Originally Posted by
WonderScott
I really enjoyed the latest issue of YJ and their hopping across the multiverse - it was a nice splash of Peter David-ness in tone. Based on what Fate was saying, I hope the next Earth they bounce to is Earth 16 or Earth 3. I can see the Kingdom Come characters seeing Earth 16 as a particularly bad Earth and I'd love to see the YJers encounter the Crime Syndicate.
The YJ animated series is pretty much everything I want in comics and superhero shows. Weisman and team's ability to introduce lots of lead, supporting, and new characters in an interestingly and meaningful way is amazing. And it's so hard to do - showing a character's attitude and character with with their design, maybe a few lines of dialogue, or sometimes just a silent reaction. I love how even little things introduced in one season, may show up later in another season, allowing the audience to fill the blanks. In that sense I love how all the characters show growth and change whether a lead, supporting, or side character based on the circumstances we revisit them in now. It's impossible to get every detail of every journey of every character, but they do an excellent job of writing and acting to let you know where a character is at now in a satisfying way.
The other thing about the series, it's a massive world-tour of the DCU. The idea that we're seeing characters spanning Windfall to Gilotina in the space of an episode or two is triumphant. The richness with which they dig into the DCU and the fresh interconnections between characters hasn't ever been this fun. JLU is close, but not nearly as satisfyingly soap and space opera-y. The cast of thousands approach really works for them.
Four things I'd love to see Weisman and team helm and tackle next, based on my POV and enjoyment of the above:
1. Gargoyles: The Return: A new animated series about the Gargoyles on Disney+.
2. The Legion of Superheroes: Clearly Weisman can tackle and make interesting an animated legion of future teen heroes and foes.
3. A Batman animated series: Include everyone eventually... all the way to Flamebird, Bluebird, Signal, etc.
4. A Wonder Woman animated series: Diana deserves her animated due and I think Weisman and team could handle and leverage the action/adventure, political, and superhero elements of the character and balance and interconnect it with all the mythological, fantasy, sci-fi, and crimefighter components of her mythos. In particular, I'd love to see them revive her costumed supervillains, much like BTAS did for Batman's foes.