Prepare To Be Adapted: Marvel v. DC: The Animated Series

ACT I – And the audience says ...

I get lots of great e-mails from readers with each column and I sometimes decide to highlight the best ones and put my responses here. I picked three favorites that bring up good points: one an e-mail and the other two from the SyFy Portal forum. Here are excerpts:

Just wanted to let you know that I enjoyed your recent article, but I was a little surprised that you mentioned the comics and books from both Marvel and DC, but didn't mention the cartoons of DC's Justice League. In my opinion, if a movie were done, the powers that be should look in their own backyard and use as a benchmark, the cartoon series.

I've been watching it on Boomerang (courtesy of the grand kids) and find the story lines very adult and entertaining. The characters aren't without flaws, which make them more 'human.'

It may not be enough to overcome the power of Marvel, but it might help them score some points.

-- Nessapat

You are absolutely correct, Nessapat. You and many other readers told me that I should talk about the great animated cartoons from DC. Which is the topic for today.

I'm not as knowledgeable in all of the animated projects, but I'm going to take a stab at it.

I'm glad you're enjoying "Justice League." I personally feel that it was the best superhero animated series to date and was sorry to see it end.

All is not as bleak for DC as the article would seem to indicate.

Final Crisis No. 2 has been met with almost universal praise. Morrison has ramped up the story, and the art by J. G. Jones is top rank. Also DC's latest weekly, Trinity, seems to be in the same league as 52. Also, DC has managed to do something for three years running that Marvel has yet to do, publish a weekly book without missing a street date.

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