Ranking Every DC Animated TV Series From Worst To Best
10. Green Lantern: The Animated Series
The CGI look may not be for everyone, especially for fans of classic DCAU projects, but there's a lot to love about Green Lantern: The Animated Series.
A project led by BTAS co-creator Bruce Timm, the Green Lantern Animated Series followed Hal Jordan as he explored the cosmos with perennial best friend and former instructor, Kilowog. The story borrowed heavily from the modern stories of the Corps, and featured both the Red and Blue Lanterns along the way, leading to an epic climax involving an all-out Lantern war with the Manhunters in the series' final episodes.
Sadly, but rather predictably, the show was cancelled due to poor toy sales. Similar experiences on Young Justice led creator Paul Dini to denounce the state of modern cartoon programming, which he described as being fundamentally sexist and motivated solely by the sale of merchandise. Ouch.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and the Golden Age of Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled.