James Harvey
11-19-2001, 11:16 AM
Fans weren't the only people tuning into the Saturday and Sunday premieres of Justice League. Even comic creators sat down to enjoy the new animated series from Cartoon Network. Min S. Ku, penciller for Justice League Adventures #1 and the upcoming fourth issue, sat down to watch the animated series. His reactions is as follows:
<a href="http://wf.toonzone.net/jl/batman6.jpg"><img src="http://wf.toonzone.net/jl/batman6.jpg" border=0 vspace=3 hspace=3 align="right" height=120 width=180></a> "Bruce Timm and crew has done it again! They've managed to bring the biggest characters of the DCU into our television sets and make the group concept work beautifully! The title sequence was cool (although the Batman Beyond title sequence is tough to beat! A good attempt no less). My one big gripe is the fact that I have to wait a whole week to catch each 30 minute episode! Wish Cartoon Networked aired it in an hour long format", said Min S. Ku.
"I caught both the full frame debut and the widescreen version...and even though you "lose" some artwork in the widescreen version, the widescreen composititions were tighter and I actually preferred it over to the full frame. In fact seeing the full frame version after the wide screen version gave it an "excessive" look", comments Ku. "I think the storyboard artists boarded the scenes with the widescreen ratio in mind and added the extra drawings to fill up the screen to satisfy Cartoon Network's requirements. But I'd personally prefer the widescreen version since it represents the director's and storyboarder's original vision. Now if I only had a widescreen HDTV..."
The contrversy over the widescreen/fullframe presentations have led to a debate from fans. The article spotlighting the contrversy can be found <a href="http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12523">HERE</a>. Stay tuned for more Justice League updates here at TZN!
<a href="http://wf.toonzone.net/jl/batman6.jpg"><img src="http://wf.toonzone.net/jl/batman6.jpg" border=0 vspace=3 hspace=3 align="right" height=120 width=180></a> "Bruce Timm and crew has done it again! They've managed to bring the biggest characters of the DCU into our television sets and make the group concept work beautifully! The title sequence was cool (although the Batman Beyond title sequence is tough to beat! A good attempt no less). My one big gripe is the fact that I have to wait a whole week to catch each 30 minute episode! Wish Cartoon Networked aired it in an hour long format", said Min S. Ku.
"I caught both the full frame debut and the widescreen version...and even though you "lose" some artwork in the widescreen version, the widescreen composititions were tighter and I actually preferred it over to the full frame. In fact seeing the full frame version after the wide screen version gave it an "excessive" look", comments Ku. "I think the storyboard artists boarded the scenes with the widescreen ratio in mind and added the extra drawings to fill up the screen to satisfy Cartoon Network's requirements. But I'd personally prefer the widescreen version since it represents the director's and storyboarder's original vision. Now if I only had a widescreen HDTV..."
The contrversy over the widescreen/fullframe presentations have led to a debate from fans. The article spotlighting the contrversy can be found <a href="http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=12523">HERE</a>. Stay tuned for more Justice League updates here at TZN!