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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (2009, Sam Liu)
I’m sure there are some hardcore gay comics less homoerotic than Jeph Loeb’s Superman/Batman, so the prospect of seeing it as a cartoon was irresistible. While Warner Premiere ostensibly intends their...
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Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (2010, Sam Liu and Lauren Montgomery)
The new wave of superhero cartoons for, ostensibly, adults (because they’re rated PG-13) has turned out a handful of decent pictures. The directors of this one, Montgomery and Liu, separately, directed...
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Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010, Brandon Vietti)
Apparently, given the chance, comic book writers write screenplays just like comic books. Sitting through Under the Red Hood is not an unpleasant experience–Bruce Greenwood, voice alone, is the best...
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010, Lauren Montgomery)
Kevin Conroy has been doing the Batman voice for, off and on, almost twenty years. If his work in Apocalypse is any indication, he’s gotten a little tired of it. At least there’s only one aspect of a...
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Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam (2010, Joaquim Dos Santos)
Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam is not particularly good. It has a lot of problems, which I’ll enumerate, but it also has a lot of undeniable strengths. I’ll start with those…. I mean, it’s...
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All-Star Superman (2011, Sam Liu)
All-Star Superman, the comic book, is maybe the best Superman comic book. Based on empirical observation (i.e. the other animated DC Comics movies from Warner Premiere), I assumed All-Star Superman,...
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Batman: Year One (2011, Sam Liu and Lauren Montgomery)
Batman: Year One should be much, much better. As it stands, as animated adaptation of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s comic books, it’s a fantastic proof of concept. It’s no surprise, given much...
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Catwoman (2011, Lauren Montgomery)
So in the mind of writer Paul Dini, human traffickers take women from the United States and ship them overseas. I really hope he’s not heading a commission for the U.N., because that situation isn’t...
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All-Star Superman (2011, Sam Liu)
All-Star Superman, the comic book, is maybe the best Superman comic book. Based on empirical observation (i.e. the other animated DC Comics movies from Warner Premiere), I assumed All-Star Superman,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Batman: Year One (2011, Sam Liu and Lauren Montgomery)
Batman: Year One should be much, much better. As it stands, as animated adaptation of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli’s comic books, it’s a fantastic proof of concept. It’s no surprise, given much...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Catwoman (2011, Lauren Montgomery)
So in the mind of writer Paul Dini, human traffickers take women from the United States and ship them overseas. I really hope he’s not heading a commission for the U.N., because that situation isn’t...
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