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Saturday Brings A Moment Of Kandor With Brainiac 1, Clark, Violet And THE LEGION!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
I am – Hercules!!
Corey Burton, who gave voice to Brainiac in “Superman: The Animated Series,” returns to the role Saturday morning for “Message in a Bottle,” the new Kandor-themed episode of “Legion of Super-Heroes” premiering on Kids WB.
(Note the Fleisher-era mechanical man, still dwelling in Superman’s fortress!)
Brainiac’s the mean Coluan who shrank the capital of Krypton and stuck it under glass In Action Comics 242 (July 1958). Superman promised to restore it to normal size, but the episode summary suggests he never quite got around to it:
Superman and the Legion must venture into the legendary bottled city of Kandor in order to stop Imperiex, who seeks an advanced Kryptonian technology believed to be hidden inside. In order to help the Legion and clear his “family” name, Brainiac 5 must delve deep into his memory banks to access information from the original Brainiac.
Junior petite legionnaire Salu Digby (introduced in 1961’s Action 276), whose superpower is usually getting teensy, discovers that down amongst the Kandorians she’s less like Fay Wray and more like a hot, miniskirted Kong.
11 a.m. Saturday. The CW.
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Justice League: New Frontier
(Note the Fleisher-era mechanical man, still dwelling in Superman’s fortress!)
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And still no official Justice League casting news...
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that this looks really stupid? Are we 5 damn years old??
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I misspelled Occur. save your damn comments.
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If I was seven. Same goes for Teen Titans. The nerve of these pricks, making cartoons for kids...
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AICN bringing the noise on DC Cartoons?! Herc, I take back almost every mean thing I've said about you and your Joss fixation. LEGION is a pretty damned good show.
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Oh, it's because WB can force anything down kids throats these days.
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have me wondering just what the hell is going on at AICN? Did you all collectively take a swig of awesome juice or something? Am I on Newsarama? Either way, good job! Did I see the GL screencaps from "The Batman" here or somewhere else? Regardless, I'm still kinda wow'd.
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anything except a Justice League movie. I hope.
Wow, my reply coupled with yours sounds really horribly wrong. -
...Rogue from X-Men: Evolution.
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Ever since the first WB era Batman in the early '90's (yikes) to the stuff now this has been some of the best looking WWII era-style mixed with anime animation. The Max Fleisher stuff will always rule.
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I rarely post, but yeah whenever I see something DC related that doesn't suck ass (Hellooooo..
Smallville) I have to chime in.
And yes, LEGION, like the awesome DC stuff (TimmToons?) before it, doesn't pander to the lowest common denominator. It's a show that's not out to sell toys, but to tell a story and gain viewers on the merit of that alone. Good stuff. -
This show just fucking ROCKS! First season was just ok. Second season is insane. I continually get amazed at some of the stuff they pull. These stories truly do have a epic feel this season. The best part is having an overall arc with a "big bad". The final fight last week with Kell-El & Imperiex Vs The space bounty hunter was just nasty. Truly anyone ripping on this series isnt giving it a shot. It blows Titans away and is nearly as good this season as JLU. Fuck the haters.
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Who the fuck are these little kids in tights and why should I care? If you're going to rip off the teen titans, at least make it fun to watch. this shit was boring and still is.
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Dec 01, 2007 1:22:51 AM CST
Why don't they animate the characters the way they look in the c
by bob cryptonight
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Luckily, I don't know enough about Legion continuity to let it bog down my enjoyment of the show...
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The Legion was in comics MANY years before Titans you fucking retard.
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Dec 01, 2007 1:28:23 AM CST
...though Avatar the Last Airbender is the best "kids cartoon" o
by using_brandx
If you don't know then go find out....then go tell someone else...
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Thanks for contributing absolutely nothing, fuckwad. I think there's a Golden CompASS talkback with your name all over it.
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Haven't seen one episode of Avatar. I know it gets huge props here and all, but unless it's DCAU stuff or Trigun/YuYuHakusho...I'm too busy. Work, comics and girls. Oh my.
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You and the others are right - Legion kicks ass - it's great fun to pick out Legionaires in the background we haven't seen in action yet, and the stories and characters are top notch - love the Superboy/man clone from the distant future! And Legion predates Titans, Pipple - get your facts straight, lad.
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It's using the same style yet is not as good. Why don't the animation writers strike too so we get less of this junk?
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in blue ray.
