My comments on the Extended Generational Sorting Algorithm:
Gosh there are some murky in-betweens here.
G-1 – JSA and teams like the All-Star Squadron and the Blackhawks. The WWII edition. This is occasionally merged with G0 as timelines shift, but includes Hippolyta, Ted Knight, Sandra Knight (as Phantom Lady), Alan Scott, Jay Garrick, etc. A lot of this cohort have aging issues and several have grandkids in G1 or G1.5. Zinda simultaneously belongs to this group and G1.5.
G0 – JSA, the gap between WWII and the first JLA. This is the younger JSA cohort who aren’t so tied to WWII and the gap after. Dinah Drake. Ted Grant. Johnny Quick. Giovanni Zatara. Walter Chase (the Acro-Bat). Bruce’s parents. The Kents. Jim Gordon. Etc.
G1 – JLA land! Bruce, Clark, Diana, Ollie, Barry, Hal, Arthur, etc. You know them. Your idea of a headlining JLA includes these folk.
G1.5 – Birds of Prey and JLI zone. Characters too old to be Titans cohort but younger/clearly different than the G1 headliners. Barbara Gordon and Dinah Lance are the stalwarts of this group, plus I’ll add Helena Bertinelli, Cameron Chase, Kate Spencer, Kendra, etc. I guess I’d probably put Harley Quinn, agewise, here too. Also would add Beatriz, Tora, Booster, Ted Kord, etc. Guy and Zatanna sort of bounce between here and G1 depending on storyline.
G2 – it’s the Titans! Dick, Donna, Wally, Roy, Garth, Victor, Gar, Kory, Raven etc. Their agebounds are probably Roy as the oldest and Gar as the youngest, though Gar’s given to them as a courtesy – he’s realistically a member of G2.5, he just hangs with G2. We also add Kyle and Connor and Jesse Quick etc to this cohort despite them not being core Titans given their strong connections to particularly Donna and Wally.
G2.5 – The JL Taskforce kids and Jason’s non-existent team. Ray Palmer’s Teen Titans. This is a group of individuals that has never properly coalesced. Overlaps in age with both the bottom of G2 and the top of G3 but distinctly don’t belong to either. Jason, Ray, Grant, Argent, Cynthia, Eddie, Snapper Carr, plus Danny Chase and arguably Gar all fall into this group. Rose Wilson overlaps with G3 but vibeswise probably also belongs to this group. I am tossing up whether Anissa and Jennifer Pierce belong here or in G2.
G3 – Young Justice. Tim, Kon, Cassie, Bart, Cissie, Greta, Anita. Cass Cain belongs here despite being the same age as several G2.5s. Steph, Charlie, Black Alice, Jaime, Zachary Zatara, even a handful of the newer folk like Jinny Hex slot in here. Several Supergirls including current Kara, Courtney Whitmore IS a member of this group and the three oldest Marvel kids (Billy, Mary and Freddy) are currently aged into this.
G4 – Damian’s Teen Titans. Damian, Jon Kent (yes even still with the age up), Emiko Queen, Ace West etc. If they are still a teen right now in DC storytelling or SHOULD be a teen, they belong here (if they’re a teen and SHOULDN’T be they’re probably a G3/G5). The Gotham Academy kids. Arguably the Titan Academy kids too? Agewise the DEO Titans kids but spiritually probably not (also the chances of us ever seeing them again is…low) The younger Marvel kids (Eugene, Pedro and Darla especially) are with this group.
G5 – so this group are either alternate G3 or G3.5s. Too new and too un-networked with G3 to be absorbed. Jace Fox, Yara Flor, Jackson Hyde, Duke Thomas and the We Are Robin cohort all belong here. Kong Kenan, Avery Ho, etc also are members.
G6 – Titans Offspring Gen. Almost everyone in this group has been artificially aged, which is a thing, hey. Lian, Irey, Jai, Cerdian, Robbie. Maxine, obviously. Otho and Osul-Ra.
G7 – Help I’m From Earth-One: Power Girl and Helena Wayne.
G8 – The Lost Children – also Help I’m From Earth-One in a lot of respects but they’re in their teens, not adults. May get folded into other groups if they get more use.
Alan’s excited! It’s his first day at Lamin’8– a stale, grey, humdrum lamination company. Oh boy! If he buckles up, stays focused and impresses Gary, his unhinged boss, this might just be a job for life. But all is not quite as it seems, and when Alan accidentally unleashes cosmic, supernatural forces into the office, he realises that fitting in at Lamin’8 is going to be infinitely more tricky than he ever could have dreamed.
