Teen Titans fans?

[AdamInPlaidum]

I'm really liking that cartoon at the moment. I love the creative ways they animate their emotions, and the voice-acting is very well done. If they released the first season in the 15-25 range, I'd be all over it. Who else enjoys 'em?

[SneakyPenguin]

I like it. It's an actually good american anime, sort of like Samurai Jack (which totally pwns all).

[dennis_t]

I'm really liking that cartoon at the moment. I love the creative ways they animate their emotions, and the voice-acting is very well done. If they released the first season in the 15-25 range, I'd be all over it. Who else enjoys 'em?

I love the Teen Titans. I love the way they melded the old comic book with a very anime sensibility. It's my favorite American cartoon by far right now -- much better than Justice League.

[soulyogurt]

I'm a fan of the old Perez-era Teen Titan book.

But the cartoon makes me taste impending vomit.

[SpookyD]

I like the cheesy intro rock song but the actual show... I don't really care one way or the other about it.

[Duo_Maxwell]

I don't even think they made 25 eps. yet. The show's not bad but all the stuff you mentioned has existed in anime for years so its nothing new. Also, they need to have more episodes if they wanna put it on TV everyday.

[isaac]

I enjoy Justice League a little more, though. It just seems like more of an epic superhero show than TT.

[dennis_t]

I'm a fan of the old Perez-era Teen Titan book.

But the cartoon makes me taste impending vomit.

I can understand why you'd say that. Starfire as a flat-chested 13-year-old goes a bit against the mighty Wolfman/Perez series.

I think the reason I dig it is that I also dig anime, and I can recognize nifty elements of the comic (Deathstroke, Thunder & Lightning, Terra) in the show.

[AdamInPlaidum]

I enjoy Justice League a little more, though. It just seems like more of an epic superhero show than TT.

Obviously Teen Titans isn't made to be epic, though. I do like Justice League, though. I'm a bit skeptical about Justice League Unlimited...Hawkgirl was lame enough, but now there are gonna be some mega-lame heroes.

[trq]

I'm a fan of the old Perez-era Teen Titan book.

But the cartoon makes me taste impending vomit.

I can understand why you'd say that. Starfire as a flat-chested 13-year-old goes a bit against the mighty Wolfman/Perez series.

I think the reason I dig it is that I also dig anime, and I can recognize nifty elements of the comic (Deathstroke, Thunder & Lightning, Terra) in the show.

I totally agree with that. The actual comic ("Teen Titans", not "Teen Titans GO!") is quite good as well.

[FriskyTanuki]

I've only watched the last episode on last saturday, and I liked it, so I'm waiting for the new episodes.

[epobirs]

It's had its moment but I overall find most anime versions of established Western characters grotesquely distorted. In this case I think they're engaging in pure pandering to a generation of kids who know almost nothing but anime.

I haven't talked to Marv in a long time (we'd often both be part of Thursday night dinner in relation to LASFS) but I'm surprised he's so hard up for work he's corrupting some of his best known material. The continuity is a complete hash.

[magilacudy]

I definitely dig the theme song, especially when it's the Japanese version. As for the show itself, it is what it is, a light-hearted anime-inspired cartoon but I think it could've been better.

I was kind of hoping for an origin episode, but even without it the show is fun to watch.

[AlbinoNinja]

I can't stand the sappy, after school special morals in most of the episode. I DON'T WANT TO KNOW HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT EACHOTHER, I WANT TO SEE THEM KICK ASS AND TAKE NAMES!!!

[Nirvanaguy777]

i watch it, not a huge fan but I watch it

[Mookyjooky]

Great concept...cool anime stylings...but horrible character design. Seems that first year artists are doing character design on all sorts of cartoons these days...looks like shit.

[Moxio]

Pretty good, but I'd prefer Justice League over it. Now that Justice League Unlimited is coming out, I'll be jumping on that.

[Darke Katt]

*flails hands around a-la anime style* Me me me! Starfire's Naivete entertains me muchly. I would also like to see some origins, but what can you do. My favorite episode is Mad Mod, with Puffy Amiyumi's "K2G" song playing during the english humor scenes, along with their japanese opening theme. More Puffy!

[dennis_t]

It's had its moment but I overall find most anime versions of established Western characters grotesquely distorted. In this case I think they're engaging in pure pandering to a generation of kids who know almost nothing but anime.

