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New Justice League cartoon

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Mister Six, whom all the girls

13:55 / 02.06.04

Recently a few screen captures of the third season of Justice League were leaked. Paul Dini is off the Animated DC Universe after the next two seasons, so he says, so apparently he's going to animate all his favorites, which from the following link includes b'Wanna Beast, the Question (voiced by Jeffrey Coombs) and Morrison's Aztek.

We have a long time to wait for the new episodes, but it should be fun.

Screen Captures of Season Three's 'Initiation'

01:51 / 03.06.04

Did anyone see the Starcrossed movie on Friday? Was it any good? I missed it but will be renting it when it's out on DVD.

To be honest, I never really liked the Justice League cartoon. (And I love Batman, Superman, and Teen Titans!) But JL also seemed weak. The animation was always shitty and all the characters are seriously de powered and dumbed down and the villains suck. It's really not that big a departure from Super Friends.

22:59 / 03.06.04

There's an adaptation of Alan Moore's 'For the Man Who Has Everything'coming up soon as well.

17:00 / 06.06.04

Has to be among the greatest Superman syories of all time (and unless Mr Moore writes it they just ruin it !)

And and get Dave Gibbons to draw it , how he made me here a written sound effect ill never know

13:02 / 07.06.04

I heard Starcrossed was quite good. Alfred even makes an appearance! (I haven't seen it just read lots of summaries/spoilers about it)

18:52 / 10.06.04

Aztek! Neat-o! I really like Justice League. Trying hard to avoid spoilers for Starcrossed, though.

Not sure about the new format. I liked the multiple-episode story arcs.

13:12 / 11.06.04

I like the multi-part episodes too - gives them more to work with and more of an epic feel to each adventure. Ah well...they'll all be half-hours from now on, although they did reserve the right to do occasional two-parters.

15:24 / 16.06.04

There's a pic of the first issue cover for the JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED comic (the 3rd season tie-in) in DC's new solicits - and they gave the John Stewart Green Lantern the bald man with a goatee look. Why does every cool black character in comics have to look the same (bald with cool goatee)? John Stewart looked fine the way he was, and he didn't look like every other black character in comics. When that DISTRICT X book came out and the reworked Bishop was revealed to be, guess what, bald with a goatee, one poster on a message board wrote "So now every black man at Marvel Comics is now Shaft (or Samuel L. Jackson in Shaft)." I know that's the cool look now, but there are so few black characters in comics that having all or most of them all have the same look cause it's "in" just seems a bit odd. Maybe this is more appropriate for another thread on the depiction of black characters in comics, but it's something I've been thinking about.

15:29 / 16.06.04

15:30 / 16.06.04

Here he is...tried to post the image but didn't work.

15:58 / 16.06.04

It's obvious by Superman's Nazi pose that the artist is racist.

16:33 / 16.06.04

I don't think they're departing from the Bruce Timm style animation for the 3rd JL season - I think this cover is just done in the artist's style. But I don't think this cover means that the 'look' of the show is going to be changing, since the screencaps mentioned above are in the same style as the 2nd and 1st season.

16:56 / 16.06.04

Hmm. I see what you mean. I was actually surpirsed that John Stewart didn't start out with this look. I was glad they went for the non-beardy look.
That said, my boyfriend and quite a few of my friends have the bald-with-goatee look. 'Course, they're all white so I don't know if that's relevant.

17:14 / 16.06.04

To support my thesis: black men in current comics --

Marvel:

Black Panther: now bald with goatee
Ultimate Nick Fury: bald with goatee and looks exactly like Samuel L. Jackson
Bishop: now bald with goatee (formerly had dreadlocks-like hair and goatee/beard)
Luke Cage: now bald with goatee

DC:

John Stewart Green Lantern: has hair in regular DCU, now apparently suddenly bald with goatee in new Justice League cartoon.
Steel (John Henry Irons): bald with goatee.
Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce): Hair. no goatee.
the new Mr. Terrific: Hair. no goatee.
J.J. Thunder: litte kid, dreadlocks-like hair.

are there others I'm forgetting?

17:16 / 16.06.04

Oh, and....

Crispus Atticus in GOTHAM CENTRAL: bald with goatee.

03:09 / 03.07.05

Is anyone else watching this? I’ve been watching this season religiously, which is less of a Saturday morning cartoon and more like an season of Angel. The Superman/Captain Marvel fight was incredible. The Question is the closest thing we’re ever going to see to Rorschach on any screen. Huntress is so badass and perfectly voiced by Amy (Fred) Acker. Green Arrow and Black Canary are great together (but not was good as The Question and Huntress' sick romance.) Cadmus (and the United States) have declared war on the Justice League! Superman is meticulously and publicly being made to look like an ass by Luther. As a mater of fact the best thing on this show right now has to be Lex Luther, IMO this is the best incarnation of the character I’ve seen.

03:13 / 03.07.05

I just read my old post (from a year ago) at the beginning of this thread and had to laugh… what a turn around!

03:31 / 03.07.05

Oh and, for those interested since a lot of actors from the Whedonverse are doing voices on this show:

Amy (Fred)Acker…. Huntress
Nathan (Mal) Fillion .... Vigilante
Gina (Zoe) Torres .... Vixen
Morena (Inara) Baccarin .... Black Canary
Adam (Jayne) Baldwin .... Rick Flagg/ Bonk/ Jonah Hex
Juliet (Drusilla) Landau…. Pastique

(Okay, I'll stop posting for now.)

