Justice League Action

"All Aboard the Space Train" shows how well this series plays with the DC universe. I mean, Jonah Hex AND Space Cabbie!? And extra points for using old JL villain Kanjar Ro, even if they changed him from a bug-man to a lizard man for some reason. It's strange that Hex decided to stay in that alien world though. I guess its an excuse to keep him around for future use.

edited 6th Jul '17 9:09:53 PM by Sijo

Episode 4 of the Shorts: Good Cop/Bad Cop

And Diana just stands there and waits for someone to acknowledge her Lasso of Truth.

That short is beautiful. I love it when Batman is forced to be comedic like that.

I also love how Superman being the Bad Cop actually works.

I thought the joke was that it didn't work.

It works because it doesn't work, if that makes sense.

Sorry, doesn't work for me. I especially dislike that nobody thought about using the lasso! (Oh it was funny, but it annoys me on an intellectual level.)

edited 7th Jul '17 4:43:18 AM by Sijo

Obviously Wonder Woman held back from mentioning it because Supes playing bad cop was too amusing of an idea to pass up. :D

It was probably something between thinking it will be funny and humoring Clark. Although, I would watch "Good cop, bad cop and Lasso of Truth" short.

How about the second short, seeing Barry and Lobo play the Roadrunner and the Coyote?

"Time Out" was a great episode spotlighting Booster Gold. Except the ending, which felt very forced. If Plastic Man can be redeemed in the eyes of the other heroes why not Booster? Though the goofy picture was a good gag (except that it was already done in the Blue Beetle episode).

Because I guess being appreciated is more of a Booster's thing and it helps showing that he's humble in a way? I dunno, I didn't mind it and thought episode was great.

I found the episode uneven- Booster was TOO competent at stuff he never talked about (for no good reason, you'd think given his personality he'd gloat) and Batman forgetting everything made no sense except for the writer saying it did. Nice try, but no cigar.

Batman forgetting everything was pretty reasonable given his reasons for being outside of time with Booster in the first place. He's untethered, and if he gets connected back into the timeline he'll get slingshotted back to the status he had before everything started. That doing so would put him back before he actually learned everything is evident, so it went without saying.

Though I agree about Booster having no good reason not to tell everybody what he's doing, especially given his personality.

edited 10th Jul '17 12:28:01 PM by KnownUnknown

Every setting has its time travel rules; and since that has never been mentioned before/will likely never be mentioned again means it was just a one-time gimmick so poor Booster could save the day and STILL be lambasted by Batman. I get the point, I just don't like it.

Another Thursday, another short.

Man, Luthor is obsessive enough to analyze Supes' every move, and yet, Superman is still clever enough to beat him. Poor baldy.

I love the parody of the everybody-and-their-brother-had-a Kryptonite variant weapons in the Silver Age with the Kryptonite (crammed inside of a) Baseball Bat.

The funny part is that freaking LEX LUTHOR is using a piece of Kryptonite glued to a baseball bat. That seems like something a thug would do. Cueball fell on hard times, it seems.

Heh. Luthor and Supes have been doing all this for way too long.

Also, caught the Booster ep. Man, I really think he's found his niche as the unknown hero.

It's helps that he's literally been in an episode of the old Justice League show called The Greatest Story Never Told.

I'm pretty sure that aspect of his character became a thing in the comics after that ep too, and it works.

DC Entertainment uploaded a new interview video with producer Jim Krieg of an upcoming episode (Fatal Fare), featuring Darkseid and Desaad, along with the return of Space Cabbie and Swamp Thing. Also, Roxy Rocket makes her first appearance on TV since the DCAU's end. But of course, Paul [lol]

Alan Burnett and Paul Dini are having a field day with this series.

edited 13th Jul '17 4:33:29 PM by XMenMutant22

They really are aren't they?

I think DC does wacky super hero stuff that still has real depth far better than Marvel, while the latter excels at more serious stuff that still has humour.

Though that's not to say DC can't do more serious stuff with aplomb when it chooses to. Just look at JLU.

FYI, you can watch that and this month's worth of new episodes On Demand and in the app. I lost my account info for my cable account, though, so I can't take advantage of that.

Fair enough. The DCAU was pretty serious, but also did good laughs.

I suppose after years of that, they opted to go in the other direction.