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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies: Picked it up because there was nothing else in the shop that interested me that week and because I wanted to see how it compared to the movie. Good art for the most part and a story that makes slightly more sense, but nothing to write home about.
Superman/Batman: Supergirl: (see above)
Green Lantern: Secret Origin: A surprisingly engaging and quick read. I normally read comics on the can but after picking this one up from my mailbox I couldn't put it down. Made Hal Jordan a lot more interesting than I've ever seen him and made Hector Hammond more than just DC's version of the Leader. Now officially looking forward to the movie in a few months.
Trade paperbacks: 4
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Sorry, but Miss Martian remains my least favorite member of the team, followed by Robin, thanks to their annoying catchphrases.
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I think it's rather hit-and-miss. For the most part, Romano is excellent at casting good voices, but I feel she sometimes misses the mark with some of the casting in these movies (e.g. Andre Braugher as Darkseid, Christina Hendricks as Lois Lane, about half the cast of Crisis on Two Earths, though James Woods does not fall into that group).
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Care to elaborate?
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And yet it makes more sense than the majority of stuff that comes out of Smallville, at least with his DC work (can't speak for Onslaught Reborn or Ultimatum).
Before we veer too much off-topic, let me pose this question: What do y'all think of the use of Hollywood/television celebrities with by and large higher profiles than those hired by Romano in the DCAU shows? (ex. Anne Heche in Superman: Doomsday; Alfred Molina in Wonder Woman; Michael Madsen in First Flight; James Woods in Crisis on Two Earths; Summer Glau in S/B: Apocalypse; Christina Hendricks in All-Star Superman) Do they make good use of them? Are they cast in the right roles? Is it overdone?
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Yeah, that's a mark of shame both he and Jeph Loeb have to bear
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Though it would be kind of risk given that the characters aren't household names, I'd like to see a JSA film set during World War II and with Vandal Savage as the main villain.
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Perhaps, but Weisman and company have stated that they have no plans to use Slade/Deathstroke in order to distinguish their cartoon from Teen Titans. They could have been lying though.
I wasn't too crazy about the episode as a whole, but that scene with the aforementioned hint gave me the chills.
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"Downtime"
Another awesome episode. Atlantis has never looked better and it was nice learning why Calder and not Garth was Aqualad. It was a treat to see the Aquaman and Flash families. My only real complaint is the scene with Miss Martian and Superboy, since the former is still annoying and the latter is still a dick. I suspect that Orm will come back as an antagonist to both Aquaman and Aqualad. Also didn't realize that Artemis was half-Asian.
Orm is the comics is Ocean Master and the figure that Black Manta is talking to does look like him.
I knew the former but didn't notice the latter. Nice catch.
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Have them watch BTAS, then STAS and Gotham Knights, THEN Batman Beyond then Return of the Joker, followed by JL and JLU, Epilogue shown after Destroyer. I know Batman Beyond is set about forty years after the end of JLU, but the viewing experience in that order will be better: I watched JL and JLU and then went into Batman Beyond with high hopes, but given the programs I had seen before found it kind of disappointing as a whole. If they like Batman Beyond and want to see more of the DCAU of the future, give them Zeta. If they want a break from Superman and Batman, give them Static, but don't force Static or Zeta on them.
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Very legitimate gripe. Plus we're given no reason as to why he'd like her to begin with.
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"Downtime"
Another awesome episode. Atlantis has never looked better and it was nice learning why Calder and not Garth was Aqualad. It was a treat to see the Aquaman and Flash families. My only real complaint is the scene with Miss Martian and Superboy, since the former is still annoying and the latter is still a dick. I suspect that Orm will come back as an antagonist to both Aquaman and Aqualad. Also didn't realize that Artemis was half-Asian.
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Okay.
Which storylines would y'all like to see adapted into these kind of movies?
Red Son is at the top of my list.
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After Shooter left and Claremont was under a different editor, he went completely insane.
What did he write after those two developments that reflect that?
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I don't hate Loeb's stuff, but it doesn't really do it for me either. He uses more exposition than any writer whose works I've ever read, even more so than Chris Claremont.
I don't think Loeb is all that exposition heavy. The guy uses a ton of narration, but that's hardly expository. And it's kind of unfair to compare Shooter Era Claremont with any modern writer.
You have a point. I actually don't dislike Claremont because the first comic books I ever read were his classic X-Men stories like The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past. I don't know how well they'd hold up on second reading, but I have good memories them.
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I don't hate Loeb's stuff, but it doesn't really do it for me either. He uses more exposition than any writer whose works I've ever read, even more so than Chris Claremont.
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No idea. Hopefully not another adaptation of Jeph Loeb-written Superman/Batman story.
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Just gave All-Star Superman a second viewer. My previous criticisms stand.
Will only add that I think it would have worked better as an anthology piece with most of the twelve issues adapted into different segments, a la Gotham Knight, forming a slightly longer film.
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If you use Smallville as a measure of anything Superman related than I can't take you seriously. Bo Duke is not Pa Kent.
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Martha Kent shouldn't be a MILF. It's just wrong. I bet they ugly her up a little.
Methinks they'll do the same as they did with Carla Gugino in Watchmen and have her play both a 30-year old and a 60-year old, but we'll see.
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Two suggestions (this applies to First Issue Special too):
1) A thing or two from the Milestone wing of the DC universe, in light of the passing of Dwayne McDuffie.
2) Something related to either of the characters mentioned here:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-march-1-2011/batman-s-muslim-sidekick?xrs=synd_facebook
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Frankly, she didn't do much for me as Lois. Her voice commanded about as much as authority and conveyed about as much toughness as Katie Holmes' Rachel Dawes. Still miles better than Anne Heche though.
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And yes, the Reagan scene was beautiful and extremely important, but I can see why they cut it. Stirywise, it added nothing and would have interrupted the flow of the narrative. (however, I still missed it greatly.)
I have to disagree. The juxtaposition of
Superman performing godlike feats, like curing caring cancer and creating life, with him comforting an ordinary human girl
is the book's most important moment. That moment of comfort and hope is what Superman is truly about. In the context of the movie, the adaptation of issue 9 added nothing to the story; adapting all of issue 10 would have added everything.
I have to disagree with that. I actually thought Superman showing the Kryptonian couple the error of their ways rather than fighting with them and turning the other cheek by letting them die/live together in the Phantom Zone was much more powerful than him saving a random Goth girl whose name he somehow knows.
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Victory by forfeiture.
Good enough.
Nope, I lose. Good night.
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The only other Johns Lantern book I've read is Sinestro Corps War, which I will say had better art but I didn't like it as much, maybe because I hadn't read earlier issues. Where should I go from here? Blackest Night?