DOG. Johnny Alpha with his partner buddy Wulf Sternhammer (a Viking) and the metal eating Gronk bounty hunt across the galaxy chasing down criminals. Dead or Alive. 2000+ pages of stories and characters designs to warrant a very excellent figure range. Jonny Alpha, Wulf Sternhammer, Middenface McNulty, Durham Red to name but a few. I would soil my pants if this got made.

• Close down the booths, turn off the music, CartoonContestConConCarne is closed! Bye, and see ya at the results show! I hope for you all but for Buckethead: The series(mine) most of all! NO MORE ENTRIES! JUST TO BE CLEAR!

• warhammer 40k cartoon series. It's mindless and full of gore!

• So for anyone out there who's read Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" series of graphic novels, there's a continuation of the character of Lucifer (i.e. the one from Milton's "Paradise Lost") in his own series of trade paperbacks by the fantastic Mike Carey. Published by Vertigo, (the awesome subsidiary of DC) "Lucifer" follows the character after he has relinquished ruler ship of Hell and opened a piano bar in LA… that's where the story starts! As I really and truly believe that "Sandman" could never be safely translated into any form of moving picture, this is the next best thing. There is a wonderful mythology throughout the series drawing on the various incarnations of Lucifer as a character over the span of all the Judeo-Christian personifications, yet he remains a unique character. Lucifer as a character fascinates a large populace of the world for a great deal of reasons and the controversy alone would shoot viewership through the roof. The art style of the issues shifted throughout, but the basics stayed the same, following them with animation would be cheap and easy. Because of DC's relationship with Warner Bros they'd already have the animation studio capacity to bust out the first trade in no time. It could be done as a series of episodes or movies without sacrificing much in the way of story. Finally I leave you with this statement of the author taken off Wikipedia's article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_(DC_Comics)): Carey described the book as being "autobiographical", in so much as Lucifer is so much the opposite of the author and all humanity that he "defines [us] in negative": to Carey, the essence of the character was that "we play safe. Most of us do, most of the time . . . but Lucifer doesn't know the meaning of safe, and he never bothers to look down at the tramlines. He goes wherever the hell he likes, picks his fights where he finds them and generally wins . . . following [his] own will and [his] own instincts to the very end of the line, no matter what the obstacles are".

• I cast one vote for shoe. @tvtastegood: they probably thought that when they gave tim and eric a tv show.

• Ugh, David Eddings' Books as a cartoon? No thanks. I should have stopped at that particular series, but I made the mistake of reading more. Now I never want to read or see any of his stuff. He makes the exact same books over and over again just changing the character names practically. And all of the characters are sarcastic geniuses. Boring!

• With the popular revival of shows such as G.I. Joe, only one series could be made to live up to the true style, hype, and sheer insanity of what made saturday morning cartoons a cultural icon. Imagine if you will.... BOLOS! The Animated Series!!! Keith Laumer's super heavy, artificially inetelligent tanks would make for the perfect revival of 80's cheesy goodness in cartoons. Tanks powerful enough to protect a planet single-handedly. Evil alien species bent on destroying the human race and almost succeeding. Main armaments that are, in essence, inanely large plasma stremes moving at near light speed. It has everything a good cartoon needs. A stoic hero, controlling a tank that can talk back. Plucky survivors. Vehicle design that uses the gun, attached to a larger gun, attached to an even larger gun, that is, infact, attached to yet more guns. Action! Adventure! Romance! In a World Gonne Mad!

• Did someone say Sam and Max? They already did a cartoon, though it wasn't given a chance, IMHO. Unless they meant Sam and The Maxx, Sam Keith's character. Imagine, an anthropomorphic dog detective being helped by a large purple guy and neither is sure that the other is real. Now, there's your cartoon! Personally, I always thought that the game Lunar, The Silver Star Story would make for an interesting series. A skilled staff of writers could make the story last at least 52 episodes (2 seasons) an the go onto Lunar 2: Eternal Blue. It would at least be better than Pokemon/Digimon/Bakugan crap that's on now

• A Twin Peaks anime. Imagine for a second how horribly fucked up and awesome that would be. It would be directed by Satoshi Kon(Perfect Blue, Paprika, Paranoia Agent)who would work with David Lynch in adapting the screenplays into a 26 or so episode anime. It would follow the original somewhat closely but allow for Kon and Lynch to experiment, try out some new ideas and fully utilize the medium. Consider the brilliant insanity of David Lynch and some of the more (well made) out there anime. Then combine them into a whole, then sit back, turn your tv on and feel your bowels empty themselves as your brain explodes. FUCK.YES.

• The Wild Cards series of mosaic novels. Short description: It takes place in an alternate universe where an alien virus released in the 40's gave some people varying degrees of superpowers,and turned others into mutants. The books had their share of problems, especially the later ones, but there were so many good characters and compelling story arcs that it would be awesome to see them realized onscreen. Plus, I've pretty much got the entire series cast in my head already. Adapting it into an adult animated tv series would sidestep a lot of logistical problems that a live action, such as one character who changes shape every time he falls asleep (voice of Robert Downey Jr), and another who is able to sense and manipulate people's emotions (uh...Greg Kinnear?). There's also a hippie scientist capable of manifesting several different super-powered personalities (Jeff Bridges, of course), a guy who can only use his powers inside a flying armored shell (Paul Giamatti) and a guy who can make things teleport by pointing at them (Nathan Fillion). As a side note, does anybody remember the computer game The Neverhood? I'd totally see a claymation movie based on it, which is supposedly in the works.

