Ugh. We’re gonna get… Voodoo… on us.
Seriously. Lou, it’s a damn good episode. You should love it. The menu screen has a very nice Easter Egg.
Anyone have any idea why Cartoon Network doesn’t replay the first three seasons of Justice League in some form of syndication?
The DVD selection is quite limited…
**watsonwil. ** TV shows are syndicated in 100 episode lots, usually. Justice League hasn’t made it there yet.
I think Wil just wonders why Cartoon Network doesn’t show repeats at multiple times throughout the week, as opposed to a true syndication package (a la Simpsons or Seinfeld being on every weeknight). The lack of Justice League repeats is annoying, considering they replay Teen Titans several times during the week. Considering Justice League is one of their top-rated shows, I would think that showing some well-scheduled reruns could only build the audience even more and get more people interested. I figure DVD season sets are inevitable, but I assume they’re still a ways off considering not all of the Batman and Superman seasons have been collected on DVD yet.
DC Comics doesn’t TPB its superhero books. TW doesn’t collect its DVD properties.
What’s up with that?
Lou is exactly in tune with what I was thinking. I was even going to mention Teen Titans (twice a day with only 53 episodes!) The 100 Episode Syndication rule doesn’t seem to matter to Cartoon Network.
Yes it does. My bookshelf is full of DC TPBs. They just don’t do it universally. Only important or acclaimed stuff makes it to TPB.
I’m glad for that since it means less authors will be writing for the trade, which sometimes means telling a story that should be three issues long in six issues. See the just completed Busiek JLA arc, for example.
I was exaggerating a bit. I have many DC TPBs myself, as well. It’'s just that their unwillingness to collect a broader range of stories (by “important or acclaimed” I assume you mean “best-selling”), they lose out on the TPB/Vertigo buying fanbase.
It took forever to get a Johns Flash run (which was one of the last superhero titles I was reading) into TPB.
I generally always favored DC (not that I felt compelled to choose between them…), but Marvel really smokes DC in TPB collection.
But I disagree with the point that the lack of universal TPBing alters story flow.
It still seems like every arc is still TRYING to get TPB’d. But as I only read comics in TPB form, I am not as put off by this.
(Sorry about the hijack…)
Tha’t understandable since until relatively recently, DC mostly favoured one-shot stories while post-1961 Marvel had story arcs and continuing plotlines. There’s a bigger incentive to sell reprints and TPBs to fans who want to read backstories.
When in the HELL are they showing this and why in the name of all that’s holy is it shown only once a week while the bilge that is Teen Titans seems to play incessantly?
I thought the season was over, and am going through a period when I can’t find it.
HELP!
Saturday nights at 9 PM EST.
Thanks Lou. Excuse me while I set my VCR
For a time they did re-run the JL episodes on Cartoon Network. I want to say daily at 10 PM. They haven’t done that for awhile now. Probably because the JL episodes were two parters and they would rather not take up an hour. Still, I wish they would “easy view” the new ones like they used to on Sunday afternoons.
Teen Titans has a younger audience which doesn’t mind re-watching the same episode over and over again. More viewing, more merchendise. Besides, its a pretty good show with awesome fight scenes.
As for this week’s show: awesome! After hearing Jason Bateman as Mercury I kinda want to see an episode featuring the original seven done Arrested Development style, complete with Ron Howard’s voiceovers. Wally West would make a great GOB to Martin Manhunter’s Michael. Turn Superman into George Michael, Wonder Woman into Maebe… 
I have a feeling that the overlap between AD fans and JLU fans here is rather limited, so I’ll stop now.
Sounds okay to me, though the character was Hermes (Greek), not Mercury (Roman).
“Supey horny, Michael…”
Scott, to make you happy (and provide a cite), I asked the man himself, Dwayne McDuffie, producer of the Justice League Unlimited series. He didn’t have much more to add than we did, but here’s the relevant thread on his Delphi forum:
(I started the thread and am identified by name, he weighs in on post #5 as “Maestro (DMcDuffie).” )
I should say I asked about McDuffie about the status of Blue Beetle, not Plastic Man.
Show-off. LOL. But thanks for the link.
You care! You really do care!