DC Nation

In another thread, I said that the minute-long format for this series doesn't work in its favor, and this is a good example why. While the ideas in this episode could make for a good episode of a twenty-two minute series, it feels awkward in the current format.

edited 21st Jun '12 7:52:54 PM by BaronofBarons

We're gonna get some new info from Comic-Con

edited 21st Jun '12 8:14:29 PM by dmysta3000

Well, I had to use a proxy server, but I FINALLY got to see the link in the previous page!

It was hilarious, as expected. Not too brainy but hey, this isn't Young Justice, its for laughs!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_CXuH63ml0&feature=player_embedded

At last, SBF Fs episode 4 for people who live outside of USA!

Quality's a bit rubbish, but whatever.

It sickens me. Too Light and the design hurts my eyes. I no longer hate it on principle. I just hate it. I hate it slightly less then Superfriends, but more than the Overhype / MLP fanbase.

What the hell, man. Don't be talking bad about Superfriends!

Let's be frank, Superfriends was terrible because it was as corporate-mandated as a superhero cartoon can get.

edited 3rd Jul '12 6:53:13 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

Not to mention so freaking boring.

I've never seen so much hate directed towards a show that lasts for less than two minutes before.

Just to make something clear, the Superfriends I was dissing were the 70s and 80s Superfriends, not Super Best Friends Forever. The latter is very, well, cute and funny, although it's too limited by its extremely short format, which frankly makes me wonder what was the point of making it if they were going to make so little of it.

edited 5th Jul '12 9:07:51 AM by NapoleonDeCheese

Oh no, that comment wasn't directed towards you. It was more for about qtjinla15.

edited 5th Jul '12 9:12:49 AM by JenKunoichi351

'S alright.

Superfriends also introduced a lot of new people to the characters and helped pave the wave for future DC animation. I don't understand the point of hating on old shows...

No, Superfriends had nothing to do with the contemporary boom of superhero animation. That traces back to Batman The Animated Series, which was greenlighted by DC to capitalize on the wake of Tim Burton's Batman movies, and took creative hints from the Fleischer Superman cartoons and the Bronze Age Batman comics for the most part, at least at first. There was a large gap of time between Superfriends and BTAS where DC animation was dead as a dodo, so in the long run, Superfriends didn't leave any actual legacy. Justice League, for instance, took nothing but a few minor winks from it, like Max Lord's team, and same thing for Young Justice's Hall of Justice. Only cosmetic bits.

The Super Friends tv show was bad because it was written down for little kids. The comic based on the show was better (not amazing, but certainly less insulting and more creative.) The Global Guardians came from there, for example.

edited 5th Jul '12 5:49:55 PM by Sijo

Has anyone seen this Catwoman short? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7D_lPNu-b8&feature=player_embedded

Looks pretty awesome.

Indeed! Best-looking Dc Nation short yet. And neat Wuxia homage!

Wuxia Batman? Screw everything else I wanna see a series out of THIS.

Also, the DC Nation panel is today right?

edited 15th Jul '12 10:38:39 AM by dmysta3000

I'm guessing Wolf Smoke got hired after DC saw them make this. The subject material is more crude but no less amazingly animated.

They're Chinese, by the way.

edited 15th Jul '12 4:05:28 PM by ninjaclown

That was sexist, violent... and hilarious!

New short preveiws

New Young Justice preveiw

New Green Lantern preveiw.

Those Ameytheist shorts look AWESOME.

edited 15th Jul '12 10:04:20 PM by dmysta3000

It's hard for me to be objective about the Super Friends (the 70's-80's cartoon) because it was my introduction to super-heroes in animation. It had all of the faults of a cartoon of it's era, but please remember, it was all we had back then. You can forgive a whole lot when you're 8, and don't have any alternative. Some of them were surprisingly good, too, even though I find I can't go back and watch most of them, even with a nostalgia filter firmly in place, without cringing. Seriously, animators today should thank their lucky stars that the networks let them chart their own course to the extent that they do, because the alternative is pretty cheesy.

First Shanghai Batman, now Doom Patrol looks awesome! Color me impressed. (And yeah, Amethyst looks good enough. Hey, after what DC did to her, almost anything is an improvement.)

While you do have point, there were other cartoons on the air at the time that were, if not great, certainly better than Super Friends. I liked the Hannah Barbera superheroes much better, for instance. Even as a little kid, episodes like the one with the meteor that turned airplanes into dragons (!!) had me going "The heck?"

I've long wanted someone to make an Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes style show starring the Hanna Barbara superheroes.

This is thread is supposed to be about DC Nation. If you want to talk about Super Friends, you should find or start a thread for that.

edited 19th Jul '12 1:11:54 PM by leafeon