DC Animation News

I'll cut to the chase. DC is getting into the animation business, and the first three (or four?) projects were announced @ SDCC.

The New Frontier - Darwyn Cooke's re-imagining of the silver age of DC comics with it's Bruce Timm-inspired art style is a great read, and the perfect leadoff hitter for the new DC Universe animation line.

Superman/Doomsday - Why? The actual fight between Superman and Doomsday was the least interesting part of the Death of Superman storyline. I just don't see this as being good, unless they are already planning a Reign of the Superman movie as a sequel of sorts.

New Teen Titans: The Judas Contract - Yeah I know the Teen Titans animated series did a version of this legendary story, but this one will have an art style closer to the George Perez original, and should include the apropriate Titans lineup.

While I would still rather that JLU was never cancelled, this is a pretty good replacement. However: Is the Bat-Emabrgo still in effect? I can't see The New Frontier working without Batman, or the Judas Contract without Robin/Nightwing, so lets hope that rational minds at DC & WB prevale.

Now at the top I said they may have announced four projects. According to DC Publisher Paul Levitz:

Ultimately, once we figured out what the box was that we wanted to work in creatively; we sat around and asked what's cool? We started playing with the ideas - if we were going to do the New Teen Titans, one of the best stories and one that everybody loved was The Judas Contract. Wouldn't it be incredible to get Marv involved in that? If we're going to do the Justice League characters, well, you could do Kingdom Come on one hand, but maybe do New Frontier, and we settled on that as a logical place to start.

Now this could just be Levitz illustrating the selection process (i.e. - we wanted to do a Justice League movie, and we selected New Frontier over Kingdom Come) but it could also mean that they wanted to do one before the other. Kingdom Come is one of the best stories ever and could make a great OAV. Time will tell.

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