• Oh man, some of these are terrible. Drizzl? RA Salvatore is a horrid writer, go play D&D with any halfway decent DM and you get a Drizzl book quality game. Battlefield Earth? Why not do Scientoly Vs Anonymous: Return of the Thetans? Nights Dawn? That jumble of posession and magic in what could and should be an awesome sci-fi story? Solved by DEUS EX MACHINA! Whats next, Ayn Rands Daily Hour of Monolouging? Things I learned from Goodkinds book long rants? I say Monkey Island. We need good Monkey Island. Or maybe Sam and Maxx.

• Well rob 226 aint too bad unless you own arkham asylum and were planning on getting something done..... Hell that would make a great cartoon. A lonely nerd blogger/editor struggling to be himself and the editor of an incredibly nerdy website. It would air on adult swim and be hilarious

• I'd be cool to see a the "abarat series" by clive barker animated. the book included lots of illustrations, like cat people, a red guy with horns and little heads growing off them, and an island where it's always midnight. Oh, how i love those books. also, i completely second the zot idea.

• I have two. I didn't get to read all 222 (so far), so I hope I'm not repeating anyone: First, for a cute cartoon: Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series. What could be more fun than a librarian-ape, a magical trunk, fat, bumbling wizards, and all the other characters? For the adults: Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream". For those of you who have never read this guy's work, it's creepy, snarky, and altogether amusing. "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream", which was a short story, a 4 part comic series, and a video game, deserves it's own series. It's about five people who live inside a world made by a sadistic, all-powerful computer called AM. In the game, AM, voiced by Ellison himself, is creepily creative with its tortures, and each of the people has their own story and vices. It would be like a cross between "The Maxx" and that reality show with the computer. Good stuff.

• I totally support the ideas of garmone, cellardoor (good point about AD; "King of the Hill" was less of a cartoon and that got animated) and the guy that suggested the <i>Crank</i> cartoon.

• How about Wolverine: Brave and the Bold? It's like Batman: Brave and the Bold but it's with Marvel characters instead of DC.

• Gunslinger took my idea too :< You know, considering all the cool zombie crap in popular culture these days its a wonder that we dont see any form of media touching on the subject of necromancy. It may sound weird to want that sort of thing, but Garth Nix wrote a compelling and vibrant trilogy on a unique niche of magic that still seems taboo, even in this day and age. Abborsen Trilogy gets my vote.

• Wow. I'm having a nerdgasm just thinking about this contest. Apart from the Belgariad (which would be totally kick-awesome, no doubt, and I'm not just saying that), I'd REALLY like to see Steven Brust's "Jhereg"- Vlad Tlatos is an awesome character, and his adventures could be serialized indefinitely (especially since Brust is still turning out new work). In the cartoon department, Jeff Smith's "Bone" has needed to be animated since it first came out. You can't tell me there isn't money out there for that. An animated version of "Girl Genius" or "Buck Godot" would also be fantastic, as would "Order of the Stick", all of which have a good mix of humor and action.

• I'd really like to see Dan Abnett's Gaunt's Ghosts books done as an anime. Some seriously good stuff there. It'd have to be anime as the books hold no punches back. Main characters get killed off, people get horribly maimed and put back together with cybernetics, Chaos Cults do really bad things. It'd be fantastic if done right. His Eisenhorn Trilogy would make a good movie series also.

• I would love for either George R. R. Martin's hedge knight or Fevre Dream to be animated. Vampires and steamships! Fun.

• Death Gate series by Weis/Hickman. Cool magic users, airships, zombies, elemental worlds, dragons, and the Labrynth....

• Marvel and Disney present: The Squadron Supreme (Mark Gruenwalds version, NOT the JMS version). Yes children, superheroes can die :(

• &#64; Ticknard (Rivendell High): that's just ripping off Harry Potter

• twisted metal cartoon.oh yes.

• I have two...Can I have two? First, I would like to see a faithful adaption of the Disgaea games into anime. (Look--I know they made an anime of the first Disgaea. But they gave Laharl a little sister. Please tell me how that would've improved the game at all) And frankly--how hard can it be to convert a game into an anime that is already set up like an anime and has the same sense of humor. Keep the character designs, keep the voices, just remove the swearing and frustration when we die for the five thousandth time trying to fight Mid-boss. Not to mention it would already come with a great soundtrack. Tenpei Sato's music is so intensely distinct and emotional it makes you (or at least me but I'm an easy mark for this kind of thing) cry. Plus--with the alternate endings...infinate omakes! The real question is why they haven't done this yet. My second one can be summed up in five words. They Might be Giants cartoon. Seriously? Do I have to say anything about how awesome that'd be? I really can't even being to describe how awesome that'd be.

• My personal ideal new anime/cartoon series would definitively be based off of the David Weber Book(s) "In Fury Born" It's got everything, crazy future action with powered armor, a engaging and awesome Heroine, anciant greek mythology come back for a last big bang (a Fury dontcha know), crazy conspiracies with betrayals galore, space and land battles, justifiable ANGST. The animation would have to be done either by an american firm, or the guys who did Berserk, just because my imagination refuses supertin tennagers in the setting, and also the farm scene must be appropriately brutal to casue enough hate to summon for a Goddess of Vengeance after millenea of slumber (the treatment of the Eclipse in Berserk is what make me think that company has the Guts to do it) (see what I did there? Hur hur hur). I can just imagine the Hall of Heroes scene with a huge ridiculously melancholy soundtrack (One of the only book scenes to make me tear up, including the Passion). It would have to be at least two seasons but could easily stretch much longer, like one season for the Emperor's Wasp section one for the Emporor's Sword and maybe two for the Broken Sword section. pretty much any of Weber's shorter works would be great animated series, but this one is just too visual not to be made.

• Also the Nomad of the Time Stream would make a great miniseries, if you went through all of the stories.

