Comments on: DC ups the ante; Marvel drops the ball

By: Comic Book Movies

Comic Book Movies — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:47:03 +0000

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By: alphafoobar

alphafoobar — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:59:37 +0000

A justice league movie - awesome! Never heard about it down under.

By: Abhishek Tiwari

Abhishek Tiwari — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:00:12 +0000

Yeah the JL movie was pretty old school. Watched it on my AppleTV the other day. Not only it was set in the fifties, the uniforms and such were old.

Frankly they could have done better on the animation as they have done in other JL movies. However something has to be said about keeping it mature and non-pokemonesque.

Nice post! You are going in my RSS reader.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:59:29 +0000

New frontier is dope, the spider-man shit looked wack to me I watched the panel for while.

By: corntoole

corntoole — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 06:17:38 +0000

I just realized that DC’s animation has been better than Marvel’s for the most part for a while. As much as I loved the 90’s X-Men series, the animation was sloppy, unlike Batman:TAS’s stylized character design and animation. I’ve yet check out Marvel’s direct-to-DVD titles.

I think Marvel needs to do some serious searching for a characteristic style that’s fresh but easy to maintain high production values over time.

I will say that it might be unfair to compare a Spectacular Spidey series to a New Frontier movie.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:20:38 +0000

The FAIL of the new Spider-Man cartoon still pales in comparison to what is being done to the actual comic. My patience was tested back during the whole clone storyline and now that they are trying to mend the gaping hole left by Spidey unmasking himself in “Civil War” by basically have him make a deal with the devil is making me want to just give up.

The DC branded cartoons have been a better product than the Marvel based ones for the most part. “Batman: The Animated Series” has still yet to be dethroned as the greatest comic character based cartoon.

By: Uilleam

Uilleam — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:47:28 +0000

I’m jealous, you Californians have all the fun. I have been waiting impatiently for the new DC film ever since I saw the teaser piece last summer. I’m ecstatic that you’re giving it a thumbs up. I haven’t been able to find it on demand yet, Netflix has flagged it as a “short wait”. So, I’m doing the ancy dance here.

DC has had a longer tradition of animation/motion picture distribution of their characters than Marvel. Marvel was slow to get rolling with films. As a result, they have a better understanding of how to do, I think. That coupled with being owned by Warner Brothers gives them a slight advantage. Additonally, I think their characters just translate better to motion pictures than Marvel’s. What do you think?

By: Anjuan

Anjuan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:43:57 +0000

Having grown up as a huge Marvel fan, your review of these two series saddened me. Although I appreciate some of the DC characters (Superman and Batman), I always felt that the DC universe was too complicated and disjointed for my liking. Almost every character was more cartoon than comic book, the art was usually inferior to Marvel, and the writing/plotting seemed to be on a kindergarten level. It looks like these two animated features completely reverses that perception. I’ll check out JL:TNF and give TSS a pass.