Moon Girl and Devil Dino show in the works

[Captain Craig]

I'm not instantly WOW'd by the animation, need to see more perhaps if it will grow on me. At least it isn't that rubbish that was the Thundercats debacle.
Still not sold on that Aquaman cartoon on HBO max either, but I digress.
However, I also realize I'm not the target audience. Hope it does appeal to that age bracket.

[Kirby101]

Is the Kirby Family getting royalties fro yet another of his creations they are using for the screen?

[Frontier]

Is the Kirby Family getting royalties fro yet another of his creations they are using for the screen?

Um....good question.

[BeastieRunner]

So glad the weird IPs are coming AKA my bread & butter.

[Powerboy]

Having watched this trailer, I think this will be a great cartoon for preschoolers. Alas, not the Devil Dinosaur and MoonBOY or Moongirl I would want to see.

[Gaastra]

First episode.

[ZuLuLu]

I watched the first 6 episodes of this and it was pretty enjoyable. Although, it is not like the comic series, which I also liked I'll say Moongirl is more likable.

The animation is good and especially the fight scenes, but the stand out for this show has to be the music.

Diamond White - Moon Girl Magic


Glad to hear that they are already working on season 2.

[Grunty]

I watched the first 6 episodes of this and it was pretty enjoyable. Although, it is not like the comic series, which I also liked I'll say Moongirl is more likable.

The animation is good and especially the fight scenes, but the stand out for this show has to be the music.

Glad to hear that they are already working on season 2.

The good old independent and fresh start of an adaptation.

It certainly helps that the show doesn't need to squeeze itself into a universe with allready 60+ years of continuity and with thousands of established characters around or having to follow editorial mandates because of internal strife over movie rights.

No random and sudden death for a character named Moon Boy who had been Devil Dinosaurs original friend for decades of publishing, so Lunella can have him as sidekick instead.
No need to hype up Lunella as "the smartest person in the marvel universe", potentialy insulting fans of other more established super smart marvel characters.
No need to make her an Inhuman, because of an ill fated push to replace the X-gene Mutants as random source of super powers and allowing her to be purely a teen genius inventor.
No need to explain what Inhumans are in first place, how they relate to the Kree, who the Kree are, why there is a device they left behind to bring Devil to the modern day, why people are randomly related to the Inhumans and why there is a green cloud floating around Earth that activates their Inhuman heritage super powers.

And of course being able to adjust the personality of the character.

[thwhtGuardian]

The good old independent and fresh start of an adaptation.

It certainly helps that the show doesn't need to squeeze itself into a universe with allready 60+ years of continuity and with thousands of established characters around or having to follow editorial mandates because of internal strife over movie rights.

No random and sudden death for a character named Moon Boy who had been Devil Dinosaurs original friend for decades of publishing, so Lunella can have him as sidekick instead.
No need to hype up Lunella as "the smartest person in the marvel universe", potentialy insulting fans of other more established super smart marvel characters.
No need to make her an Inhuman, because of an ill fated push to replace the X-gene Mutants as random source of super powers and allowing her to be purely a teen genius inventor.
No need to explain what Inhumans are in first place, how they relate to the Kree, who the Kree are, why there is a device they left behind to bring Devil to the modern day, why people are randomly related to the Inhumans and why there is a green cloud floating around Earth that activates their Inhuman heritage super powers.

And of course being able to adjust the personality of the character.

The character's personality in the comics was great...and she's great in this too.

[Grunty]

The character's personality in the comics was great...and she's great in this too.

Hence using the term "adjust" rather than "improve" or "fix".

The other aspects however i still consider detrimental for the comic version to easily stand on it's own (at least for the earliest issues), since it involves far too much of the wider Marvel universe at the time, including a very specific and now very dated state of things. Something the cartoon wisely avoided.

There is a reason why most of the great and successfull Marvel comic heros have origin stories which can easily be summed up quickly and told in a bubble without leaving important parts out, something i feel isn't the case with comic Moon Girl.

And that's the beauty of adaptation if done right.

[skyvolt2000]

No need to hype up Lunella as "the smartest person in the marvel universe", potentialy insulting fans of other more established super smart marvel characters.

I would suggest those fans get over it.

Because at the end of the day it doesn't matter unless those fans are THAT insecure.

[Adam Allen]

I only watched the trailer, but particularly considering the show is aimed at kids, why is she older in the show?

IIRC, isn't she like 8 in the comics? And 13 in the show?

[Alan2099]

I watched the first episode. It was fairly entertaining and I can see why people would like it. I certain like the main character better in animation than I do in the comic, but it's not really my thing.

[Grunty]

I would suggest those fans get over it.

Because at the end of the day it doesn't matter unless those fans are THAT insecure.

True.

Though it was also a bad choice of words on my part, as result of a rushed attempt to list issues the show wisely avoids.

It doesn't really match what the potential problem is with how the "smartest person in the marvel universe" title can be recieved by an audience, when existing in comparison to longer established "genius" characters with decades of publishing and earned achievements.

While some might have potentialy been "insulted" by their favored characters being used as lower ends on a measuring stick to hype up a brand new character, the more common negative reaction towards it was annoyance over such as blatant and cheap percieved attempt to push said character at the detriment of more established/popular ones.

It's a shortcut which can feel like a character gets something for doing nothing but being new and has been a problematic choice to push them in the recent years. Akin to too many brand new character being shown lifting Mjolnir.

But yes, being "insulted" over it would be a rather strong reaction.

I only watched the trailer, but particularly considering the show is aimed at kids, why is she older in the show?

IIRC, isn't she like 8 in the comics? And 13 in the show?

Perhaps it offers a wider bandwith of themes, character arcs, social interactions and storylines the show can explore this way?

[BeastieRunner]

I survived Norrin getting taken out by an armbar, I'm sure other geeks will be fine.

Show is cute and fun. My girls love it and are reading my Moon Boy now. I love the humor.