Thanks for the info guys. I tend to be a spoiler-phobe so I thought perhaps that there was a new series or something that I had missed by not clicking on any black bars.

I've been going through JL withdrawal lately. I've been digging through YouTube to fill some of the void until I can afford to buy the DVD's. I've seen some interesting and weird things, but today I found the best fan video yet. I'm not really familiar with the song from Wicked, but it is kind of catchy. The video/song syncing is excellent. I'm kind of jealous of the level of talent.
Black Canary teaches Huntress how to be Popular.

They air JL on Boomerang, but apparently only Justice League, not Justice League Unlimited, which is starting to annoy me. Sure, I like the episode where Wonder Woman befriends a jet-setting Kasnian princess as much as anybody, but she befriends that bitch like three times a month.



Seriously. It's not that they rerun episodes, it's like they only rerun the same 5 now. If Superman fights in any more endless gladitorial games, I'm gonna tell my DVR to stop taping JL. Especially since they moved it to 9pm and that conflicts with taping CSI: and Supernatural at the same time.

That's hilarious. I personally am sick of the ep where "Jon helps out an old girlfriend."

It seems to have been replaced by Superfriends.

I also lucked into seeing the season finale after missing it the first time, and after seeing it, this is all I have to say. Lame. Ass. Superman just kicks the crap outta Darkside seemingly without even breaking a sweat. And considering the trouble the guy gave him before, and also taking into account that he was supposed to be more powerful now that he was merged with Brainiac (also lame, because all he did was take on the appearence of being part-Braniac, without demonstrating having anything to do with Brainiac), it just seemed too easy. It's also a real shame, because the show was so kick-ass, but the finale was so... rushed.

I know I'm two months slow, but good Spinrad reference, Perfect Xero.

The rumor I heard was the DC wanted to keep the characters separate for licensing reasons (which is why the killed the show despite it's awesomeness...) (Sorry if that has already been posted - I went back a few pages and didn't see it mentioned...)

Just got the word from tvshowsondvd.com: the final season is being released on DVD on March 20th!

I am there like Jack the bear from Delaware.

So I don't have much info on it, but apparenly they just wrapped filming on a Justice League DVD (Movie) which had, voicing Wonder Woman, Lucy Lawless.

Which, since I love Lucy is fabulous to me, but I wonder (no pun intended, I swear) why they didn't get the VO actress who has been voicing her for the last few years to do it.

Just FYI, Martian Manhunter is going to be added as a character on "Smallville" tomorrow night January 25th.

I hope people got a chance to see last week's episode "Justice" with a version of several JL'ers on it. If you know of any Martian Manhunter fans, you might want to let them know he'll be on Smallville tomorrow night because the CW is doing a pathetic job publicizing it and I bet a lot of MM fans will miss it.

Screenwriter Todd Alcott has been moved by his son's obsession with JLU to fill his blog with many thoughtful posts about the Justice League mythos. I especially like his fascinating discourse on J'onn J'onzz:

Thanks for the links. Something new to read.

Wow, I never actually looked that deeply into J'onns appearance before. I did know that he was technically naked, but the self loathing thing never occured to me. I was just mildly amused that J'onn seemed to pick a cape for his outfit because the first people he met wore them and he must have thought they were what people normally wore.

If the self hatred was an aspect of his personality, i'm even more happy he fell in love with a aged Chinese woman.

I always just figured that his creepy MM look was in part looking like something that his teamates would be less nervous around and partly refusing to abandon his Martian heritage and just become a human.

I think he's making the wrong interpretation on MM's "disguise". I do think its a symbol of his alienation with Earth society, but not as an expression of self-hate. Rather, I think he is extremely proud of who he is and his life on Mars. He refuses to look functionally human even as he alters his appearance to be more acceptable to them. I think he has a lot of sorrow for what he has lost and resents that he must take a mask at all. At the same time, he is deeply moved by human society at many times, which constantly acts to pull him out of his resentment. He really is caught between two worlds, and he is visually a representation of that. Neither human, nor Martian, but rather something of each. He wants to accept his new life, but doesn't want to give up on his memories.

And, I also agree that I've always been amused at the notion that he adopts the cape because of Supes and Bats. That's a very funny character trait obviously absent from his original origin. It just works too good not to love it, though.

I don't agree with the "self loathing". I don't know what he thinks but I don't agree with that.
He seems too mentally well for that.

It is kinda funny that J'onn has an actual reason for why his costume is dumb. Never base a look off of what would put Batman and Superman at ease.

When's JLU season two (actually three and four) coming out?

It comes out on March 20th (and is only $19 at amazon at the moment).

I was at the New York Comic Con last weekend, and I ran across this. Needless to say, I did think of you guys. If you look through that album, you can find a few other JL characters in there.

Makes me want to go to a Con one of these days. Thanks.

Hell yeas.

Just so you know, that was the first time I've ever seen something like that. I'm not saying that the bigger cons are swarming with Justice Lord wannabes...when I saw him, I just had to take the picture.

I was watching Alive on DVD this weekend, and remembered this post I made way back:



I was close right? Anyway, as much as I liked Alive, I didn't think it was nearly half as good as Divided We Fall. As good as it was to see Superman finally show how powerful he is, as short a fight as it were, it was much cooler to see Flash go all one with the Speed Force. The whole Cadmus arc was also much more interesting and different than the usual Legion of Doom, good guys vs bad storyline.

