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Justice League: Cry For Justice

Justice League: Cry For Justice #6

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By Jason Kirk / 30 January 2010 / Features, Recent Comic Book Series / 2 Comments

  • Writer: James Robinson
  • Artist: Scott Clark
  • Colors: Siya Dum
  • Cover: Mauro Cascioli
  • Letters: Steve Wands
  • Associate Editor: Adam Schlagman
  • Editor: Eddie Berganza

Previously: The supervillain Prometheus had used a legion of c-list super villains to steal fantastic technology from across the DC Earth. Intentionally or unintentionally these thefts have killed people close to several superheroes. They separate crusades for justice have brought them together as a Justice League splinter group led by Green Lantern Hal Jordan. However, Hal’s group was forced to turn to the main Justice League after they realised that they were running out of time. A conference was convened on the Justice League Satellite, but it now appears that there is a traitor among them.

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Who is Prometheus?

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By Jason Kirk / 29 January 2010 / Character Profiles, Features / 0 Comments

Prometheus is the villain of the current Justice League: Cry For Justice series and unlike the Prometheus that has been running around for the last few years, this is the deadly Justice League foe as originally conceived by Grant Morrison. The following covers Prometheus was he was going into Cry For Justice, I’ll add those events once the series has finished.

Background

Prometheus first appeared in New Years Evil: Prometheus #1 (December 1997) written by Grant Morrison with art by Arnie Jorgensen and David Meikis. It explained his origin as a sort of villain-Batman ahead of his battle with the Justice League in JLA #16-17 (March-April 1998). Morrison brought Prometheus back during his final JLA arc “World War III”. This contained the now classic scene where the Batman gives Prometheus motor-neuron disease and then punches his lights out. Prometheus appeared in several books in the run up to Infinite Crisis, but he seemed rather diminished from the character that had almost defeated the JLA.

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Some purely practical thoughts on the Apple’s new tablet cloud-client

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By Jason Kirk / 27 January 2010 / JLA Weblog / 0 Comments

So people are jabbering about this new iPad from Apple Computers. I can’t help feel totally underwhelmed by it. It’s a netbook (whatever Apple may claim – it even has a pathetic 1Ghz processor). A touch netbook without a keyboard and without a proper operating system. It’s a crippled, DRM infested, misfire.

Some practical thoughts with regard to reading comics on it.

  • The standard preview images that DC releases are 700×1000 pixels – a third of the print resolution. This is also the approximate resolution of the Apple tablet.
  • The average US comic book is 12 inches diagonally. The tablet’s screen size is 9.7 inches, two inches smaller than a standard comic book.
  • I just tried printing out a page at the tablet’s 132 dpi resolution and it wasn’t too bad. A full-page should be okay. The speech was readable, however, it is about the limit of what I’d want to read.
  • The graphics (size, dpi) are broadly equivalent to a Kindle DX. Of course the Apple tablet is in colour and has better screen update, but the experience in terms of static reading on the screen will be equivalent. A downside of the tablet is that it constantly requires power to display the image whereas the Kindle and equivalent devices only use power when changing the image.
  • The Apple-tablet will probably, just about, be okay for reading a standard comic a single page at a time, but in no way whatsoever is it a game changer.
  • The screen needs to be at least twice the resolution it currently is to even begin to do justice to comic book art or to even display text at anything approaching a pitch equivalent to the normal printed page.

Nice try Apple, but no cigar. These devices are okay for reading the equivalent of a newspaper, but they just aren’t good enough to replicate the comic book print experience. The technology just isn’t here yet.

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Justice League: Cry For Justice #6 preview

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By Jason Kirk / 26 January 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

It’s a double Justice week this week as both Justice League of America and Justice League: Cry For Justice are shipping. The JLA #41 preview is already out with its massive spoiler for the end of Cry For Justice. Now DC’s The Source have posted a 5-page preview for the penultimate issue of Cry For Justice showing the resolution of last month’s cliff-hanger and a surprisingly revelation about one of Hal Jordan’s Justice League.

The released cover lists the names of James Robinson (the writer) and Scott Clark who appears to replace Mauro Cascioli as the listed artist. The cover is still by Cascioli, but the interior art is by Clark with color by Slya Qum.

