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More details of Young Justice Season Two

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By Jason Kirk / 31 March 2011 / Animated Shows & DVDs / 1 Comments

Young Justice co-Producer Greg Weisman has updated fans on the current status of the show in the wake of Cartoon Network’s announcement that they have commissioned a second season. The new series is a special 10-part mini-series called Young Justice: Invasion. Weisman revealed that work has already begun on the Invasion series.

We immediately began work on this new season last week, and are breaking approximately (but not quite) one episode per day. The creative team is fundamentally the same as for Season One.

And though, of course, we will be introducing many new characters episodically in Season Two (just as we do episodically in Season One), I don’t want to give the impression that this is some spin-off featuring, I dunno, the League or something, in the same Earth-16 setting. Invasion IS the second season of Young Justice and absolutely features our “Team”. Episode 26 of Season One is time-stamped “December 31″. Episode 1 of Season Two will be time-stamped “January 1″, in essence picking up right where we left off.

As of the moment Young Justice is a repeat cycle of the first 9 episodes and episodes 10 and 11 are in post-production. All of April’s showing are repeats. CN appear to be showing the repeats in sequence – if they show all the material it’ll be into mid-May before they repeat the repeats or they segway into new material.  The rest of the 26-episodes have been written and the dialogue has been recorded.

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Asides From Twitter for 2011-03-31

  • Want! RT @MarkWaid Alan Davis, Gene Ha, Mike Grell, MORE! JLA sketch covers for a GREAT cause! http://bit.ly/eNWhzR #heroinitiative #
  • Quote of the day — Brian Hughes: “I like the DC Comics characters, but lately, I don’t like the DC Comics so much.” http://bit.ly/eDNNQE #
  • Can’t say I disagree with him. DC has the best characters and a lot of brilliant writers, but the DCU’s direction often feels haphazard. #
Eclipso Rising

Justice League of America (vol. 2) #55

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By Jason Kirk / 30 March 2011 / Features, Recent Comic Book Series / 0 Comments

Issue Credits

Writer
James Robinson
Penciller
Brett Booth
Inker, Variant Cover Inker
Norm Rapmund
Letterer
Rob Leigh
Cover Penciller
Brett Booth
Colourist, Cover Colourist, Variant Cover Colourist
Andrew Dalhouse
Variant Cover Penciller
Dan Jurgens
Associate Editor
Rex Ogle
Executive Editor
Eddie Berganza

Quotes

Batman (Grayson): I raid the arsenal… Bruce’s… all the toys he dreamed up to fight his best friend Clark… in the event he had to… all the devices to fight things kryptonian…

Starman [referring to Doomsday]: We have a problem.Saint Walker: That is an understatement.

Synopsis “Eclipso Rising Part Two: Mayhem”

Previously: The magical chaos created by the Starheart’s approach ("The Dark Things") triggered Eclipso’s eclipse of Bruce Gordon. While the JLA has been fighting the Crime Syndicate ("JLA: Omega") Eclipso was been gathered a team of eclipsed shadow-powered supervillains, superheroes, and Elder gods including the Shade and Shadow Thief. His next target is Jade, the daughter of the ailing hero Alan Scott (Justice League of America (vol. 2) #54). Elsewhere, the behemoth Doomsday has returned and is attacking the heroes who appeared following Superman’s death. It has already attacked and kidnapped Steel (Steel #1) and the Eradicator (Outsiders #37).

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Asides From Twitter for 2011-03-29

  • The comment about the 2013 JLA movie in the Robinov piece is significant because it was Robinov who originally announced JL: Mortal #
  • The unknown factor is whether the fact is from the interview itself or was added for background by the reporter. #
  • It’s a new script. The LA Times’ @benfritz does into more detail about Robinov’s plans for the Justice League film http://lat.ms/g8QI75 #
  • Justice League: Generation Lost ends on a Kevin Maguire crowd cover http://bit.ly/eWTRGk (DC’s Source) #

Justice League movie in 2013 (updated)

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By Jason Kirk / 29 March 2011 / Live Action Movies & TV Shows / 0 Comments

The LA Times has a profile piece on Warners President Jeff Robinov and mentions that he may be planning a JLA movie. It describes how WB are planning to move from the Harry Potter series to a new series of DC based tent-pole movies. This starts with Green Lantern, but…

He’s then aiming to release new “Batman” and “Superman” films in 2012 and “Justice League,” a teaming of DC’s top heroes, in 2013.

We’ve heard this before. It was Robinov who back in 2007 announced that WB were going to make a JLA movie based on a script by Kieran and Michele Mulroney. At the time he described JLA as:

The Justice League of America has been a perennial favorite for generations of fans, and we believe their appeal to film audiences will be as strong and diverse as the characters themselves.

That attempt became a victim of an industrial dispute and DC Comics reorganisation into DC Entertainment. One assumes that the LA Times reference was checked with WB and wasn’t just a random reference to the last attempt.

