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Mikel Janin, the artist on the upcoming Justice League Dark, has posted a trailer to Youtube showcasing the new title:
[via: DC Women Kick Ass]
Tag: Videos
Discuss thisJames Robinson on CBR TV
CBR TV have an interview with James Robinson that was recorded at April’s Wondercon. There aren’t any real spoilers in it so I can’t understand why they’ve sat on it. He talks a little about his JLA run and about Alex Toth’s run on Eclipso (I first encountered those Toth issues because of his JLA run so I’m appreciative of just how different they were).
Most of the second half of the interview is about Robinson’s impending Shade 12-part series. It sounds like work is well underway despite it not being one of the New 52 titles coming in September. Listening to its description as a Starman-like reverential DC mythology series you get the feeling that it wouldn’t fit so well with the September’s clean slate initiative. Lets hope it appears soon afterwards.
Kirby Krackle “Ring Capacity”
Kirby Krackle are a fantastic nerdrock group who sing about the pain of being sent back to the beginning of a Mario Kart level and of only ever being a henchmen. The thing about them is their songs, as well as being amusing, are also great to listen. I’d heard “Ring Capacity” before, but I’d never seen this amazing video until recently. These guys have to be on the Green Lantern soundtrack.
New Young Justice trailer
There is a new Young Justice trailer showing on Cartoon Network. Most of the footage is from “Independence Day” Part One and Part Two, but there is some new footage in there showing Superboy sparring with Black Canary and a few other glimpses.
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Denny O’Neil on Julius Schwartz
Denny O’Neil worked with Neal Adams on the key 1970s revamps of Green Lantern/Green Arrow, Superman and Batman. The were both working for Julius Schwartz who had, since the 1950s, been DC’s go to editor for revamps. Schwartz was also the Justice League of America editor and he assigned O’Neil to be the League’s second writer after Gardner Fox left. In this video from the Comics Archive O’Neil talks about meeting Schwartz for the first time and in the public reaction to his Green Lantern/Green Arrow work.
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Young Justice trailer + MTV sneak peak
In the last few days two new Young Justice trailers have appeared online - a Cartoon Network trailer for the first episode (called “Independence Day”) and MTV have an exclusive copy of the 6-minute preview that played at New York Comic Con.
Independence Day Trailer.
The first proper trailer for new Young Justice cartoon (above) is out in the wild. The show will premiers on Cartoon Network on November 26th with a special hour-long event called “Independence Day”. The official episode blurb tell us that:
In Young Justice, being a teenager means proving yourself over and over — to peers, parents, teachers, mentors and, ultimately, to yourself. But what if you’re not just a normal teenager? What if you’re a teenage super hero? Are you ready to join the ranks of the great heroes and prove you’re worthy of the Justice League? That’s exactly what the members of Young Justice — Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis — will found out, whether they have what it takes to be a proven hero.
The full series will begin sometime next year. This should be good.
MTV Exclusive
The MTV trailer is a copy of the 6-minute preview that played at this years New York Comic Con. A camera-phone version has been make the rounds on Youtube, but this is the full version in gloriously sharp video.
Green Lantern Movie Trailer
That really looks amazing – not sure about the bit in the apartment at the end – but it’s certainly close to the comics. Sinestro, Sur, Kilowog, Tomer-Re, Oa, Cowgirl or Carol, and even the yellow glow or Parallax were in there.
Two All-Star Superman videos
MTV have put up the first trailer for Dwayne McDuffie’s adaptation of Grant Morrison’s All-Star Superman as part of the DC Universe direct-to-DVD line.
The trailer is interesting and they obviously have tried to hit iconic beats from the series, but I’m not quite as excited about this one as I have been for some of the their other releases. If I think there is a single problem it is that the trailer makes it look rather similar to the Death of Superman – i.e. a Superman who dies – feature from a few years ago.
All-Star came about after a chance meeting between Superman and Grant Morrison. Grant and Mark Waid talk about their meeting him in this clip from Respect! Films and Sequart’s documentary Talking with Gods – a new documentary about Grant’s work.
