I’m not a huge X-Men fan, so even if I had Disney+ I don’t think I’d be watching the current X-Men ’97. I don’t have anything against it, and I hear it’s better than anticipated…which may be why Disney fired the showrunner over a PG Onlyfans account. Doing things the fans like seems to be the opposite of current Disney’s goal, but that’s a whole other discussion. This resuming of the 1990s Fox Kids cartoon seems to be doing well and its fans actually enjoy it.
This has led to another big return being hoped for by nostalgic fans of the DC Animated Universe, specifically Justice League Unlimited. Bounding Into Comics contributor JB Augustine even wrote a piece asking for it back, which would go against James Gunn’s plans for combining animated and live-action productions into his shared DC Gunniverse. Not that it’s stopped My Adventures With Superman or the announced Batman: Caped Crusader shows, with varying levels of adaptation even though the now Adult Swim airing Superman show seems to have found an audience for finally getting Superman right. It’s just the world he lives in they royally screwed up, which is why I can’t get into it. Pretty boy Deathstroke is just wrong and I just saw a clip for season two that makes Amanda Waller full on evil in ways the last season of Unlimited didn’t even reach. And I’m one of a select few who didn’t like the Cadmus storyline or the “Epilogue” episode.
The DCAU was some of the best comic adapting out there, and even gave us new characters like Harley Quinn, Renee Montoya (which has been ruined by DC and further adaptations), and the villainess Livewire. I fully enjoyed all of it, even the shows that Bruce Timm didn’t work on. Static Shock was a version of the Milestone hero Static I could more get into tonally (so I have no ill will towards My Adventure With Superman fans and wouldn’t with the Snyderverse fans if they and Snyder himself weren’t such jerks about it at times) and while I didn’t get the chance to get into The Zeta Project, it was a unique addition thanks to the backdoor pilot in Batman Beyond, set in the DCAU thanks to a crossover with the Batman of the future. It was great storytelling and a good adaptation of the DC multiverse. Does that mean it deserves another chance like the Fox Kids X-Men are getting? I’m not convinced.
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