Youngblood: the animated series

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Back in 94 i remember hearing about a proposed youngblood animated series which was to air on CBS, however, CBS scrapped the idea claiming it was too violent, however, there were pictures of the show in several comic book magazines around that time, meaning the show WAS made. Any more info on this? Its not even mentioned in the wikipedia page for youngblood.
 
The pictures may have been from a proposed pilot made to pitch the show. Anyway, around 94 was when CBS started it's 'Action Zone', so no doubt a YB show would have been folded into that block along with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Wildcats.
 
I remember the WildC.A.T.S toy commercials being paired with some other Image Comics toyline. I think there was a bit of animation for that, but I couldn't remember if it was Youngblood or Wetworks or what.

It may have just been original animation for the ad though, kind of like what they did with the ads for the Pre-Timm Superman toyline that featured an animated Superboy.
 
a youngblood cartoon would have been cool
but somehow I picture it on MTV
which would be a death sentence because it's nearly impossible to find a regauer show there
 
Holy coincidence Batman! I was about to make similar thread. For some reason, I was reading up on the founding of Image comics on wikipedia and Rob Liefeld, the creator Youngblood, and it got me thinking, "There was some rumblings about an animated series way back when."

Well, I read about the proposed Youngblood animated series in Wizard. The pictures that you probably saw was a screen shot of short animation clip used for proposing the show. The pictures I remember seeing had Shaft nocking two or three arrows ready to shoot and another screen shot of an explosion in the background.

rabroad: The WildCATs cartoon was a little better than average at its best. I prefer Ultraforce over WC.
 
I think there was a short pilot clip made, but it never went to series. According to this interview:

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=182

Liefeld claims he had a deal to air it on Fox in 1995/1996, paired with Cyberforce, but Marvel comics killed it by insisting their cartoons be exclusive on the network. I'm not sure about the veracity of that, however, because they did air The Tick.

There's some stuff about his feud with Todd McFarlane in here too.

"The reason that Todd got the license from me in the first place was cause he believed I had a pick up from Fox - as I did - to have a Youngblood cartoon. Mattel put an offer on the table for me to do Youngblood toys, based on Youngblood being a cartoon on Fox in the 95-96 season. It was going to be a block. Youngblood/ CyberForce. Half-hour each. At the time, they were doing well with superhero cartoons. Marvel, wisely, at the last minute… made a deal with them that all their superhero cartoons would be exclusive with Marvel. Spider-Man and X-Men were your #1 rated cartoons, along with Power Rangers. [Marvel didn't] want to let other people in. "If we have to compete with them on the newsstand, why should we welcome them to Fox?"

I got the call from Fox saying we just signed an exclusive deal to only do Marvel cartoons. Marc and I had to lick our wounds, because our cartoons weren't happening. In the process, the Mattel deal caused [Todd to say], I'm going to match it. I signed with him."

One thing about Youngblood is that it always seemed to me to be designed as a comic/cartoon/toy line combo. I have old Malibu comics with prototypical ads for the series that predate Image that even seem to support that.
 
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