He existed before the show. Here's his DC Comics Database page.
But I see now that he was introduced a few months before the show premiered, so does that mean he was he introduced as a set up for the show?
What I said is correct; he was created for Young Justice. But it takes much, much longer to produce an animated television series than it does to produce a comic book, so DC was able to create a character inspired by Kaldur'ahm and introduce him into the comics before the show premiered. (The exact same thing happened with Renee Montoya. She was created for Batman: The Animated Series, but the much shorter lead time of comics enabled DC to debut her in comics form first.)
However, I suppose there is some "prior mythology" in that his connection to Black Manta was introduced in the comics early on, and now the show is following that lead.
The idea of Black Manta being his father was from Geoff Johns himself according to the YJ writers.
Geoff Johns "himself"?
Cool.
Cool.
I was really thrown by the five year leap, does anyone know if they plan to go back or will it stay with the current time line?
I'm not enjoying the five year jump. It feels like they jumped to the end of the book and skipped all the character development.
The whole season is one big "Invasion" miniseries, so I doubt there's any plan to "go back."
Quite the opposite apparently: Weisman recently revealed at his blog that if there is a season 3, we would see another time skip.
If they keep time skipping every season eventually the Justice League is going to look very different.
I don't think I would mind if this became a regular thing. I wasn't sure about the jump this season at first, but I've already adjusted, and if they did another one next season I'd probably adjust even quicker. I think it could be kind of cool if we basically got a different team each season. There are plenty of DC characters to use in the show.
Good point, yeah.
Interesting, where'd you hear that?
Wasn't expecting that! Still, I think I agree with JD.
Well that covers everyone from the season 1 team.
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Yeah, quite a lot got fleshed out here, and I wish we hadn't needed to wait four weeks to get these answers. Maybe a bit too much backstory was filled in all at once, though, since I couldn't figure out who that tall brown-haired guy was standing with Wally, Nightwing, and the others until he revealed he was the former Guardian. And I think the discovery that he was a clone is something that must've happened in the 5-year gap, since I don't remember it. And I'm confused -- is Jim Harper a clone of Roy Harper or of the original Jim Harper, Roy's great-uncle? He called Roy "brother," suggesting they're clones of the same "parent." And he does have the same voice (Crispin Freeman) and a very similar face.
Good to see that Artemis is okay and that she and Wally ended up together. I wonder why they resigned from heroing, though.
Good to see that Artemis is okay and that she and Wally ended up together. I wonder why they resigned from heroing, though.
Or better yet, if they'll stay that way.
I enjoyed this one, it wasn't anything amazing but it was a very solid episode with some very interesting new information revealed about the missing five years. I wonder what happened that made Wally & Artemis give up super heroics. I really liked them, and I'll miss them if this was their last episode. Were we supposed to know who Sportsmaster's new partner is? It felt like there should have been some significance to the way he kept call Superboy and Blue Beetle "meat".
Season 2 episode 1 ending parody
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnHSwDlnWTU[/YT]
[YT]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnHSwDlnWTU[/YT]
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