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”).