• I would like to see some of Michael Moorecocks Eternal Champion series put into cartoon form. I especially think that Elric would make a great story. Especially if it is drawn like the cover art for the "song of the black sword". as evidenced here: http://www.amazon.com/Elric-Black-Sword-Eternal-Champion/dp/156504195X/ref=sr_1_21?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252861211&sr=8-21

• The greatest cartoon needs to be one about a cyber-punk world And in this world, everyone's hooked up to machines, but they dont know they're hooked up to machines. They think the virtual world they live in is real. But one day this huge awesome-looking black man shows up, and tells one guy that he's the "Destined one" to save them all, because on the outside, the cuber-punk world is really post-apocolyptia so they go through all this insane crazy shit, he gets stuff loaded into his mind from some computer hacker in the real world to learn kung fu, and to jump across buildings, and it takes a whole season to get to the end when he finaly does it, the destine one breaks the code, and manages to finaly embrace his destiny, defeating the computer that has locked humanity into its virutal reality and he also gets the girl. And then it ends, never to make any sequels that would ruin a perfectly good cult classic that i based my CHILDHOOD upon. Im crying now.. it would be so perfect.

• The Beatles. Running around and having lovable zany adventures as a traveling musical troupe/ espionage team stumbling into danger headfirst, with mix-ups and hijinks and kooky disguises and a peppy song number each episode (think Scooby-Doo, except it's the opposite of lame). Their missions would be as over-the-top as possible, involving new-agey aliens, undead armies, time-travelling dupes, what have you. Each member will have a specialty: John is the leader (sorry, Paul) and black ops guy with kickass though strictly nonlethal ninja skills, Paul would be the perky science/trivia/tech guy, George will be the mystical arts/ occult specialist, and, well... mostly Ringo will be the bait/hostage/whathaveyou. They could even have a villain, if you like... a rival band/evil organization led by Sgt. Pepper, maybe? Either way, it would definitely involve lots of pot.

• While i totally agree with the abhorsen series being made into an anime, my personal desire is for a DragonRiders of Pern cartoon... they'd have to stick to specific books i think to keep it from being to unfocused, but i would love it in any form (except live-action *shudders*)

• LIVE ACTION POKEMON MOVIE WITH ZIGGY STAR AS BROCK AND PARIS JACKSON AS MISTY RAAAAAAAAAAAAA

• Godzilla vs. Cthulhu. It would be a lost episode of that old Hanna-Barbera series. You know, one of those old '60's cartoons that was toned down and turned into a ripe hunk of horseshit for the American kiddies by those evil, blood-sucking executives we all hate so much.It would look kind of grainy and generally old, as no one would want to take care of this. Also, I imagine Cthulhu's origin would be altered into something more palatable ( i.e radioactive swamp-monster), and it would have all the shitty, no name voice actors doing more inadvertently hilarious "voice-acting" that no sane, decent person would want to imagine. Except Clint Howard would lend his voice to Cthulhu, as I still can't get over how cosmically awesome that is.

• I've always thought Scott McCloud's Zot! would have made a great animated series. The fantastical, whimsical world of Zot would have been fun to see, and the more muted, more pessimistic world of our Earth would allow for a lot of serious questions about who we are and what we are becoming. A good balance in any entertainment by my reckoning. Overall I have a feeling that any network who'd actually pick this up and run with it would want to squash the our Earth and just stay in the Zot universe, but I think you'd have to fight to keep at least some in to counter balance the zanier elements. Zot & Jenny could be cast as just about anybody really, but I think the villains like 9 Jack 9, Dekko, Zybox, the Blotch, Bellows and the De-Evolutionaries would be the prize voice casting-wise. I'd like to think the look would be self explanatory, Scott McCloud did as great a job with the imagery as he did the story lines, but I worry that the feel could be lost in the way that the beautiful "A Day With Wilbur Robinson" got super computerized and watered down in "Meet The Robinsons", although I could see how the former Day With could inform the Zot! series in tone and mood. (They are quite similar really) Hopefully to counter that Scott McCloud would be an integral part of the conception, lay-out, test animation, and overall guidance throughout the series.

• Actually, what I would like to see would be an anime-style series based on the Vampire: The Masquerade novels and fiction. A normal cartoon just wouldn't suffice, and it'd be the only way to amp up the violence & psychological trauma to the necessary level to undo all the damage Twilight et al have done to the myth of vampirism. 13 clans of vampires, each with specific strengths and weaknesses, certain feeding preferences, etc. The marketing opportunities would be endless! (Not that White Wolf didn't already bleed their customers dry the 1st time round, but whatever...) Plus, you can't argue with any story that ends with the oldest vampires rising up and devouring their descendants and all of humanity in one final, blood-gorged tidal wave of destruction. Gives you that warm squishy feeling doesn't it? :)

• Magic: The Gathering "Artifacts Cycle" Book series. For those fellow Magic nerds out there, the storyline behind Urza's upbringing, rise and fall to madness in pursuit of obtaining his planeswalker powers and going on a milleniums-long quest to eradicate the Phyrexians would make for at least a good 3-4 seasons of content, especially if you include his bulding of the Legacy and the subsequent Weatherlight storyline that would follow Gerrard and the crew, ending with a glorious 2.5 hour long movie detailing the Phyrexian invasion and eventual downfall of the main antagonists. The books and the game haven't been the same since the conclusion of that wondrous epic, and I'd love to see it animated, if only to capture the true spirit of the fantasy world. Jeremy Irons as Urza Brad Pitt as Barrin Don Cheadle as Crovax/Ving Rhames as Crovax the Cursed Billy West could fill out the one-off characters Kevin Conroy as Yawgmoth(which could even lead to a prequel-style movie based on "The Thran") Gix would have to be voiced by Avery Brooks Keith David as Karn The voice talent budget would be astronomical, but they would be perfect

• I definitely would love to see a long running series of the Big Finish/Dr Who companion, Benny Summerfield So many different opportunities and settings as well as a deep cast, and the ability to include the Doctor as part of the initial set up Plus Wolsey the cat would be great!

