With a name like Brave & The Bold i’d hoped we’d get a faithful cartoon for the geek crowd, but thats just insane.


by Ted Grant

A new, kid-focused Batman team-up cartoon has been announced.

Comic fans are not happy. Well, are they ever?

Comedy???? Ugh, is it just me or is this looking like Superfriends?

Oh my god it got worse. I didn’t think it was possible it could get worse, but they actually did it, they out sucked The Batman. With a name like Brave & The Bold i’d hoped we’d get a faithful cartoon for the geek crowd, but thats just insane.

I’ve always said that there should be two sets of DC cartoons. One aimed at young kids, and the other for older kids and us fan boys. We have to hook the new generation while there young. Hopefully the WB will keep cranking out DTV for us old folk.

Hmmm…split your production budget into something a large number of people will enjoy and something about 20,000 people will enjoy? Or spend it all on the one that will actually make money. Touch choice there…

Let’s go and see if there’s anyone sane at Newsarama commenting on this:

So what if kids arent buying them, do they have to? If the stories are aimed at adults and the prices the same what is to stop people from getting into them when they are adult?
You dont see people screaming once a month about how the porn industry is dying because kids arent buying it

You’re seriously comparing super-hero comics to porn? Seriously? That’s really very telling, now isn’t it?

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3 Comments

  1. “Hmmm…split your production budget into something a large number of people will enjoy and something about 20,000 people will enjoy? Or spend it all on the one that will actually make money. Touch choice there…”

    HBO does that pretty regularly, only its more like a 10 way aplit, and I’m guessing they are still slightly more profitably than DCU Animated Division even with only having 1 or 2 popular shows a season out of their entire lineup. DC Animated could make a killing with quality Timm/Dini-esque stuff but the bottom line is its cheaper (and thus just that much more profitable) to produce kid-oriented disposable garbage.

    #1 Brett

  2. I’m shocked that they’ve not hired you to run the department, then, as you obviously understand the nuances of economics on television.

    #2 Kevin Church

  3. I’m frankly desperate for a bit of kid-friendly disposable garbage but I have a horrible feeling this show is going to be intelligent, stylish television for all ages. BURN THEM, I SAY. BURN THEM IN A WICKER MAN.

    #3 Al Ewing

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