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Superman movies in the Public Domain

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By Jason Kirk / 25 January 2010 / Live Action Movies & TV Shows / 0 Comments

The 1940s Columbia movie serial that is. It’s available to view over at the Internet Archives. I knew that the 1940s Superman cartoons were Public Domain, but I was not aware that this motion picture serial was also in the public domain. The Archive describes it as:

The Superman serial was a 1948 15-part black-and-white movie serial starring an unaccredited Kirk Alyn (but billed only by his character name, Superman) and Noel Neill as Lois Lane. It is notable as the first live-action appearance of Superman on film and for the longevity of its distribution. The serial was produced by Columbia Pictures, directed by Thomas Carr (who later directed many early episodes of the Superman television show) and Spencer Gordon Bennet, produced by Sam Katzman and shot in and around Los Angeles, California. The series was originally screened at movie matinees and after the first three scene-setting episodes, every episode ends in a cliffhanger. The Superman-in-flight scenes are animations, in part due to the small production budget

[via Boing Boing.]

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Justice League Season 1

Justice League: Legends Part One

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By Jason Kirk / 24 January 2010 / Episode Reviews, Features / 0 Comments

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Episode Credits

Writer Director Music Voice Director
Andrew Kreisberg Dan Riba Lolita Ritmanis Andrea Romano
Main Cast Guest Cast
Maria Canals Hawkgirl David Naughton The Streak
Phil LaMarr Green Lantern William Katt Green Guardsman
Carl Lumbly J’onn J’onzz Stephen Root Cat Man
George Newbern Superman Ted McGinley Tom Turbine
Michael Rosenbaum Flash Jennifer Hale Black Siren
Neil Patrick Harris Ray Thompson
Udo Kier The Music Master
Michael McKean The Sportsman
Corey Burton Dr Blizzard
Jeffrey Jones Sir Swami
Animation Timing Director Storyboard Character/Prop Design Animation Services
  • Kirk Tingblad
  • James T. Walker (as James Tim Walker)
  • Bret Blevins
  • Joaquim Dos Santos
  • Dan Riba
  • James Tucker
  • Adam Van Wyk
  • Robert Fletcher
  • Shane Glines
  • Art Lee
  • Glen Murakami
  • Tommy Tejeda
  • Bruce Timm
  • James Tucker
  • Glenn Wong
 Koko Enterprise Co. Ltd.
Animation Directors
Sewon Kim
Series Story Editors Series Directors Producers Associate Producers
  • Stan Berkowitz
  • Rich Fogel
  • Butch Lukic
  • Dan Riba
  • Rich Fogel
  • Glen Murakami
  • Bruce Timm
  • James Tucker
 Shaun McLaughlin
Executive Producers
Sander Schwartz
Theme: Lolita Ritmanis, Main Title Design: Bruce Timm, Main Title Animation: Cantina Pictures Visual Effects

Synopsis

The Justice League battle a 8-story tall, green-and-purple robot in the heart of the city, but they are unaware that it is being remotely controlled by Lex Luthor – revenge for his earlier defeat at their hands (“Injustice For All“). The League manage to dent the robot’s armour, but Hawkgirl, GL, and J’onn J’onzz are knocked unconscious in the battle. Superman breeches the robot’s armour giving Batman the opening he needs to destroy its engine with a well placed batarang. The failing robot topples towards the unconscious Leaguers, but it is momentarily held aloft by the Flash’s whirlwind. The robot and everything in a sphere surrounding it – including Hawkgirl, GL, J’onzz and the Flash – vanishes in a blinding flash of light.

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JLA #41 Preview

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By Jason Kirk / 22 January 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 4 Comments

DC Comics have posted up a five page preview of Justice League of America #41 by James Robinson and Mark Bagley. Now normally I’d be suggesting that you rush off and read it, but there here’s the spoiler warning: Justice League of America #41 is a post-Blackest Night and post-Cry For Justice book. That preview won’t spoil Blackest Night, but it does look like the recap spoils the end of Cry For Justice – a book we’re still a month away from seeing. That is, unless there is a further twist in Cry For Justice with the last issue.

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2010 Solicitations

JLA Solicitations for April 2010

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By Jason Kirk / 22 January 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

DC Comics has released their preview listings for April, 2010. The fallout from Blackest Night and Justice League: Rise and All continues. The main JLA issue ties into Brightest Day and features a Justice Society appearance. Rise and Fall continues with J.T. Krul’s storylines in Rise of Arsenal and Green Arrow. Also solicited are a Dwayne McDuffie JLA trade paperback and a Cry For Justice hardcover.

