The Young Justice panel at the New York Comic Con showed off the first full scenes from the new series. It showed the mentors and sidekick duos each fighting ice themed villains before gathering together at the Hall of Justice. The teen heroes then spin-off to investigate Cadmus Labs and discover that they’ve created a teenaged clone of Superman called Superboy.
A lot of the discussion reiterated material and themes from Comic-Con, but there was also a flurry of new details:
- It will become obvious half-way through the season why they’ve chosen Zatara and not Zatanna for the Justice League.
- The Justice League will be in the background, but some members will feature prominently – Red Tornado will reprise his role as mentor/den-mother from the original Young Justice comic book, Black Canary will be their trainer, but it’s Batman who will be assigning missions and calling the shots.
- The one-hour premier will broadcast on November 26th.
- Some of the relationships in the group were explained. Robin and Kid Flash are already friends and Kid Flash knows Robin’s secret identity whereas the other don’t. Aqualad is Garth’s best-friend (as in the original Aqualad Garth). Speedy will be around for the origin, but may not stick around.
- The Kid Flash isn’t as fast as the Flash and uses his speed like a cannon ball (ergo the shoulder pads and padded costume).
- 150 DCU characters will appear in the first half of the season. These include Jay Garrick.
- The new Aqualad was created specifically for the Young Justice cartoon, but Geoff Johns liked the character so much he borrowed him for the Brightest Day comic book.
- The Young Justice comic-book will start in January with a special written by Greg Weisman and Kevin Hopps.