Thats beautiful. Clark sacrificing to do what is right :-)

This comic seems to capture all the major characteristics of these heroes in their most basic forms.

With this arc coming to a close, I'd love for the "Legion of Delinquents" to come back.

Well...

Young Justice will not have a third season. This season's arc will likely lead to a series finale. Not a cancelation per se, as it will likely tie up the current story lines, but the Young Justice universe is coming to an end.

And probably Green Lantern TAS, too.

Replacing them next year will be Beware the Batman, the GCI bat-show where Bruce teams up with Katana; and Teen Titans Go!, where the Teen Titans anime-ish cartoon returns as a skit comedy (no, seriously).

Life goes on and all that.

That sucks. I've spent the last week catching up on YJ. I didn't really care a lot for it for the first 5 or 6 episodes, but I kept going based off of how you guys were talking and I finished the 5th episode of season 2 last night and wish I had a lot more to go through. Really love it, and now it's gone.:'(

My heart is broken. YJ is amazing. ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. We're robbed of a truly amazing animation run. DaveBrawl, we've enjoyed the fuck out of this cartoon and this DCYJAU will live forever in our hearts.

My anger can be mitigated with an animated movie. PG:13. Same cast. New story.

Thank God we get a video game to immortalize this beautiful creation.

This would make me very happy.

Cartoon Network can suck the widest part of my ass. Seriously this sucks.

This is the worst news since they canceled the comic book Young Justice (the original one, not the one based on the cartoon).

Damn it. YJ is honestly the best thing DC has going right now.

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Lol superman a big will smith fan apparently.

Yeah, that was immediately what I thought of when he said "WELCOME TO EARFF"

He also looks suspiciously like Nicolas Cage.

Seriously, though, I'm really looking forward to that one. It's high time we got Brainiac in some form or fashion.

But Braniac already had an animated movie! :shifty:

But seriously, yeah... I am disappointed that the art doesn't look more "Gary Frank"ish, with Superman looking more like Christopher Reeve than Nick Cage.

Just read the latest installment of Smallville Season 11.

Awesome fan made poster.

http://i.imgur.com/27Qd1cu.jpg

"After you Rise, you can only go Beyond."

Honestly feel like it might be the best direction to take the franchise. What is there to possibly do with present day Batman for a while after Nolan? Take it to somewhere it's never been before.

Actually never thought of beyond for the next film, but yeah, it makes sense.

I'm still rooting for Batman Incorporated. Bruce Wayne, now retired, is sponsoring a bunch of "Batmen" around the world.

I don't know why, but it amuses me to no end that the Kents own a pair of Snuggies.

I totally see it, though.

Why are they not allowed to call her Princess? Its what she is.

She doesn't want that attention. Bruce is the only one who knows.

Nice reference in that last frame:

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Holy shit.

What is this from?

A miniseries called The Hikiteia, from Greg Rucka's run on Wonder Woman (i.e. one of maybe two runs of WW actually worth reading). The basic plot is that Wondy is pledged to protect a woman who killed a bunch of sex-slavers who had killed her sister, and Batman is out to get said woman for being a murdering vigilante. In the end, Batman and Wonder Woman fight, and Wondy beats the living shit out of him, but it doesn't matter because the woman she's protecting commits suicide to atone for the murders.

So yeah, not a particularly happy story (the title's from a Greek tragedy with a similar plot), but probably the best WW story out there.

Holy shit. this brings up a serious question:

How many people have truly kicked batman's ass? I've got it at two.
Bane and Wondy. Again I'm new to DC but I would like to know who else has pwned Bats.

I know Batman's lost one-on-one to Kobra, Deathstroke, and Prometheus. There are quite a few villains who have beaten Batman in their first encounter, particularly martial artist-types; I'm pretty sure Lady Shiva and Richard Dragon both beat him their first time out, as well as Bronze Tiger, and Karate Kid from the Legion of Super-Heroes has been able to beat him before too.

Oh, and one time Superman beat him nearly to death when Max Lord made him hallucinate that Batman was Darkseid (and was only stopped by Wonder Woman, so that makes her 2 for 2 against both of DC's favorite sons).

DC Comics has announced the that the tear-stained final issues of Fury of Firestorm, Ravagers, Savage Hawkman, Deathstroke, Team 7, and Sword and Sorcery will be published in May. Add in the two books that are going away in April (I, Vampire and DCU Presents) and it appears that 8 titles, almost 15% of the “New 52” are heading for extinction this spring, and that’s not even taking into account the four cancellations that were announced in October and took effect in January (Blue Beetle, Grifter, Legion Lost, Frankenstein, see “New 52 Churn Continues as DC Axes 4”).



While DC has announced a number of new titles including a new JLA series, plus Vibe, Katana, and a new Superman/Man of Steel title from Scott Snyder and Jim Lee (see “Jim Lee and Scott Snyder on New Superman Title”), this new wave of cancellations appears to make room for a platoon of new titles to debut this spring and summer.



