Whelmed : the Young Justice files
Sep 16, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 10 segments
Hello team! Welcome to Comic Relief and our review of Young Justice: Issue #0: Stopover. This is a really great episode of the show and there's a lot to talk about, so let's get to the episode!…
Greg WeismanGuest
Neal PowellHost
Brandon ViettiGuestEmily BoozaHost
Rich HowardHost
I mean, there's a bunch of things that obviously because of the comic being the first one, there are a lot of things that get introduced for the first time.
And one of our favorite... running jokes for a shop title is forever 16, because it seems like it's the first place that someone who will remain forever 16 goes in shops.
Does, does it ever come? I'm trying to remember, does it ever come back up the subtitle of suburban
I was, I think what happened really is that I came up with two, uh, goofy names, uh, you know, parodies of stores that existed now.
And yesterday after I read the comic, just out of curiosity, I looked up forever 21 and urban outfitters and forever 21 still sell stuff online, but they have no stores anymore.
But Urban Outfitters isn't as pervasive as it used to be, but there's still stores and stuff like that.
What's the clearance process like? Because with animation, we have an entire legal department at Warner Brothers Animation, and anytime a store name is brought up, it's put through a pretty rigorous series of checks from...
a team of lawyers that are making sure we're not actually accidentally using a name in a show that is owned by somebody else.
So pretty basic protections for all sides, but with, uh, comics, what's the process?
Uh, I mean, I know back when I was on staff, the process was, is that we had, uh, a proofreader whose job doubled to, uh, um, also include, um, you know, raising that and the editors were supposed to sort of keep an eye on it, but it's generally looser because no one pays attention to comics.
Um, I don't know what the process is now or what it was back in, uh, um, 2010, but, uh, my guess is, is that these names are both clear parody they're used as parody and, and, um, so it's it's pretty safe now a lot of companies don't care whether it's safe they don't care whether you can win the lawsuit if someone were to file a lawsuit they care about the money it'll cost to even fight the lawsuit so they have a tendency to be extremely strict about this sort of thing and particularly a studio like disney for example It sort of goes by the, we live in a glass house, like we sue people all the time.
So we don't want, you know, to do something that'll cause people to sue us for the kinds of things that we sued them for.
I don't think Warner Brothers is as strict as Disney is, but they're not unstrict, just not quite as bad.
But comics traditionally have gotten away with a lot of crap that television can't just because so many people see it.
It never came up like no one ever said, hey, I don't know if you should do this.
I mean, there's a bunch of things that obviously because of the comic being the first one, there are a lot of things that get introduced for the first time.
And one of our favorite... running jokes for a shop title is forever 16, because it seems like it's the first place that someone who will remain forever 16 goes in shops.
Does, does it ever come? I'm trying to remember, does it ever come back up the subtitle of suburban
I was, I think what happened really is that I came up with two, uh, goofy names, uh, you know, parodies of stores that existed now.
And yesterday after I read the comic, just out of curiosity, I looked up forever 21 and urban outfitters and forever 21 still sell stuff online, but they have no stores anymore.
But Urban Outfitters isn't as pervasive as it used to be, but there's still stores and stuff like that.
What's the clearance process like? Because with animation, we have an entire legal department at Warner Brothers Animation, and anytime a store name is brought up, it's put through a pretty rigorous series of checks from...
a team of lawyers that are making sure we're not actually accidentally using a name in a show that is owned by somebody else.
So pretty basic protections for all sides, but with, uh, comics, what's the process?
Uh, I mean, I know back when I was on staff, the process was, is that we had, uh, a proofreader whose job doubled to, uh, um, also include, um, you know, raising that and the editors were supposed to sort of keep an eye on it, but it's generally looser because no one pays attention to comics.
Um, I don't know what the process is now or what it was back in, uh, um, 2010, but, uh, my guess is, is that these names are both clear parody they're used as parody and, and, um, so it's it's pretty safe now a lot of companies don't care whether it's safe they don't care whether you can win the lawsuit if someone were to file a lawsuit they care about the money it'll cost to even fight the lawsuit so they have a tendency to be extremely strict about this sort of thing and particularly a studio like disney for example It sort of goes by the, we live in a glass house, like we sue people all the time.
So we don't want, you know, to do something that'll cause people to sue us for the kinds of things that we sued them for.
I don't think Warner Brothers is as strict as Disney is, but they're not unstrict, just not quite as bad.
But comics traditionally have gotten away with a lot of crap that television can't just because so many people see it.
It never came up like no one ever said, hey, I don't know if you should do this.
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