Cartoons in Comic Continuity?

[Donald Duck 12]

While I definetly not recomending this, could a cartoon follow the comics continuity? So there would be no origns, the characters would be as they are now in the comics. There would be crossover stories and stuff. That would be funny to watch come to think of it.

[Mynd Hed]

That would be suicide. You'd effectively limit your audience to people who already read the comics-- and you'd be VERY lucky if even half of the comic readership crossed over.
Because what happens when a new character is added in the comics, or an old character dies, or a previously-dead character is resurrected? You'd have roster changes happening all the time with no explanation (in the show). You'd wind up with a supremely disjointed narrative, impossible for all but the most hardcore comics fans to follow. Makes my head hurt just to think about.
Then you've got the problem of pacing. TV shows are generally paced much faster than comics-- maybe twenty-six or even fifty-two episodes a year compared to twelve issues of a monthly comic, and a twenty-minute episode can generally cover much more ground than one issue of a comic. So either the comic becomes just as disjointed because it has to keep up with the changes happening in the much faster-moving TV show, or else the TV show can't shake things up with major changes in the characters' lives and it stagnates after the first season or so.

Nope, it's just not feasible no matter which way you look at it.

[Donald Duck 12]

I know, I was just thinking how hillarious it would be to see Marvel try to air cartoons in the same continuity as over sixty years of comics!

[Spider-Man]

I know, I was just thinking how hillarious it would be to see Marvel try to air cartoons in the same continuity as over sixty years of comics! It's be interesting but I don't see how it'd be hilarious. It would actually be pretty neat to see them adapt stories comic by comic. It'd be nea rimpossible to do but it would make for a neat experiment. But this would also really constrict the creativity a cartoon series could have. Adapting stories from comics to cartoon has always been a mixed bag but doing a direct translation/continuity story would be really difficult.

[RAINMAN]

The 90 marvel shows did try to put everything that happend in each their comic turn toon shows into the toon versions.

[Rietrofan90]

Originally posted by: RAINMANThe 90 marvel shows did try to put everything that happend in each their comic turn toon shows into the toon versions.
Well I could be wrong, but I think Donald Duck 12 meant that the characters would be as they are in the comics currently with everything prior already have happened.

There are some major issues here though. You wouldn't understand why Jean's dead, or why Scott left her for Emma, why Bobby's being such an ass, why Kitty's taking back the guy who cheated on her [or so it appears], or why said guy [Piotr] is even alive, and why is Captain America still so young?

If you weren't a comic fan, or if you were a casual comic book reader then it would be hell to try and nderstand this show. Besides some comic fan wouldn't even watch, so the target audience isn't even worth making it.