A look at the most recent ICv2 sales chart (see “Top 300 Comics—December”) shows that the six newly-cancelled titles all have circulation numbers well below 20,000 copies with Ravagers #7 leading the pack with just over 16,000 copies, followed by Team 7 #3 (at 15,381), Sword and Sorcery #3 (13,752), Savage Hawkman #15 (13,564), Deathstroke #15 (13,528), and Fury of Firestorm #15 (11.997).



Note that while Savage Hawkman, Deathstroke and Fury of Firestorm have been around from the beginning of the “New 52” initiative, the other three cancelled titles were “replacement” books brought on to take the place of previous members of the “New 52” that couldn’t pass muster. Does the high mortality rate among the replacement books serve as an indication that “52” may be a few books too many for DC to sustain at profitable levels?

For the life of me, I don't understand their fixation on having 52 different titles going all at once. I get that 52 was one of their best events and all, but in interviews, DiDio himself said that he hated that series, so I don't get why he'd want to make it so integral to the DCnU. Having that many titles just bogs down your creative team.

I do, however, want to see what Scott Snyder comes up with for the new Superman book, considering that Snyder's run on Batman has been awesome.

I don't understand DCnU period.

I expected to see it go, but it's still bittersweet to see Hawkman end.

Does anyone have a link to the latest episode of YJ? I can't find it anywhere and I hear it's balls out awesome.

What's the name of it?

"War", apparently.

Gonna be Honest here...Over the last few weeks, I've emailed Cartoon Network, signed petitions and done my part to make sure that somebody else knows how much I"ll miss Young Justice. I'm sure the big wigs are all wiping their asses with my thoughts, but meh. I feel better about my personal grieving process now.

Sometimes the venue in which an announcement is made can reveal quite a bit about what is being touted. A case in point is DC Comics’ announcement of two new “politically-charged” books, which was trumpeted first on the liberal, politically-themed Huffington Post blog. Taking its cue from the wealth inequality issues that were highlighted by the “Occupy Wall St.” movement, DC has announced the May debuts of two series that look at the growing divide between the rich and the poor in the U.S. from totally different perspectives.



Gail Simone and Freddie Williams III’s The Movement is about disenfranchised superheroes, who become the new voice of the people. As Simone told explained to the Huffington Post, The Movement is all about the shifting role of power in the information age and about “how injustice can affect real people’s lives.”





The other new title, Art Baltazar and Franco’s The Green Team, is about a team of teen trillionaires, and it posits a world in which the rich can purchase superpowers as easily as they can now buy political influence with anonymous contributions to campaign “superpacs.” The difficult task facing DC will be creating “politically-themed” comics that reflect the major issues in our society without unduly alienating one side of the political spectrum or the other. It has been done before in other media—The West Wing TV series managed the task quite well, but this is pretty much “terra incognita” for mainstream superhero comics.


Thus The Movement and The Green Team represent a rather daring move on DC’s part to expand the superhero comic book genre with new politically-charged themes. Given the weakness of some of the traditional comic book genres such as war comics and westerns as well as the weakness of many lesser known superhero titles, perhaps this new initiative will generate some new interest in the superhero genre, which remains the dominant direct market comic book category, but which, like the distribution of wealth in this country, appears to be concentrating its success increasingly in a handful of extremely popular properties (Batman, Avengers, Superman, X-Men, Spider-Man, Green Lantern to name some of the most obvious). This announcement also provides some indication of how DC plans to replace the six “New 52” titles that are slated for cancellation in May (see “DC Cancels Six More Titles”).

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Honestly this was the best comic cartoon since JLU. I just wish they had at least one more season, fuck man. There is so much potential here. Can we at least get a DTV movie from this? If they keep the cast and do a DTV once a year, I'll be happy.

I want to this on DVD or bluray but I hate those volumes, I just want two box sets... hope they come out.

Holy shit. this seems like just the bad ass episode that gets me all amped and sad at the same time. Holy hell! Mongul was a beast, Mal is a bitch Aresenal is a mac, Superboy is well Superboy and did I hear GL say he cant come back to earth? Oh shit...

Also, did you see how Superman and Mongul had the little stare down? and what in the fuck is up with Vandal Savage? He's playing everyside against the middle.

I have absolutely zero interest in The Movement/Green Team.

Yeah that news break was 'wtf/meh'.

I believe he said as long as the Reach control the planet he can't go back.

Seriously. For one, political comics are almost never good; they're pretty much always heavy-handed and trite, with the writers unable to tell a story or present an issue objectively without their own personal biases taking over. I read superhero stories because I want some escapism, not because I want a lecture.

Also, the notion of an Occupy-themed, anti-corporate, "rich people BAD!" comic being sold as a product by a multi-million-dollar corporation, which in and of itself is a subsidiary of an even bigger entertainment conglomerate, just makes me roll my eyes.

Revolution's long since become a marketable tool. Way ironic.

