The First Disney/Marvel Cartoon Mash-Up Is Ferb-ier Than I Had Anticipated

Look, I’m not really complaining about a Marvel/Phineas and Ferb crossover. Kids love P&F, and I’ve had many adults tell me it’s both nerdy and clever. That’s fine. Even if it were solely for kids, I’d understand — Marvel already has older fans with the comics, and they need to get kids interested. Hell, I know they’re doing Ultimate Spider-Man for the same reason, and while I personally don’t like the show, it seems to be working. They need to reach kids, and this is all a smart way to go about it. I’m just pissed that Marvel finally had its equivalent of the DC Animated Universe in Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes, and they’re canceling it. You could have worked on EMH, Loeb. Given it a bigger budget, better animation. Promoted it better (or, indeed, at all). You could have grown it into an animated series that would have rivaled everything Bruce Timm did with DC. Maybe this new Avengers series will wrap in the kids, like your other cartoons. But you could have had greatness, Loeb. You had the beginning of it, just for a little while, and then you killed it.

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…okay, so I’m a little bitter. Thanks to Evil Monlkey Pope for the P&F tip. (Via Wired)