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #44Written by James Robinson; Art and cover by Mark Bagley & Rob Hunter; 1:25 Variant cover by David MackA BRIGHTEST DAY tie-in! Following the events of BLACKEST NIGHT, the brand new Justice League of America enters into BRIGHTEST DAY with an arc featuring the Justice Society of America. The epic team-up begins with a character from the end of BLACKEST NIGHT joining the JLA. But when the storyline’s over, what mysterious villain will be revealed – and which hero will switch teams?On sale APRIL 21 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US

JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE RISE OF ARSENAL #2Written by J.T. Krul; Art by Geraldo Borges & Marlo Alquiza; Cover by Greg HornSpinning out of CRY FOR JUSTICE, “The Rise and Fall” continues here as Roy Harper discovers that getting a prosthetic arm doesn’t make him whole again, he’s also forced to deal with Green Arrow’s shocking revelation from JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE RISE AND FALL SPECIAL #1. And sparks fly when Roy’s old flame Cheshire shows up…to kill him!On sale APRIL 28 • 2 of 4 • 40 pg, FC, $3.99 US

GREEN ARROW #32Written by J.T. Krul ; Art by Diogenes Neves; Cover by Federico DallocchioSpinning out of CRY FOR JUSTICE, “The Rise and Fall” continues in “The Fall of Green Arrow” continues with Oliver Queen as a fugitive from justice. But what happens when the Justice League of America learn of his crime? The Emerald Archer’s relationship with the World’s Greatest Heroes will never be the same.On sale APRIL 14 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA: SECOND COMING TPWritten by Dwayne McDuffie; Art by Ed Benes, Ian Churchill & others; Cover by Ed BenesCollected from JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #22-26, Red Tornado discovers the culprit behind his recent malfunctions — and the ensuing confrontation leads to a massive battle between the JLA and one of their oldest adversaries.Advance-solicited • On sale MAY 5 • 144 pg, FC, $17.99 US

JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRY FOR JUSTICE HCWritten by James Robinson; Art and cover by Mauro CascioliA new team of heroes – Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Supergirl, Atom, Shazam, Congorilla and Starman – unite to take a proactive approach to fighting crime! Following the deaths of JLA heroes Batman and Martian Manhunter, this new team stands determined to stop evil from ever striking so drastically again. But when Prometheus plans his revenge on the heroes, will this new team be ready to pay the cost for the justice they seek?Advance-solicited • On sale JUNE 2 • 232 pg, FC $24.99 US

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New Justice League and Justice Society trailers

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By Jason Kirk / 21 January 2010 / Animated Shows & DVDs, Live Action Movies & TV Shows / 0 Comments

Warner Brothers TV and Home Video have released new trailers for February’s Smallville “Absolute Justice” JSA appearance and the direct-to-DVD feature Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths.

Smallville “Absolute Justice”

The Justice Society are due to appear in the upcoming Smallville “Absolute Justice” feature-length episode written by comics scribe Geoff Johns. WB have released a new trailer which shows Clark walking around shut-up JSA meeting rooms.

Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths

This clip is a minute-long segment that sees the Justice League fight a group of recognisable characters. Their opponents seem to be based on Detroit-era League. We see a Vixen, Elongated Man, and Black Lightning parallels.

I don’t know about you, but I think it’s rather obvious that this is a script held over from the DCAU Justice League cartoon. The quip from the Flash is funny, but you almost expect to hear Michael Rosenbaum’s voice. Nevertheless, it looks fantastic.

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James Robinson interview at iFanboy

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By Jason Kirk / 18 January 2010 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

The iFanboy Talksplode podcast hosted by Ron Richards recently talked to writer James Robinson (Justice League of America and Superman) about reviving his seminal Starman series for a one-last Blackest Night issue. Robinson talks about how respectful DC had been about his Starman legacy and how he approached the issue more as a Shade/Opal City story about one of the Starmen. The show is only16-minutes long so is nice and focused.

Mikel, blue-alien ex-Starman, is currently appearing in Justice League: Cry For Justice. Robinson reveals that Mikel will be sticking around for the full JLA series and will actually start using the codename Starman again.

The latter-half of the podcast is revealing as James gives a surprisingly frank assessment of his work load during the Blackest Night even. After saying that the he over committed himself and that he’s scaling back, he says the following:

Coming into the Justice League when I did was probably the worst thing I could have done in that I couldn’t get a really good head of steam. The Blackest Night stuff was coming up. I’m not sure if that was my best work or the best depiction of the Justice League I’ve ever read. I’m sure a lot of readers felt the same way.

He sounds really down on himself when commenting (Bleeding Cool said he almost sounded like a James-Robinson-Hater). His first three issues on JLA have been Blackest Night or preamble so I’m not sure if its fair to consider them representative anyway. I really wish JLA writers found writing the book fun.

Finally, slightly tounge-in-cheek, Robinson comments:

By the way, for the record everybody listening to this: I don’t enjoy killing off characters and I’m not going to do it any more. It’s a much nicer James Robinson that’ll be writing comics in the future.

Be sure to check out the full podcast for all the details about Blackest Night Starman.

[Via: Bleeding Cool]

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