A Station Eight Fan Web Site
Ask Greg Archives
Young Justice
Archive Index
: « First : « 1000 : « 100 : « 10 : Displaying #3496 - #3505 of 4605 records. : 10 » : 100 » : 1000 » : Last » :
Posts Per Page: 1 : 10 : 25 : 50 : 100 : All :
Tom writes...
I've always appreciated that the show you create feature so many diverse characters with agency. It's great to see Elisa and her family, to finally seeing Spider-man in New York that features so many people of color in his cast, to having Aqualad and Artemis as such important, interesting characters in Young Justice. I love that your shows aren't engaging in the tokenism the way a lot of other shows (for kids or otherwise) do. And having strong women is a huge part of that--I remember friends in 4th grade fighting over who got to be Elisa or Demona at recess. So thank you for that!
I think with shows that are adapted from comics, there's this predicament of wanting to pay homage to decades of comic book history while not carrying forward the inherent racism and sexism of the eras when they were written. I think The Batman botched that when Detective Yin was replaced by Commissioner Gordon--closer to the comics, but axes a female, minority lead for a white male.
Not to mention the pressures from other areas. I remember hearing Dwayne McDuffie say that even in the height of its popularity, companies had no interest in making Static Shock toys, for example.
So, how do you handle this? Whether it's selecting minority/women characters from comics, creating new ones, or changing characters races like in Spectacular Spider-man, what's that process like when you make your shows?
Greg responds...
Um... mostly... I just try to reflect the world I see. I'm a sheltered white boy, but even a sheltered white boy would have to be blind not to see that the world is populated with more than just sheltered white boys. So putting in strong female characters and strong characters of color seems natural and easy, frankly.
If you're asking for process, though, it's very much case by case. We don't sit there and go, "We need 2.5 minorities on the Team with 23% females." Instead, we build a diverse cast of characters, character by character. When adapting a property (as opposed to creating one from scratch, like GARGOYLES), we DO pay attention to tradition. But some characters are certainly more iconic than others. So Robin, Kid Flash and Superman's clone remain Caucasian, and there was never any thought of changing them. But by using Garth's Tempest identity, it freed us up to create a new Aqualad, as the son of Black Manta - in part, to demonstrate the alternate Earth idea, i.e. this is Earth-16, and one decision changed the course of it's history (continuity) from what we're familiar with in the comics. As for Artemis, we felt she was obscure enough to make her half-Vietnamese, without fundamentally changing what mattered most about her. Likewise, her mother Paula Brooks-Crock seemed obscure enough to go ahead and make her the Vietnamese Paula Nguyen-Crock, as that also helped us make her Cheshire's mother, since Cheshire has always been the daughter of a Vietnamese mother and a Caucasian father. Maybe "obscure" isn't the right word, but I think you get the idea. As for Miss Martian, well, obviously she's a Martian, but I suppose we could have made her Megan Morse identity a minority too. (We portrayed her uncle John Jones as African, after all.) But again, we're not trying to meet quotas, and as you'll eventually see, we had reasons for the choices we made with Megan.
Anonymous writes...
why do you guys use the wikipedia article on india on the cave computer screens as a filler text?
Greg responds...
I didn't realize we had.
Anonymous writes...
How old are Hook and Black Spider?
Was Black Spider in Belle Reve too, but out of costume?
Greg responds...
Hook is thirty-seven.
Black Spider is twenty-two.
And, no, he wasn't in Belle Reve. He escaped before arriving there.
Jason R. Carter writes...
1. If Morrow's android was the JSA's Red Tornado, where was Ma Hunkle?
2. Where was he during the decades-long gap between the JSA retiring and the Justice League's debut?
3. Is Earth-16 Clayface Basil Karlo, Matt Hagen, Preston Payne or someone else?
Greg responds...
1. SPOILER REQUEST. NO COMMENT.
2. For much of it, he was deactivated.
3. The Clayface you saw was Matt Hagen.
Anonymous writes...
In Revelation and Humanity, we saw the Team fight with a move called "Maneuver 7". Do we ever get to see Maneuvers 1 through 6, and if not, what would they be like?
Greg responds...
I think I'll leave that to your imagination too - until or unless you see them on screen or on the comic book page.
Jolt writes...
Greg, you answerd a question about superboy cooking for Miss Martian.
Now my questions are:
1:what does he cook for her? something specific or different things?
2:What are the Teams favorite dishes?
Greg responds...
I'm sorry, but I just haven't focused on this stuff. Feel free to use your imagination on it.
YOUNG JUSTICE PRODUCTION UPDATE
YOUNG JUSTICE PRODUCTION UPDATE
Been awhile since I did this. Here's where we are...
SEASON ONE
101-118 have aired.
119 is in the can and will air on March 3rd, premiering with DC NATION.
120-126 are all complete and in the can, ready to air.
SEASON TWO
201 is in post-production. We're actually locking the final cut in editorial today.
202 is in post-production. We're waiting for retakes.
203 is in post-production. We're calling retakes today.
204 is overseas, being animated, but it should ship back to us next week.
205-207 are overseas, being animated.
208 is overseas, being animated, while we're simultaneously finishing the color models.
209 is overseas, being animated. We still have color models to work on.
210-211 are both overseas, being animated, and we still have color models to work on. Plus we still have one voice actor to record, who was out sick. We've temped in the lines. (I did them, actually.) We'll have to pick him up in post-production, using ADR.
212 is overseas, being animated. We still have color models to work on.
213's storyboard is in track and checking.
214's storyboard is in revision and track.
215's storyboard is in notes.
216's storyboard is in and going to slug.
217's storyboard is in.
218 is in storyboard. Still have two actors to pick up for this one.
219 is in storyboard and fully recorded.
220 is in storyboard. We're picking up a couple actors early today, and recording the rest of the cast (hopefully) this coming Tuesday (Feb 7).
Yep, that's right. ALL the scripts for Season Two are locked and final.
COMIC BOOK
Issues #0-12 are available for purchase.
Issue #13 is at the printers, I think.
Issue #14 is being inked by Chris Jones.
Issue #15's script is done and ready for Chris to pencil.
Issue #16's script is being finished off by me this weekend.
Issue #17 is plotted. Kevin Hopps is working on the first draft script.
A no name us writes...
Did Red Tornado tell the League his plan to go after morrow himself? Was that why they couldn't "find" him?
Greg responds...
1. No.
2. No.
Lizzy writes...
Hi there, I like to cosplay and all I want to know is what version of Wonder Girl will be on Young Justice's TV series Thank you very much. ^-^
Greg responds...
SPOILER REQUEST. NO COMMENT.
Anonymous writes...
In Downtime, there was an adress on Artemis' letter, but it was barely readable. It looked like "Sth Sprang Buolevard 302" or something. What is the address?
Greg responds...
I don't know, and I'm not at a location at the moment where I can check.
: « First : « 1000 : « 100 : « 10 : Displaying #3496 - #3505 of 4605 records. : 10 » : 100 » : 1000 » : Last » :