Justice League War - New Wonder Woman costume + other pics!

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[monitor_ep]

Um...OK... I can get it. Still not to sure about the movie.

[enyawd72]

Ughh...those costume redesigns are horrible. Glowing targets on GL's shoulders for absolutely no reason?

WW looks like an American Gladiators reject.

[thunderbolt]

as bad or worse than Jim Lee's redesigns.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Seems like bad marketing to push everything toward the New 52 look, and then have this new animated movie BASED on the opening storyline of that movement NOT look like it. I don't get it.

Chris

[ctc]

>Seems like bad marketing to push everything toward the New 52 look, and then have this new animated movie BASED on the opening storyline of that movement NOT look like it. I don't get it.

It does seem kinda weird.... but I think what's happening is that the comic and cartoon divisions are related through the holding company (WB) but separate; so they each try to do their own thing as much as they can. I suspect there's a fair bit of autonomy, until some higer up.... far removed from both.... gets a bee in their bonnet over what one or the other SHOULD be doing. Which I suspect often amounts to "whatever the other is doing that seems to sell, or appeals to me personally or my kids."

I dunno. I can't get excited either way over stuff like this. Sure, the costumes are kinda different; but I don't have to guess who anyone is so that's a plus. But it looks like ANOTHER slightly different JL origin, and I feel another inevitable mass combat end scene, like every other DC cartoon. It features DC's big two and a half.... who I've seen a LOT in the last decade. And oh, look. Darkseid. Seriously guys; almopst a hundred years of continuity and you gotta keep rehashing the SAME STUFF over and over?

One of the things I don't like about the DC cartoons is how many of them keep going over the same ground, again and again. We get a kajillion slightly different origins for the big names, and the forming of the JL.... and then a year or two later we get MORE slightly different origins for the big names, and the forming of the JL.... Same problem as the comics. There's no real sense of novelty from the origin, and no sense of closure that wipes the mental pallette clean for the next go around. (I think the last tv cartoon is the only one that provided any kind of a wrap up.) "Brave and the Bold" was the best DC cartoon in a LONG time 'cos it gave the audience so much variety. They used a lot of characters; and not all big name ones.... and they presented them as DIFFERENT characters. "Justice League: Everybody" TRIED to do that, but they had a habit of featuring the same characters (I think Mr Terrific had one line the entire series) and and most of them weren't that different.

But that's the hazard of a coprporate property. Most of the time it's gonna be midline 'cos there are so many fingers in the pie. It just seems a shame that they don't try for a different pie once in a while. They have the tools. Any social trend EVER is already inherent to the DC universe. (I would even give a tween'd up version of "The Witching Hour" a chance....)

Don C.

[Earth 2 Chris]

The excitement I felt for these movies has really waned. WB has determined only Superman, Batman and JL will meet the numbers they want, hence the same ground covered over and over. I guess if we want other DCU properties to be animated, we have to settle with the DC Nation shorts. Those are fun, and some are downright great, but it's a shame that they can't just do a Doom Patrol animated film and put it out there.

Chris

[madmarva]

An Aquaman feature or at least a JL movie featuring Aquaman is supposed to be in the pipeline. I don't get the character redesigns with this being an adaption of Lee and Johns' first story arc from new 52, but using Shazam instead of Aquaman.

It's also been mentioned that movie scripts from unmade films might be adapted into animation, but that would lead to a lot of different origin takes, which are basically the same story.

But whatever. I'd like to see original story lines with varied characters, too.

[ctc]

>we have to settle with the DC Nation shorts. Those are fun, and some are downright great

They really are, and if the studio was smart they'd be all over these; using them as a meter stick to gauge where the "next big thing" might come from. I kinda suspect these are made by a corilliary (did I spell that right?) studio; not one of the main ones, and as such are considered throwaways by the overall execs.

Given the expense of animation.... even the limited stuff DC/WB tends to use.... I can understand them playing it close to the vest and relying on their heavy hitters, but hard as it is to believe people will one day have enough Batman. The cartoons are making a mistake the comics did: they're not seeding the ground for the next wave. They're not preparing for a change in tastes of their audience, or a change in standards for the medium.

Don C.

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[ctc]

Hmmmm....

The DC cartoons sure love their alien invasions, don't they?

Don C.

[Operation:Mego]

^^^ Especially involving the Justice League's origin:

1962: Competing alien warriors were sent to see who could conquer Earth first, to determine who will become the new ruler of their home planet.

1977: The League formed after Martian Manhunter was rescued from Martian forces. When the group formalized their agreement, they suppressed news of it because of anti-Martian hysteria.

2004: Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman, as well as eager newcomers like test pilot Hal Jordan and scientists Barry Allen and Ray Palmer, team up to defeat a threatening alien presence coming to Earth.

2011: Darkseid plans to invade the Earth and the heroes come together, along with the newcomer Cyborg, to defeat him.

[The Toyroom]

Ugh! I have no interest in this nonsense. I've officially grown old and jaded...