Micah Wright Talks "Constant Payne" VS. Nickelodeon, Kevin Conroy, "Ozzie & Drix.

[Vin]

Toon Zone News (http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37881) staff writer, Jimmy Kustes interviewed "Constant Payne" creator Micah Wright on behalf of Toon Zone and the WBAA. Micah discussed many things and even mentioned that Paul Dini and Alan Burnett were involved and Kevin Conroy had tried out for Doc Payne!

Thoughts? Opinions?

My opinion is for somebody to please pick this show up!

[Allen's Nickname.]

Wow.

Nick is dirty.

They fired Micha beacuse he was helping the Nick writers union?

Sad.

[Yuss]

According to his site, NICK thought he convinced 90% of their writers to sign to be represented by the WGA. Of course, that's just stupid. The writers signed because they wanted to, not because Wright did.

~B+:

[VashTheStampede]

I dont usually like unions but when you work for Nick I guess you need all the help you can get.

[Behonkiss]

I have only this to say after reading that article: Regarding animation, I am now depressed. His news that Fairly Oddparents is starting to do bad means that Nick will now cancel their only good show still in production. I knew it would happen. And then he goes on and talks about how TV animation's dying and all that....This guy really knows how to wreck a guy's dreams and ambitions, particularly mine. How am I supposed to translate my great, LONG story into a video game, even a series? A single game costs more to make than a single episode....

[Jimmy Kustes]

If it makes you feel better, everyone I talked to who works at CN likes their jobs.

[Behonkiss]

I wasn't really talking about liking the job, it's just that Samurai Jack and Justice League are pretty much the only true American action cartoons now, and that's pretty pathetic. The market's shifted to importing anime too much, and no one would we willing to take a risk and create a great show like Jack or JL any more, even CN. I never thought I'd hate anime for something, but yeesh.

[Nickdisk]

Originally posted by Behonkiss
His news that Fairly Oddparents is starting to do bad means that Nick will now cancel their only good show still in production. ... i dont think Fairly Oddparents will be ending anytime soon, sinse there are currently plans for a FOP movie for next year :)

[Andy Mancini]

"Different is Better. All the Nick execs say now is "we need a show like Powerpuff Girls" or "find us a new Spongebob" instead of thinking "Hmm, Spongebob, Rugrats, Hey Arnold and Ren & Stimpy were successful because it was different than anything else on TV... maybe we need something that's radically different!" No, they just cancel Zim because it's "too weird" and then replace it with the execrable "Butt Ugly Martians" and expect that kids will just accept this cruddy replacement."
He's exactly right. This is why so many people are abandoning American animation for anime. It seems that most US cartoons are so worried about either sticking gross-out humor and/or morals into everything that they forget that they are there to entertain.


"... why watch a boring episode of Max Steel when you can BE Max Steel in a videogame?"

Or even better, we can ignore Mr. Steel all together and do something more entertaining, like watching paint dry!