Young Justice Targets: Q&A with Chris Jones & Greg Weisman! June 14, 2pm PT!

[Jitsu]

Just wanted to say hey and welcome to this awesome community!

[Jitsu]

Heyo @nbahern.37212–welcome to the DC Community!

[Jitsu]

Welcome to the DC Community site! Big fan of your username

[chesherkit.46194]

Hello!
What are some of the story telling freedoms you enjoy with not having to write Young Justice for animation?
Do you take the approach of being wary to flex that freedom in worry of it shifting the tone or groundedness or do you enjoy taking advantage of the opportunity to write with differnt limits.
Thank you!

Love the show! Stay confident in your writing friends. And if you guys ever need someone to just learn a job to help with something…
Lol

[capo-mage]

Hey Chris & Greg. Ty for joining us!!!

Love the comic & obviously, YJ series. Most of the good questions were asked.

Greg. I asked u a question about the nonstop usage of the #16 the last few seasons. You replied- “it’s been since season #1, the question is, why didn’t u notice it til just now “- I had no way to respond cuz it was an offline interview. I didn’t notice b/c I was obsessed with finding the #’s 23 & 22. I come across them all the time in all DC related programs, comics etc. I’ve asked about it b4 on here & wherever I could? I was told there’s a phenomenon of people who only see the #23 in things? Comics (historically) consist of 22-23 pages. Is there any truth in this? Also, I noticed #16 b/c @JoshuaLapinBertone got me hip to it when he noticed it. So, I got a late start lol. Ty for the time, & the most Zatanna I’ve ever seen in a single season. YJ is truly in a league of it’s own!!!

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@Reaganfan78

will we see the Penguin on Young Justice? I’m a huge fan of the character and would love to see him on the show.

GW: I’m afraid my answer to this - as to most of these kinds of questions - is NO SPOILERS. But we did MENTION Penguin in Phantoms. So at least you know an Earth-16 version of ol’ Oswald exists.

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@Jurisdiction

Who will be in the team? Will Greta Hayes be in it — asking for a friend

GW: Targets takes place only a month after Phantoms! The roster of the Team will not have changed.

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@idle453.87595

I was curious if this was an idea that got left out of the current season or a new idea that came about after the season was written. I love this show and hope for another season or at least more comic series.

GW: These are ideas which Brandon Vietti and I have had for some time…We’re finally getting around to “portraying” them in Targets.

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@TaimurDar

I love that characters that first appeared in the original YJ tie-in comic series a decade ago like Wyynde, King Sha’ark, Blubber got to eventually show up in animation in YJ Seasons 3 and 4.

Is YJ: Targets introducing any new characters that Chris got to design/draw that we may see again down the line in the animated series?

GW: YES!

CJ: Obviously that would be dependent on their being future seasons to appear in (#SaveEarth16), but we’ve already had characters from the previous tie-in comics make their way into the TV show, so it could certainly happen again!

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@HubCityQuestion

Hey Greg and Chris, thanks for coming back! That was a really phenomenal season finale we just watched. I’ve got one question though – how were Zod and the other Phantom Zoners instantly able to address Metropolis in English when they emerged from the Boom Tube? Thanks!

GW: Ma’alefa’ak downloaded English to their minds!

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@RexRebel

From what I’ve read online, it appears that each story will have a back up story as well. Will the backup be solo adventures of our heroes or villains from the past or team adventures filling in some gaps from the TV show, and was their a Young Justice character, you wanted to include more of but just didn’t have the space to do so.

GW: There are always characters that we want to devote more screen or page time to. Always. As for the back-ups, the first one focuses on Red Arrow. As for the other five… wait and see!

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@zulmara5.38205

I don’t see the point in putting a question when mine never get asked but whatever. In hopefully future seasons, will you be continuing to focus on the OG Team?

GW: If you don’t ask, you can’t get an answer! We’ll always pay attention to the so-called OGs. But each season is intentionally different from past seasons. But the best way to show growth in the characters is to have earlier seasons’ versions of those characters to compare them to.

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@NYJt3

My question is I’m curious to why Vandal Savage was chosen as the big bad or an important one at least and will his plan continues to grow in these comics?

GW: Vandal’s historic history, going back 50K years made the idea of putting him up against young heroes extremely appealing to Brandon Vietti and myself. But that doesn’t guarantee that he’s involved with EVERY story. So I’m not going to reveal whether he is or isn’t involved in Targets. No spoilers!

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@JonathanSamuelKent

I’m a bit confused on the timeline, which might just be because I’m stupid, but is the child that Ursa is pregnant with in the season finale supposed to be, genetically at least, a version of Lor-Zod? Or did the present day Ursa already give birth to Lor?

GW: The former, if I’m reading your question correctly.

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@politicalsaiyan.70754

When will you two work on the next Gargoyles?

CJ: Look closely at the pages of the second issue of YJ Targets for the answer to your question…

GW: There’s an Easter egg there just waiting to hatch…

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@Exatal

Hi Greg and Chris!! I absolutely loved the finale of S4 and all the episodes and how we got to see the original team again. Will the YJ Targets series introduce any new characters that we have not seen before and will some team members have new outfits and or designs?

CJ: It’s been only a short time since the conclusion of Young Justice Season 4, so the designs and outfits are pretty much unchanged since Phantoms, but you ABSOLUTELY WILL be seeing some new characters in upcoming issues.

[armadajetfire.163]

Given the focus in the Mars arc on how Megan sees herself, what was her reasoning to have a human skin tone in the wedding?

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@LastSolaris

what made you decide to give Conner only some of his power from the comic in this series.

GW: We wanted to go with 1938 Superman powers. Powers that were simply an extension and expansion of what a human could do. So Infrared vision, as opposed to heat vision. Super-leaping instead of flying, etc.

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@the_Rubber_Bandit

What was it like voicing Lucas Carr and being the one marrying Miss M and SB? After all this time, did you feel something special when you finished recording the dialogue that closed up what was opened back in pretty much episode 2?

GW: It felt like the culmination of a decade’s worth of work, honestly. You can hear Lucas choke up, and truthfully, I choke up every time I watch that wedding, especially the vows. (And, yeah, I know that sounds immodest, since I wrote them, but all credit to Danica and Nolan for voicing them with so much sincere feeling!)