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Brent Spiner is apparently the Riddler in one episode that they've done thus far.

Anyone seen these behind the scene sketches yet?◊ They're from Damon Pittman's (Senior Creative Director at Cartoon Network) Twitter.

They features Kalibak, Granny Goodness, Darkseid, Green Arrow (?), Batman, Flash, and Adam Strange (?).

edited 7th Apr '16 1:27:15 PM by XMenMutant22

Here I thought the Bruce Timm style is very Kirbyesque.

Yeah, I am totally hype for this show

Oh my God. They're not making any attempt to hide where their influences come from.

Ears a bit short on Batman, but otherwise, I really like these. I can't wait to see some finished animation footage.

Timm has never made a secret he's a major fan of Jack Kirby.

Batman's design actually reminds me a lot of Beware the Batman.

From these designs, I can't help but believe this series will be a return to true DC action.

They do look promising. I hope this turns out to be a fun action show at least.

I think these sketches come from Shane Glines, who actually did some design work for Beware the Batman, mainly Batman/Bruce, Gordon, Magpie, and I think Dent.

I hope this shows addresses the question of What happened to the GOOD New Gods? Because they always use Darkseid and his minions, almost totally ignoring the other half of Kirby's Fourth World Saga. It makes no sense they would allow their foes to attack Earth, unless they have already been defeated (hard to believe), don't care (even less) or don't know about it at all (considering they have scientists like Metron, or heroes who *actually live on Earth* like Mister Miracle, not likely either.)

In Kirby's original, there was a treaty in place between New Genesis and Apokolips in which Izaya, called Highfather, and Darkseid exchanged their sons (Darkseid got Highfather's son Scott Free, who eventually became Mr.Miracle, and Highfather got Darkseid's son Orion) and called a truce. This treaty was still in place when Darkseid starts mucking about on Earth (and remember, classically speaking, Darkseid operated quite subtly on Earth, insinuating his agents and building his power and influence quietly). The treaty bound New Genesis to do nothing against Apokolips unless it could be proven that Apokolips did something against New Genesis. It's not that the New Gods didn't care, and individual New Gods frequently DID oppose Darkseid on Earth (Orion and Lightray a few times, but more often the Forever People and Mr.Miracle) but Highfather and the armies of New Genesis were bound by their treaty unless Darkseid did something openly. So you see, it's politics.

edited 9th Apr '16 9:53:44 AM by Robbery

Oh, I remember the comics. And it wasn't politics, it was war (lots of lives were lost during the first New Gods war, including Izaya's wife.) Religion as well, as Izaya was turned into Highfather by The Source. Darkseid only agreed to The Pact to gain time to find an advantage, which he believed was the Anti-Life Equation, pieces of which were held within the minds of some humans, hence his interest on Earth. And yeah his schemes were subtle at first, but soon became very overt, causing New Genesis to begin sending its champions to Earth as well.

Let's face it; the true reason the good New Gods are used so little now is because they want to use Darkseid as DC's ultimate villain, and his minions must come along as befits an Evil Overlord; and they want the League to be the ones who stop him. I don't really mind this, but dammit at least say what happened with the other gods, don't just ignore them, it's a disrespect to Kirby and a waste of some truly great characters.

edited 10th Apr '16 7:37:43 AM by Sijo

To be fair the New Gods of Apokolips, ridiculous as some of them are, are more interesting than those of New Genesis, other than Orion and Barda. Although that might be a simple result of writers taking more time to use and flesh out the Apokolips ones in the first place.

From what I understand, Kirby's intention was to depict a war from multiple viewpoints. The Forever People was about the adventure of it, Jimmy Olson was the outsider's perspective, Mr. Miracle was the conscientious objector, and New Gods (which was actually called Orion of the New Gods, and Kirby wanted to simply call Orion) was about the grim slog of it.

It's funny, but I've frequently thought that the concept of Kirby's Fourth World saga is actually a lot stronger than it's execution. If you sit back and think about a high-concept description of it, it sounds mind-blowingly awesome. Then in execution it's very much a product of it's times, with loads and loads of Age of Aquarius, hippy-dippy imagery. Kirby was not the strongest of writers, and to be fair, he didn't want to write his Fourth World titles for any length of time. His idea was to do the first couple issues of each and then hand it off to other people, with himself acting as group editor.

D Cs's having Supergirl plop into another property/media (previous ones being her CBS show, her upcoming Rebirth comic series, and DC Super Hero Girls). This time, being voiced by Joanne Spracklen◊. The IMDB credits post was confirmed on her (NSFW, foul language) MMA Girls fourm (as the 8th post).

The credits also leak Booster Gold, The Wizard, and Lex Luthor as upcoming characters.

I don't think anyone has mentioned this but after the reception that Bv S has received, how do you guys think this show will be affected.

It won't. Green Lantern had a bomb as well, and the animated series still got the green-light.

It's important to know that the animated series only use the movies popularity as a springboard but they need to stand on their own. Shows tend to get cancelled for issues outside of their movies though, Green Lantern didn't sell merchandise, and Earth's Mightiest Heroes was ended because Jeph Loeb didn't care much for it as a series and wanted a show closer to the actual movie.

This seems to be more lighthearted, and comedy and semi-comedic shows don't have that much merchandise pressure as pure action series. I mean, is there any merch around TT Go? Genuinely curious, 'cause I haven't seen any.

Actually, I recall seeing pictures of some bits of merchandise like those dinky action figures with minimal posing and those Funko POP! Bobbleheads and maybe plushies?

But beyond that, nothing much.

Hey, how much longer until we see some first footage?

Teen Titans GO! has a surprisingly heavy amount and variety of merchandise. Still, comedies (especially the verbal heavy ones) are, usually, cheaper than action shows.

JLA has a fall release, so probably around the summer during San Diego Comic Con.

edited 11th Apr '16 5:43:45 PM by XMenMutant22

Yet another sketch by the same source. Just a clearer look at Wonder Woman and Batman.

Looks solid.

From what little I was able to see of Diana's hair, it looks quite....wild.

On another site i read that those were from concept art, which is why WW's rocking that Kalibak-esque hairdo.

Hmm, I don't like it very much. But I suppose it'll grow on me like the original DCAU artstyle did.

And why oh why does Wonder Woman need a shield? Hello? Magic bracelets anyone? Please don't tell me those are less believable than Superman or the Flash catching bullets. Plus it makes her look like a Captain America ripoff.