Jim Lee should never have sold Wildstorm to DC Comics.
Last edited by numberthirty; 07-13-2019 at 02:51 AM.
Current comics will never be as good as when you first bought them. IMO, had Lee never sold WS to DC, the original fans wouldn't be satisfied with the current crop of comics. It's just the way it is.
First, the idea that the animated "Gen 13" thing would actually have ever been anything other than "In Development..." is just one big "Maybe?" There's about a million different ways that could have never wound up amounting to anything.
As for that whole "Could Have..." angle with with animation/Netflix? That's an even longer shot with about five million ways it could have failed.
Never mind trying to do it with the "Early" Wildstorm IP. Honestly, the "Post-DC Purchase..."-era IP would probably have had a better shot.
The Gen 13 cartoon was completed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen%C2%B9%C2%B3_(film)
It back up my argument that Jim Lee should have kept his company in a blind trust, which would have allowed him to work elsewhere. I feel that Wildstorm could have gone into animation and video games had the company not been sold to DC Comics...
Last edited by Darthfury78; 07-17-2019 at 03:48 PM.
That is exactly what I was talking about.
Just because something makes it to even being screened or a limited release run doesn't mean anything past that.
Even if the company that wound up owning it gave it a wide release and a budget to market it, that doesn't mean it would have been the start of bigger things.
Films with a wide release and a marketing budget fail all the time. Films with a far lager potential audience than the film we are discussing.
Think about Edgar Wright version of the Marvel film he worked on. It made it a lot further, and still didn't work out. It essentially got stuck at "In Development" even though it made it further down the line.
Last edited by numberthirty; 07-17-2019 at 06:45 PM.
Yeah, the original '90s Wildstorm was what worked for me. I have no hate towards the current Wildstorm books and can even see their own coolness about them, but the original versions were more my speed. I kinda liked everything that got tossed out in the current run.
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No, Disney had nothing to with the development of Gen-13: The Animated Movie because had they been involved it might have been you know good or at the very least decent.
From what I've read it was Jim Lee and others who invested 2 million dollars into Gen 13: The Animated Movie and all Disney was going to do was to release through one of their subsidiary companies at the time (Touchstone, Hollywood Pictures, Miramax, Dimension, etc) and BTW it's on YouTube and I've seen it, and IMHO it's God-Awful. The animation is shoddy, the character designs and art style are B:TAS rip-offs and the voice acting is pretty bad even Mark Hamil can't make Threshold interesting and when you have John DeLancy (the actor who played Q on Star Trek: The Next Generation) sounding so dull and boring you can't save this piece of crap.
IMHO Gen-13: The Animated Movie sucks and Disney did everybody a HUGE favor by not releasing it in the US. It's crap.
Last edited by Cyberstrike; 08-10-2019 at 12:20 PM.
I've been re-reading old Gen 13 comics. Great group, great art. I'd say as far as Jim Lee cashing out goes, the reality is, these characters don't matter that much. I remember reading a lot the Image titles back in the day, a lot of them didn't leave an impression. Jim Lee himself matters more to DC than those IP.
As for a Gen 13 cartoon, the better way to adapt that is live action if you are doing what ifs.