DC News! Justice League: Doom - Official Trailer

Straight from the NYCC (that's the "New York Comic-Con for ya!) here's the first trailer for the latest animated movie from DC Comics!

Justice League: Doom was written by Dwayne McDuffie right before his death in February 2011, based around the comic book story JLA: Tower of Babel in which Bat-villain Ra's al Ghul got the way to defeat the whole JL gang thanks to some plans of contingency stolen off Batman.
The movie will be directed by Lauren Montgomery.

Some noticeable change to the story and characters will be done.
Like having The Flash!Barry Allen instead of Wally West (minor change as both are quite interchangeable in a story where their alter-ego won't play a part), but also replace Green Lantern!Kyle Rayner by Hal Jordan which kinda annoys me since Kyle still exists in comics and does have quite an important part in the current DCU and his own book.
It will also throw out Aquaman (weird?) and add Cyborg instead, current JLAer in the "New 52" universe in the comics.
And Ra's al Ghul seems to have been replaced by the Legion of Doom.

On the better announcements, besides some returning voice actors and new ones, Nathan Fillion will once again voice Hal Jordan!
And it's awesome!



Looks all fine and dandy!
But is it me or is the quality of the art and animation kinda, errr, decreasing? That's what you get for rushing all these movies so soon, so many one after the other...
It looks like the studio in charge of Young Justice is doing this one, don't you think?

Cartoon NEWS! The upcoming new DC animated movies

Warner Bros. Home Entertainment revealed some informations about DC's upcoming new animated movies!
First up, Green Lantern: Emerald Knights!

Emerald Knights will be released on June 7, to coincide with the live/CGi Ryan Reynolds movie in theaters.
But with a much better Hal Jordan in the person of Nathan Fillion!

It is mostly based on the Tales of the Green Lantern comics (which I reviewed here)

Here's some new pics of these stories animated:

I like this sort of military/scifi look they have on the art direction.


After that we'll have another adaptation, Batman: Year One.
Based on Frank Miller (only..?) good story.

Here's a sneak peak:

This one's planned for a for a fall release.

It will also bring back the DC short movies, a Catwoman short will accompany B:YO.  My guess? It will probably be the miniseries "When In Rome" in 10 minutes :P



And either later this year or in early 2012, there's another one coming.
Justice League: Doom.
Based on the Justice League story arc JLA: Tower of Babel.

In short, Batman made some contingency plans to defeat all the JLA, in case they'd have to take one of them down one day (due to a change of heart, mind control, body swap, etc..).
But Ra's al Ghul steals these plans, captures and  defeats all of them...and it's only thanks to some small margin of errors that one of them escapes his fate, helps out another one, and so forth.
A great plot by Mark Waid which had some lasting impact in the current DCU. (nobody fully trusts Bats anymore, his secret plans continue to make his alliances uneasy, etc..)
The (sadly departed) Dwayne McDuffie wrote this adaptation and was gonna be behind it.
I'm glad they're keeping his work alive and going through with it.

Hope this one turns out fun!

Dwayne McDuffie Tribute

Done for the dailysketchchallenge over at the Outcast forums.

RIP :(

Check out his website and leave a com' there for the family.

RIP Dwayne McDuffie

Today is a really sad day...
I launch my explorer this morning at work, and what do I see? Another great man has passed away....

RIP Dwayne McDuffie.

Another great artist. Sad news :(

I know what some of you might say, "Dwayne-who??", specially if like me you're from Europe. 
Well chances are you probably read or seen some of his stuff and didn't knew it!

He created in the early 90s the small independant in-print Milestone Comics which was later on absorbed by DC. He created the famous character Static which was even adapted into a cartoon series. He also created Icon, Xombi (love this one btw),..
He was on the pencils for Beyond! a story arc at Marvel comics.
On the animation scene he also was involved in a lot of the DCAU.
His last work was currently working on the animated All-Star Superman film.


Yesterday evening, on February 22, 2011, McDuffie died from complications due to a surgical procedure performed the previous evening.

And here's some coments by people working in the industry, hear 'em out:
"First time my name appeared in a comic was because of Dwayne McDuffie. I was the intern on a Damage Control comic and just to be a nice guy - and because he knew I'd get a kick out of it, he included my name in a fake movie credit sequence. I'd no idea if I'd ever get to work on-a comic as an editor, writer, or anything-- and just seeing it was so amazing to a geek like me. And he knew it. I'll never forget that. :)"
- Dan Slott, "Amazing Spider-Man" 
 
"Your work touched countless lives, Dwayne. Thank you for sharing your talent with the world. Ave atque vale."
-Sterling Gates, "Supergirl"

"Suddenly, all the things that are stressing me seem very trivial. Dwayne McDuffie was a terrific writer and terrific guy and I'll miss him. I'm really heartsick about Dwayne. Such an unbelievably talented man, and a true guardian of the DC Universe. 
-Mark Waid, "Incorruptible," "Kingdom Come"

"I only met Dwayne a few times, but it's a testament to his character that people who only knew him from afar understood he was a man of not only great integrity, but immense talent." 
-Phil Hester, "Wonder Woman"

"An entire generation of kids that know Green Lantern as a strong, heroic, African-American man."
- Matt Fraction, "The Invincible Iron Man" 

Source: ComicVine.