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Paul Dini has joined the writing team behind Marvel and Disney's Ultimate Spider-Man animation, MTV reports.
The Batman scribe will work alongside Brian Michael Bendis and Man Of Action creators Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly and Steven T. Seagle on the project ....
Mr. Dini has been a mainstay at Warners for years, working on the D.C. catalogue. But I guess now he's heard the seductive call of Marvel and the Mouse, and so journeys from one part of Burbank to another.
Congratulations on the new assignment.
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Awesome. His work on the Batman animated universe defined the DC animation industry for the last 20 years. To many people, his version of Batman, voiced by Kevin Conroy, and Mark Hamill's Joker are the definitive versions of the characters (much like Adam West was to their parents). Can't wait to see what he does with Marvel.
This is huge news. A guy got a job on a cartoon! Wow! I'm being sarcastic. I don't understand why Dini gets press. Okay, I'm done.
I'd say you are: Try renting. ;)
(The guy basically INVENTED what we today take for granted as "Warner/DC action animation" in the late 90's and early 00's--eg. Justice League, Batman:Animated Series, etc--which is pretty much the last bastion of quality non-humor TV-animation left on cable.
If you don't happen to be familiar with his work, well, um.......bummer.)
Yes, he, Bruce Timm, and Alan Burnett created the definitive Batman for the modern era. That was almost 20 years ago. Paul Dini kind of left animation behind in recent years, scripting the occasional episode of a production overseen by Timm or Burnett.
Nowadays, you're more likely to see him working on live-action. His live-action Tower Prep is coming to Cartoon Network in September. So, yeah, he's become part of the problem.
Much luck to Mr. Dini though on being part of Ultimate Spider-Man, a completely unnecessary series that replaced what should have been the definitive Spider-Man series, Spectacular Spider-Man, which was largely and unfairly scrapped because Disney raised its adamantium fist towards Sony for control of their recently acquired character in other mediums.
"This is huge news. A guy got a job on a cartoon! Wow! I'm being sarcastic. I don't understand why Dini gets press. Okay, I'm done."
I'm glad you announced that you were sarcastic, I thought you were just stupid.
If you don't understand why this is news, you truly have no conception of who he is.
Yawn. This means more yammering kids cartoons with lots of noise, no character, and are just plain dull and ugly.
What else do you expect when this blog, written by union members and for professionals' interest, is frequented by fanboys who don't really know anything? You guys just embarrass yourselves.
Dini is a lover of classic animation, an important comics writer and producer of good stuff and has been in the trenches with a lot of the best people past & present. John K is an old friend. That kind of thing.
well, we shouldn't hold the being a friend of John K against him...
I stand corrected. Dini clearly deserves a Nobel prize. By the way, I'm not a "fanboy" -- I'm a multiple Emmy winner for writing in animation. I just don't get the Dini-as-god thing. I mean, he writes superhero shows -- ones that he didn't create. But good for him, I guess. He must have a good PR agent.
No, he just happens to writer really well. Jealous a bit?
I stand corrected. Dini clearly deserves a Nobel prize. By the way, I'm not a "fanboy" -- I'm a multiple Emmy winner for writing in animation. I just don't get the Dini-as-god thing.
Who said Dini was god? He has done a lot of writing on a lot of very popular animated shows, which makes his move from Warners to Disney noteworthy.
I myself am interested in seeing what the creative side of the animation equation are doing, no matter who they are. I think it's great that an animation blog would have news about people who work in animation. Maybe that's wacky to your Emmy-award-winning world, but it makes perfect sense to me.
And I agree with Hugh...our little Emmy-award-winner sounds jealous.
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