Preview Images From 'Endgame,' The Series Finale of 'Young Justice: Invasion'

We can add Young Justice to Cartoon Network's animation causality list. Tomorrow morning will bring us the series finales of two DC Nation shows, Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice: Invasion. When the two series were abruptly pulled from the schedule last fall and didn't resume their runs until January, I don't think fans were surprised to learn that they did not make the cut when Cartoon Network announced their new and returning shows for 2013. 

Filling in the gaps in the DC Nation line-up will be Teen Titans Go! and Beware the Batman. Star Wars: The Clone Wars has also ended its five season run on the network, with Lucasfilm 'winding' down production on that show and releasing what it has left probably on DVD or airing on Disney XD. 

Young Justice took an edgy turn with its Invasion storyline, taking the Justice League apprentices into a future storyline and expanding the cast greatly with a generous line-up of DC heroes. It's unfortunate to see its the end of the road, meeting the same fate of its predecessors Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.

Here are some images featuring from tomorrow's swan song episode, Endgame, even one featuring four generation of The Flash. "On the verge of finally ending the alien invasion, the team discovers the price of victory may be the entire planet Earth!" is how Cartoon Network describes the episode.

You can also check out images and a clip from tomorrow's final episode of Green Lantern: The Animated Series here and the first look at Teen Titans Go! here.

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NEW YORK COMIC CON 2012 INTERVIEW: Paul Scheer Teases Hal Linden's Seduction By Rebecca Romijn On Tonight's NTSF:SD:SVU

When I caught up with Paul Scheer, the creator, writer, and star of Adult Swim's madcap CSI/24 spoof NTSF:SD:SVU, he revealed one of his favorite scenes from this season is on-deck for tonight's episode, Prairie Dog Companion, and involves an intimate encounter between Rebecca Romijn and special guest star, TV icon Hal Linden.

The hit show, now in its second season on Cartoon Network and also stars Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager), Rob Riggle (SNL), and Martin Starr (Party Down), has a great line-up of upcoming guest-stars, to which Scheer was happy to reveal.

"For the rest of this season we have some great guest-stars coming in. We have Aziz Ansari, Aubrey Plaza, and Ray Liota. We also have Hal Linden (TV's Barney Miller), and Michael Gross (who played the dad on Family Ties, and also from Tremors). Great awesome guests coming up. And Steven Williams, the original Captain from 21 Jump Street."

"We are very excited that we cast people who we are fans of," he admitted.

I asked Scheer if Recbecca Romijn, who plays Jessie Nichols, undoubtedly the hottest scientist on TV, will ever leave the lab coat behind and venture out in the field to kick ass. "Rebecca Romijn will be leaving the lab in the next episode," he revealed. "She will go undercover which is really fun."

"I was friends with Jerry O'Connell from doing Piranha, and I met Rebecca through him. She was so funny, and I was like 'Why hasn't anyone capitalized on Rebecca being in comedies?' So I wanted to get her in the show. Obviously she's incredibly beautiful and also incredibly funny."

But going from the safety of the crime lab and out into the thick of the action alongside Scheer's Trent Hauser doesn't mean Romijn will be immediately showcasing her old X-Men fighting skills.

"She's going to be awkward. Maybe next season we should maybe let her kick ass a little bit. Yeah, in this one she gets to have a sex scene with Hal Linden." What?

"82-year old Hal Linden," he reiterated

"She has to seduce him. It's one of my favorite scenes in the whole season," he laughed.

"We also have a very special Christmas episode coming up in December that I'm very excited about," he promised for year's end. But we will get to that in part two of the interview...

NTSF:SD:SVU airs on Cartoon Network on Thursday nights (technically Friday mornings) at 12:15AM following Children's Hospital on Adult Swim.

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PREVIEW: 'Robot Chicken' Season Six DC Comics Special

Robot Chicken, Cartoon's Network's hit Emmy Award Winning stop motion animated show, returns to the Adult Swim airwaves for its sixth season premiere on September 9th at midnight with a DC Comics themed special.

Check out the preview trailer below, showcasing the signature humor of the Robot Chicken creative team and the voices of Seth Green as Batman, Robin, and Aquaman, Neil Patrick Harris as Two-Face, Alfred Molina as Lex Luthor, Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern, Megan Fox as Lois Lane, and Breckin Meyer as Superman.

From Cartoon Network:

"Adult Swim announced today that the much-anticipated Robot Chicken DC Comics Special will officially kick off the sixth season of the Emmy Award®-winning series on Sunday, September 9th at Midnight (ET/PT).

In the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special, Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, in partnership with DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, brings you the awesomeness of the DC Comics universe of characters as only Robot Chickencan, with amazing guest stars and the stop-motion sketch comedy you've come to love after five seasons of the popular Adult Swim series.

The all-star cast includes Seth Green as Batman, Robin and the put-upon Aquaman, Neil Patrick Harris as Two-Face, Alfred Molina as Lex Luthor, Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern, Megan Fox as Lois Lane, Breckin Meyer as Superman, plus Abe Benrubi, Alex Borstein, Clare Grant, Tara Strong, Matt Senreich, Tom Root, Zeb Wells, and Kevin Shinick as co-producer and narrator.

Robot Chicken uses stop-motion animation to bring pop-culture parodies to life in a modern take on the variety/sketch show format. The Emmy Award®-winning series began airing in February 2005 and remains among the top-rated original series on Adult Swim." 

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