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Guess they're looking at Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and thinking "Got to get us some of that pie. What's good to the kids right now? Supernatural shit? Get us something like that."
Swear to god there's an overabundance of supernatural shows on TV nowadays. |
Baywatch Nights Season 2 had it right the whole time...
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Why are you making it out that DC is trying to "get in on Marvel's action" after Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., when DC is the one that had a live-action TV show for ten seasons and then made another one which is also enjoying success, before Agents of Shield ever started? (To Shadow)
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Because Smallville and Arrow (and the new upcoming Flash and Constantine shows) are about the actual heroes themselves, whereas Agents of SHIELD and the new Gotham series are meant to be more about the 'little guys' in a world of superheroes and villains. DC may have cornered the market on superhero TV shows first, but it's the theme that they're copying off of Marvel now, not the genre itself.
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Scott Snyder is going to be leading up a new Batman weekly series called Batman: Eternal. With the help of a few of the other Bat-Writers.
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Awesome. Too bad about the Dean Cain, Brandon Routh, and Tom Welling snub - though at least Smallville got a shoutout. |
Would be "cool" if they made animated movies using more "retro" style. Like imagine if the Superman/Doomsday animated movie actually looked like the comic book like in that vid.
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They did try to invoke the art of the comics with earlier DC Animated films, but these days they kind of default to Young Justice style as a base and deviate from there. Can't say I'm bothered but I see what you mean.
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I'm not bothered either, just saying it would be "cool".
New Frontier and The Dark Knight Returns were "cool" because they looked like the comics. |
Can't wait to see if they do one for Bats next year.
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Batman and Son is coming actually.
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Or is he talking about a 75th anniversary 2 minute commemorative video?
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Oh yeah, that would be cool too.
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One thing I never really understood about the old Fleischer cartoons...why did Superman never open his eyes?
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Just watched the film "Man of Steel" again. Once more, I am not sure if I like it or not.
One thing I did notice this time is that Zod abandons his armor at a Lexcorp construction site. FORESHADOWING?! |
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Amazon's got ten Batman "family" collections up for three bucks each asd part of their Kindle DotD. I only really picked up the Batwoman (new 52) collection, in part because I've heard good things and in part because Gail Simone.
Still, might be something of interest to someone. |
Gail Simone writes Batgirl not Batwoman. I hear Batwoman is still pretty good though.
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Yeah, it was Batgirl. I don't know why I wrote Batwoman.
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Just read Before Watchmen - Rorschach and it was fuckin' awful.
Made him look like a huge fuck-up, who couldn't do anything right by himself. Gonna go with The Comedian now. |
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Maybe they are saving Aquaman for his own AWESOME movie
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Actually that's the exact reason.
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I'm most definitely ok with a standalone Aquaman movie.
Aquaman is pretty awesome. |
Im a bigger fan of aqualad after young justice. Would love to see kaldur make another cinematic appearance. Yes, i caught himin the flashpoint movie
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I'd love for Young Justice to have actually gotten a third season to wrap up all the Wiseman plot threads. Alas, Cartoon Network is staffed by monkies who can't handle well made, thought out shows like YJ or Green Lantern.
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Could have at the very least continued Young Justice in (digital) comic book form.
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WB has announced that the Vertigo series iZombie is now in development for TV on the CW. Only read a few issues of the series, but it seemed "cool".
Synopsis: Deadline.com it a "supernatural crime procedural that centers on a med student-turned-zombie who takes a job in the coroner’s office to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat to maintain her humanity. But with each brain she consumes, she inherits the corpse’s memories, and with the help of her medical examiner boss and a police detective, she solves homicide cases in order to quiet the disturbing voices in her head." |
The writer of iZombie left DC with a lot of "bad blood" or something, though. Something about DC mistreating creators, and something about protesting Before Watchmen.
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Let it die, people. In a snap.
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Damn, Animal Man is ending in March. One of the only DC books I actually still keep up with and is very good. Don't want to see it end, even if the writer is leaving the book.
Animal Man will be joining Justice League Canada, though, which will be by the same writer. Might have to check it out. |
DC will launch a new weekly series, The New 52: Future’s End, with a #0 issue on Free Comic Book Day. The series will be written by Jeff Lemire, Dan Jurgens, Keith Giffen and Brian Azzarello. The #0 issue will be drawn by Ethan Van Sciver.
