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You're talking about the comic, right?  That was pretty cool, but kind of confusing the way they had old-school Scarecrow on the cover, and hanged man Scarecrow inside.

Yeah, I didn't like this one either.  The villain was lackluster and the sexual innuendo much too obvious, especially for a cartoon.  I'm glad Superman shut Roxy down in a minute in his own series.

Didn't they already attempt this show a couple of years ago with Christian Slater in it?

Two… blind mice?

Cartoons were certainly, uh, something in the 1970s.  I take it there was never a little cartoon Joe Jackson running after a cartoon LaToya with raised fists, eh?

"How I've relished this meeting!"

They really hated writing his episodes because the puzzles took a lot of planning.  Also I guess Bruce Timm has a hate boner for the character himself.

That is somewhat encouraging.  I watched the debut episode, thought to myself, "What the hell is this crap?," and never came back.  The producers did a very good job of making a lousy first impression, and all the complaints I heard about Miss Martian's catchphrase didn't give me an incentive to give it another chance.

People LIKED Young Justice?  Why?

Good lord, this episode sucked with the force of a thousand black holes.  Oliver Sava was right on all counts… the villain was dull and one-dimensional, his estranged lover was so repugnant that she was barely worth saving, and the action was very much in that Michael Bay "MORE EXPLOSIONS!" vein.

Torch Song was really, really, REALLY crappy too.  Who cares about a spoiled pop star and her possessive, would-be supervillain boyfriend?

Oh, I noticed all right.  He's more vicious in this version of the show, more like a ferocious animal and less like a slow-witted criminal.  I prefer the slightly silly edge of the original Killer Croc.

No rest for the wicked, even on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, huh?

Wait, the guy from 21 Jump Street?

But Daddy DOES know, if the last five minutes of Over the Edge is any indication!

By contrast, CBS's other cartoon adaptation of a comic, Garfield and Friends, had 121 episodes.  That series was markedly different from the comic that inspired it, but it was for the best… it had a lot of sly humor that never would have found its way into a newspaper.

Thanks for the advice!  However, I've got all the episodes on DVD, so I don't have to watch The Hub like a hawk to catch them.  Still, it bugs me when a network only shows a small selection of episodes, rather than the whole run.

Are they doing the same thing Qubo's been doing with He-Man and showing the same small pool of episodes?  Because that penny-pinching crap really drives me nuts.  Show the entire library, dammit!

Here's one: There's still life in Crystal. But just barely.

Here's one: There's still life in Crystal. But just barely.