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Yeah, got cancelled by Loeb to make space for a new more movie oriented cartoon.
what's over?
Avengers cartoon.
oh
Sorta, I guess.
It's basically the Avengers fighting Galactus, but it shows that they were planning for another season, what, with the Surtur and Beta Ray Bill plotlines left hanging and the New Avengers being established.
Well, season 2 has been a textbook case of "Picking horrible Bendis plotlines and making them great Yost stories"
I mean, they did a pretty cool Secret Invasion without the whole Skrull!Hank/Dead Wasp bull. And their Ultron plotlines was pretty much a mix of Lee and Kirby and the first arc from Mighty Avengers, but, you know, without sucky dialogue and fun.
punchy fun, even.
So Manga, Light Novels and Video games can get adapted into Anime. Are there any Comics, Webcomics or any sort of western art that gets adapted into Cartoons with their continuity intact? (Meaning not alternate universe adaptations like above mentioned Avengers cartoon)
Comics play fast and loose with their own continuity, let alone that of other media.
Western Comics and Manga are just kind of made differently, I guess.
Only example of an anime doing a Comic-stlye reboot I can think of is the original Casshan becoming Casshern Sins, but I've never even seen the former.
You guys like superhero stuff, right?
You should watch Chronicle. It's the best superhero origin story film I've ever seen, easily.
Chronicle is the sort of film that I mildly dislike, isn't it.
The closest thing I see that's similar to western superhero comics are Japanese superhero tokusatsu television franchises.
To compare, on the western side, you always have the same characters with the same setting with the same trappings with the same pasts. Former metahuman wrestler Peter Parker fights crime, doomed planet-desperate scientists-last hope-kindly couple-Superman...same character, same name, same tropes, same narratives.
Whereas the norm in superhero tokusatsu, it's the basic concept of the character that is retained, but not the characters' narratives, pasts, and plots. Today, masked superhuman cyborgs fighting the creations of mad science, but tomorrow masked superhuman drifters battle monsters made of human greed itself. Today, a team of five supersoldiers fights a secret society of supervillainy, and tomorrow a team of three martial artists duel legions of rival martial artists.
I actually loved Chronicle for its unique cinematography and its character work and its action.
I watched Chronicle. I wouldn't call it a superhero movie, though. I mean, it's cool, I loved it and all, but it just isn't about people heroing it up and such. Except for the last battle. The last battle is pretty superhero-y, I guess
I think the 90s X-Men cartoon adapted Claremont's stuff perfectly well, but I watched it years ago so I am not entirely sure.
DC (and I think maybe Marvel too?) has done some direct-to-DVD animated movies adapting specific comic story arcs, so there's that.
DC's movies often change things up. Sometimes for the better (Superman vs The Elite is way better than the original story, where the Elite just comes around, yells at Superman, and then Superman punches them) and sometimes for the non-necessariness (Justice League Doom uses Vandal Savage instead of Ra's Al Ghul because...uh...why not?)
And Marvel's animated movies adapted The Ultimates, I think. And in the second one, they went with a Black Panther plot instead of the second volume Loki plot.
Well to be fair, Vandal Savage has the advantage of being someone other than Ra's al Ghul
Eh, things get changed in anime based on manga too. The point is, they're animated adaptations of comic books that are actually based on the stories of the comics.
Well, yeah. And so is the Avengers, no? I mean, it's surprisingly rooted in 60s Lee and Kirby stories. And it even has Beta Ray Bill.
I mean
it has Beta Ray Bill
that's never not fun to type
beta ray bill
Crazy Jane > > > > > >
You Sure Do Seem To Be Typing Beta Ray Bill
Billions of Beta Ray Bills battle bouncily, basing and biasing.
B WORDS
Beta Ray Bill is a weird name,
Way to keep scheduling me on days I said I can't work and ridiculous hours. Way to also have no one tonight scheduled who has worked more than three weeks working for night shift
I'm going to have to go and ask to be taken off night crew because this shit is so inept it isn't funny.
Speaking of night shift incompetence I had to pull double duty today because the other phone op had to head home after his house was robbed*. Mostly irked that non of the floaters or managers where much help. But that would have been tolerable if the managers didn't bitch me out for letting the lines stack up because like... one guy can totally take five phone orders simultaneously.
*A bit of incompetence of Milwaukee city police right there. I swear this shit happens every year, where robberies spike during Summerfest, because all the cops are down by Summerfest and the lake directing traffic and making sure the music festival looks good for tourists.
First Day Of University (Kind of): Hello Depression, I didn't miss you as much as you seem to have missed me...
Job Hunting: Fairly okay, just hope somebody hires me.
So I guess I'm working Monday through Thursday now, and occasionally Fridays. Monday and Wednesday are only 1-3, but that's still a rather unfortunately placed interruption for those days.
TBF though, there's a new Avengers cartoon on the way and as far as I'm aware it's going to be the exact same thing as the previous.
For your enjoyment: Have a photo of my empty eye socket.
Nah. They're going for the movie original line-up plus Falcon, instead of the cartoon's, which went with the original lineup of Ant-Man and Wasp instead of the SHIELD agents and Captain America.
And the whole thing seems to be about capitalizing on the stuff that the MCU is doing.
And while I like the MCU, I kinda feel that it would be cooler if they weren't so focused on just that.