Justice League: New Frontier Animated direct to DVD

[Kommando]

Shiny!

[Glitch Girl]

Lucy Lawless as Wonder Woman...

And she said she'd never do that role.  :D

Just wish they had given us a few voice samples of the main cast at work.  I'm curious how the new casting sounds.  The animation looks dead on, and the creative team is top notch.

I can't wait. 

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Wow!

Really, there's not much more I can say at this point.

Timm producing, of course, is great, and having the original comic writer involved is even more promising.

Looks like this may turn out to be a must-buy.

[stumpy]

That looks very promising. I'm glad to see LL as WW and I'll have to say I laughed seeing Angel as the voice for Hal. :D

Of course, it's still a year away...  :wacko:

[BentonGrey]

This looks absolutely fantastic, and most of the voice cast looks cool, although I don't really see why they didn't just use some of the JLU cast.  I understand they want some bigger names and all, but come on!  Kevin Conroy IS Batman.

[Revenant]

can't wait can't wait can't wait can't wait  :P

[detourne_me]

Yeah It's really good to see Darwyn Cooke's work come to life,  He's quickly become one of my favourite creators, even if he is pretty much washing his hands of DC for the time being after he finishes the first 12 Spirit issues and this movie.

It'll be really interesting to see how fans react to his character proportions and designs versus the Timm-style.

[BentonGrey]

From what little I can see of them, I really like them.  I was never really a fan of the stylized Timm-verse stuff.  It worked well in Batman, but became way too exaggerated in JLU.  The stories and writing were just so fantastic that it became a non issue for me.  If I can get the same level of awesomeness with a more realistic style of art (perhaps not MUCH more, but at least Supes isn't as wide as a truck through the shoulders) I'm all for it!

[thalaw2]

So that's what the voices behind the characters look like.....Ignorance was bliss.

[Jakew]

It still looks Timm-sy in a way .... lantern jaws, broad shoulders, etc.

[detourne_me]

heh,  yeah people have said that Cooke's style is Timm without the steroids, coupled with an inker on them.

[JeyNyce]

I like, I buy.

[Volsung]

I miss the Timmverse  :(

[GogglesPizanno]

With all these straight to video things, the new batman series basically becomeing a Justice League series, all the timmverse stuff and the changing voice lineups from project to project etc....I sometimes start to feel like keeping the video continuity straight is getting a lot like keeping the comics continuity straight.

[Talavar]

With all these straight to video things, the new batman series basically becomeing a Justice League series, all the timmverse stuff and the changing voice lineups from project to project etc....I sometimes start to feel like keeping the video continuity straight is getting a lot like keeping the comics continuity straight.

What video continuity?  These aren't all supposed to be taking place in some sort of shared universe or anything.  The 'THE Batman' has no connection to the direct-to-DVD stuff, which have no connection to the Timmverse shows (which do have continuity amongst themselves) which have no connection to the Legion of Super-heroes show, or Teen Titans, etc.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Right on Talavar.

Which the Timmniverse (Batman TAS and its follow up, Superman TAS, Batman Beyond, Zeta Project, Justice League, JLU, and Static Shock) all have a shared contnuity, nothing else does.  They are all separate.

[GogglesPizanno]

These aren't all supposed to be taking place in some sort of shared universe or anything.

Yeah I get that. I was just explaining poorly.
I realize they are all unique and seperate from one another.
You've got Batman version A by this network, Batman version B by this network, Batman version C in the Justice League by Network A, but with a different actor doing the voice.

Now I know you can look at it like each of these shows are like different comic titles with the same characters, but for me anyway, I have a hard time going from one to the other. I think it because on a comic, I can fill in sounds and voices and cadences of characters in my head, so while they are different, in my mind I can link them to into some kind of cohesion.

With the videos, because everything if supplied, sounds, music, voices etc.. I get latched into a certain "This is the character" mode. So when you have Batman not done by Kevin Conroy, It takes me a little while to adjust. That last superman DVD, aside from the fact it was utter crap, I spent half the movie bothered by the fact that Luthor wasn't voiced by Clancy Brown, and as a result, I couldn't get into it (also cause it was crap). The whole thing just felt off to me. It was like in my childhood when they changed actors playing Ronald McDonald....messed with me for months....