My son has watched all the JL and JLU episodes with me on DVD. We got him a "Challenge of the Superfriends" DVD for Easter.
It's fun talking to him as he tries to reconcile them together. "Who's that guy that can make his legs a tornado?"
He showed me on the credits for Super Friends that Aquaman can fly and he is flying with Superman and somebody else in the credits.
He calls them the Justice Friends.

Heads up...Boomerang is airing the JLU episodes. I saw the first one tonight...don't know how far into the two seasons the network will go.

Just to let people know, DC has done a remarkably intelligent thing and turned the Justice League comic book over to Dwayne McDuffie. Guess I'm gonna have to start buying it again now...

caper24 writes:


Oooh! Thanks for the heads-up! I've been following McDuffie's writing since Damage Control, but JLA is a hard book for any writer to bring off, since they're sucking the hind teat (e.g., if the Green Lantern team decides that Abin Sur is the star of the GL book for the next year, the JLA writer either has to write in Abin Sur or do without a GL for a year; then multiply that five or six times to cover all the characters with their own books), but I'll give it a look.

Motivational Poster entry. The episode aired last night, and I was lucky to find a site with screencaps.

ETA: A mashup of 52 and "The Greatest Story Never Told."

I'll start reading the comic when I go to Books-A-Million.
Love the DVD sets.

Thats awesome Latern. Its a pity JLU ended before they could have adapted some of those storylines. I'd loved to have seen Black Adam animated after 52.

Rewatched "Clash" this evening. Man, Superman came off like such a bitch...and he and Captain Marvel commit severe damage in Lexor City fighting each other, while Lex Luthor stands by and gets major wood. It's like Cap's presence took 50 IQ points away from Supes.

Thinking about what could have been...it's a shame there wasn't an Elongated Man story in there. He was one of the better second-stringers around, and few people outside the genre paid close attention to him until Identity Crisis. Maybe a murder mystery while Batman gets knocked out, and Ralph and Sue have to solve the case.

Yeah he came off that way, but he was justified in what he did, like Batman said, they set Superman up, plain and simple. I have to say this version of Lex Luthor, DCAU version, is the best interpretation of Lex Luthor ever imo. Clancy Brown played it so well that I don't think anyone, cartoon or live action could ever top it. It's sad that I have all the DCAU series out to date, but I still watch them on tv instead of getting up to put the dvd in. I'm sure I'm not the only one though.

It's long been my belief that the Building Contractors Guild secretly funds both superheroes and supervillains, in order to ensure their business.

Maybe that's where Lex and Bruce get their billions.

You know, every time I see a major battle in Gotham, Metropolis, or anywhere else, I wonder just how high the insurance premiums must be, assuming anyone can get insurance anymore. But I'm a lawyer, so I tend to obsess about stupid details like that.

I used to do that about cars in TV/on movies when I was an insurance adjuster.

I missed out on last night's episode. Actually, it recorded fine, but it was raining and I have DirecTV, and the stupid thing kept flickering in and out. Small blessing that Boomerang is going back to the beginning of JLU starting tomorrow night, followed by "For The Man Who Has Everything" on Saturday for those of you who didn't see it, or for those who'd like to see Batman get a big creepy smile on his face.

I did catch "Epilogue." One: since when did Dr. Light get lines? Two: Waller going on about how Batman's blood was acquired...she says that he "left his DNA everywhere," then tells Terry that that isn't what she meant. It takes about three seconds to dawn on me as to what Terry might have thought Waller had meant. That's hysterical.

"Epilogue" contains what might be my favorite moment in all of the DCAU, but thanks to the whole "Terry is Bruce's son" controversy you never hear much about it; Ace's death. That whole sequence is just one of the heartwrenching in cartoons, and everything Batman does during the flashback is what makes him my favorite hero ever. The two of the sitting on the swings, holding hands, followed by Batman carrying her body and looking like he wants to cry himself. Tearjerking.

Isn't Batman's whole deal, the core of his being, that he doesn't want to see people die? I think that is why that scene is so good. Something that I like is that even though she is so powerful and everybody else would have thoughts in their heads about how dangerous she is and how they need to stop her before she can do anything terrible (thoughts that would probably cause her to retalitate) she can't detect anything in Batman's head of that nature. She knows Batman's not going to hurt her, and then Batman just sits with her so she doesn't have to be alone when she dies.

I like to think that she had so much of an impact on him that years later when he got a dog he named it after her.

The scene with Ace is the only part of the episode I actually like and rewatch frequently. It's a side of Batman we don;t get to see enough of.

Another JLU poster. That image really is creepy as hell, isn't it?

Most amusing! Although I kind of like smiling Batman. The context kind of ruins my liking it though.

For the same reason the future GL was the only person to say anything. The actress who voiced Dana also did those two characters. This happened a lot with this series: Steel, John Stewart, and STRIPE often got lines in the same episode: all three had the same VA even though they were only credited for one character.

Heads up...Boomerang will begin airign the second season tomorrow night at 11 pm, starting with "We Are Legion."

One of my favorite moments from Kingdom Come (which remains my favorite comic story):

"Don't give me that! The deliberate taking of human life goes against every belief I have — and that you have. That's the one thing we've always had in common. It's what made us what we are. More than anyone in the world, when you scratch everything else away from Batman, you're left with someone who doesn't want to see anybody die!"

It's the one thing Batman Begins got wrong in my opinion - letting Ra's die.

Heads up..."The Great Brain Robbery" airs tomorrow night on Boomerang. Was that the funniest ep of the second season or "Flash and Substance"? No Legion angst with that ep...just Flash's Rogues taking aim at the speedster. Take out Linda Park acting like a lovesick ditz, and it's a classic.