UPDATED: LA Times writer Ben Fritz blogged more details about his chat with Robinov including the detail that it’s a new script they are looking at:

But Robinov said a new Justice League script is in the works. Also being written for Warner are scripts featuring the Flash and Wonder Woman, who could be spun off into their own movies after Justice League.

So they are looking to do a new film and it’s pencilled in for 2013, but they are still at the script stage. The Mulroney script was fast tracked in a spectacularly short time, but we’ll have to wait for more details on who the new screen writers are.

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Supernatural’s Adam Glass on writing for the JLA

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By Jason Kirk / 28 March 2011 / Comic Books & Graphic Novels / 0 Comments

Comic Book Resources has an interview with Supernatural producer Adam Glass about his work on a couple of chapters of the upcoming JLA 80-Page Giant. It’s a mystical-themed book with an overarching big-bag, but each of the chapters teams-up a JLA hero with a mystical hero.

When DC offered me the chance to do a story, they said they wanted weird team-ups. I’m Christmas shopping with my daughter and we’re actually stopping by the comic book store to pick up my books. My phone rings and they’re like, “It’s Jim Lee and Dan DiDio for you.” I was like, “What? Really? Jim Lee is on the phone?” I actually met Dan at Comic-Con [International] and we’ve stayed in touch, but I didn’t expect anything. I’d done all this stuff for Marvel, and I was obviously writing “Supernatural,” and then I just got a call from them and they said, “Would you be interested in doing a book with us?” I said, “Of course, I would be.” They put me in touch with Eddie Berganza and Eddie says to me, “We’re doing this huge 80-pager JLA like we do every year and we want to do weird team-ups. Teams that people wouldn’t expect together. We’d like you to come up with an idea for the book, the whole concept, and then we want you to write three of the chapters.” And I said, “Can I do Batman?” He said, “Of course, you can do Batman.” I was like, “I’m sold.” This was my chance to finally write Batman. So that’s really what got me juiced to do it.

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Eclipso Rising

Justice League of America (vol. 2) #54

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By Jason Kirk / 27 March 2011 / Features, Recent Comic Book Series / 0 Comments

Issue Credits

Writer
James Robinson
Penciller, Cover Penciller
Brett Booth
Inker
Norm Rapmund
Colourist, Cover Colourist
Andrew Dalhouse
Letterer
Rob Leigh
Associate Editor
Rex Ogle
Editor
Eddie Berganza
Variant Cover Artist
David Mack

Quotes

Eclipso: For my next trick, Bruce–Bruce Gordon: Yes, I’m sure it’s a “doozy”.Eclipso: I’m sure it is.. if I knew what “doozy” meant.”

Eclipso: Syththunu was once feared on Earth. Revered, Why, even the mage Arion respected its dark power. Now he rests forgotten. Come Elder One, it’s time to be remembered.

Synopsis “Eclipso Rising Part One: Shadow Warriors”

Previously in “The Dark Things”: Billions of years ago the Guardians of the Universe gathered together the remaining wild magic in the Universe. They then used equal amounts of light and shadow to bind it into a relic called the Starheart. A fragment of the Starheart gave Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern, his powers and through him passed power over light and shadow to his children Jade and Obsidian. When the White Lantern resurrected Jade it jolted the Starheart and causing it to approach the Earth. Its chaotic and baneful presence caused all manner of magic and light/shadow superpowers to swing widely out of control. Jade was final able to subdue it by syphoning part its dark energy into herself.

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Asides From Twitter for 2011-03-25

Young Justice picked up for second season

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By Jason Kirk / 25 March 2011 / Animated Shows & DVDs / 0 Comments

I suppose this qualifies as an official announcement nowadays – the official Young Justice twitter has tweeted that:

#YoungJustice has been picked up for a 2nd season.

We are currently not even half way through the first season and they’ve already announced the second. This will presumably part of the new DC Nation branded block of DC cartoons on Cartoon Network. The block was described in their press release as:

A multi-platform, branded block of original programming and exclusive content based on the DC Comics library of legendary character properties, DC Nation is developed in partnership with Cartoon Network, Warner Bros. and DC Entertainment. The all-new venture will harness the publishing, theatrical and television assets together for one powerful on-air block on Cartoon Network with exclusive online content.

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Asides From Twitter for 2011-03-23

  • “a good amount of drama with a certain amount of humor” Winick on Generation Lost Part 1 (Newsarama) — http://bit.ly/ekx9ie #
  • “it just goes with the territory” – James Robinson on the incursion of the Doomsday event into JLA #56 — http://bit.ly/hUwGLg (CBR) #
  • “I so, so, so can’t talk about any of this” – Winick on if he and the JLI will continue past Gen Lost #24 http://bit.ly/e0EpAC (Newsarama) #
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