When I heard Warner Bros. Animation was producing a Young Justice cartoon, I basically vomited excitement.  Young Justice was a classic adventure book about a bunch of teenage heroes hanging out, having a few laughs and occasionally saving the world–it is always so refreshing to find a comic that remembers how to have a good time, you know?

Naturally, all of my earnest excitement has turned to cruel disappointment after reading the info from the Young Justice panel at SDCC. For instance:

Robin: Voiced by Jesse McCartney. In this series, he’s a 13 year old Dick Grayson.

COME ON.  What do I have to do to get a teenage Tim Drake in cartoon form, seriously?  Why is it ALWAYS Dick? And why is he always wearing Tim’s costume? (That little bastard in the New Batman Adventures does not count since he’s 50% Jason Todd.) And Jesse McCartney? WHY?  He just shits everything up!  That’s, like his job.  Also disappointing?  The lack of Wonder Girl, Bart Allen, Empress, Secret and Cissie.  Basically,  the cartoon is called Young Justice and Conner Kent is the only actual YJ member on the team.  Apparently, the show was initially conceived as “Young Justice League,” featuring teenage legacy characters, but they realized that sounds pretty stupid and figured, hey, we have the rights to “Young Justice” anyway, so let’s go with that.  I understand the reasoning, but why cocktease us with the name?  That’s just pure dick right there, I mean, really:  straight up douching for the love of douchebaggery.

That said, of course I’m going to watch and of course I’m going to fall in love/become totally obsessed, for that is the way of Ahe and the DC Animated Universe.

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