I haven't talked to Marv in a long time (we'd often both be part of Thursday night dinner in relation to LASFS) but I'm surprised he's so hard up for work he's corrupting some of his best known material. The continuity is a complete hash.

Forgive the ignorance, but what's LASFS? Also, is he connected to the cartoon at all? I thought it was DC's doing.

[XboxMaster]

I like Teen Titans alright. I watch it sometimes when I'm skimming through channels.

[D4rkewolfe]

T-e-e-n T-i-t-a-n-s Teen Titans, lets go!

Yeah I like it. It's funny and enjoyable. Justice League, and Teen Titans are 2 completely different animals, can't really compare them.

Regardless of all the crappiness that Unlimited might bring, I'm still exited for a new season of JL.

Also I liked Hawkgirl, what can I say?

[epobirs]

It's had its moment but I overall find most anime versions of established Western characters grotesquely distorted. In this case I think they're engaging in pure pandering to a generation of kids who know almost nothing but anime.

I haven't talked to Marv in a long time (we'd often both be part of Thursday night dinner in relation to LASFS) but I'm surprised he's so hard up for work he's corrupting some of his best known material. The continuity is a complete hash.

Forgive the ignorance, but what's LASFS? Also, is he connected to the cartoon at all? I thought it was DC's doing.

I cannot speak to his day to day involvement but he is listed as a staff writer as well as receiving creator credit for each character except Beast Boy/Changeling (who goes wayyyy back to original Doom Patrol) and Robin, of course.

LASFS ( www.lasfs.org ) is the oldest continuously meeting (under various guises) fandom organization in the world. I happen to fall into this hive of scum and villainy in the early 80's and made a lot of friends and contacts through it. A lot of very well known writers are members, many since before they were famous. For instance, Ray Bradbury was club librarian in the early 50's.

In some ways the mainstream acceptance of SF and Fantasy has been a bad thing for the club. It used to be a lot of people were compelled to seek out such a place because there were so few locations let one be open about this field of interst. It was almost like the way gays describe their lives before it became survivable to be publicly out of the closet. (Imagine having to hide your interest in video games except among trusted friends.) The downside of this was that a certain percentage of the membership were those people around who the stereotype of the sci-fi geek is fostered. As SF became more mainstream fewer non-geeks felt the need to find a club to meet other people of like interest. So the uber geeks tend to make up a much higher protion of the membership than when I joined.

I stopped going to the meetings several years ago but remain a member. (See Rule #0 http://www.lasfs.org/lasfs/admin/standing.html ) There is a regular dinner get together after the meeting of which many are like me in that they rarely go to the meetings themselves. Most of my contact with Marv and his wife Noel has been at these restaurant get togethers. (Usually Solley's in Sherman Oaks.)

Related trivia: Marv occasional partner, Craig Miller, was the publicity manager for Star Wars when it had its first limited release in 1977 and touched my life in an odd way years before I came to know him through the club. Craig was well connected to the SF Convention community and the SMOFs, so he came up with a great scheme to pack the theaters and turn the movie's underhyped opening into a news story. Using the mailing list data from recent cons he was able to create an underground PR campaign that got fannish types to turn out in hordes and pack the theaters around the clock. It worked really well.

I was just coming up on my 13th birthday at the time and my parents had noticed the blipvert ads for Star Wars and decided to take my brother and me to see it. We were shocked to find there was a multi-hour line just to purchase tickets and both of the theaters showing the film. (The Chinese in Hollywood and the AVCO Westwood.) We gave up and ended up seeing 'Silver Streak' and 'Norman, Is That You?' instead. We tried again the following night but it was futile. A week later my father went into the hospital and died a little over a week later of a degenerative heart condition caused by a genetic auto-immune disorder that can be activated by the common cold. I finally saw the movie while I was living with my Aunt during most of the period he was in the hospital. I didn't know until several years later that his condition had been diagnosed six years previously and he'd beaten the diagnosis by a year.

Telling that story to Craig made him feel a bit weird briefly about the PR coup he'd achieved.

[D4rkewolfe]

Uhm...yeah. Cool *shoots self*

[epobirs]

Uhm...yeah. Cool *shoots self*

Now don't you go getting brains on CheapyD's clean virtual floor!