Video interview with Greg Weisman
Comic Book News interviewed Young Justice producer at SDCC 2010 about his various animation projects including the new YJ show.
Cliff Notes:
- Weisman was brought into WB Animation after the second season of his Spiderman cartoon at Marvel.
- At the suggestion of Sam Register (their boss) Weisman and Brandon Vietti (his co-producer) took a look at DC’s younger characters and had to set up a clear path between Justice League Unlimited (“so iconic, so great”) and Teen Titans.
- They put together a list of 50-60 teenage heroes from the DCU and filtered them to come up with a diverse group that fitted the themes of the series.
- That theme, repeated from the panel, is “Secrets and Lies”.
- They looked at Peter David’s original Young Justice, the original 60s Teen Titans, and Geoff Johns stuff.
- Weisman knows his DC parallel Earths.
- This is a “young” DCU so they’re dealing with the first generation of sidekicks (Dick Grayson, Wally West, Garth), but characters like Superboy and Miss Martian can be slotted into any generation.
- “The show is a huge canvas and we have a lot of characters.” They start with four characters in the beginning (one who doesn’t join the team), the others are slowly added through the first 6 episodes. A seventh regular joins half-way through the season, and an 8th joins at the end of the season.
- They’ve planned for a second season, but that hasn’t been green lit yet.
- Characters mentioned: Captain Atom, Batman, Red Tornado, Black Canary, Superman, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Flash, Green Arrow, Captain Marvel, Zatara, Wonder Woman, Captain Atom, Hawkman, Hawkwoman, two Green Lanterns (Hal and John).
- Greg wrote Captain Atom with Cary Bates for years and is itching to give him a bigger role in the show (he’s a member of the Justice League).
- Zatara – not Zatanna – was mentioned as being part of the League. Could his daughter show up as a teenager?
- The question of Wonder Woman and Wonder Girl was brought up. It seemed that it was a case of them being allowed to use Wonder Woman, but not Wonder Girl. Greg mentions legal reasons. This could possibly related to licensing – historically DC characters in movie production have been ring fenced from other projects, e.g. Smallville was restricted in their use of Lois Lane during the time that Superman Returns was being developed/distributed). Updated: Greg clarified on his Ask Greg column that they were prohibited from using Wonder Girl while the show was being developed, but that restriction has now been lifted.
- The Young Justice comic book won’t “be a little kiddie book”. It will have the same tone as the cartoon and will exist within the same continuity. No crossovers are planned with the main DC Earth.
- There were superheroes in the 1940s on Earth-16.
- The voice director on Young Justice is Jamie Thomason who worked with Weisman on Gargoyles and Spectacular Spiderman.
Naif Al-Mutawa: Superheroes inspired by Islam
TED is a conference of the best and brightest thinkers in the world who come together to share short talks on all manner of ideas, concepts, and thoughts. All these talks are put online at TED.com with the tagline “Ideas Worth Sharing.” Naif Al-Mutawa, creator of The-99, recently spoke at TED Global in Oxford, England. He described how, in his opinion, all superheroes are spun from Biblical archetypes (Superman as Moses, etc) and how he has sought to create a group of heroes based on the 99 attributes of Allah (and you thought the Legion of Superheroes had a large roster). He opens his talk by saying,
In October, 2010, the Justice League of America will be teaming up with The 99. Icons like Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and their colleagues will be teaming up icons Jabbar, Noora, Jami and their colleagues. It’s a story of intercultural intersections. And what better group to have this conversation than those that grew out of fighting fascism in their respective histories and geographies. As fascism took over Europe in the 1930s, an unlikely reaction came out of North America. As Christian iconography got changed, and swastikas were created out of crucifixes, Batman and Superman were created by Jewish young men in the United States and Canada also going back to the Bible.
It’s an interesting talk and especially relevant as The-99 will be crossing over with the Justice League in October. He introduces the concept of The 99 and outlines their origin which is fantastic primer for the upcoming crossover.
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