And that means the other series, Beware of the Batman will probably suck as well if made by the same company, which considering CN's cheapskatery wouldn't be out of the question.
Beware the Batman will be animated in a similar fashion to Green Lantern. CGI, which is actually quite impressive looking and probably one of the most fluid looking series out there. All indications are this is going to be a good Batman series. They're delving deep into the mythology of the character and not stooping to using the famous characters. I'm actually quite excited for it, even though they're going to have to use 1980's style cartoon guns to be overly sensitive to something that happened almost a year ago.
Teen Titans, however... I really did like the DC animated shorts. They managed to be funny and canony and they kept the original, wonderful FLCL style animation. I don't mind a humor based series, but one that's been overly redesigned to look like some recursive Western version of an Eastern version of Western style. Like someone's trying to ape Panty Stocking style and failing. The new preview animation is less choppy, but I think we at
least deserve the same quality of animation as the DC shorts.
Plus... and I'll say this the million billionth time. If they wanted humor so bad... uh, maybe Plastic Man? Dude got screwed out of a cartoon series in 03, hasn't had one since the 1979 series.
I'm just more annoyed about Young Justice and Green Lantern getting canceled because they didn't sell toys. Mattel did their usual
wonderful high price low quality over packaged figure job with YJ. But then again, the show was doomed from the beginning due to Greg Weissman being the Charlie Brown of animation and none of his shows lasting (Gargoyles and Spectacular Spider-Man, which they fired once the second season finished production, so it couldn't have been saved by Disney). But Green Lantern is worse. It undid
all the damage the movie left, and it didn't even get a toy line because Wal*Mart over orders movie merchandise, and acts like a chicken with its head cut off when movie merchandise doesn't sell. So it never got a cartoon line up.
Add to that the hype they're putting into a "NEW!" season of Johnny Test (epic fail!) they want to push down our throats.
Johnny Test is made on the cheap and gets a LOT of Canadian Tax credits. Therefore, I'm not surprised that CN can get it so cheap. They're going to run the heck out of it because the price is so low. It's like how Reality TV works. It only really had one good season back when WB was behind it and Scott Fellows wrote for it. How it was able to be rescued by Crappy Jar, I don't know.
Still, I do like Dukey. And Mr. Teacherman. Just let the thing die.