Comic-Con 2010: G4 Gets Marvel Animated Series!

Kicking off this year’s Comic-Con at the Marvel booth, it was announced today that G4 will be picking up a slew of animated series based on some of the hottest Marvel properties!  Find out which ones, after the jump…

Speaking from a set piece taken from the upcoming Thor film, Award winning author, “Heroes” showrunner, and recently appointed head of Marvel Studios TV Department Jeph Loeb announced that G4 Networks will be the home of 4 new animated series including, “Blade,” “Iron Man,” “Wolverine,” and X-Men.

There are several reasons to be excited for this: First of all, Jeph Loeb is the man! He wrote the phenomenal Batman: The Long Halloween (which held a great deal of influence over The Dark Knight) and was an executive producer of NBC’s “Heroes.” He knows what makes stories engaging, and holds his projects to a very high standard. The fact that these new shows will have to live up to his expectations bodes well.

Also, the G4 Network is geared towards nerds, fanboys, & young adults, rather than little kids,. That should hold at least a little bit of promise for the shows. They know their audience will be a bit more sophisticated than the average Saturday morning cartoon crowd.

And just in case you forgot how cool an X-Men animated series could be, here’s an awesome thing from your childhood you probably never actually saw…

What do you think of G4 and Marvel’s new collaboration?