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Power Girl wearing her old costume on the cover of the latest solicitation for Worlds' Finest. :y:

Earth-2 Batman:

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...well no wonder Helena Wayne ran away from there if that's what her dad's legacy ended up being.

Is it just me, or is Earth-2 Bats's costume inspired by the old Adam West Batmobile?

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Good catch. It also reminds me of Damien's Batman 666 attire.

Which looks unnervingly bad ass!

Finished reading Death of the Family. Pretty quality Joker story.

TOFTT has just hit superheroes

Can I just say that Young Justice was amazing this week? Sportsmaster/Blackmanta and Jade/Tigress were awesome all the way around.

There were so many great things done with the plot that it was amazing. Love the fact that, well...go watch the episode!!! sign a petition or something!

Great episode. The awesome fights and great story aside, sometimes it's just the little things that make a show for me-- like when Nightwing is investigating the crime scene in Warworld, and there's a ladder right next to him, but he instead just decides to swan dive down instead because Dick's a circus acrobat.

Also,

That was a great episode.

Hi-Res #112:

Upstaged by KT again!!!!!!! :rant:

Can't let the by-line pass ya, Smallville.

Shades of World’s Finest---DC Comics has announced a new team-up series featuring its two most famous heroes, Batman and Superman. Veteran comic book scribe Greg Pak (Hulk) will write the new ongoing Batman/Superman series that is due to debut in June with art by Jae Lee (Inhumans, The Dark Tower).



According to USA Today, Pak and Lee are setting their new Batman/Superman title “in the past of DC’s “New 52” re-launched continuity as the two budding superheroes meet (not without friction) and eventually team-up. Thus the Bruce Wayne/Batman of the new series will be a budding superhero who is new to the cowl, while Superman will be similar to the jeans-wearing young hero re-imagined for the “New 52” by Grant Morrison for the revived Action Comics.



It appears that the title of the new ongoing team-up series will be Batman/Superman, a name that recognizes the primacy of The Dark Knight (in terms of sales at least) in the new DC universe, and also sets it apart from the Superman/Batman series that debuted in 2003 and came to end with the major reworking of the DCU that produced the “New 52” in the fall of 2011. Long time comic book fans will of course remember the long-running World’s Finest comic book series that lasted from 1941 to 1986 and almost always featured DC’s two leading superheroes Superman and Batman.



The announcement of the new Batman/Superman comic comes on the heels of a number of major tweaks to the DC universe including the announcement of a six-pack of cancellations (see “DC Cancels Six More Titles”) and new creative teams for the Green Lantern family of titles (see “New Green Lantern Teams”).

Well that all sounds straight forward enough.

......yes ma'am indeed.

And now I need to see the eventual parent-teacher conference episode. Should be fun.

Young Justice was amazing again. There seems to be a lot of themes coming to an end. MM and NW seemed to come to terms with their fuck ups, Arsenal got a little bit of what's coming to him. The Team is safe, Mongul is back to fucking shit up and, finally, G Gordon Godfrey is grilling the Reach ambassador!!! HOLY SHIT this episode moves quite nicely into the season(and sadly Series) climax.

It is an absolute goddamn travesty that YJ is ending. You can tell there was a whole lot they wanted to explore but never got to, and a lot of characters that never got used to their full potential. I would've loved to have seen more of Tim/Robin, especially after they referenced Jason Todd in the memorial room (imagine how Nightwing and Robin would react if they ever got to do another appearance with the Joker), or given a little more character-development time to Beast Boy or Wonder Girl so they're not just glorified background characters. And there's the fact that there have been a bunch of Apokoliptian weapons and gadgets, and that G. Gordon Godfrey is a well-known alias of one of Darkseid's most loyal lackeys, which could have led to some huge incredible reveal in later seasons.

Ah, what could have been....

Oh, and in regards to the new Batman/Superman comic-- wasn't it already pretty much established that Superman and Batman first met in Justice League #1? The way that Bats was talking to GL about Superman made it sound pretty clear that he'd only ever kept tabs on him, that he hadn't actually met the guy yet. Sigh, grumblegrumbleNew52grumblegrumble......

After Trinity War (whenever that happens) I can see DC is building towards another event w/ Darkseid after JLA#1 and Vibe#1.

Oh Robin...

Batman Incorporated

I'm burned. I will never love again.

Jeez, I fucking love Yale's work.

Are any of these from Netflix, good?

Batman: Under The Red Hood
Batman : Year One
Superman/Batman : Apocalypse

All great. Though the VA aren't giving their all in Apocalypse.

Considering that WB will likely never get a Wonder Woman movie out of development hell and that the upcoming "WW in high school" TV series sounds really stupid, this fan-film is probably the closest we'll ever get to a decent WW movie:

http://vimeo.com/60594348

A little short to be an amazon, but otherwise very awesome.

Eh.

On Batman Inc:

Haven't seen the others, but Red Hood is very good.