• Daniel Clowes needs to do a cartoon movie based on David Boring. It's already set up to be a movie script, he's done two live-action movies based on other comics he's done, and it would be really visually striking on screen. It also makes sense from the geek side of things: nerds will buy the super special edition with the Yellow Streak cartoon, comic book, and "lucky" penny. A David Boring action figure with a bullet in his head would be almost as cool as He-Man's battle damage, and there would be a "bust" of Wanda's ample rear end. Hell, there's even a scene at the end where David is swimming around naked, and everyone knows that what got the word out on "The Watchmen" was Dr. Manhattan's blue manhood.

• &#64;garmone: Anything with Shatner and Jack White gets my seal of approval*! *neither an actual seal, nor any sign of the approval of a giant space turtle

• I would want to see Greg Keyes' Children of the Changeling made into an animation of lavish proportions, full of gods and knights and mythical creatures. And blood and gore. Kind of like a Record of Lodoss War/ Tales from Earthsea/ Tears to Tiara mix. Lots of details and traditional storytelling. None of that 3D, digital wooden puppetry rubbish. It would be gorgeous.

• I think...Heralds of Valdemar series, by Mercedes Lackey. Not only would it please the pony...loving crowd, but also it's got enough drama to sate pretty much any mainstream crowd. Everything for everyone -- drama, pretty people, pretty ponies...you know, just as long as everyone's either female or a huge fucking nerd.

• The show that NEEDS to happen is called the Poochie and Mary Sue LOL Extreme Happytime Funtweet Show. It is a charming cartoon featuring a black ops squad that hunts, captures and kills the characters who best represent the most annoying tropes in geek entertainment. First episode might feature an irksome little mutt finding out that Puppy Power is no match for our elite squad of black ops mofos. After some great chase scenes and a surprising betrayal by Scooby Dum, Scrappy's scared to death after being snatched. The leader of the squad tells him not to worry. They aren't going to hurt him. They just took him to a new owner. Scrappy breathes a sigh of relief which drops to the pit of his stomach once he turns to face his new owner, Michael Vick. Subsequent episodes feature the brutal torture of the Wonder Twins, a savage end to most cousins on tv; from Pam to Chachi, and in a blow to bearded, obese, WOW-playing boomer nerds everywhere, Hal Jordan becomes wormfood once more. Episodes are largely self-contained until Season 4, when the lead character from HawthoRNe, who joined the squad in the previous season and is an MMA expert with nanotech-enhanced powers, finds herself hunted by the team she had fought with. She recruits the members of the hit list yet-to-be slain. Can Gambit, Jar Jar and the rest of her ragtag crew survive? Theme song by Jack White, MF Doom and a heavily Autotuned William Shatner.

• Ooh! How 'bout Umbrella Academy, set when they were kids and before the team broke up? It's got everything... their mysterious, sadistically controlling guardian, robomom, twisted villains, and a monkey! It could delve into the many unrevealed details of their past, and the pivotal episode would be the death of Horror. And imagine Gabriel Ba's beautiful art animated... I will sell my fucking kidneys to see it. Failing that, maybe "The Lobo Show", on Adult Swim.

• You wanted the best you got the best CARTOON OF KISS!!!! I'd want the Mego theme song too!! Plus a re-do of Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park!!! YEA SPACE CHILD!! GO DEMON!! Ummmm Cat I guess you can go and drink in the corner with Ace! YEA! 275 episodes of pure afterschool fun!!! Plus Gene would market the SHIT out it!!!

• Cerebus The Aardvark by Dave Sim. Even George Lucas Knew this one was a winner, which is why he tried to by it only to be shot down by it's creator thus he became the ultimate non-sellout. Good thing too, it might have become another Howard the Duck, but oh what a cartoon it would make!!

• Radioactive man cartoon series (yeah, Bart Simpson's fave comic.). They actually published it in the 90's, and the hero's constant problem is how to keep his identity secret while this huge freaking bolt permanently lodged into his skull. It even had this cast of other heroes, ala JLA. Fun stuff. Would definitely have made my saturday morning. Plus, I loved Fallout Boy.

• This is very simple: it's a cartoon that needs to be re-made. Exo-Squad. My God, that was a delicious cartoon. Pirates, clones, extreme body counts, space battles, ground battles, ethical dilemmas.... this was a cartoon that had everything and deserves another go-round.

• Like a douche, I posted without reading All of the above, and now that I went back I saw someone already put Lovecraft up there... I guess great minds think alike. So how bout a cartoon/ anime version of the russian "Watch" book series by Sergei Lukyanenko... These 4 books (Night Watch, Day Watch, Twilight Watch and Final Watch) have been adapted into two movies... and they were pretty good ones to. But the source material is super detailed and thy had a lot of budget restraits due to the fact that the film was filmed in Russia... so the movies ended up being a conglomeration of ideas from the novels. The four books are dark and dense dealing with magic, vampires, shape shifters, witches etc... It would be bad ass. Keeping the characters Russian would be excellent, so maybe they could get: Rade Šerbedžija- Boris the Blade in Snatch Anton Yelchin- Along Came a Spider Oskana Akinshina- Bourne Identity and Bourne Supremacy Dina Korzun- Cold Souls (Upcoming movie with paul Giamatti) & Some of the cast from the Live Action Movies: Konstantin Khabenskiy - Anton Zhanna Friske- Alicia Viktor Verzhbitsky- Zavulon Aleksey Chadov- Kostoya Timur Bekmambetov made the two films and has a great eye for action (he directed Wanted with Angelina Jolie and was involved with Tim Burton on the animated film Nine, which was bad ass. He should be consulted. The cartoon would suit these books because there is alot of transforming/ shape shifting done by the characters and the whole idea of The Gloom would be sick in animation... all were done well in the films, but would be even better in a cartoon. It is gritty, it is bad ass, it has monsters, magic and even flashes back to midevil times... GET THIS DONE....

