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Warner Bros. Realizes GRAYSONS A Stupid Idea!!
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Warner Bros. Pictures Group president Jeff Robinov, who apparently now controls the motion picture and television rights to all DC funnybook characters, has put the kibosh on The CW’s proposed “Graysons” series, which would have followed the life of Robin, The Boy Wonder, when he was a slightly younger boy.
According to Friday morning’s Variety:
"Warner Bros. TV never had 100% clearance," said one exec familiar with the project.
Now maybe The CW will now have to find another pre-superhero DC superhero to replace “Smallville” if it goes away after this season. I'm hoping for "Young Rita Farr," a look at The Doom Patrol's Elastigirl before the tragic accident that gave her stretching powers.
Find all of Variety's story on the matter here.
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So how about that much better "Nightwing" idea everyone seems to like?
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The Flying Graysons: On the Wings of Robins.
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That is the show the really fucked up on. While Smallville dealt with a young Clark Kent BEFORE he became Superman, Birds of Prey dealt with Bruce Wayne's daughter AFTER his career as Batman ended and he died. One is the beginning of the superhero age, the other is the legacy. But they had to make it the worst piece of shit ever. It was like Roger Corman's Black Scorpion.
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Such, it was never to be. Sad day, that.
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as a series with homosexual overtones. I SMELL SCHUMACHER!!!!
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...as it's actually the one that would both work, and be interesting.
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amen
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what we need is a show about nightwing kicking ass there.
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Jeeeeesus.
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I remeber thinkin that back when they annouced smallville.....10 years of training : 10 fuckin seasons of what could be pure awsomeness. It would be what young Indiana Jones could have been....
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Nov 06, 2008 11:14:05 PM CST
This Really Needs To Be Bruce Wayne: Year One aka Gotham!!!
by media messiah
This Grayson's series will bomb and serve only to damage the Batman franchise. This needs to Bruce Wayne: Year One...or Gotham City...starring a young Bruce Wayne.
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. . . best idea for a show I've heard in a long time.
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Why not Nightwing? He has his own city and everything. You can get some Bruce Wayne, Tim Drake, Alfred, teen titan crossovers for some ratings kicks. Or even Green Arrow? bring back the flash would be kick ass too.
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Nov 07, 2008 12:10:07 AM CST
WONDER TWINS, my idea, & gayer than Herc's
by stereotypical evil archer
It's good to see this die. Remember Birds of Prey? Anyone... Anyone...Smallville was just to small to interest me. Fascinating idea for a season or two and then... they didn't live up to the characters.
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With Justin Hartley, Kyle Gallner, Phil Morris, Laura Vandervoort, Alan Ritchson and Alaina Huffman. Make it happen.
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Lee Thompson Young. Forgot his name for a sec. C'mon, we all wanna see this show.
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I can hear the concept pitch now-"Lets take a character everyone hates,and tell all about his life before he was anything interesting" If the WB ever does get around to doing a Brice Wayne series it'll probably take place before his parents are killed and every episode will be about Bruce Wayne being a little spoiled snob who pals around with a pre-teen Rachel Dawes.
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walking the earth, training to be the biggest badass in the planet, getting into trouble, saving the day. It would be the next Kung Fu.
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Ok, originally I was thinking "what a dumb idea" but the more I mulled it over the more I realized you guys are right and it could work. My biggest suggestion, however, would be for them not to make it too tied into the DC universe. I know the DC diehards are going to hate this, but no guest stars or shit like that every week. They should try to follow Nolan’s example and be a “serious” attempt to explains how Bruce Wayne became the toughest badass on the planet, and its greatest detective. Of course, I wouldn’t mind him meeting some people from his comics or the DC universe, as long as it doesn’t stretch believability to much (Zatara and his daughter Zatanna, who train him in escapology; patrolman Jim Gordon; maybe some golden age foes; and old love interest like Linda Page and Julie Madison).
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There is a cerating mystery around Wayne before hhe took up the cape and cowl. And that needs tp remain. We dont know to the full extent whom Wayne trained with and where. Even the justice League doesnt know this. Some of Wayne's training needs o have an air of mystery to keep it interseting. If a Wayne series got developed, it would end up too much like smallville crossed with thye new Knight rider. Just rubbish.
anyway we need a character thats not going to bite into a lot of money for CGI shots, like smallville does. So for me the main contenders are
1: NIGHTWING: BLUDHAVEN CHRONCILES. Have Hulk Hogan as Blockbuster in roid rage fits. Whoever plays Grayson will need to be savvy to martial arts training. and have the Buffy stunt coordinators do the fight scenes.
