Marvel Starts The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

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Marvel Starts The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

October 8, 2008

Marvel Animation, the cartoon division of Marvel Entertainment, is beginning production on "The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes," the company's latest animated series.

The Hollywood Reporter says Film Roman, the company behind "The Simpsons" and "King of the Hill," has been hired to produce the 26-episode series, which will be available for broadcast in 2011, in time for Marvel Studios' releases of the tentpole live-action movies The First Avenger: Captain America and The Avengers.

Producing the series is Ciro Nieli, whose credits include "Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!" and "Teen Titans." The series' story editor is Christopher Yost, who has worked on the Marvel cartoons "Iron Man Armored Adventures" and "Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes."

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Posted by: Nobody on October 8, 2008 at 02:35:49

Whopedeedooo

Posted by: Cy-Ed on October 8, 2008 at 03:20:49

i hope they keep it close to the comic book like the 90's x-men cartoons

Posted by: BATMAN HATE on October 8, 2008 at 03:23:11

cool

Posted by: orange cinema on October 8, 2008 at 03:27:36

the ironman & dr strange films were fun, hopefully this follows the same tone/style/etc...

i still say the title, "the first avenger: captain america" title is lame. just call it 'captain america' for ****s sake.

Posted by: B. Trask on October 8, 2008 at 03:28:22

I would like to quote the rule book on claiming first. It's taken from "The First Annual Code of Firsting," Written by Phirston J. Firstby I.

Chapter 1, Part 1, sub-section 1a.

And I quote; "In order for one to claim first, one must actually BE first."

End quote.

Posted by: DEMfan on October 8, 2008 at 04:44:51

Let us all hope it does not s**k. Does anyone remember the previous Avengers series? It was mercifully short-lived.

Posted by: kyle96 on October 8, 2008 at 07:14:55

hmm..ok, i guess.the only animated thing i'm looking foward to is wolverine vs. hulk! oh, and i totally agree with you,orange cinema.just call it "captain america!" same with wolverine

Posted by: HERCULES on October 8, 2008 at 07:30:34

"Posted by: DEMfan on October 8, 2008 at 04:44:51

Let us all hope it does not s**k. Does anyone remember the previous Avengers series? It was mercifully short-lived."

Yes. They made Vision like a servant with a wimpy voice. Come to think of it, many of the voices on there were terrible (Hawkeye, Ultron, etc.) Even the episodes with guest appearances by Cap, Iron Man, and Sub-Mariner weren't all that good. It's hard to think of one good thing about the show.

Posted by: Woyfi Longe on October 8, 2008 at 07:36:55

FIRST !

Posted by: IT'S NOT A TUMOR on October 8, 2008 at 07:46:05

Please don't try to make this anime style again! Try doing with the company who made the last FF toon, MoonScoop. They did an awesome job. And please don't try to make over the top kid friendly like spectacular spidey.

Posted by: Marvel still trying to crack the TV egg... on October 8, 2008 at 07:47:35

Let's face it... aside from the x-men series from the 90's...and I'm certainly not saying it was perfect ("Scott!" "JEAN!" "NOOO!") Marvel has a terrible track record with animated shows! It seems like everytime I turn around there is ANOTHER spider-man series, x-men or x-men spin off, or another stab at the FF. I foresee this lasting 1 season.

Posted by: Idio-sync on October 8, 2008 at 07:53:33

that previous Avengers animated attempt was horrid because once again they didn't stick to familiar territory and remade them all to look different than they should.

I also didn't enjoy the Ultimate Avengers efforts because of the same reason and voice acting was bad in those too, but the story lines were the problem there.

Now I am worried that it will look like the Teen Titans, which although the storys are ok and the voices are meh... the animation is absurd and doesn't work for comic book properties that originated in North America.

why not just make them look like the Power Puff Girls .. sheesh.

ah well another wait and see.

Posted by: Tony on October 8, 2008 at 09:12:45

Bring some of the hard hitters like Thor, Iron man, Hulk, Cap, Wonderman, Ares. The cast for that short lived Avengers cartoon sucked.

Posted by: Black Knight on October 8, 2008 at 09:29:01

Nice!

Posted by: Dave on October 8, 2008 at 09:30:06

That last Avengers series was horrible. The Avengers have always been my favorite team of heroes, but that show was just garbage! And please! No Ultimates! I want to see the REAL Avengers. And no anime! I'm sick and tired of that look. All the characters look alike. As for stories, I'd LOVE to see the Kree-Skrull war or a really good Ultron story.

Posted by: Bruce Banner on October 8, 2008 at 09:30:48

Well I just watched the Next Avengers movie which did include Iron man vs Ultron fight then Hulk smashing the crap out of Ultron... I have to say the animation was kiddish and the story a bit weak but the movie fight scenes were cool. Hulk saving everyone simply with rage and strength did stay true to every story line. If the show is anything like that it`ll fly. Also the Ultimate Avengers 2 movies were good. Not enough Hulk in the second but again without him the world didn`t stand a chance...

Posted by: Batzarro: World's worst detective on October 8, 2008 at 09:33:03

IT'S NOT A TUMOR:

Haven't seen much tv animation, have we? Everything now is either anime influenced, flash/illustrator graphics cheapness or anime influenced flash/illustrator graphics cheapness.

That said, I look forward to this, if they put it in basic cable.

Posted by: Tick on October 8, 2008 at 09:50:42

As long as the animation and the story is good I'm on board, if we get crappy animation screw them!!

Posted by: Luvcroft on October 8, 2008 at 10:04:58

Awesome

Posted by: DC Knows... Animation! on October 8, 2008 at 10:17:08

Marvel has yet to come up with an animated series that can touch DC's. "Batman: The Animated Series" was awesome, "Superman: The Animated Series" and "Justice League" were great, and "Justice League: Unlimited" was the best comic book cartoon EVER! It took, for the most part, secondary characters and made them interesting, cool and fun. Not to mention it had the most amazing voice cast.
If you want to see the best example of a comic-based cartoon, watch JL:U.

Posted by: EBMAS Dallas on October 8, 2008 at 10:30:05

i'd like to get excited except they're using the same story editor from the embarrassingly bad Iron Man Armored Adventures and the latest Craptastic Four Anime Super Action Show. Some other posts cited the old X-Men show, which, lets face it: was ok...i think we were all just pretty excited to see it on TV. The 90's spiderman show was even better in my book and i'm no spidey nut. I'm glad so many of us remember how awful the Avengers cartoon was. You know its in bad shape when founding members are only guest stars and Jarvis is armored. Ok i'm joking about Jarvis. I'm a marvel guy, but Justice League Unlimited would be a a good reference for Marvel on this next Avengers cartoon. Like another post referenced: not too kiddy. There are more Adults buying the comics than kids, and maybe watching the shows too. Lets also agree that the anime kick is tired: Aunt May doesn't need 5 foot wide shoulders, a 6 inch waist, a crazy alien sized head and softball sized eyes. Frumpy, matronly, and retirement age works just fine.

Posted by: The Flash on October 8, 2008 at 10:31:53

if only they could hire Bruce Timm and Paul Dini to do an Avengers animated series. That would be awesome.

Posted by: walt on October 8, 2008 at 10:44:19

Film Roman is doing the animation i.e Simpsons which should be awsome.

Posted by: StarBlazer101 on October 8, 2008 at 11:07:53

I can just imagine everyone looking like Simpons characters.

Posted by: Bob on October 8, 2008 at 11:10:48

Please NO anime crap like Teen Titans. If they anime up Avengers I'm going to vomit in a bowl and mail it to them.

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