• Animorphs. Maybe an animated series would wash the Nickelodien stench off the series. There's enough there for a couple seasons, and animation would allow a better representation than the live action show ever could have. And if that gets made, maybe we'd stand a chance at seeing an Everworld cartoon, one thats accurate, bloody, and awesome. ...I love K.A. Applegate. Fucking sue me.

• I think that a cartoon version HP Lovecrafts stories would be great. Lets be honest, those of you who have read Lovecraft know that his writings are scary as shit, and his ideas have been ransacked and used many times through the years. The Real Ghostbusters cartoon actually used alot of his stories. They are creepy, they are gory, and I really think an adult themed horror cartoon would be boss... also since it would be animated they could delve into the monsters/ gory death with no limitations... crazy!!! The blodier the better... fingers crossed!!!!

• I have already made a suggestion but here is a second one I would like to see made: The Legion of Super Heroes: The Great Darkness Saga. I have the producers uses character designs based on the old Superman and Batmen animated series. There would be a slight montage of clips at the beginning to give those who might be familiar with the LSH characters and the era they live in. The storyline would cover all relative events of the GDS from "Prologue to Darkness' to the final issue in the GDS, LSH 294, and include the epilogue that came out two years later "The Curse".

• 1 vote to the Discworld one, 1 vote to my own. Hooray for perverting the democratic process!

• An animated <i>Paranoia</i> series. One that uses the 2nd edition from 1987 as its basis, not that fucked-up comic book or the god-awful 5th edition that never actually happened. It would follow the exploits of one clone as he rises through the ranks of Alpha Complex, using guile, bribery, trickery and outright asshole nature to climb from a lowly Red-clearance Troubleshooter to a Violet administrator -- and climax as he enters the ranks of the privileged Ultraviolet-level Programmers...and learns some horrible truths about Alpha Complex, The Computer, cloning and possibly Barbra Streisand. Along the way, traitors would be executed, mutants would be persecuted, ComBots would explode, PLC clerks would be bribed, weird gadgets would be tested, radiation would leak, Vulture Warriors would blow the crap out of stuff and something would fall off the Mark V. Our protagonist, who HIMSELF would be a mutant, and a traitor, would be the cause of most of it. It'd be part <i>The Prisoner</i>, part <i>Venture Brothers</i> and part <i>The Young Ones</i>. LAUD ME!

• I would punt a box of puppies for a new Freakazoid cartoon series

• Call me crazy, but i'd love to see a cartoon based on the MMORPG Everquest or Asheron's Call. I think there's more than enough lore in the games to get several decent seasons of plot without even trying hard. Plus it would ALREADY appeal to hundreds of thousands of nerds, most of whom would make it a point to watch at least the first few shows. -Jon

• How about John Cena's Thuganomic Mysteries? An animated series featuring John Cena, some underprivileged pre-teen and teen gymnasts. travelling the world solving mysteries and stopping the Evil Randy Orton and his henchwrestlers... The return of Silverhawks!! The hawks need some love cause everyone's Thundercats this, and Thundercats that...(though a new Thundercats would be awesome too!) Or a Phoenix Wright anime.

• I just wanna second your choice of the Belgariad/Malloreon, that would be bad-ass. And Polgara would need to be Drew Saturday levels of hot.

• Actually if anyone is interested in Heinleins Red Planet animated show here is the you tube link http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=45CD9A11337AAE51

• We need a serious, mature rendition of "The Judas Contract" from the Wolfman/Perez era of The Teen Titans. We deserve for this to be made. What makes this one a high priority is the fact that DC actually green-lit it a few years ago but sadly pulled the plug for a lack of intrest (or broad appeal or some other BS). With writing and dialog similar to the source work, an animation similar to Perez's Titans, and good voice actors, this could have been brilliant. If it was a success it might have even paved the way for a follow up, such as "The Terror OF Trigon". It would have been nice to give one of the best properties of the 80's a proper relaunch for us big kids.

• Ender saga...mmm someone mentioned Heinleins planet red, that actually got made into a an animated film...i cant find anything online but i did saw it on local tv back in the early 90s

• The last post was from me. For some reason it was being weird when I was trying to post.

• For me, I imagine a series created from the books from the Magic Kingdom for Sale series by Terry Brooks. Those books have endless potential for a tv cartoon series. The books are very imaginative, lending them well to beautiful animation. Things that would make this series awesome to watch; 1. Talking dog named Abernathy. This alone would be epic and fun to animate/watch. A magical talking dog. Awesome 2. The kingdom of Landover is really unique. The particular castle that Ben Holiday inhabits would be awesome to see brought to life. The castle itself is a living creature and is portrayed as a female. This opens up jokes for the adult crowd that kids might not understand. I mean, what would be hotter than living inside a female? I appreciate the potential there. 3. The Paladin: Landover has its own protector. The Paladin appears when the true king summons him to fight for him. Now that is sweet. There is the potential for great animation and action sequences with this. 4. Strabo: Giant talking dragon. Always a plus 5. Willow: Hot girl that has to turn into a tree that is married to Ben. Super hot, animated green girl. And I think Star Trek has showed us all that hot green girls are cool. 6.Questor Thews: Cooky, eccentric, magician that is responsible for turning someone into a talking dog. See Abernathy. 7. Ben Holiday: Awesome, depressed, rich, fed up attorney who buys Landover from an obscure catalog for $1 million dollars. He makes a great protagonist. He is fun and you can relate to him. He would make a great animated king. 8. Finally, the gnomes Fillip and Sot. They are hilarious gnome thieves. Shenanigans will ensue with these two. The world of Landover is different, eccentric, a little provocative, and tons of fun. This would make the perfect animated show because it could draw in a varied audience. Plus, the action figures sets from said show would be fun also. I would love a talking dog action figure and mischievous gnome thieves would be cool as well. This is the animated show for me, and any other self respecting fantasy loving nerd. My entry has been submitted sir!

