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https://www.filmratings.com/Search?filmTitle=long+halloween&x=0&y=0

The rating for Batman: The Long Halloween Part 1 was released. It's rated PG-13 for "bloody images, language and some smoking. "

https://dcanimated.com/2021/01/new-dc-showcase-for-2021-2022/

We're getting more DC Showcase shorts.

For those saving a click (because context is key):

We're getting new DC Showcase shorts featuring:

• Kamandi, The Last Boy on Earth!
• Blue Beetle
• The Losers
• Constantine

As it was before, the shorts will be featured in the releases of upcoming DC animated movies. For example, the Kamandi short will be packed in with the upcoming Justice Society: World War II movie. And like DC Showcase: Batman - Death in the Family, the Constantine feature will serve as a compilation set for this batch of Showcase shorts in 2022.

And if I'm honest, I jumped when I saw Blue Beetle's name...though unfortunately the press release doesn't elaborate on which Blue Beetle will it be. (Maybe all three of them?)

EDIT: It just occurred to me that "The Losers" was the name of both a team from WWII and an anti-CIA team. And there doesn't seem to be any implication on which one the DC Showcase short will feature.

Edited by TargetmasterJoe on Feb 1st 2021 at 12:48:56 PM

Hard to say, since they made that Sargeant Rock short already, but who knows.

And the Blue Beetle stuff has recently focused on Jaime, although Ted is a possibility. The original, though, I think hasn't come up for a good while.

It's announced as "Blue Beetle" and not "Blue Beetle and Booster Gold", so it's most likely Jaime.

Edited by AmazingSpiderHam on Feb 1st 2021 at 12:19:36 PM

First trailer for the Justice Society movie.

Huh. Was wondering why Modern Flash was in the Thumbnail....

Little annoyed at that. Was kinda up for a purely old school JSA thing.

But at least it's not Batman.

So they gave Diana an accent similar to Gadot. I guess that makes sense.

That's some sweet looking animation.

I'll give them mad props if this is the same Flash we last saw running towards the Speed Force at the end of Apokolips War.

So, on the scale of Horrible Flash Decisions, where does this fall?

Man does Flash love interfering in pasts.

A big fat 0.

Because any decision that involves ruining a Nazi’s day is always objectively better than any decision that does not involve ruining a Nazi’s day.

Fair enough.

I thank you for instantly countering any attempt to dunk on Barry.

Flashpoint turned him into the idiot responsible for everything. Another example of writers ruining a character by making them do something dumb to facilitate the plot.

That and the fact that Zoom is allowed to fuck up the timeline with no consequences, while Barry's attempt to put it back proper completely nuked everything, which is very unfair.

So what's this adapting ?

I believe its an original story.

And man this looks dope, there are some very well animated moments there.

Edited by slimcoder on Feb 2nd 2021 at 2:05:22 AM

At most it might take cues from Last Days of the Justice Society the same way Man of Tomorrow took some cues from Superman: American Alien.

The description in the trailer for the Justice Society movie says the release dates are April 20 on digital and May 4 on Blu Ray.

Have you read that somewhere? I don't see much similarity, at least from the trailer, outside of both having the JSA invade Nazi Germany.

Just asking, but was the monster they were fighting familiar to any of you?

Holy shit, JSA. When was the last time DC touched that? EDIT: Wait where's Wildcat and Starman? WAIT, WHERE'S ALAN SCOTT?!

Edited by Ookamikun on Feb 6th 2021 at 5:03:37 PM

Excluding the comics, the live-action Stargirl series is essentially a JSA series, albeit the next generation.

Since we have Barry Allen coming from the future, I presume that having Alan Scott may be a bit awkward... unless they want to retcon him to having the same weakness as the modern Green Lantern. I also think he might be confused with Hourman since, I have to admit, I thought Hourman was Alan Scott at first glance.

I want to assure you I'm not picking on you here, but I don't honestly see how anyone could confuse Alan (Green Lantern) Scott for Hourman.

Dr.Fate an Aquaman are also slated to appear in this film, in some capacity, though I don't see them in the trailer.

Edited by Robbery on Feb 7th 2021 at 2:37:14 AM

I'm thinking about whether the JSA members we see in the trailer are all we'll see, my guess is a couple more will appear in the movie.

• Spectre - YES
• Atom - NO
• Johnny Thunder - YES
• Green Lantern (Alan Scott) - NO
• Sandman - NO

My justifications: Spectre is linked into Justice League Dark, so he may play a part in the "timeline problems" issue. Johnny Thunder is very different from any previously used character, so it's a cool one to introduce. Sandman: no because Morpheus. The Atom: wouldn't really add much. Maybe in a post-credits scene, or a bit part as a not-yet-superhero scientist. Green Lantern: saving that one for a GL Corps-centered big event.

Isn't Alan Scott not really tied to the space GL?