WTF Marvel???
Sep. 25th, 2009 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechI just got exposed to a concept so mind-numbingly stupid and clueless that my brain seized up for a moment.
The Super Hero Squad Show
WTF marketing genius came up with this steaming pile? I -think- the show is supposed to be in the style of the super-deformed cartoons in Japan (anime is still "cool"; execs throw the term around like they used to use "CGI" and "morph" a decade ago). I honestly can't tell if the characters are supposed to be "teens" or kids or dwarfs. They all look like Hobbits: big heads and HUGE feet, but they act like petulant, little kids. The God of Thunder...Wolverine...that floating head-guy villain...Hulk as the lovable retard character...nrrg.
Beyond the horror of the character design, Marvel canon is utterly bonkered. Clearly intended at very young children, I can only think that some exec came up with this concept, loosely based on the Avengers comics. The writers took a stupid pill as well: today they're protecting a "fractal". Is there some web site that writers go to that have lists of tech words or 'hood slang? Geeze.
If anyone thought that WIRED magazine was incorruptible (well, there -might- be someone), forget it. Here's a shill " article " that appeared there about this cool show. This quote from the article reads like it was written by someone who has never read (or allowed their kids to read) comics:
The new animated series, which lands on Cartoon Network this Saturday, could easily find a home on Adult Swim: Featuring pint-size versions of Iron Man, Wolverine, Silver Surfer, Hulk and many more cracking wise and kicking ass, it’s another great entry for kids (and for their elders who refuse to grow up).
Only someone with a brain injury or a marketing nut uses words like, "pint-sized" and "cracking wise" and terms like, "and for their elders who refuse to grow up." Good ghod. "Elders"??? Oh, and they throw the "ass" in to show that this HAD to be written by a genuine, edgy WIRED writer...
To think that a it wasn't that long ago that this network showcased "Samurai Jack," "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends," "Dexter's Lab." Sad.
The Super Hero Squad Show
WTF marketing genius came up with this steaming pile? I -think- the show is supposed to be in the style of the super-deformed cartoons in Japan (anime is still "cool"; execs throw the term around like they used to use "CGI" and "morph" a decade ago). I honestly can't tell if the characters are supposed to be "teens" or kids or dwarfs. They all look like Hobbits: big heads and HUGE feet, but they act like petulant, little kids. The God of Thunder...Wolverine...that floating head-guy villain...Hulk as the lovable retard character...nrrg.
Beyond the horror of the character design, Marvel canon is utterly bonkered. Clearly intended at very young children, I can only think that some exec came up with this concept, loosely based on the Avengers comics. The writers took a stupid pill as well: today they're protecting a "fractal". Is there some web site that writers go to that have lists of tech words or 'hood slang? Geeze.
If anyone thought that WIRED magazine was incorruptible (well, there -might- be someone), forget it. Here's a shill " article " that appeared there about this cool show. This quote from the article reads like it was written by someone who has never read (or allowed their kids to read) comics:
The new animated series, which lands on Cartoon Network this Saturday, could easily find a home on Adult Swim: Featuring pint-size versions of Iron Man, Wolverine, Silver Surfer, Hulk and many more cracking wise and kicking ass, it’s another great entry for kids (and for their elders who refuse to grow up).
Only someone with a brain injury or a marketing nut uses words like, "pint-sized" and "cracking wise" and terms like, "and for their elders who refuse to grow up." Good ghod. "Elders"??? Oh, and they throw the "ass" in to show that this HAD to be written by a genuine, edgy WIRED writer...
To think that a it wasn't that long ago that this network showcased "Samurai Jack," "Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends," "Dexter's Lab." Sad.