• Nicee. My three pics were already mentioned. The Takeshi Kovacs books, Pratchett's Discworld series, and above all, The Elric books. I had toyed with the idea of making the Elirc books into comics at some point but figured by the time I get the resources and junk together, it would have already been done

• I only read half of these before I got discouraged by the suggestions. Wheel of Time and you all call yourself geeks...

• I imagine the theme song would end up being "A Favor House Atlantic", by Coheed and Cambria. It just sounds very fitting for an action, sci-fi cartoon. And the opening credits sequence could be clips of the characters trying to storm the House Atlantic, as well.

• My roommate and I were discussing a Blue Beetle movie not too long ago. I'd kill to see that. Also, I'd love to see a live action movie or television series based on Lloyd Alexander's Chronicles of Prydain. The Black Cauldron wasn't enough for me. Maybe a live action film based on Alexander's 'Time Cat'... or even animated. Time Cat paired with beautiful animation would make for a pretty awesome flick. The Belgariad books would make for some awesome stuff, though. I don't remember much of it since I read some of it in middle school, but I do remember that it was made of awesomesauce. Another thing: More Neil Gaiman movies. Neverwhere is already being made, but an animated film or short based on The Wolves in the Walls... OMG...

• The Amory Wars, the story on which all of Coheed and Cambria's albums are based. I mean, they're already a well-made comic book, so I'd love to see SyFy or Adult Swim pick it up as an animated show. It would be an epic sci-fi space opera type show, with well-animated fight sequences. Of course, the background music could be all of the band's instrumental tracks (there are a lot). The band members could even do some of the voice acting, since there are already sound clips of the characters talking in some of their songs. Season One would end at the closing of their second album, where two of the main characters die. Season Two would pick up at the beginning of their third album, where we find out that the whole story so far is a novel being written by a delusional writer. And if you wanted a spinoff show, you could always use the album they made under a different name, about one of the characters in the Amory Wars after he drops out of that storyline.

• I *loved* that series. YES!! A series or a movie at worst.

• Master of the Five Magics by Lyndon Hardy. The story follows a kid who's trying to impress the queen and be named an official suitor by giving her a magical gift. But his instructors always steal his gift and give it to the queen instead so he has to move on to a different discipline. Finally, after mastering the lost art of Wizardry, he uncovers an imminent demon invasion that he, as the only person with knowledge of all five magics, has to stop. Wow, I did a terrible job of describing the plot. It's been about 10 years since I read it, so my memory is not that detailed. What I do remember is that the rules of each form of magic were fully explained and adhered to throughout the book, almost treating magic as scientific studies. The whole story was crammed into one book, but I would stretch it into seasons, similar to The Last Airbender. I would give it to the same studio, because if they hired martial arts instructors to keep their animated fights authentic, they would have the attention to detail to keep the five magics correct. Casting would have the kid that did Robin in Teen Titans as the main character. Jennifer Hale as the Queen. Use the villains from Justice League Unlimited as the magic instructors. And Frank Welker could give some awesome demon voices.

• Day of the Tentacle. That is all

• YO, ANIMATED BLOOD AND GORE IN THE VIDEO I POSTED BE CAREFULL, BASED OFF AN M RATED GAME

• You know, I have not a chance in hell of winning, but I am going to throw this out there. Team Fortress 2. If you haven't heard of it, go. Go watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIdHPcyfwZM Now, did you enjoy that? OF COURSE YOU DID. Now, couldn't you see an entire Clone Wars / GI Joe Resolute type a series around this? Cause I know I sure as hell would!

• "The Saga of the Flanneled One": this bio-series would recount George Lucas' life, animated in the exact same style as the CG Clone Wars series. After doing an episode or two in his sleepy hometown of Modesto, with the Flanneled Boy reading comics and dreaming of space adventures, we'd see him go to film school, make THX 1138, hang out with Spielberg and Coppola, make "American Graffiti", and spend years trying to write a decent space pulp screenplay about Jedi-Bendus or something like that. "Star Wars". Indiana Jones, and the traumatic divorce that he blames "Temple of Doom"'s darkness on. "Howard the Duck". Lucasfilm, Lucasarts, Pixar, "Young Indiana Jones"... it'd all be there, the legendary moments, the forgotten moments, and the moments never before told. We'd see how years of success, riches and comforts gradually saps the spark from a once-edgy and promising talent. We'd see the movies being filmed, the on-set adventures and the off-set quiet, human moments. Every episode would span exactly as much narrative time as it needed to tell a story within the whole, and the CG models would accurately age the characters we know and sometimes love across decades of life. Would it be impossible to secure all the necessary rights, likenesses, etc? Yes. Would it be the best thing since sliced bread? Very possibly.

