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

I just *adore* Imra's new look. Guess who's going to be the cold, logical one?

Other cool things: The shadowy black wolf on T-Wolf's costume. Garth's costume is a lot easier on the eyes than the comicbook version, imo, but I wonder why they didn't go with the robot arm. Bouncing Boy rules, of course.

Not so cool: Kid Brainy, well, all I can say is I'm relieved they didn't go with the cyborg design (on second thought, maybe they should have). Ghost Girl seems scared of her own shadow. Superboy unfortunately looks a tad pedestrian compared to his teammates.

Not that I'm complaining. I'd have been thrilled to see a thumb-puppet version of the Legion. Now I can't wait for these characters to start walking and talking on the screen.

Would that be... a TIME Trapper Keeper?!

Oh I have just seen the official picture thingy and I don't like it! It's just ugly. Imra's eyes are pink????? Just horrible. The art and designs for the Titans cartoon was better and I wasn't crazy about that at the time.

Like I said before I'm not enthused that the designer has gone back to the Sprouse L-belt and centre stripe look. We have just finally got out of that era's fashion shackles! This is a step back as far as design goes. It's like going back to the Silver Age costumes in 1986!

(which as a total SA fangirl I would have liked but there you go..)

Don't think I will be able to bring myself to watch the thing. I certainly won't be buying any action figures with those designs and that fugly cartoony bad anatomy (which as I said before I hate anyway.)

It's a shame. Done right this would have been really cool. I just can't get over the ugly though. (It's so obvious Tinya is going to be the Raven goth chick, Brainy is going to be the Beast Boy jokester-because they are both green! what more similarity do you need? Timber Wolf is going to be the Cyborg-type brick etc.

They are just adapting existing characters and fitting them to their set of stock characters that they think will sell to kids.

Stinks like pan fried haddock. (which really stinks by the way.)

I'm disappointed.

////Yeah I'm Negative Lass today. Bit disappointed.

Let it not be said that I can't express displeasure!

I love the designs! Imra and Garth especially. Chuck seems to be wearing some kind of visor. Makes sense if you're bouncing head first into things. Brainy's hair is reminiscent of the way Coipel drew it.
Since the cartoon is for a young audience, I hope to see the sillier powered heroes like M-E Lad sometime.

I would be extremely surprised if this happens. How do you make Brainiac 5, of all people, a jokester? He's already got a personality.

More likely is that they put Bouncing Boy on the team to be the jokester.

Here's a copy of the TV Guide article. Extra big thanks to Matlock for sending me a scan. I cleaned up the actual image of the group. Of particular note is the mention of when the show debuts.

I can't wait! I just can't wait. This is incredible news. I agree with Infectious Drura's comment on the costumes (I've always liked the individuality of each character through his/her costume) but the overall character designs look really good,imho. (Kid Brainy I'm not so sure about). I'd have preferred a more "realistic" look for the Legionnaires (from the Cockrum/Grell era or the 80s Baxter look)but after almost half a century the Legion is going to be watched by the entire world, hopefully.
And yes, I'm going to buy the toys too, I'm not ashamed to say.

The only thing that actually bothers me about the style is the thin thighs and big calf muscles - I don't find that attractive. If this effect were done with thick boots that'd be one thing, but if that's stylized anatomy, it looks weird to me. (if one of them had bare legs, it'd be obvious what I'm talking about...)

Drake, flairs will be back in another 1000 yrs.

Is it just me, or do those designs look exactly like the ones in the picture which was leaked out months ago? You know, the designs which were disavowed and we were told had been changed? The ones which we should have realized were the real designs after all? Looks like the same designs to me.

They look FABOO!!!
'specially Brainy and Garth!!!
Drake- the calves are thicker than the thighs so the action figures don't fall over!

If you mean this , it was said from the beginning that those were the rough sketches of the designs, and they would be refined. Timber Wolf and Superboy look totally different.

Yet Saturn Girl and Phantom Girl look exactly the same. I can see where Glen is coming from.

They're the same costumes in both pictures. Let's not forget that the picture that we saw earlier was colored by a member of this board, so color differences alone don't count. They're the same costume designs that they've always been.

I agree with Glen, looks like the earlier sketches were the final beta version. The designs though the lines (on Superboy mainly) seem to have been made sleeker and a little bit more "Classic superhero".


I'll be quite interested on how the characters are animated. The Timm characters were great in the early days with Batman. But after not watching for nearly 10 years and catching a few episodes of JLU I think the animation has been cut back quite a bit and look a lot stiffer than what they used to.

Comics Continuum has a full large version of the TV Guide image.

Or you could have visited my site.

Also, if you had, you would have seen the news of the new Legion trade scheduled for October. The third one for the new series. Where's the love for the previous run?

Errr... yeah... that would have worked too

In Reboot's pants...

I never noticed Bouncing Boy behind Timber Wolf in the TV Guide picture.

Now if only it were Mon-El...

D'OH! :Homer: It just dawned on me... those of us who're going to San Diego this year are probably goin to be some of the first people to see official LSH cartoon stuff!

You guys better keep us in the loop... I know Abin's planning on having his laptop, like he did at Boston!

Ooh, like I wasn't jealous before this...

Any full team roster? *fingers crossed*

WHOA! I love it! Not the DCAU style, but not the Teen Titans Go style, either... I can't wait! I'm away for a while, and I can't believe how much I missed here...

I'm sure this has been said a hundred times already, but I hope seeing the cartoon convinces Waid/Kitson to bring in Bouncing Boy.

Dunno if it's already been posted, but Dave Johnson apparently did some design work on the new toon:
http://www.newsarama.com/general/DAveJohnson/DaveJohnson.html

I talked to him at last San Diego Con and I remember him saying he did a lot of the tech design on JLU (the space station, javelin, etc.) and that he was working on another secret project he couldn't talk about - I wonder if that was Legion?

Once again, shame on you for not visiting the Clubhouse. Not only did I post about Johnson's work there is also news of a companion comic for the animated series in the works.