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from kim possible?
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now there's an image.
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Both The Batman and Legion are some of their best cartoons and they toss them after such HORRIBLE drivel. I was amazed that they added Titan reruns to their line-up, but still show those horrible "thumb wrestling" spots during their finest young adult/adult animated hour. I am a LLOONNGG time fan and reader of DC and it took me a few seasons to come around to the anime mutation style of Titans, but Legion (which refines SO much the Titan's animated style) is just incredible to watch. Folks who pass this show off, and yet enjoy comics, ought to be ashamed of themselves. WB/CW could tighten their continuity and up grade their writing slightly on this show and easily have it lead off ANY night of CW programming. It's way past time that fans recognized the quality of the Legion show and actually THANKED and encouraged the progtramming execs to give us more. The Legion and Batman shows (despite some infantile and way overly simplistic plotting at times)are PRIME examples of what "cartoons" are possible of as far as being aimed at a more adult, intelligent audience, and how WAY past time it is for some SERIOUS animation on prime time to be tried. I mean, outside of a few try-outs of the first WB Batman Animated the last SERIOUS cartoon series in network prime time was Jonny Quest. Think of a Dark Knight, or an animated series written on par with Watchmen in prime time- the audience has only grown for that kind of entertainment. Finally, I think it's way past due that AICN included a little "heads-up" for Legion- it's MUCH better than most folks think.
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Legion of Superheroes, the second season is an improvement. Having a single villain for the entire season is a great idea and a nice little throwback to days of old. After the Dini/Timm DC Animated Universe it's kind of difficult to come to terms with the fact that these cartoons are geared more towards kids than adults, which wasn't true for B:TAS or Justice League Unlimited (superheroes were shacking up for chrissakes!). Although, THE Batman still kind of sucks. Not as bad as it did in its first season but still pretty damn bad.
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Wow, nicely put. I've rented the Legion DVD on Netflix when it was available and thought it was a lot better than I thought it'd be.
I think part of me would have really loved to see Timm's version of the Legion but I can live with this one.
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Anyone claiming this is not a children's show must not be an adult. The simple-minded plot lines are clearly drawn up to keep those with the attention spans of 10-year-olds engaged. I'm not saying the program is without merit, but I don't see how an adult could actually watch more than one or two episodes.
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The author pointed out that Kandor made no sense (among his top 5 things that make no sense in the Superman universe). Just because they're small doesn't mean they can't populate their own (hopefully devoid of large predators) planet around a yellow sun. I apologize for not remembering all the points of the argument.
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How is this an anime style? I admit I don't really like it (I like season 2 much better than season 1 but it still isn't very good) but it doesn't look anything like anime to me.
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...type in all caps and then still refuse to use punctuation. "Find a cunt and shoot motherfuckers?" What the hell does that even mean? Sadly, I do agree with him about the Question. That show would "rock all forms of entertaining cock."
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Wise words indeed, MandalorianSage. I must try to squeeze your "TEEN TTANS ROCKED ALL FORMS OF ENTERTAINING COCK" comment into my conversation sometime.
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isn't even a superhero - he's Sam Spade without a face. You want decent stories about The Question? Pulp noir is great, but don't get stupid and confuse it with Saturday morning cartoons.
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I hate the Teen Titans style of animation almost as much as I hate that over-inked sharp angled outline style they used for Clerks and Kim Possible.
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The first episode of the season killed off one of Triplicate Girl's sides, making her Duo-whatever. Then later in the season Lightning Lad had his arm blown off and replaced with mechanical one. Of course I thought he went into "Wow Cool!" mode too quickly. And they showed how his sister was 'killed' when they were kids. It's pretty obvious that Brainiac 1.0 is going to appear again.
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I remember canceling my DVR for it but after catching bits and pieces. It's good brainless fun to watch the over the top fighting and zilch storytelling. They even kill people every once in awhile or rip their arms off replacing them with more powerful arms.
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Legion is to americanime as Farscape was to post-DS9 Star Trek.
It is a radical step forward in quality of story-telling that won't be recognized as such until later because it is still being confused with other drek, like Teen Titans.
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Seriously, this is the worst super-hero cartoon I have ever seen. There is no "adult" themes...only whinny kids. Same prob with THE BATMAN cartoon...waaaaay to much kids stuff. And if you think the shrink-y girl is "hot" you need to step outside and look at a real (3-d) woman. They are way better
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