July 25, 2010

Holy Children's Programming Batman...

San Diego Comic-Con is currently going on and there are plenty of other news sites and blogs posting panel summaries and pictures from the event. I'd post the awesome Tron: Legacy trailer here, but you can find it most everywhere else.

I found this bit of news extremely interesting and surprising, there is a new Young Justice cartoon series coming from WB and DC Comics. From this preview it looks incredible, I mean, really top notch. It looks like a combination of Justice League Jr. and the Teen Titans. The animation style looks astounding and quite mature.

It looks like the 2010-11 television season is going to bring us a lot of competition on the boy's cartoon front with Transformers: Prime, G.I. Joe: Renegades, Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Young Justice. I know that I'll be tuning into this one. As toy companies are getting into television and movies, and the comic book publishers are pushing harder into other media, the competition for eye balls is going to be fierce. If this is a sample of what we are going to get, I am all for business diversification.

It hard to imagine that since the "Young Justice" concept was introduced in the late 90's we have seen an evolution to this: