Danny Phantom: A Glitch in Time

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Official Couple: Danny and Sam, who had underwent a Relationship Upgrade towards the end of Phantom Planet. Thankfully, it's the one thing Danny still retains after he's forced to perform a Cosmic Retcon to undo Dark Danny's damage. Also, straight up, this art style is an improvement on the show. Staying totally on model, especially to Hartman's style, kinda works for comedy, but it makes for some janky-ass fight scenes, especially since the show was apparently relatively low-budget. Going with more dynamic art makes it look more modern and gives it a level of dynamicism that wasn't present originally. I actually really liked Vlad in this and his arc was actually really nice and I like Danny's arc in this too, kind of makes sense to go down that route after the end of the series (even if everyone wishes it didn't happen). But yeah, overall, good characters (of course) who felt like themselves, had a few laughs and it was weird but nice to see it modernized a bit more than from when the original show aired (e.g. touch screen phones and saying stuff like GOAT, haha). Spiritual Content: Exploration of the metaphysical meaning and origin of the spirit realm of this world Be Careful What You Wish For: Dark Danny lampshades to Vlad that he is the embodiment of one of his greatest wishes; make Danny into the son he never had. When Vlad finds out that Dark Danny was his creation (or at least a version of him from an Alternate Timeline), he is understandably horrified by what he sees.

Status Quo Is God: The story erases everyone's knowledge of Danny's involvement in the season 3 finale, returning Danny to being a Hero with Bad Publicity whose parents think his alter ego is a menace. The one difference is that Danny's Relationship Upgrade with Sam is still intact. also I would love to erase Phantom Planet and this would be a great way of overwriting that finale) Worf Had the Flu: Due to his powers malfunctioning, even the Box Ghost is able to get the drop on Danny. The Unmasqued World: While likely a dubious Loose Canon in relation to the main series, the book shows that Danny's secret as Danny Phantom was indeed revealed to the entire world. Unfortunately, it ends up being undone to reverse Dark Danny's actions. A Family Thing undoes Vlad's Motive Decay from the third season when he tries to brainwash Danny into his son.

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Halfway through the airing of the second season, Butch Hartman announced the series would end with a shortened, 12-episode third season. Dedicated fans orchestrated various petitions and small organizations to overturn the decision, but, despite these protests, the production of Danny Phantom finished in February 2007, with no plans for future episodes. Despite this, Danny Phantom now maintains a cult following that regularly calls for a series revival, with Hartman being one of the most vocal about this. Violence: PG-style action violence with characters punching, shooting lasers, and implicitly dying off-screen Untrusting Community: What the new Amity Park becomes after Danny chooses to erase his part in stopping the Disasteroid. Mayor Montez makes his town to be anti-ghost by creating an official branch of ghost hunters, as well as adding mandatory ghost fighting programs in public schools, and declaring Danny Phantom Public Ghost Enemy #1 again. Danny still chooses to be the hero to earn the town's trust again. OK I read it. I generally enjoyed it. Comic managed to capture the style and humor of the show. Artwork was good. Very rubbery which contrasted with very on-model look of the show so it took a bit to adjust. It worked for comedic moment and I was worried it wont work in serious moments but action also looked good. All shows aesthetics with how ghosts, force fields, lasers, weapons, etc looked were very much on point.

Imagine my surprise when I learned over a decade later that the evil future Phantom not only hadn't been forgotten but would be a key character in Danny Phantom's first official graphic novel! But would the essence of his character, of all the characters, be taken into consideration, so long after the show ended? I wasn't sure, but I needed to find out. BOY, was I impressed! Danny Fenton/Phantom: The main protagonist, a half-ghost, half-human hero with supernatural powers. The art was great and very similar but distinct enough from the original show that it felt it could move around more (some shots were so cool to look at). I really had no idea what the story was going to be about, but I really liked it and it felt like a 2 part episode from the show haha. It’s kind of surreal that there has been no official new Danny Phantom content in 16 years. The original three-season show — running from 2003 to 2007 — was a personal favorite of mine growing up, being between the ages of 8 and 12 when it originally aired. And I continue to hold a nostalgic warmth for it as an adult, even as my fascination with children’s shows has generally waned. When the release of a new Danny Phantom graphic novel was announced last year, I immediately wanted to know what it was about. Growing the Beard: Following A Family Thing, the series seems to be coming into its own. Even Word of God has said that it was the story where the series would start really forming.

It should be said just how well writer and artist Gabriela Epstein does with leading the project. She is the bestselling author of Invisible and the Baby-Sitters Club and seems to have singlehandedly led the project of reviving the series without significant oversight from series creator Butch Hartman, who has largely moved on to producing his own content like The Garden. Vlad Masters joins Danny and the gang to save the day. Evil Is Petty: What else can be said about Dark Danny traveling into the past and messing with it just to ruin Danny's happy life? Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: While Dark Danny was originally portrayed as a monster whose tragic circumstances led to the loss of his humanity, here it's revealed that his actions are motivated by the loss of his loved ones deep down. Learning of this, Vlad agrees to save Dark Danny from being erased by the timeline so that he can start over.

First airing overseas in 2003, the United States in 2004 and running until 2007, the series revolves around the adventures of 14-year-old Danny Fenton, the son of professional ghost hunters. ( No, not those. Or those.) While generally less than competent, his parents' engineering skill is phenomenal, leading to inventions such as the Fenton Portal, a machine that opens up a path to the " Ghost Zone", an odd kind of afterlife where, like in its spiritual predecessor, ghosts are both beings of the dead and creatures originally from that other dimension. Danny explores the portal and accidentally activates it, imbuing his molecular structure with ectoplasmic energy. The complete first season was released on DVD on September 13, 2011 by Shout! Factory, the first part of Season 2 released on April 3, 2012, with the second part released on August 28, and Season 3 on October 14, 2014. For those going for the Full Monty, however, a complete series DVD was released on January 28th, 2014. All episodes are currently (as of Jan 2021) also available on Apple TV. To those who have read "A Family Thing" and seen the T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "Sweet Revenge", you may notice that one of Butch Hartman's writers thinks a lot like the author or one of his assistants. The series' concept of the hero's Love Interest gaining powers like them would become an official idea with the development of " Spider-Gwen". For irony, the franchise to use the idea would be the one that heavily inspired Danny Phantom.

So my big problem is... What is the current media obsession with redemption stories?? Why are they everywhere? I'm glad we all like Avatar but it's no reason to keep trying to do Zuko! Dark Danny I just don't get. He doesn't feel like he should be possible to redeem. Everything at the end with him just sounds wrong, especially him going "I always lose". I'm not against Vlad being redeemed but it was oddly handled. It seems like most of it was him having an epiphany while watching Danny declare himself being bridge between worlds. Overall until the fight with DD, Vlad isn't his cool scheming smug self. I don't mind him being played as the butt of the joke but all he does it goofy frenemy for entire comic until redemption. And then there is this entire deal with Source and Danny declaring his new purpose. Again, I'm not against idea that ghosts should be treated less as enemies, that part is strongly supported by the show (rampant ghost racist, friendly ghosts, antagonists with complex motivations, numerous team-ups) but I dont fully grasp what is the specific plan here. Is Danny supposed to act as their therapist? It's said that ghost lose their purpose with time but it doesnt seem like most of Danny's enemies are in danger of that. It would work better if they managed to work in Danny helping one ghost into the book (I dont count Vlad and DD.) I absolutely could see this getting an animated adaptation, and I hope it does because this has the makings of being another phantastic Danny Phantom special. Even the fans of Danielle should be happy that she's getting a lot of Character Development in this series.

He's still in character, but he's mostly acting like he does when he knows he's overpowered and his plan failed completely. The book doesn't even really go "he's totally redeemed!" It's just like "well, he said he wants to try and do better, but is he really capable of that?" It also refuses to explain if Dark Danny is really redeemed or not. Danny: Seeing the guy who's spent the last few years trying to destroy me, break up my parents, and who almost caused the destruction of the world?On July 18, 2023, a graphic novel based titled Danny Phantom: A Glitch in Time was released. Written by Gabriela Epstein, A Glitch in Time takes place some time after the Grand Finale and sees Danny and friends forced to work together with Vlad to stop Dark Danny, with the time-displaced entity's escape also causing time itself to unravel. After not reappearing in the series, Dark Danny finally makes his return. Counts as a Long Bus Trip as he's been gone eighteen years in real time.