Oh my goodness that looks like shit. From the boy-ish newb look on Superman, the angry constipated bad-guy like look of Batman, to the spoiled rich girl with the 1980's punk rocker hair.
New Justice League Animated Series Coming to Cartoon Network
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I think that's Killer Croc.
May be unofficial but looks good, I really like the Wonder Woman design.
We've got a description of the first episode, or at least part of it, and some comments from the cast and crew, from the Comic-Con panel. I'm cautiously optimistic based on what I read.
Gonna be weird hearing Diedrich Bader as Booster Gold alongside Conroy as Batman. I mean, they're both Batman! Will they get Rino Romano and Anthony Ruivivar too?
I'm keeping an open mind with this new cartoon. I love Batman: Brave & The Bold, and it had a tone that was the complete opposite of the Batman show that had come before. So, a light hearted type show with DC characters can work well (it doesn't always work, like with Teen Titans Go!, but it has potential). As long as this show isn't just Teen Titans Go with the Justice League I think it could be fun.
Trailer is online:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-trailer-for-justice-league-action-is-all-abou-1784073088
Has potential. Is that P.J. Byrne (Bolin from The Legend of Korra) as Firestorm?
I guess they weren't kidding about using the DCAU character designs as a starting point. Mr. Freeze is still using Mike Mignola's design from B:TAS. Shane Glines has definitely brought his own design sensibilities to some of the characters, though. I'm starting to find this Wonder Woman kind of hot. (And I love how she characterizes Superman and Batman to her mother.)
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-trailer-for-justice-league-action-is-all-abou-1784073088
Has potential. Is that P.J. Byrne (Bolin from The Legend of Korra) as Firestorm?
I guess they weren't kidding about using the DCAU character designs as a starting point. Mr. Freeze is still using Mike Mignola's design from B:TAS. Shane Glines has definitely brought his own design sensibilities to some of the characters, though. I'm starting to find this Wonder Woman kind of hot. (And I love how she characterizes Superman and Batman to her mother.)
The animation has a bit of that "Flash" (not Barry/Wally) animation look to it whether or not that was the software used to make it. Still looks like it will have its moments.
So, remember that scene in Hereafter part 1 where she threatens to put a fist-sized hole in Toyman's head? And Flash talks her back from the brink? That was so good, really intense. Figuring we see nothing like that.
Or seeing her go full-thug in the Justice Lords--that was great too. I always felt Wonder Woman was the character most likely to kill (even if Superman did first out of the JL in the series). Her sensibilities are from another, almost alien time.
I'd really like Corey Burton back as Brainiac some day. That was my favorite voice characterization--even more than Hamill, whom I regard as THE definitive Joker. But I wonder if they can do justice (ha!) to a Brainiac story, anyway.
Have to agree there. Ugh everything is down-aged. I mean it's not TOTAL kiddie, but it's sorta teenagerish.
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CBR has some quotes from an interview they did with the producers at SDCC.
The biggest pieces of information are that we will see 152 characters in Season 1, with 60 heroes, 40 villains, and the rest supporting characters.
Space Cabbie and John Constantine are specifically mentioned. I've never heard of Space Cabbie.
There will be a new original Darkseid/Apocalypse story.
They're doing a haunted house episode.
They will be doing some loose comic adaptations, with a story where the characters have to dress up as each other mentioned as an example.
The biggest pieces of information are that we will see 152 characters in Season 1, with 60 heroes, 40 villains, and the rest supporting characters.
Space Cabbie and John Constantine are specifically mentioned. I've never heard of Space Cabbie.
There will be a new original Darkseid/Apocalypse story.
They're doing a haunted house episode.
They will be doing some loose comic adaptations, with a story where the characters have to dress up as each other mentioned as an example.
Hmmm...
That's kind of a relief. We've had so many Batman shows by this point.
Ugh. Of course they did. Cartoon Network doesn't want to get girl cooties, which is why they cancelled Young Justice for being too popular with girls. At this point, there are already more than enough kids' action shows aimed at "boys in particular," and not remotely enough that are welcoming to girls.
I wonder who'll be playing Constantine. And if they'll continue the practice of pronouncing it "Constan-teen," which I gather is comics-inaccurate.
I'm surprised Young Justice was popular with girls (I read Dini's thoughts, don't need the history of it, just surprised). The funny thing is my stepbrother's 10-year-old boy is really into Harley Quinn so I wonder if they're sure who is buying what. I know of at least one t-shirt not bought by a girl.
Why would that be surprising? It had a number of central, strong, appealing female characters, and it had a good focus on character interactions and relationships and the sorts of things that often go over well with female audiences.
Yeah, that's something the toy marketers and retailers haven't caught onto -- that boys are perfectly capable of liking female action heroes, and girls are capable of liking male heroes. The toy industry has manufactured this completely artificial segregation of "boy stuff" and "girl stuff," and it's got nothing to do with the kids' actual preferences, just with the compulsion of marketers and retailers to lump things into categories and cubbyholes. When I was a kid in the '70s, there were a lot of toys and games that my sister and I played with together, like LEGOs and my Star Trek toys (although I was never much interested in her Barbies and the like). And at the time, LEGOs and some other toys were specifically marketed as being for both boys and girls. It wasn't until later that the toy industry created this gender apartheid that it's locked into today. (I first noticed it in the mid-'80s, when all of the male villains that She-Ra fought in her TV show were lumped into the He-Man toy line, while the She-Ra figures were fashion dolls with combable hair.)
You're right about the appeal, I started thinking about it after I wrote that. Been a while since watching it and my initial reaction doesn't hold.