# comic book series you'd like to see get animated **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 11, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844 "2005-04-11T19:46:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/21 "2005-04-12T14:05:41Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Ever see the horrible designs Nelvanna created for that proposal? > :eek: :eek: :eek: No! Got a linkie? Wendy and Richard have been talking about making EQ move since the day it came out, and last I heard it was stalled in pre-production hell (that was about two years ago.) But I understood that Wendy was staying very hands-on for the project. What happened? ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/22 "2005-04-12T14:18:31Z")
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/23 "2005-04-12T14:34:58Z")
I remember seeing a website dedicated to a Green Lantern show that was never made, that is, it was just in the author’s imagination, but it looked really cool. I also remember someone on the boards proposing that The Outsiders be made into a show for Adult Swim. I have only read one issue (this past February), but I could definately see that working. ---
**Author:** ![Selkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Selkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Selkie)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/24 "2005-04-12T15:03:32Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Phil Foglio’s _Girl Genius_ series has Giant Airship Fortresses, Steam-Powered Robot War Machines, Death Rays, et al, all set in a world run by Mad Scientists. _Girl Genius_ is an excellent choice. I’d love to see that. _Courtney Crumrin_’s another excellent contender. I’d love to see _Leave It to Chance_ done as a cartoon. Magic, monsters, and a sassy little girl with a pet dragon named St. George? I would be so there! Anyone remember _Teknophage_? I’d definitely watch an adult-oriented cartoon business satire set in a steampunk Victorian world ruled by giant lizards. [_Fort: Prophet of the Unexplained_](http://www.comics2film.com/ProjectFrame.php?f_id=243) would be another fun contender. Since we’re apparently not going to see the live action TV show for _Global Frequency_, it might work as a cartoon too. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/25 "2005-04-12T15:03:54Z")
> [@LifeOnWry](#): > > No! Got a linkie? > > Wendy and Richard have been talking about making EQ move since the day it came out, and last I heard it was stalled in pre-production hell (that was about two years ago.) But I understood that Wendy was staying very hands-on for the project. What happened? they invented 2 kuties-wootsy new characters: little kid trolls. Vomitous to look on, & I just **know** they’d be more annoying than Scrappy Doo! Images were in print in a TPB years ago, can’t find a link. Horrible, horrible…like re-writing _The Dark Knight Returns_ so that Gleek the Wonder Monkey can get screentime. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/26 "2005-04-12T20:46:28Z")
I can’t think of a character more appropriate than [**Slapstick,**](http://www.milehighcomics.com/cgi-bin/backissue.cgi?action=fullsize&issue=75503617928%204) really. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/27 "2005-04-12T21:02:12Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. 😃 I was going to suggest that, then I thought about it, and it wouldn’t work. So much of what works in JtHM comes from the format. Trying to animate it would result in either a completely incoherant, or utterly pointless excercise. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/28 "2005-04-12T21:04:33Z")
I’d enjoy it tremenously if the first LOVE AND ROCKETS were animated, especially BEM! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/29 "2005-04-12T21:25:38Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. 😃 You can see references to this comic in _Invader ZIM_. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/30 "2005-04-12T23:40:13Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > Personally, I’d rather see the post-Zero Hour version of the Legion to the pre-ZH. > > A couple of my favourite characters - XS, Kinetix, Gates - existed only there, and I like the post-ZH versions of Chuck Taine and Tenzil Kem. > > (Put Emerald Vi in quickly to allow her to have her full range of powers, and possibly using the post-Terrorform version of Sensor (but not Kinetix…poor Kinetix shouldn’t be made into a Terrorform…and she should keep the tail once she gets it!)) Boy, this could be a thread in and of itself. Zero Hour happened at a point in my life where I wasn’t able to spend much money so I dropped comics altogether. I’ve since gone back and read a few issues of The Legion and can’t see how anyone would prefer the new to the old. I mean Chuck isn’t Bouncing Boy… That’s so… wrong… ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/31 "2005-04-13T12:13:00Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > I was going to suggest that, then I thought about it, and it wouldn’t work. > > So much of what works in JtHM comes from the format. Trying to animate it would result in either a completely incoherant, or utterly pointless excercise. Much like the comic book itself. 😉 > [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > You can see references to this comic in _Invader ZIM_. I kick myself constantly for missing Invader Zim when it was on. Do any of the characters make cameos? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/32 "2005-04-13T13:24:54Z")
I’d love to see Bruce Timm in charge of a season long adaption of the Kree-Skrull War saga in the Avengers. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/33 "2005-04-13T22:19:41Z")
> [@slortar](#): > > I kick myself constantly for missing Invader Zim when it was on. Do any of the characters make cameos? [Episode guide](http://www.tvtome.com/InvaderZIM/guide.html) from TV Tome will give you all the intricate details. For the most part, the characters usually are in the background. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/34 "2005-04-13T23:14:50Z")
hmmm…maybe in twenty years, we can have an animated Sci-fi romp, that takes a mature view of sex, taken from the pages of the 80s comic book, Mike Kalzeah pesents: **The Adventures of Captain Jack.** It would be brilliant. [http://www.mupress.com/catalogpg03.html](http://www.mupress.com/catalogpg03.html) ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/35 "2005-04-14T18:33:35Z")
How about Hayao Miayazaki’s _ **Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind**?_ Then there’s Masamune Shirow’s _ **Ghost in the Shell** _, _ **Dominion** _, or _ **Appleseed**?_ What? You mean there are? … _and_ a remake?!? Due out in May on DVD? OK, I’m there! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/36 "2005-04-14T19:17:02Z")
Will Eisner’s _The Spirit_. Done by Warner Brothers Animation, for that _film noir_ look it so desparately needs. Paul Dini to write/direct. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/37 "2005-04-14T19:22:47Z")
Oooh! Ooooh! And Bruce Timm as art director! ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/38 "2005-04-14T19:24:11Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > Will Eisner’s _The Spirit_. > > Done by Warner Brothers Animation, for that _film noir_ look it so desparately needs. > > Paul Dini to write/direct. Actually, Jeph Loeb is working on a script right now (presumably for a live-action Spirit, though). ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/39 "2005-04-14T21:21:59Z")
Ultimates is going to be a direct to dvd cartoon as well. Voice casting was done via [marvel.com](http://marvel.com). ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2005, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844/40 "2005-04-15T00:09:00Z")
Animated format is likely the only motion-picture medium that could take a good shot at _Watchmen_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/comic-book-series-youd-like-to-see-get-animated/298844.md?page=3)