Maybe Im just getting old and the synapses aren't firing like they should.

[Midnite]

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[Jakew]

Looks great. Bummer about the 70 min running time. I wonder what they're chopping out?

[Midnite]

http://media.dvd.ign.com/media/142/14221172/vids_1.html

[gengoro]

This is off topic but your sig scared the crap out of me. :( :thumbup:

Cant wait to see it though.  And JL new frontier.

[Midnite]

This is off topic but your sig scared the crap out of me. :( :thumbup:

Cant wait to see it though.  And JL new frontier.

LOL! Thanks, it creeps me out too.  :(

Hmm... watching the new trailer, I don't recall Batman involve in the fight with that creature island. It seems WB put a lot of heroes that weren't in the graphic novel.

[BWPS]

Wow. It looks great, I'll love it.

That said, I got to see The Flash be potrayed by Doogie Howser, MD and for the his clip, I got to see him GET CAUGHT BY A TINY NET!!
Please, just don't write him into the cartoons if you hate him so much, people. I'm sick of seeing him always be the first to get knocked out and I'm sick of him running at "super speed" which is really "blurry normal speed" SLOWER than Superman's normal flight speed. I'm not too crazy about him becoming just the guy who makes the lecherous comments and eats food and makes the corny jokes. Bruce Timm openly admitted to not liking Flash, but I really do like him. I know Timm eventually did find him some stuff for him to do but it felt like too little too late.

[stumpy]

I think Wally's Flash was not played especially imaginitively in the JLU series. But, I also don't think it was really disrespectful to the character, whatever Timm's personal appreciation for the character might have been. Sure he was shown under a net, but that doesn't mean he didn't get away and, later he was shown fighting Grodd. And, obviously, Neal Patrick Harris is never going to completely diverce his image from Googie Howser, but that doesn't mean he can't be a great voice talent and may have a completely non-Doogie vocal presence, much like Mark Hamil's Joker and Solomon Grundy were completely non-Luke Skywalker.

Meanwhile, a similar complaint that comes up with Superman is true of Flash: if he used his super-speed consistently, he would be almost impossible to beat. (With Flash, I'm not saying that he would always beat any opponent, but very few opponents could ever beat him.) So, it becomes hard to write him effectively into the storylines and he is portrayed as the wise-cracking comedic character so that he still has a presence.

The JLU episode where Lex Luthor is does a mind switch with Wally is very telling because he thwarts many of the League's heavy hitters to escape from the satellite base. And, though the element of surprise was a factor, there can be no doubt that the Flash's powers put him in the big leagues when they are used creatively.

[yell0w_lantern]

Paul Atreides as Superman, Xena as Wonder Woman, Angel as Green Lantern, Doogie as Flash and some guy I have never heard of at all. Very interesting.

[stumpy]

I thought they showed Kyle MacLachlan doing Superman's voice... I have no idea who Jeremy Sisto is, though. But, I think that's fine with this sort of project. What matters is that they can do a voice that we can buy as the character and that they have the skill for voice acting (timing, energy, etc.) to pull it off.

[thanoson]

Yeah, when Flash took on Lex/Brainiac that showed what he could do pretty well. He was the one that beat him while everyone else was beaten. When everyone had Eclipso too, it was Flash all by his lonesome. He just can't do that in every fight or it would get old.

[Talavar]

Flash also gets caught in a net in the original source material, DC - the New Frontier, so you can't really blame this on the animated adaptation.

[Jakew]

He gets netted while stunned, if I remember the New Frontier comic. He then vibrates through the net to avoid capture by the government.

Also, New Frontier is pretty much an Elseworld ... so there's no use going nuts over continuity.

[yell0w_lantern]

I thought they showed Kyle MacLachlan doing Superman's voice...

David Lynch's 1984 version of Dune