Legion World Forums LEGION CLUBHOUSE The Legion of Super-Heroes Legion in JLU Cartoon/Legion Series...Official Thread

Comics Continuum reports that Andy Milder has been cast as the voice of Lightning Lad in the LSH animated series. You can read it here (just scroll down a bit).

Gosh, he doesn't look like LL at all!

UGLY! Insultingly cartoonish and if the best Legion writers of all time are scripting the series, I wouldn't be able to stomach this treatment of our Legionnaires. I was pumping this series to all my CoH Legion buds but that stops now. Wonder where WB is spending all the development money--music? voice acting?--cuz if this is what they are going to foist on us...well, can you spell F-L-O-P? Yeh, knew you could. Fifty plus years of waiting for this CRAP?
Say it ain't so!

You do realize they're not making it for us, don't you? They are designing the show for a predominately kid audience. They want it to appeal to kids. They don't care about ratings from the 20+ year old Legion fans. They want ratings from the 5-12 year olds and are designing the show to appeal to them. That's reality.

Everytime I hear this arguement I can't help but think of how I'd feel about today's cartoons when I was a kid...

...And the answer is I'd think that they sucked. None of them measure up to the visual quality and creativity of the Super Friends let alone a Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse.

I see today's animation as cheap adults' ideas of what kids want and not what they really want.

I don't get it. I've emailed Comics Continuum, Newsarama, CBR, and even AICN with my updates on the series but they never publish anything.

Not too keen on the animation style that Hurrikane provided. I'm sure I'll be able to overlook it when the show airs.

Speaking of which, did anyone else catch that Upper Deck will be releasing a "Vs." CCG series in December to pick up on the anticipated rise in popularity of the Legion.

I agree with you that most of today's animation isn't up to the quality of the past cartoons. Heck, even 90's cartoons were better than a lot of cartoons on now. But we can't blame the company who's producing the show for trying to make it appeal to a certain viewer base. If they think that animation style will be popular with kids, then they're going to use it.

I'm not a fan of it either, but it's reality.

FYI-I'll be posting designs for a certain Green Skinned Legionnaire next week(most likely Wed, the same day the new ish of LSH comes out...how's that for a coincidence...

Two mistakes.
Why Shadow Lass is blasting pink rays?
And Validus is a giant robot, not a living beast.
The rest are good.
Supergirl - Brainiac romance.
Blok, Wildfire.
The beautiful Sarya returns!

Cartoon is always different from comics books. Look at Cyborg, Kole/Gnarrk team up, Red Star, Joto/Hotspot, Argent's silver/red powers, etc. So I don't think that there is a mistake at all.

Anyway, looking at the bright side - Emerald Empress rocks !!! she is soooo so wickedly evil in both Heroclix and JLU! I can't wait to look forward hoping that she will get her own action figure soon...soon...soon!

Hurrikane, since you appear to be an insider of sorts (or at least have access to one), I've created a list of the places I've found where they're discussing the series based on the artwork you provided. Most aren't too thrilled, but I don't know how much of that is simply because it's not in the Timm style. The list is on this page on my blog.

Ya know I agree with ye but I've since seen Super Friends and the animation did kinda suck. Still love it though.

I've been watching Ghost in the Shell the series lately. Why can't cartoon look like this? It rocked! American animation is so damn cheap! I would love to see a comic related cartoon in this style!


...And the answer is I'd think that they sucked. None of them measure up to the visual quality and creativity of the Super Friends let alone a Bugs Bunny or Mickey Mouse.

I see today's animation as cheap adults' ideas of what kids want and not what they really want. [/qb][/QUOTE]

well, I remember many fans were not very happy/pleased with the Teen Titans when they first unveiled their cartoon show...and look at them now - very popular now. So I think the Legion will do the same thing...first blah...then later good. I wish that Teen Titans to continue to the next season since I would love to see several Titans in action like Bumblebee (wants more of her!), Jericho, Mes y Manos (finally grew on me...), Pantha (well I was intrigued by her, better than her comics version which is boring), Argent, and Red Star. oh well, YMMV.

By the way, Shawn's blog is back, but he's deleted all of the Legion entries after he won the Timber Wolf part. No discussion of howling at the moon, no rehearsals, no meet-and-greet, no Legion cake. At least not yet, maybe he'll restore them when the show is officially announced.

btw, I just saw the JLU episode Far From Home. Cool! Nice to see Ultra Boy get a good hit.

Got some more prelim art. This stuff was not used but was asked for by the WB last year when they began thinking about the series. The art is by Ben Caldwell who is responsible currently for the covers to Justice League Adventures. I've posted the images over at The Clubhouse but will repost them here if enough people want me to.

NOOooooo!!!

Not Furball!!! AAaaaaarrrrrrrggggggg!!!!

Followed by: "well, that explains the 'Howling at the moon' in the voice actor's tryouts... :rolleyes: "

Although, excepting the B5 "cyborg" designs, I -much- prefer these to the Clone Wars animation style.

I really like the Ben Caldwell designs. I can even live with the B5 design. I do like them better than the designs Hurrikane posted, which for all we really know, might not be the finals, either, and aren't really THAT bad, in my opinion.

I really DON'T like the Ovi Nedelcu images. Saturn Girl and Lightning Lad look ridiculous, and I think it's offensively stereotypical to give the black girl (XS) huge thighs and butt. (Yes, I know running would build the thigh muscles, but that's just overkill.)

For those who don't want to visit my site ( ) here are the designs by Ben:

Since I had an unexpected day off, I did some surfing and found yet another artist who had been asked to submit designs for the Legion animated series. Ovi Nedelcu, a designer on Static Shock and other series, posted the following on his website (now also available over at The Clubhouse ).

That's just hideous. I fervently hope it won't be used.

ewwww...not that one, next please!

The Superboy and Timber Wolf are kinda cute in that one. Garth totally = Syndrome from the Incredibles.

Gotta bring this out from my collection that Steve Lightle did for DC back in 2002!