The New 52: Future’s End is set five years in the future, and will focus on the past, present, and the future through exploring different characters including Frankenstein (past), Firestorm (present), and Batman Beyond (future), according to AP. |
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New Part of this has been release (Part 3)
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lol How long did it take you to choose which thread this goes in?
I would alternate the threads. To be a dick. |
Not very long at all.
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I'll destroy you next time, Lock Jaw! I shall return...
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So has anyone else been following the web-series The Joker Blogs? Because it's three episodes into its second season, and it's fucking amazing.
Here's the most recent episode.... ....but if you haven't seen it, I really recommend starting from the beginning. |
Holy shit, part 3 was epic. Did it take that long to do this or why do they release it so slowly?
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It is just one dude who is making it, so there is no "they"... I imagine it takes quite some time to create, plus doing it in his spare time....
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So that "Gotham" TV show that is in development for Fox, is confirmed to have Bruce Wayne in it and "The show will track Bruce from a child (around 12 years old) until he puts on a cape (in the finale)".
Also various bat-villains confirmed to appear, including Catwoman, Riddler, and Penguin. |
So it's Smallville with Batman?
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Well, the original news was that it was a show about Jim Gordon and his rise in the GCPD.... so it is Smallville with Batman and Gordon.
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So... Are we gonna see different recasts of Bruce or are they starting with a late-teens Bruce? How many seasons are we looking at? Didn't Bruce travel around the world training?
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Aquaman getting a second ongoing comic book
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The CW has decided not to move forward with its Wonder Woman prequel series Amazon, according to Hollywood Reporter. The series had been developed based on a script by Alan Heinberg, but the network was not satisfied (see "No Pilot Order Yet for 'Wonder Woman'") and requested a rewrite by Heroes writer Aron Eli Coleite last May (see "CW Puts New Writer on 'Wonder Woman' Project").
When the network started moving ahead with a Flash series, the Wonder Woman series started to lose momentum (see "Flash Origin in 'Arrow'"), and has now been declared dead in that form at the CW by network president Mark Pedowitz at the Television Critics Association’s winter press tour. New Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara wants to find a way to use the character (see "Warners Has 'Huge Plans' for 'Other DC Properties'"), but it looks like it’s going to take a different idea than the prequel concept that was being developed at the CW. NBC also had a Wonder Woman series in development back in 2011; that series is also dead (see "NBC Dumps 'Wonder Woman'"). |
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Yeah, guessing it's like Sabertooth's last venture with the x-men, where he was on the team due to the situation, and not because anyone actually wanted him there.
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I'm honestly kind of amazed DC hasn't tried this before, given that "arch villain joins the heroes" is a favorite in Marvel's playbook, and DC has been trying to imitate Marvel for like thirty years or so.
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The 'strange bedfellows' thing is a fine line for me with comics. It bothers me for two main reasons:
1) It almost always demands somebody severely breaks character for it to work. Under no circumstance could Wolverine and Sabretooth share living spaces for more than a day, without turning it into a warzone. At the very least, I like that they ended that arch with Logan starting a fight for seemingly no reason while Creed was just watching TV. Course correction. 2) They pretty much never play it in reverse. When bad guys join the good guys they don't have to be mind-fucked or tricked or anything. It's something, somehow, the good team has to deal with it. 'Shake things up' and whatever. But when a good guy takes a trip on the dark side there has to be all sorts of narrative apologetics to explain it. So we have the spells, mind-fucks, illusions, possessed bodies, etc. By this standard villains have more capacity for change than the heroes. |
You are thinking of the first time Sabretooth joined the x-men. The second time was acompletely different story. He didn't so much join them as he did place himself in their captivity to protect him from the Children.
Doctor Doom teams up with the heroes all the time, to tackle a larger threat. As does Thanos. Point is, they don't have to stray from his character to make this work. |
Apparently the Ted Kord Blue Beetle is back as well, and will also be a part of the Justice League.
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She reacted a bit rash.
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Oh. My. GooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooD!
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The movie will probably be better than the original story.
Also, I miss Damian. |
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Hate that Grant Morrison took Damian away. Damian was the best when NOT being written by Grant Morrison. Feel bad for the other writers.
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I'm buying Son of Batman based on the fact it's based on Grant's run, which I love and is one of my favorite Batman stories.
