More Cartoon and Comic stuff

I saw the youtube clip of the new Legion of Super Heroes cartoon today. I must say that as a long-time Legion fan I am thrilled that they are coming to a television set near you, and that a new generation of kids will be introduced to them.

Personally, I thought it looked awful, but I guess that I'm not the target demographic. It was almost painful to see the regal, sophisticated Emerald Empress get the hyper-sugar-no-attention-span-anime-influenced treatment.

Seriously, what the hell is up with anime? Why is it popular? I would have loved the Teen Titans cartoon if not for those goofy-assed anime faces and speed lines they threw in there. It was like they were trying to have a traditional cartoon, with just enough anime thrown in to seem edgy...and oh boy was it edgeless.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the Transformers when I was a kid, so I'm open to the mechamech mechamechs and junk, but for god's sake, tone down the stupid facial expressions like this: ^_^ It is lazy and dumb! Gah!!!!!

My personal distaste aside, I hope that the cartoon will be a roaring success and that the Legion of Super Heroes will find itself in an unprecedented level of popularity amongst kids and kids at heart. God knows that incredible team deserves it!

I will check it out, and who knows...maybe I'll like it. I'm more partial to the JLU/Batman/Superman animation style, but who knows...maybe this is just what the science police ordered!

Speaking of the Science Police, how cool is it that they have been introduced in the pages of the Superman comics? Brilliant! Between Dini's run of one-shots on Detective and Busiek's first solo issue of Action, I am happy to say that two of DC's flagship titles are in great hands, and that I'll be putting them both on my pull list! Another feather in DC's cap!