{"id":32636,"date":"2013-02-26T13:43:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T20:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/sic-transit-young-justice.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:23:06","slug":"sic-transit-young-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/sic-transit-young-justice.html","title":{"rendered":"Sic transit &quot;Young Justice&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">Well, heck. Missed this when it came out a month ago. I&#39;m not surprised, given the dreadful way CN has handled scheduling for the show, and given its close narrative ties to a version of their universe DC would like to pretend never existed (except in Trade Paperback sales). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I liked (like, since there are still first run eps airing) &quot;Young Justice&quot; a lot. \u00a0They did some fun themes and variations on the old school DCU and storylines there, the animation was quite good, the stories interesting, the character growth well done. \u00a0I wasn&#39;t a big fan of the time jump foward after the second season, especially since the wonky scheduling and much larger cast made it more difficult to get attached to any of the characters. \u00a0But it was still one of the best animated comic book shows on record (and almost certainly the best currently airing).<\/p>\n<p>And so it goes.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images2-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=http:\/\/st3.speedforce.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Young_Justice_Invasion-200x300.png&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/speedforce.org\/2013\/01\/young-justice-cancelled\/'>Young Justice Cancelled?!?!<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Young_Justice_Invasion. Hey Speed Readers,. So yesterday afternoon Cartoon Network released their 2013-2014 Fall schedule with two very noticeable omissions: Green Lantern: The Animated Series and You&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ZkuKC9RDfj9' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, heck. Missed this when it came out a month ago. I&#39;m not surprised, given the dreadful way CN has handled scheduling for the show, and given its close narrative ties to a version of their universe DC would like to pretend never existed (except in Trade Paperback sales). \u00a0 I liked (like, since there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/26\/sic-transit-young-justice.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sic transit &quot;Young Justice&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[106,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41432,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/03\/14\/jonesing-for-young-justice.html","url_meta":{"origin":32636,"position":0},"title":"Jonesing for &quot;Young Justice&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 14-Mar-14 4:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hanging out on a Friday afternoon with Kay, watching YJ. Forgot how much I liked this show.Also, such a chuckle that the Justice League have a \"Hall of Justice\" in this cartoon.\ufeff View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49240,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/vixen-to-get-her-own-dc-animated-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":32636,"position":1},"title":"&quot;Vixen&quot; to get her own DC animated series","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 12-Jan-15 11:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Complete with ties to Arrow and the Flash (in some fashion).I've always liked Vixen -- her powers (especially in an animated format) are very dynamic, understandable, and, when used right, imaginative. 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