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I know it is still "early" to bring him back, but I'm hoping that the upcoming weekly Batman series somehow brings Damian back to the living.
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Dislike the new voice actor for Bruce. Sounds like DC said "Let's go see if we can find someone who can do a Kevin Conroy imitation so we don't have to pay the real Kevin Conroy."
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Bruce Greenwood would have fine as the new ongoing Bat-voice. He was fucking epic in Red Hood and Young Justice.
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DC has cancelled the following titles and they will have their last issues in April:
NIGHTWING (they better not kill off Dick Grayson in Forever Evil) Superman Unchained (maybe Snyder and Lee's take on the man of steel isn't selling as well I thought it would). Justice League of America (will be replaced by the new Justice League United) Suicide Squad Stormwatch (what will they do with Midnighter and Apollo now) Teen Titans (what will happen to Tim Drake) |
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I don't see Red Hood and the Outlaws or Batwing going anytime soon....then again, I could've said that about Nightwing, Teen Titans, Justice League of America and Superman Unchained...
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Justice League of America is being "relaunched" with a different title.
Superman Unchained I think has been known to be a limited series for quite some time. They originally said it would be ongoing but then changed their mind and said it would just be the one story. |
Cool, checking out the solicitations and they have a Spectre TPB coming out collecting John Ostrander's Spectre series. Will definitely pick this up in hopes that they will actually finish collecting it.
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Law and Order veteran Jesse L. Martin has been cast as Detective West in the CW’s Flash, according to Hollywood Reporter. He joins Grant Gustin, who will play the title role (see "Flash Cast"). West acts as a surrogate father to Barry Allen.
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Perfect...Wally West better show up
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Should the old Birds of Prey TV series premise be brought out of mothballs and repackaged?
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Yes. But only if it's written by Gail Simone.
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Just watching the episodes right now and they are not too bad aside from the appearance of the Joker (just seems too normal looking) and the CGI use is pretty apparent
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People need to learn to ease up with the limitations of a TV budget. Even something as well funded as Smallville had noticeable and glaring CGI, but that's a TV budget. I'm tired of reading people point it out like any sci-fi/fantasy show had effects worth a damn.
But yeah, Birds of Prey should get another shot. Especially within the Arrow-verse. Perfect fit. |
I would watch a show with Sarah/Helena Black Canary/Huntress teaming up to fight crime and possibly find redemption for past sins. Maybe Deathstroke cripples Felecity and she becomes Oracle, moves over to Birds of Prey spin-off.
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The Felicity/Oracle thing would be fucking boss.
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After Justice League War, all DC Animated movies will now share continuity. Son of Batman may be excluded since it was commissioned earlier, but everything going forward is connected. This pretty much means, as I've stated long ago, that everything will pretty much be New 52 adaptations or original stories in the New 52-verse.
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Clarity:
"This will definitely be the first salvo in doing new movies that are in continuity with each other. [...] Our next movie's going to be 'Son of Batman,' and that Batman will be the same Batman that you see in 'Justice League: War.' Basically, we'll have two concurrent series of Justice League movies and Batman movies, and they'll be in continuity with each other. So it's kind of world-building." Tucker did make clear they are still doing 'Elseworlds' type movies like Dark Knight Returns, even citing Red Son and Gotham by Gaslight by name. So this seems to be the new set-up: New 52 (JL movie, Batman movie) Elseworlds |
Why only Batman movies? Seems weird.
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Maybe that's all they are ready to reveal at this point. Son of Batman was leaked before they were ready to announce it wasn't it? So maybe he's just trying to keep future projects quiet.
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Candice Patton has been cast as the female lead in CW’s pilot for The Flash, according to HR.
Patton, whose TV credits include the role of Olivia on Heroes, as well as a role on The Young and The Restless, will play Iris West, a grad student who is Barry’s best friend and daughter of Detective West (played by Jesse Martin –see “ICv2 - Geek Movie, TV Round-up”). The character is also listed as becoming an eventual love interest for Barry, which, if they stay true to comic cannon, should eventually lead to a wedding. Grant Gustin has been cast in the title role (see “'Flash' Cast”). http://www.icv2.com/images/27792Candice%20Patton_LG.jpg |
I wonder if her detective dad will be trying to catch The Flash.
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Guessing Flash will be a lot more liked in Central City.
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She is delicious.
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