New DC Animated Series: Young Justice League (UPDATED)

[Rich Johnston]

Apparently there is a new animated series in the offing, Young Justice League. Very little is known about it. Is it more of a Teen Titans (collection of sidekicks and younger superheroes), a Young Avengers(new characters mimicking existing superheroes) of Her-Oes(de-aged characters in a new setting)? No idea.

But we do know it that Stephanie Lemelin is doing one of the voices, that of Arrowette. Because she went and blabbed on her blog, and even provided this little snippet of artwork.

WOW. Ok? I am beyond thrilled to announce that I was recently cast in the new animated series, YOUNG JUSTICE LEAGUE, based on the famous (and awesome!?) DC Comics. I seriously could not be more excited about being welcomed into this amazing family? what a fantastic way to start the new year! I will be voicing the character of Arrowette (see ridiculously hot avatar below!!! um, could I love her anymore?) as well as several supporting cast members? Due to the extreme popularity of this series, however, that's about all I can say? for now. So excited, this is really a dream come true for me, I have ALWAYS WANTED TO BE A SATURDAY MORNING CARTOOON!!! Woohoo!

(UPDATE: Gone now of course)

Arrowette is of course a character from the Young Justice comic book, whose mother had previously appeared in sixties Justice League Of America. So can we assume that Young Justice League is some kind ofanimated adaptation of that now-abandoned youthful revamp Young Justiceby Todd Dezago and Peter David? Pretty please?

Stephanie is better known as the character Thorne in Cavemen, and played Mei Ling in Kung Fu Panda.

UPDATE: I've been passed the following snippet purporting to be from someone who has seen a poster image for the show

It's Sorta THE Young Justice. They will be going out with this BIG TIME at Comic Con. From what I saw, it's Martian Girl, Aqualad, Nightwing, Impulse, Arrowette, and Connor Kent. The poster gives me the tone that it's a cross between JLU and TT. I liked the look a lot. It's not quite Timm-style, but it's not All Murikami'd out like Teen Titans.

The kids were the focus of the poster, in the center, but The JL was behind them.

[turkishproverb]

Arrowette? In a series with the words "Young Justice" in it?

Don't You **** dare screw this up DC!

[Matt Spatola]

I hope the tone is more JLU than Brave and the Bold. I realize lots of folks are really liking the new Batman series- I'm just not one of them.

[Greymattersplat]

While I AM one of those folks that's really enjoying the Silver-Age feel of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, I think it's time for something new to be set in the Dini-verse. And if it just happens to be based one one of the best comic runs of the last 15 years then, well...that's not exactly going to piss me off.

[Kevin T Brown]

Arrowette? In a series with the words "Young Justice" in it?

Don't You **** dare screw this up DC!

Don't worry, they won't. Especially since they're the ones not doing it....

[Jason A. Quest]

I have no doubt that this was a pitch to do "Young Justice", with "League" tacked onto the end so's people recognize it as DC superhero program. How much it will have in common with PAD's series is another question.

Are the licensing rights to Robin and Superboy in the clear? PAD's roster had plenty of gurls (he wrote it in part for his daughters, right?), but is it multi-ethnic enough for kids' TV?

[Greymattersplat]

Are the licensing rights to Robin and Superboy in the clear? PAD's roster had plenty of gurls (he wrote it in part for his daughters, right?), but is it multi-ethnic enough for kids' TV?

Well, if it IS set in the DC Animated universe, and if they can't use Robin or Superboy, and if they decide they need a little more...color...they could always split the difference and use Static. He's already established, popular, could easily fill Robin's role of "leader", and he's...well...black. Sadly, making the black kid the leader would probably be enough to make the suits stop thinking about it.

[erikhol]

Uggg - can't they just do another Teen Titans series instead? It's not illegal to do another take on a series within the same decade.

[tekende]

Don't You **** dare screw this up DC!

Batman: The Animated Series/New Batman Adventures = GREAT
Superman: VERY GOOD
Everything after (Justice League, Teen Titans, The Batman, Batman: Brave and the Bold, etc.)=CRAP

Odds are good this will suck too.

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I like how some of the punctuation in Lemelin's blog post got turned into question marks when quoted in this blog post. Gives it that teen valley girl feel.

[Static-Pulse]

I just hope Dwayne MacDuffie gets to be story editor, and they let Peter David write for it. Then I'll be 100% sure I'm safe not giving a damn.