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[Martin Smith]

The awesome Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes cartoon that is.

http://www.comicbook...v/news/?a=58063

Fans of the successful ongoing Avengers: Earth Mightiest Heroes TV Series are about to be disappointed. As my sources have confirmed to me, Jeph Loeb, the head of Marvel Animation studios, has cancelled the currently successful series in favor of a new Avengers Cartoon that will be produced by Marvel's newly acquired studio (MAS) and will be inline with and in the same universe as the currently airing Ultimate Spider-man cartoon.

My sources have also added that not to expect an official announcement until the fall, as Marvel does not want ratings to drop for the second season of Avengers Earth Mightiest Heroes which has just started on April 1st and is being met with a tremendous positive response.

Apparently, the initial plan of the new Avengers show consist of only self contained, standalone, episodes as opposed to story arcs, as Loeb has made it very clear that he dislikes TV show stories to run across several episodes. The new Show will be on air by Fall 2013.

The Avengers Earth Mightiest heroes is currently one of the most successful series on Disney XD, and was met with very positive response from fans of all ages. Unfortunately, much like the great Spectacular Spider-man series, the show will be cancelled in favor of a new cartoon that seems to be addressed to younger children like the currently, not so positively met, Ultimate Spider-man.

More insider news regarding Ultimate spider-man will follow in the next few days. Stay tuned on my Marveltv blog on comicbookmovie.com

Update:

I found the following Jeph Loeb qoutes from 2 interviews regarding a 3rd season for Avengers EMH:

SUPERHERO TOONIVERSE: The animated AVENGERS is finished, right? There’s no season three currently in production.

JEPH LOEB: I can only tell you that we’re committed to The Avengers universe and that’s as far as I can go.

A second interview from Toonzone had the below quote:

TOONZONE NEWS: In light how The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes started development before the Disney acquisition some years back and it was animated by another studio, will this be the final season of the show and will a new animated series be made instead?

JEPH LOEB: We have big plans for The Avengers.

TOONZONE NEWS: So do you think the show will get a third season?

JEPH LOEB: I can just tell you we have big plans for The Avengers and that's all I can tell you right now.

Both the above quotes makes it clear that Marvel is committed to the Avengers franchise on TV but not avengers earth Mightiest heroes. Which is in line with our sources, as there will be avengers on TV but not Avengers Earth Mightiest Heroes.

UPDATE 2:

I have also contacted both Joshua Fine and Chris Yost, writers and producers of Avengers Earth Mightiest heroes, and both confirmed to us that they have not heard anything about a 3rd season.

Me: Any chances avengers EMH would get a 3rd season?

Joshua Fine: I can't really answer that question as I don't know what conversations have happened there, in the year since I left Marvel.

Chris Yost: i am not involved in such decisions. i just write.

Update 4:

I found the below comment from Jeph Loeb to www.collider.com where Jeph basically confirms that Ultimate spider-man will not have over reaching arcs like Avengers and that was his decision:

LOEB: That’s certainly something that we’re talking about. Earth’s Mightiest Heroes has a tremendous following. One of the things that’s very unique about that show is that it was at a time prior to my coming in. It is a very serialized show, and there are a lot of characters. What we wanted to do with Spider-Man, and going forward, was to tell stories that are individualized. Obviously, we want everybody to watch the show every week, but we also know that people’s time is often taken. So, DVR the show, but if you’re not going to do that, the idea is that you will be able to catch up. I don’t ever want anybody to sit down on Sunday mornings at 11 o’clock and suddenly feel like, “Well, I lost the last three episodes, so I don’t really know what’s going on.” The only thing that is a two-parter is the pilot, which will actually be shown in its entirety on Sunday, April 1st.

It is also interesting to note that the second half of Avengers EMH season 2 will have only self contained episodes, since Jeph took control over marvel animation when only 13 episodes of season 2 we made, hence the second half of the season (the part under his helm) will contain only stand alone episodes.

So shipping Jeph Loeb off to the TV department of Marvel may have stopped him making so many crappy comics, but it's at the expense of the successful, wider-reaching animated series. Yay(!) This is an utterly stupid move not least for its motives. The Marvel Movie Universe has shown that people like interconnectedness. The Avengers film is certainly not going to be stand-alone. I think it's pretty patronising to be told that the viewer can't be trusted to watch every week, so they're not going to get a reason to, especially from someone who worked on Heroes.

And, as someone on another board said,

Loeb doesn't like long story arcs? I don't like shitty Hulk comics that don't make any sense. Guess that makes us even.

Given that Ultimate Spider-Man is pretty trashy, I don't think I'll be bothering with the replacement Avengers cartoon.

[Steve Sensible]

Oh well. Two seasons of a cartoon is pretty good going these days.

[Martin Smith]

Oh well. Two seasons of a cartoon is pretty good going these days.

I weep that this is true.

[Ogul]

This is idiotic. Ultimate Spider-Man is terrible. Mighty Avengers isn't my favorite comic series, bu it was still very good for an Avengers series.

[Mike]

I agree with Tim.

[craggy]

Sad news. I know a lot of people who don't read comics who did like the Justice League and JLU shows, and this was the Marvel equivalent, and could have run for years. The new Spider-Man show hasn't looked all that interesting, and I'm not sure an Avengers show in the same style will appeal to me either.

[Stephen G]

I never got into it. I'll do as I did w/ Spectacular Spider-Man, wait til' it's over, and watch it all.

Apparently that's going to be soon.

[Youri Zoutman]

I love EMH. LLLLOOOOOEBBBB.

[Rory Abel]

I wonder what their scale for "most successful" is? Articles I've read else where have indicated that the ratings weren't great and that Disney felt that an Avengers cartoon could definitely do better, especially with a feature film on the horizon.

Edited by Rory Abel, 18 April 2012 - 09:26 PM.

[Adam Balson]

I'm steadily loosing faith in anything Loeb does with Marvel attached to it. I never watched it but to cancel something that seemed to have a lot of hype over getting a second season only to continue a show people didn't even want in the first place? I can't see the thought process behind that at all.

[Paul F]

I'm steadily loosing faith in anything Loeb does with Marvel attached to it. I never watched it but to cancel something that seemed to have a lot of hype over getting a second season only to continue a show people didn't even want in the first place? I can't see the thought process behind that at all.

Loeb only came on half way through S2, after they had already decided to go ahead with it. Apparently everything after he comes on gets rid of the ongoing stories and just does stand-alone episodes though.

[craggy]

lord knows the success of characters like The Avengers isn't in any way down to their never-ending-serial nature.

[Mike]

Apparently everything after he comes on gets rid of the ongoing stories and just does stand-alone episodes though.

Watched the last few episodes of season 2 this morning whilst pottering about and glad that this didn't turn out to be the case; still lots of ongoing plot-threads right up to the end.

Shame to see it go, it's been a genuinely fun version of the Avengers.

[Martin Smith]

There were a couple of things that could have done with playing out over longer periods - mainu Vision integrating to the team and Hank coming back as YJ. The latter is especially annoying as he got the focus episode, which ends on the note of him being dangerously mad and then he barely appears again after that, let alone gets any focus on his met tap imbalance (apart from the great bomb diffusion scene in Operation Galactic Storm).