CREDITS
Written & Directed by - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari
Produced by - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Alex Holberton & Kev Harwood
Executive Producers - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari, James Stevenson Bretton, Tom Stuart & Bart Yates
Music by - Ben Please & Beth Porter @ The Bookshop band
CAST
ALAN - Dan Ojari
GARY - Baker Terry
PREA - Theodora van Der Beek
SUSAN - Jessica Rayner
NEIL - Rob Carter
SCIENTIST - Elliot Dear
Sound Design - Adam Janota Bzowski, Ben Please & Dan Ojari
Sound Mastering - Simon Harris @ Offset
DOP - Simon Paul
Camera Assistant. - Giles Warner
Additional lighting - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Peter Elmore & Max Halstead
Lead Animators - Andy Biddle, Dan Gill, Steve Warne, Anthony Farquhar Smith, Mikey Please & Dan Ojari
Animators - James Carlisle, Luke George, Rachael Olga, Nick Black & Angie Palethorpe
Puppet Design - Mikey Please
Puppet Fabrication - Mikey Please, Adeena Grub, Rosie Tonkin & Thomas O’Meara
Rigging - Robin Jackson
Crowd Puppets design and fabrication - Adeena Grub and Natasha Wigoder
Set Design - Dan Ojari
Art Direction - Dan Ojari, Emma Rose & Kat Simpson
Modelmakers - Katy Haggerty-Marks, Becky Weston, Rachael Olga, Nick Black, Luke George, Campbell Hartley, Emily Suvanvej, Millie Tennant, Adeena Grubb, Antonia Trister, Jack Pratt, Rebecca Howell, Steph Marshall, Natasha Wigoder, Beatriz Dominguez, Sofia Rodriguez Serrano, Maria Crus, Mireia Mendez & Brin Frost
Lead Compositor - Mikey Please
Additional compositing - Mathias Sgard, Dan Ojari, Simone Ghilardoti & Tom Fisher
Grade - Elroy Gaskin-Payne @ Onsight
Post Production Supervisor - Benjamin Lole
Post Production Manager - Mira Valcheva
Post Production Creative Supervisor - Quentin Vien
3D Modelling - Lisa George-Gilroy
Rig Removal & 3D facial tracking - Elipse FX
Production Support - Ali Albion
Recording Engineer - Robert Frank Hunter
Behind The Scenes Film - Joseph Eckworth
THANK YOU - Charlie Perkins, Matt Day, David Cann, David Lupsein, David Rodger, Katie-Mae Griffith, Lydia Larson, Cross Street Studios, Clapham Road Studios
Alan’s excited! It’s his first day at Lamin’8– a stale, grey, humdrum lamination company. Oh boy! If he buckles up, stays focused and impresses Gary, his unhinged boss, this might just be a job for life. But all is not quite as it seems, and when Alan accidentally unleashes cosmic, supernatural forces into the office, he realises that fitting in at Lamin’8 is going to be infinitely more tricky than he ever could have dreamed.
CREDITS
Written & Directed by - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari
Produced by - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Alex Holberton & Kev Harwood
Executive Producers - Mikey Please & Dan Ojari, James Stevenson Bretton, Tom Stuart & Bart Yates
Music by - Ben Please & Beth Porter @ The Bookshop band
CAST
ALAN - Dan Ojari
GARY - Baker Terry
PREA - Theodora van Der Beek
SUSAN - Jessica Rayner
NEIL - Rob Carter
SCIENTIST - Elliot Dear
Sound Design - Adam Janota Bzowski, Ben Please & Dan Ojari
Sound Mastering - Simon Harris @ Offset
DOP - Simon Paul
Camera Assistant. - Giles Warner
Additional lighting - Mikey Please, Dan Ojari, Peter Elmore & Max Halstead
Lead Animators - Andy Biddle, Dan Gill, Steve Warne, Anthony Farquhar Smith, Mikey Please & Dan Ojari
Animators - James Carlisle, Luke George, Rachael Olga, Nick Black & Angie Palethorpe
Puppet Design - Mikey Please
Puppet Fabrication - Mikey Please, Adeena Grub, Rosie Tonkin & Thomas O’Meara
Rigging - Robin Jackson
Crowd Puppets design and fabrication - Adeena Grub and Natasha Wigoder
Set Design - Dan Ojari
Art Direction - Dan Ojari, Emma Rose & Kat Simpson
Modelmakers - Katy Haggerty-Marks, Becky Weston, Rachael Olga, Nick Black, Luke George, Campbell Hartley, Emily Suvanvej, Millie Tennant, Adeena Grubb, Antonia Trister, Jack Pratt, Rebecca Howell, Steph Marshall, Natasha Wigoder, Beatriz Dominguez, Sofia Rodriguez Serrano, Maria Crus, Mireia Mendez & Brin Frost
Lead Compositor - Mikey Please
Additional compositing - Mathias Sgard, Dan Ojari, Simone Ghilardoti & Tom Fisher
Grade - Elroy Gaskin-Payne @ Onsight
Post Production Supervisor - Benjamin Lole
Post Production Manager - Mira Valcheva
Post Production Creative Supervisor - Quentin Vien
3D Modelling - Lisa George-Gilroy
Rig Removal & 3D facial tracking - Elipse FX
Production Support - Ali Albion
Recording Engineer - Robert Frank Hunter
Behind The Scenes Film - Joseph Eckworth
THANK YOU - Charlie Perkins, Matt Day, David Cann, David Lupsein, David Rodger, Katie-Mae Griffith, Lydia Larson, Cross Street Studios, Clapham Road Studios
Steph Beatriz as Rosa Diaz and Victoria Pedretti as Dani Clayton are opposite ends of a spectrum for changing your voice to fill out a character but are equally talented in doing it