# What other DC superhero property would you like to see as "THE ANIMATED SERIES" ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280 "2005-07-26T19:32:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/21 "2005-07-27T00:59:14Z")
The recent Alex Ross collection had a sketch of a proposal by him for a Captain Marvel (DC) cartoon series. Sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/22 "2005-07-27T01:08:24Z")
> [@furryman](#): > > The recent Alex Ross collection had a sketch of a proposal by him for a Captain Marvel (DC) cartoon series. Sweet! Super sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/23 "2005-07-27T02:45:06Z")
Do the “Vertigo” titles count as DC? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2005, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/24 "2005-07-27T03:00:40Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Do the “Vertigo” titles count as DC? If so, I’d like to see Transmetropolitan. Ha! I DARE anyone to do this show! ---
**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/25 "2005-07-27T03:16:04Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > I hope it is in the Dini/TAS style. Rumor mill says Bruce Timm isn’t involved, so, no. Further rumors that it’s in the Timm-Anime hybrid Teen Titans style (which I like, except when they do the weird comic takes) remain unconfirmed. ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/26 "2005-07-27T06:09:37Z")
> [@Tengu](#): > > The Legion. > > The Demon deserves his own series. > > Seconding JSA - either classic or current roster. Taken out of the DCAU continuity since the JSA has been folded into the JLU. > > Starman (Jack - would work well with a compromise between the Batman and Superman/Justice League styles.). > > The Sandman (Wes, not Morpheus - would do well with B:TAS’s sensibility.) Everything **Tengu** said. Except maybe Starman, because I could never get into that one. And second for the Green Lantern Corps. Even the goofy cross-overs on Justice League and Duck Dodgers have me intrigued at the whole concept; I’d love to see more of them. And if Vertigo counts, then a John Constantine series. (The real one, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Silentgoldfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Silentgoldfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silentgoldfish)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/27 "2005-07-27T09:23:27Z")
> [@Ranchoth](#): > > Do the “Vertigo” titles count as DC? A lot of them wouldn’t work since they’re self contained and end. Preacher and Transmet are stories, not properties. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/28 "2005-07-27T10:51:43Z")
> [@Silentgoldfish](#): > > A lot of them wouldn’t work since they’re self contained and end. I can think of a number of anime series’ that were that way, and worked just fine. (Kinda hard to draw em out past a season or two, of course…) ---
**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:** [July 27, 2005, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/29 "2005-07-27T12:52:40Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > I thought of another one: JSA: TAS. Hell yeah! I would love to see the **original** (female) Red [del]Tomato[/del] Tornado, animated. At second thought, I want to go with what **Bryan Ekers** said. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/30 "2005-07-27T13:35:25Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > If so, I’d like to see Transmetropolitan. > > Ha! I DARE anyone to do this show! I opened this thread to say just that. That one, I think, would be one for Adult Swim. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/31 "2005-07-27T13:51:52Z")
RONIN, CAMELOT 3000 and BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS as miniseries adaptations for Adult Swim. Loeb and Sale’s SUPERMAN FOR ALL SEASONS would be pretty good, too. Also, since we’re just wishing and these are just baaaarely DC properties: Alan Moore’s flagship ABC titles: PROMETHEA, TOP TEN and TOM STRONG -with the option to _correctly_ adapt the two LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN series. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/32 "2005-07-27T14:02:51Z")
I think the Veritgo and Mature titles would be great, but would be best suited to the Spawn/HBO style animation. I’d LOVE to see Watchmen done as a single season, “maxi-series” in HBO Animation. 24 half hour episodes (2 covering each issue) would be sweet. So would Sandman. ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/33 "2005-07-27T14:20:14Z")
Another “Green Lantern Corps” vote. Especially if it features Kilowog, one of my all time favoriite characters. ``` I wanna see the 'Wog ya poozers! ``` ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/34 "2005-07-27T14:25:29Z")
…if they do a Green Lantern Corps series, I’d like to see a major story arc that leads up to a confrontation with E. Smith’s Lensmen series. It’s in the public domain by now, right? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/35 "2005-07-27T14:43:52Z")
Personally, I think anything will be okay if it has good writing and the same attention to detail as B:TAS, JL/JLU had/have. I would probably be wary of anything else especially when you consider the steaming pile of crap that is The Batman. ---
**Author:** ![hey\_alright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/90ced4/32.png) [@hey\_alright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hey_alright)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/36 "2005-07-27T15:59:04Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > Psst. His name is John Stewart. In the animated version he was a GL in space for 10 years and before that he was in the Marines. He stays in Harlem to try to reestablish some conection with humanity, particularly the people of his old neighborhood. He comes across angry because he’s spent all of his adult life in military settings and now has to deal with “amaeturs.” Ok. I was remembering the episode of New Superfriends where some villian was given all the Superfriends nighmares, except Martian Manhunter who doesn’t have a brain or something. Batman was sleeping at his mansion, and Superman even had a huge condo to crash in. Meanwhile, I figure Black Green Lantern had to be angry his white friends wouldn’t let him room with one of them, so he had to live in a shitty apartment. I bet Bruce Wayne has some policy where he doesn’t allow black people in his house, because it’s bad for business when dealing with the other blue bloods. Jerk. Also I guess Flash just lives at Flash’s Youth Center. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/37 "2005-07-27T16:02:07Z")
> [@hey alright](#): > > I bet Bruce Wayne has some policy where he doesn’t allow black people in his house, because it’s bad for business when dealing with the other blue bloods. Jerk. Why do you bother posting in these threads? ---
**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:** [July 27, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/38 "2005-07-27T16:14:48Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > The Teen Titans. > > Done right, darn it. They **did** do it right, darn it. The storyline was as true to the 80’s series as TV censors will permit. I vote for the Justice Society Of America, set during WW2. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/39 "2005-07-27T16:42:41Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > They **did** do it right, darn it. The storyline was as true to the 80’s series as TV censors will permit. Three words: Exaggerated anime style. I rest my case. 🙂 ---
**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:** [July 27, 2005, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280/40 "2005-07-27T17:17:11Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Three words: Exaggerated anime style. > > I rest my case. 🙂 A poor place to rest it, then. A good plot contributes more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-other-dc-superhero-property-would-you-like-to-see-as-the-animated-series/314280.md?page=3)