08:50 / 03.07.05

The Question is the closest thing we’re ever going to see to Rorschach on any screen.

Totally. How badass was that scene in Luthor's office? "Oh, I'm a well known crackpot" and then it just goes all horribly wrong.

Quorschach is also the only guy who can use brobdinagian on TV and not sound like a tool.

15:25 / 03.07.05

I've only been able to see this scattershot via downloads but man... I can't wait for them to (if ever) collect these seasons into DVD. The series started out with a bit of a jerk and cough but the dialogue has been getting more and more consistently solid, esp. in this latest 4th Season. And I'm with you, Thoth. The Clash was the bar none the greatest superhero fight ever portrayed.

Green Arrow: This whole trip might just prove the kid [Supergirl] shouldn't eat nachos before bed.
The Question: Peanut butter sandwiches.
Supergirl: How did - What, do you go through my trash?
The Question: Please.
[pause]
The Question: I go through *everyone's* trash.

****
The Question: Reaching back to Ancient Egypt, there's been a single cabal of powerful individuals directing the course of human history. But the common man prefers to believe they don't exist, which aids their success.
Supergirl: Global warming? Military upheavals in the third world? Actors elected to public office?
Green Arrow: The spread of coffee bars? Germs outpacing antibiotics? And boy bands? Come on! Who would gain from all this?
The Question: Who indeed?

*****
Cop: How do you take your coffee?
The Flash: With cream and 37 sugars
[pause]
The Flash: What? I'm not kidding!

*****
[Clark Kent examines his Christmas presents]
Clark Kent: Lead...

17:56 / 03.07.05

This sounds fantastic - I barely have television, let alone cable, so is it available in the UK? Are there plans to release them on DVD?

19:27 / 03.07.05

Benny, if you don't have cable you don't have Justice League Unlimited, really. You best place to get them is in 179mb/episode chunks online, either via bit torrent orrrrr your p2p program of joyce.

The only DVDs available at the moment are the two TV movies they made - which, like Devastator, are three smaler episodes combined into one big one.

20:36 / 03.07.05

Which is really a pain, I think. They're better served keeping them to seasons, like they've done with the Batman animated DVDs, et al. The piecemeal get-people-to-pay-full-price-for-only-three-episodes tactic bothers the hell out of me. It's a blatant attempt to get people to pay more while getting less. Something they're continuing to do with the upcoming JLU DVD in Sept. Part of the reason I have no compunction downloading them until they start minting box sets.

If they can make season compilations for Mork and Mindy, they can damn well do it for Justice League.

05:28 / 04.07.05

Yeah, I hate those three episode dvds. I don't think they're going to do boxsets anytime soon though.

A beautiful tunnel of ghosts

06:46 / 04.07.05

Commenting on the bald-black-man-with-a-goatee image, for me this dates back to Avery Brooks in Spenser for Hire and later Deep Space 9. Following several seasons of DS9 with a full head of hair and no beard, Brooks reverted to the image of his character in Spenser for Hire and firmly established the BBMWAG 'look' years before Jackson popularised it in Shaft.

14:46 / 04.07.05

Honestly, it just looks badass. I mean, yeah it's common, but didn't Sisko look better that way? Doesn't Green Lantern look cooler? It just works.

14:53 / 04.07.05

True, it just looks cool.

Only seen a couple of episodes of this so far (it's on TOONAMI, UK & Ireland Sky people!) and think it's ok. Just watched the Booster Gold episode which was fun but ended a bit stupidly. It feels "kiddier" than Justice League. Still fun seeing all those heroes, though!

18:54 / 04.07.05

>> I don't think they're going to do boxsets anytime soon though.

I think we'll get the final Batman animated eps on box DVD sets in about a year, then we'll get the Batman Beyond DVD sets soon... the Superman DVD box sets will finish up and then and only then will we get the first season or two of Justice League on DVD. So maybe JL will be on DVD in box sets in about 3 years. I hear the Batman and Superman DVD box sets have sold decently. I would imagine WB will eventually put everything (all the animted DCU stuff) on DVD.

02:27 / 05.07.05

Warewulf- That episode was alright. They get much better.

02:31 / 05.07.05

Wulf, that was the end of the 2nd season. The 3rd season covers (breath!) the Thanagarians, a hijacked celestial weapon, black magic, Wonderpig, Captain Marvel and black-ops groups working for the U.S. government. For starters.

Keep watching.

06:09 / 05.07.05

yeah. the whole Cadmus thing is cah-razy.

11:12 / 05.07.05

A celestial weapon and black magic?

MA GEDD ON!

MA GEDD ON!

Oh pretty please.

I'm watching the second series currently. Hoping they'll have an Aztek-based episode (please tell me if they do). Liking it alot. The Booster Gold one was nicely light-hearted (liked the composite Super-Batman).

The return of the Amazo android was cool, Lex Luthor talking him down and then having to go one step too far. Great.

Plus...Bizzaro am number one!

11:52 / 05.07.05

Just watched "Ultimatum!"

Project Cadmus!
Maxwell Lord!
Amanda Waller! Goddamn, she was cool!

Hightlight:

Batman (leans into Waller, grinning): "Mine are bigger than yours."

Waller: "Don't push me, rich boy."

*insert stunned Bat-Face here*

13:43 / 05.07.05

Evil Scientist- Aztek does indeed show up.

19:41 / 07.07.05

Just saw Divided We Fall.

Jesus. So incredibly cool. Those of you who aren't watching these really are missing out.

SPOILERS

I'd been wondering how the hell Luthor got so strong.

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