I'd never seen the Justice League of America cartoon shorts as a kid, so it's not my favorite out of childhood nostalgia for those cartoons. I'd never seem those rare cartoons until I bought the DVD. It's my favorite because it's more like the classic, iconic Justice League comics come to life. The character designs are very faithful to the classic, iconic JLA look in the classic JLA comics by artists Mike Sekowsky and Dick Dillin. The stories in the cartoons are written by a DC writer/editor. It also features my favorite Superman voice actor, Bud Collyer. All of the characters appearing in each episode are given a fair amount to do, according to each heroes abilities.
The reasons why Justice League and Justice League Unlimited are not my favorites is because I'm not a fan of the extremely over-exaggerated blocky, angular character designs that Bruce Timm chose for Justice League and Justice League Unlimited with all the male characters (especially Superman) having huge upper bodies and small from the waist down.
I dislike the portrayal of Wonder Woman as having a crush on Batman, kissing him, having a dance with him, flirting with him.
Batman singing "Am I Blue" is extremely cheesy and funny to me rather than touching to me.
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It reminds me of Adam West's Batman singing "I'm Called Little Buttercup."
I loath the wimpy portrayal of Superman getting knocked down and then not getting back up. There was a definite Batman bias. Bruce Timm admitted he didn't know what to do with Superman and thinks Superman is dull and had him get taken down with one punch. Bruce Timm on Superman: “Y'know, I think that even the Fleischers recognized way back when that Superman was just an intrinsically dull character. I knew immediately what to do with Batman, whereas with Superman I wasn’t quite sure what to do with him. I don’t think he’s as interesting a character on the face of him. With Batman, you look at him and you get it. Superman's just not as intrinsically [as] cool as Batman. We fell into a rut of Superman getting knocked down and then not getting back up. The trap we fell into on Justice League was, again, we have seven of these guys and whatever villains they go up against have to be big, powerful villains. So we used the easy trick of saying, ‘Okay: the villain walks into the scene and takes Superman down with one punch.’"
http://jl.toonzone.net/superman/superman.htm
I also dislike the portrayal of Superman acting grim and angsty, glaring at Captain Marvel from the start, who looked up to Superman and admired him, complimented him, and just wanted to help.
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And I also dislike the portrayal of Captain Marvel acting like an immature version of Billy Batson, apparently lacking the wisdom of Zeus.
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