{"id":134398,"date":"2017-08-23T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/ranking-dcs-animated-tv-series.html"},"modified":"2017-08-23T14:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T20:35:33","slug":"ranking-dcs-animated-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/ranking-dcs-animated-tv-series.html","title":{"rendered":"Ranking DC&#8217;s Animated TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with this force-ranking (who ever does?), but it&#8217;s a great reminder of some fantastic (and a few not-so-fantastic) animated series of decades past, and it&#8217;s worth it just for that.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to page through show by show, here are their rankings:<\/p>\n<p>22. <em>Teen Titans Go!<\/em><br \/>\n21. <em>Beware the Batman<\/em><br \/>\n20. <em>The Plastic Man Comedy\/Adventure Hour<\/em><br \/>\n19. <em>&#8220;Various Sixties Batman\/Superman Shows&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n18. <em>The Zeta Project<\/em>*<br \/>\n17. <em>The &#8220;Super Friends&#8221; series<\/em><br \/>\n16. <em>Superman<\/em> (1988)*<br \/>\n15. <em>The New Adventures of Batman<\/em><br \/>\n14. <em>Krypto the Superdog<\/em><br \/>\n13. <em>Legion of Super-Heroes<\/em><br \/>\n12. <em>Justice League: Action<\/em><br \/>\n11. <em>The Batman<\/em><br \/>\n10. <em>Green Lantern: The Animated Series<\/em><br \/>\n9. <em>Batman: The Brave and the Bold<\/em><br \/>\n8. <em>Superman<\/em> (1940s)**<br \/>\n7. <em>Batman Beyond<\/em><br \/>\n6. <em>Static Shock<\/em><br \/>\n5. <em>Teen Titans<\/em><br \/>\n4. <em>Superman: The Animated Series<\/em><br \/>\n3. <em>Young Justice<\/em><br \/>\n2. <em>Justice League \/ Justice League Unlimited<\/em><br \/>\n1. <em>Batman: The Animated Series<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[*] Never encountered this one before.<br \/>\n[**] Yes, that&#8217;s not a DC animated TV series<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d probably reshuffle things most in the middle &#8212; <em>LSH<\/em> and <em>Brave and the Bold<\/em> both need to rise in the rankings a few steps, IMO &#8212; but +\/- 3 in any given case I&#8217;d agree with pretty much everything here.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/whatculture.com\/comics\/ranking-every-dc-animated-tv-series-from-worst-to-best\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/cFT5P3p6qW5Dgw9Th_vjtrvfWiOy3QBgv1nNc-caeoRcOvlN8-d-zC0akjLcAaq81cnsee4vmXsSy4RBkRJ06BPMqJX3EaG8i3u_CcAZclezMF25kjtpfw=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/whatculture.com\/comics\/ranking-every-dc-animated-tv-series-from-worst-to-best\">Ranking Every DC Animated TV Series From Worst To Best<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThey&#8217;re the proverbial kings of superhero animation, but what&#8217;s the best series that DC have done?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Zi6h7QRMQNy\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t necessarily agree with this force-ranking (who ever does?), but it&#8217;s a great reminder of some fantastic (and a few not-so-fantastic) animated series of decades past, and it&#8217;s worth it just for that. If you don&#8217;t want to page through show by show, here are their rankings: 22. Teen Titans Go! 21. Beware the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/23\/ranking-dcs-animated-tv-series.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ranking DC&#8217;s Animated TV Series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,45,11,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-cartoons","category-media-comics","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/batman-beyond.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133196,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/02\/binge-cartooning.html","url_meta":{"origin":134398,"position":0},"title":"Binge Cartooning","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 2-Apr-17 9:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"So +Margie Kleerup and +Kay Hill were off in sunny California this week doing this and that, which left me batching it. 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