• A Deadpool anime. It would be amazingly animated and very violent, and the whole time Deadpool would joke about anime cliches. The opening would be Deapool trying to singalong to some J-pop and he wouldn't know Japanese so he would just yell random similar sounding phrases. And at one point he would be convinced the Squirrel-girl wanted to tentacle rape him. Either that or a No More Heroes anime.

• Easy. The Artemis Fowl series. Magic, fairies, snarky, rich, genius, antihero protagonist? Yes, please! I'm thinking it would have to be set in Haven (the fairy city). In the beginning, Artemis is poisoned by his arch-enemy, Opal, and is forced to work full-time with the fairies in order to catch Opal and find a cure. His partner, Holly, uses her magic to keep the poison at bay but Artemis knows he will succumb eventually. This does not affect his ability to snark EVERYTHING. Opal, of course, would be voiced by Michele Knotz (Jesse in Pokemon - come on, it's a great demented voice!). I'd like it to be an anime but I have a feeling an anime about fairies would quickly got to a perverted place so maybe a high quality anime-style American cartoon like Avatar.

• jack kirby's fourth world opus would make a great, adult fantasy/sci fi action cartoon. keep the kirby designs and make it action packed as hell, asnd you've got a winner

• I realized that I'd also love to see Eddings' other big fantasy line, the Elenium and the Tamuli, made into an animated series. Seeing Sparhawk tear up the countryside with his magic 'Church Knights' would be a lot of fun and I feel like it could be really well done in a "Berserk" style. @ monkeypicked I definitely agree - I went with the Watch since they are so connected to AM, and all the other major Discworld characters have either spent time there or could easily find reason to: Rincewind, the Witches, the Monks of Time, the various supernatural beasties in Uberwald (Igors!), and, of course, Death. You could see them on their journeys in known stories or have the Watch dealing with the horrors that have tagged along with them. Discworld's got a big well to draw from. @ Graham I thought long and hard about Moorcock's works, but I eventually went with another fav British author. I like Elric, but I often find the other incarnations of the Eternal Champion more interesting, like Hawkmoon and Von Bek, and I wasn't sure how to tie all that body/universe jumping into a single show.

• Movie Maniacs: The Cartoon series. I remember when Mcfarlane's action figures came out, how cool it would be if there was one cartoon series that also had these characters mixing it up. Just think, the good guys team could consist of Ash, Snake Plissken, Ichabod Crane, Shaft, (I forget what other hero characters were licensed in the beginning). Every episode would have them fighting another villian character like Freddy Kruger or Jason Voorhees. As more and more characters became licensed to be figures, they would get added to the cast. Alien Predator, Robocop, The Terminator... The best part is since it was a cartoon, you could probably get a lot of the real actors like Robert Englund and Bruce Campbell to do the voices. Especially with today's big name stars who love to do cameos for an episode or two. It would be awesome.

• Final Fantasy Tactics Animated The story of a young man falling from grace who must fight against his former class in order to save the world from an ancient evil. He must cobble together a ragtag group of allies from all walks of life. We've all heard that one before, right? I think it's proven itself. Final Fantasy Tactics would make a supremely enjoyable anime. I imagine the series as following both the protagonist, Ramza, and his rival, Delita. This would pad out some of the leaner parts of the game so that the series could mimic the four-chapter setup of the game with four seasons of thirteen episodes each. Ramza would collect most of the same allies that he did in the game. Unlike the game, where most of the characters are completely ignored once they're officially recruited, they would stick around and contribute something beyond their swordarms. Seriously, they never get any dialogue again. I would also tweak some of the story so that the cast can come together sooner than they did in the game. I see the eventual party being Ramza, Agrias, Mustadio, Alma, Rafa, and Malak. Ramza, of course, remains in the lead as the naïve young youth fighting a battle he never wanted. Agrias is the doughty knight who takes charge when Ramza is incapacitated. Mustadio is the comic relief (he also has a gun). Alma, Ramza's sister, would be Ramza's moral support and comfort. The roles of Rafa and Malak (magic-user twins) would be beefed up a little. Rafa would become Ramza's main love interest (she was the closest thing to it in the game). Malak would be the antagonistic jerk of the party, constantly making Ramza question himself. This small band would be in large of a slightly larger force of friends and mercenaries, who largely stay in the back ground. Red Shirts, basically. Delita's portions would involve much of the intrigue that comes from working with and order of ancient baddies like Vormav, Wiegraf, and Izlude. Perhaps there could be some episodes showing how these guys got their own Zodiac Stones. It would also contain gratuitous amounts of Delita and Princess Ovelia lamenting their fates while in one another's company (and then they kiss). The stories eventually weave back together in the final chapter season where the two forces clash in the attempt to destroy or secure the power of the mystic Zodiac Stones. Reasons Why It Would Make a Great Anime -The art style is already a done deal. The pencil-drawn look to the cutscenes in the PSP version, War of the Lions, were far more moving than any CG movie in modern memory. After twenty-two minutes of those gorgeous visuals you'll have parts of your soul crying that you never knew you had. -The voice cast is already covered. With the main cast in the hands of veteran voice actors like Robin Atkin Downes and Kari Wahlgren, we never have to worry about cringing whenever the exposition starts. Also, the idea of Phil LaMarr as the fair-haired, white male lead tickles me to no end. -The story itself revolves around a rivalry between two childhood friends. That meshes with roughly 95% of all protagonist/antagonist relationships in anime. -The propensity for numerous tie-in movies that don't have to involve the plot in any way. There are a number of side quests in the game that would translate into wonderful movie. They often involve brand new characters that have nothing to do with the overarching storyline, yet manage to completely hijack the parts that they're in. That's essentially how anime movie get made. More importantly, this would allow for movies that involves a time(dimension?)-traveling Cloud Strife. That would be enough to convince me, right there. Personal Reasons for Wanting This that I'm Willing to Admit -It would allow for the creation of new classes that I've always longed for. First, the Green Mage/ Druid. This guy would be the counterpart to the already existing Black Mage / Wizard, who uses Fire, Ice, and Bolt magic with his ultimate spell being Flare. The GM/Druid would use Wind, Water, and Earth with his ultimate spell being Tornado. Second, Blue Mages, the perennial classic of Final Fantasys. He/she could collect moves from a number of different jobs, allowing for a greatly customized character. Finally, Gamblers, so that we can get some Setzer lookalikes running around. -There are dozens of characters that can be called upon to perform action figure duty. The main character himself changes outfits three times throughout the game. Can you say variants? Also, there are scads of faceless characters that comprise your forces. There are also over twenty different jobs to choose from, for either males or females. -Again, any way that we can get Cloud Strife more exposure is aces in my book.

