Nerd Corps to Offer Animated Series at MIPCOM Jr.

VANCOUVER, September 25:
At MIPCOM Junior, Nerd Corps will launch The League of Super Evil, which has already been picked up by Jetix Latin
America for a 2009 debut.

Currently broadcasting in
Canada on YTV and the U.K. on CBBC, the animated series will kick off in 2009
with 26 half-hour episodes on Canal+, Canal J and Gulli in France. The episodes
consist of two 11-minute segments and a series of 30-second interstitials.

Work also has begun on a
massively multiplayer online collectible trading card game. Nerd Corps is
internally developing the game and a comprehensive fan site that will provide
6- to 11-year-olds with interactivity through chatting, trading and competing.
As the central meeting place for fans of the show, the website will allow kids
to create a virtual super villain identity and will be packed with show info,
back story, bonus streaming videos, forums and casual games.

The League of Super
Evil follows four super villains
who have set their sights on total neighborhood domination. The league is
helmed by the Great Voltar, whose plans are generally miniscule and give new
meaning to the term lowered expectations. Between borrowing a used 1987
Shiruken anime robot to win a slam-dunk competition, creating a series of booby
traps to beat the local pizza parlor’s delivery-in-10-minutes-or-it’s-free
deal, or battling ninja-waiters to get a reservation at the hottest villain
restaurant in town, the league struggles onward to its goal of total fun.

“League of Super Evil is about a compelling cast of hilarious goofball
characters driving these fast-paced, absurd storylines,” said Asaph Fipke, Nerd
Corps’ supreme commander. “It has a broad appeal in that the edgier send up of
typical super hero/villain stories will resonate with older kids, while its
fast-paced, slapstick action and silly humor will keep the younger end tuned in
too.”

—By Jackie Stewart