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[Jet]

Link since the video can't be embedded

Well, other than the sight gags, I'm cautiously optimistic. Although I think sight gags like that would work better in a more cartoony series like Teen Titans, the fact that Man of Action and Paul Dini are on board for this series makes me sorta happy. Man of Action do pretty good ten hero dramedies (Generator Rex, for example) and Paul Dini's got a track record like his buddy Bruce Timm, who proved he still can make a good series with Green Lantern.

I mean, hey - it can't be as much of a letdown as Young Justice is for Weisman... Right?

Edited by Spin Out, 27 March 2013 - 11:23 AM.

[Mark Pellegrini]

The CG environments look a little distracting. I mean, no 90s Spider-Man levels of distracting, but not good.

I'll give it a chance; the team-up gimmick has me interested. Like this could prove to be Marvel's "Brave and the Bold", if done right.

[Rust]

I'll give it a shot I suppose.

[Shadewing]

I'll give it a chance; the team-up gimmick has me interested. Like this could prove to be Marvel's "Brave and the Bold", if done right.

That's kinda what I am hoping for.

[MrBlud]

I chuckled at how hilariously over the top that was.

I'll check it out.

...still bitter Spectacular was cancelled.

[Wildwade]

No matter how good this show is, it will forever live in the shadow of Spectacular and its early demise.

[Lizard King]

I don't even really like spider man as a character, but I'm with the general consensus that no matter how good this show is, it'll never be as good as spectacular

[Daith]

Eh, Could be alright but Ultimate isn't Spectacular .

[Chris McFeely]

Holy crap, Chi McBride as Nick Fury is some great casting right there.

[D.M]

So waaaiiit... Spectacular had cartoony looking characters but they didn't do cartoony antics... this has realistic looking characters and they do cartoony antics...



I do love how expressive Spider-Man looks though.

Edited by D.M, 06 March 2012 - 05:05 PM.

[Jet]

So the teen heroes Ultimate Spidey's going to be teamed up with are White Tigress (Aya Ayala), Iron Fist, Nova and... Power Man?

The other three could work, but I can't really see Luke Cage working as a teen hero. He's too... Samuel L. Jackson-y.

[Chris McFeely]

So the teen heroes Ultimate Spidey's going to be teamed up with are White Tigress (Aya Ayala), Iron Fist, Nova and... Power Man?

The other three could work, but I can't really see Luke Cage working as a teen hero. He's too... Samuel L. Jackson-y.

It's a bit odd, because there IS a new teenage Power Man character named Victor Alvarez in the comics at the minute. Popular speculation has it that the cartoon version was developed first, and the Marvel wanted to incorporate him without heavily reworking Cage, so Victor was created.

[Scavgraphics]

[quote name='BB Shockwave' date='Mar 7 2012, 07:03 AM' post='2024799']
Yeah, I HATE it how all the intelligent and well-written cartoons of late have been cancelled. TFA, Spectacular Spiderman, Wolverine and the X-Men...

None of which were canceled due to the quality of the show and instead because of corporate changes.

[Spark]

I'll give it a shot. Spider-Man's voice grates on my nerves something fierce, though. Not sure why.

[Jet]

Wasn't there already an Ultimate Spiderman toon? Oh, wait, sorry... that was "Unlimited".

Yeah, I HATE it how all the intelligent and well-written cartoons of late have been cancelled. TFA, Spectacular Spiderman, Wolverine and the X-Men... I really, really hope Thundercats and Young Justice escapes this fate. I am sure Green Lantern will, since CGI shows tend to get more episodes by default due to production costs (hence, TF Prime's 26 episodes).

Yeah, I'm pretty sure that'll escape such a fate by virtue of A) Being the linchpin of DC Nation, and thus Cartoon Network's new baby, and B) not being well-written in regards to The Light story arc, the characterization and the subplots

[Scavgraphics]

Corporate changes as in:

Hasbro starting their own channel and wanting to have a Transformers show as it's flagship. T:FA was 3 seasons old, and had rights tied up with Cartoon Network. So, it was kind of disqualified from the flagship of the Hub role.

Similarly, Spectacular Spider-Man was a rights mess, having gotten caught up in the end of Kids WB/CW and eventually getting dumped onto Cartoon Network. But it was still a Marvel show made by/with Warner Bros, and with Disney now owning Marvel, in large part to put programming on Disney XD (Their "teen boys" channel), it too got the chop. (CN's long held plans to have more DC stuff likely explains their shabby treatment of SSM as well).

WatXM is a bit different. It had a long problem getting placed on American TV anyway, but it was concidered to be part of the same universe as Avengers:EMH (at least when EMH was being made early on). It, in theory could have continued (as Iron Man: Armored Adventures did) or moved to XD, but for whatever reason, they decided they finished the story.(Maybe execs at Disney didn't like it, there's some conspiracy theories that Marvel as a company works to tank the X-Men property because Fox has the movie rights). As there's now a comic with the WatXM name, they at least want the trademark kept. Maybe they want to go in another direction with the X-Men, should Avengers get third season

Edited by Scavgraphics, 08 March 2012 - 10:37 AM.

[Mark Pellegrini]

A collection of new video clips featuring the Frightful Four

So it looks like Ultimate Spider-Man is gonna be channeling Teen Titans with the little super deformed anime sequences punctuating for "comedy".

Keep the originality coming, House of Ideas.

[Jet]

Hm, not bad. Seems like they're more "imagine spots" rather than actual "The characters just went into SD for the hell of it" spots.

I mean, I love Teen Titans, but that was silly even then. This makes a liiiiittle bit more sense. If this show is what it seems - namely, Young Justice with Marvel characters - and it doesn't suck like Young Justice does, I'll be happy.

Edited by Spin Out, 08 March 2012 - 11:00 AM.