• The Legend of Drizzt series by R.A. Salvatore needs to be an animated series. It's something like 20 books long so they would never have any lack of material. And here's the voice cast that needs to happen: Drizzt DoUrden: Phil LaMarr (voice of Samurai Jack) Catti Brie: Mila Kunis (that 70s show and Robot Chicken) Artemis Entreri: Steve Blum (voice of Spike Spiegel) Zacknafein: Jeremy Iron (he makes everything better) King Breunor: Ron Perlman If you're a fan of the series you're probably changing your pants right about now.

• Seconding Ubiq's vote for Usagi Yojimbo. I'd like whoever got a hold of it to be as bloody and as intense at the original. Crossovers with the TMNT are entirely optional, but should happen as many times as possible. : D

• I'll go for something a bit more obscure. I would KILL to see an animated adaptation of "The Ancestral Trail". The series was a fortnightly serial that was released in countries like the UK and South Africa (where I got a hold of it). It's about a boy named Richard who is pulled in a world called the Ancestral World, and he is the Chosen One who must save the world from the Evil one by finding the stolen Life Force Pods. On one hand, the story is a bit generic, but on the other hand, the monsters in it are amazing and I always have a soft spot for the characters. Rather than post anything too detailed, you can simply visit the blog I've been maintaining on the series, where scans of the images are available. To see some of those monsters animated would be a site to see: http://ancestraltrail.blogspot.com/

• &#64;Ranchoth Thanks so much for posting that Aliens site. Lots of cool stuff I've never seen before. @DJ Maniak Freakazoid was pretty close to a Madman series. Mike Allred has voiced his opinion about that topic before. If I recall I believe the producers told him they wanted a series influenced by Allred's creation, which he was fine with. But he was more that a little disapointed when it ended up being an almost complete rip-off. Maybe a true Madman series should be done to set things right.

• Frank Cho's Liberty Meadows. Although the art style would probably have to be simplified a lot...Cho does very detailed art for backgrounds and human characters... I was going to say Sandman, but a couple of posters beat me to it...and it's probably never going to happen, as animation or live action. When asked about it at signings, Neil Gaiman tells many entertaining stories about how the studios are effing up the storyline. <i>Morpheus and the Corinthian are BROTHERS at WAR! And their OTHER brother DESTRUCTION enters the fray...but on WHOSE SIDE?!</i>

• Animate all the lost episodes of Doctor Who from the Hartnell/Troughton era. Cosgrove Hall animated a couple of episodes of The Invasion for the DVD release and they were awesome. However they were too costly to do for the other 200-odd episodes that are probably gone forever : (

• &#64; kalyarn.... hell yeah. Oh man i can totally see the Discworld series done in the "futurama-esque" manner. I like the idea of the Watch being the central series, but i also think there is so much potential for the continuing story of Rincewind, and other such reoccurring characters in the series. You know, to somehow be intertwined in there... maybe in a similar way as the "Anthology of Interest II"? What do you think?

• All Star Batman & Robin the Boy Wonder. So I can hear Kevin Conroy say, "I'm the goddamn Batman."

• OK, fairly short and simple. Madman: The Animated Series. Allred's amazing character designs already scream "this needs to be a cartoon!" Plus all the fun pulpy/noir/sci-fi/action adventures he has can easily be stretched out to 2-3 seasons if done properly.

• Ah, those 2 folks who have mentioned Transmetropolitan failed to take into consideration: Spider Jerusalem already had his own cartoon (well, fictional cartoon within the comic). Or have we forgotten Magical Truthsaying Bastard Spidey??? Now, there's an anime I would watch religiously. As well as claymation JTHM, wouldn't an animated series of Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles be awesome? This author deserves to have his work depicted with better quality animation than Hanah Babera, in my opinion. Rocketships, space men, aliens with golden masks and clockwork pet spiders . . . that would be epically delicious.

• Two words: Armored Core. Take a single serving of uber sterile future distopian society where corporations and money are the law. Fold over fully customizable and ridiculously fast, flying quasi-J-mechs (none of those slow ass gun arm Western failbots used in Mech Warrior). Insert your cast of hero (as in two-timing hired assassins who murder scores of people and cause billions of credits in property damage for their own sakes) and villian (ok, so they aren't much worse than the heros) pilots (no teens or children, please). Stir in just a touch of betrayal, human engineering and god-computer of OZ conspiracies, giant city destroying insectoid bio-weapon organism, roving city sized death fortresses, and lets not forget mechs slaughtering each other in and out of the arena, and you've got yourself a recipe for one hell of a good time. Closest I ever got in my youth to an AC cartoon was Macross (too much space opera) and Exo Squad (lame mech designs, and really bad hair cuts). And don't even get me started on the mess that is the Gundam franchise.

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