NYCC Young Justice Preview
5 Minutes of Young Justice.
I'm looking forward to this show, really. I'm especially jazzed that, unlike the anime-inspired Teen Titans of a few years back, this show isn't ignoring the adult heroes completely - I was completely surprised to actually see Batman in this.
But... and there's always one of these, I guess...
Apparently, Robin in this show will be Dick Grayson and Kid Flash will be Wally West. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. At this point, the only thing that defines this show as Young Justice as opposed to Teen Titans is the inclusion of Kon-El as Superboy (or, for that matter, the inclusion of any version of Superboy at all). I'm glad the Siegel/Schuster brou-ha-ha got worked out so that DC could bring Kon/Conner back and put him in a spotlight animated series, but if it's not Tim Drake as Robin and Bart Allen as Impulse (NOT Kid Flash), then it's hardly Young Justice.
I wonder if the series is going to have the Peter David signature "comedy" the comic title had - that might make up for screwing up the identities of two of the core three characters, though I don't think I'll be able to take a character named Mighty N. Dowd any better on TV than I did in the comics. Still, of the various books to which Peter David has applied his "whimsy", Young Justice was the one where it worked best.
Going a bit further afield on my "Not Young Justice" complaints, none of the girls on the team are from the actual team in the books. I don't know that I've *ever* seen Miss Martian - I didn't even know she was an actual character in the DCU, since so far as I know J'onn J'onnz is still the only surviving Martian. And Greg Weisman, who I can't hate even for all the things I'm nitpicking here because of Gargoyles and The Spectacular Spider-Man, says that the character they're using here called Artemis is not the Amazon of that name, nor is it Wonder Girl or Arrowette under a different name. So two of the three guys aren't the same "person" underneath the mask, and not one of the girls is even the same mask as the girls in the comic. The "theme" of the first season will apparently be "secrets and lies", which hopefully indicates that we'll be meeting the Secret at some point, so at least that will be one more tick in the "feels like Young Justice" column, but since the first episode is about meeting Superboy, I don't think we're going to be seeing Suzie in the series until later on, which is disappointing, since keeping her "secret" was integral to the formation of Young Justice to begin with.
ALL OF THAT SAID, I do have to say that I almost want to retract every single nit I picked because this show is officially "canon" in the new DCMultiverse, being designated as "Earth-16". So all of my complaints are really "beside the point" because they're not really trying to recreate the Young Justice of the mainstream DCU, they're creating a completely parallel - but equally canonical - Young Justice. And that is all kinds of sweet.
I'm looking forward to this show, really. I'm especially jazzed that, unlike the anime-inspired Teen Titans of a few years back, this show isn't ignoring the adult heroes completely - I was completely surprised to actually see Batman in this.
But... and there's always one of these, I guess...
Apparently, Robin in this show will be Dick Grayson and Kid Flash will be Wally West. Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. At this point, the only thing that defines this show as Young Justice as opposed to Teen Titans is the inclusion of Kon-El as Superboy (or, for that matter, the inclusion of any version of Superboy at all). I'm glad the Siegel/Schuster brou-ha-ha got worked out so that DC could bring Kon/Conner back and put him in a spotlight animated series, but if it's not Tim Drake as Robin and Bart Allen as Impulse (NOT Kid Flash), then it's hardly Young Justice.
I wonder if the series is going to have the Peter David signature "comedy" the comic title had - that might make up for screwing up the identities of two of the core three characters, though I don't think I'll be able to take a character named Mighty N. Dowd any better on TV than I did in the comics. Still, of the various books to which Peter David has applied his "whimsy", Young Justice was the one where it worked best.
Going a bit further afield on my "Not Young Justice" complaints, none of the girls on the team are from the actual team in the books. I don't know that I've *ever* seen Miss Martian - I didn't even know she was an actual character in the DCU, since so far as I know J'onn J'onnz is still the only surviving Martian. And Greg Weisman, who I can't hate even for all the things I'm nitpicking here because of Gargoyles and The Spectacular Spider-Man, says that the character they're using here called Artemis is not the Amazon of that name, nor is it Wonder Girl or Arrowette under a different name. So two of the three guys aren't the same "person" underneath the mask, and not one of the girls is even the same mask as the girls in the comic. The "theme" of the first season will apparently be "secrets and lies", which hopefully indicates that we'll be meeting the Secret at some point, so at least that will be one more tick in the "feels like Young Justice" column, but since the first episode is about meeting Superboy, I don't think we're going to be seeing Suzie in the series until later on, which is disappointing, since keeping her "secret" was integral to the formation of Young Justice to begin with.
ALL OF THAT SAID, I do have to say that I almost want to retract every single nit I picked because this show is officially "canon" in the new DCMultiverse, being designated as "Earth-16". So all of my complaints are really "beside the point" because they're not really trying to recreate the Young Justice of the mainstream DCU, they're creating a completely parallel - but equally canonical - Young Justice. And that is all kinds of sweet.