Black Lightning. The teacher with electro powers. Have it prodiced by the guys who done HBO's The wire and have the film done in Baltimore has Black Lightning takes down a crack cocaine syndicate. Have Painkiller has the main heavy bad guy.
3:BATGIRL: (Cain's daughter not Babs) Have it has an ultra violent series, where Batgirl is sent to different various cities by Batman to "neutralise" threats to wayne's/Batman's interests. Have Batgirl being like a female Jason Bourne type figure who is just barely one step ahead of a Justice League taskforce who have been tricked to think she is an agent for Ra's Al Ghul (which sadistically Wayne created to cover HIS tracks!) Have a Jessica alba type actress play her. -
Metropolis: 90210; the GC; Arkham Asylum: the REAL GG, and of course Xavier's Creek. Ah, teen angst and super-powers - does it get any better?
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or movie.
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Marvel's mighty youth...in his first year at college! The drama! The romance! The rivalry with the SON of The Red Skull who is enrolled in the Dental Program at the university (so that he might one day travel back in time and fix his pop's choppers). This is a premise the teen fans of SMALLVILLE will eat up!
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Yeah! In high school, young Bauer finds out his gym teacher is an horrific, prolific pervert and is faking vulnerable misfit kid's deaths so that he can kidnap them and keep them in his custom-built kiddie compound (which is guarded by dastardly hired mercs). Bauer steals a cache of guns from his daddy's stash, tools up, takes out the entire compound, tortures and slits the throat of the evil gym teacher whilst the kids watch, and then leads the kids to safety. And that's just the first fifteen mintes! You could call the show, "12". See what I did there?
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I applaud you, sir! LOL!
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you know the rating would be thru the roof
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DC literally has a library filled with characters- some stupid as hell, but others SO easily retooled for televison and other media that it's not funny, and yet all they can see is Batman, Robin, and Superman. It's sad to see all that potential wasted. THANK GOD someone put their foot down and said no the "The Grayson's", Robin was always a sales gimmick who's time passed back in the 60's (except for perhaps his involvement in The Teen Titans), Even Detective Chimp would've been a more entertaining show! How about opening up that poperties book DC has and adding just a hint of imagination and giving us some QUALITY entertainment? I can think of a TON of properties they could do for little to medium budgets that I KNOW would be successful. Back when they first announced "The Grayson's" I listed a few of my favorites over at my blog. You can find that list here if anyone's interested: http://spanksayswakeup.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2008-10-21T08%3A37%3A00-04%3A00&max-results=10
You could retool almost any property DC has and make it successful, why just look at what happened to Marvel's Blade. Spank!
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...Wally with his superspeed, but before he dons the costume. A non-costumed Max Mercury as his advisor and mentor and maybe an occassional appearance by Barry Allen Flash or other DC icons. It'd work, I tell ya! Either that or get that Starman adaptation going again (now that would definitely rock!)
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I'm glad this show was never made. It was a terrible idea. Really, doing the early years of Superman is the only concept I can see working on TV, and that's been stretched way, way too far. Why would anyone want to see a young Bruce Wayne series? We already saw Batman Begins. The DC and Marvel icons inherently require a big blockbuster budget. Anyway, I believe that Superman's ubiquity on TV (from 1988 onwards!) did hurt Superman Returns at the box office. Can we have a sequel with Mr Routh now, please!
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Justin Hartley as Green Arrow has been the best thing to come out of Smallville yet. Give him his own spin-off already.
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They prefer some more down-to-earth variations on superheroes. Part of the reason I suppose is simply special effects and costuming budgets probably wouldn't work with full-on superhero stuff. At least, that's what the execs think. Green Arrow series could be ok, I suppose, but you'd have to recast Black Canary. Sorry, but that lady is not a good actress. But I'm just happy this Graysons series is dead. Just a bad idea.
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They should do young Bat-Girl and cast Summer Glau in the roll and Brian Cranston as her father Commisioner Gordon. There could be a great dynamic between the two as she relizes she can help get the criminals that her father fails to put a way leagally. Could also have the Graysons make appearances every time the circus comes to Gotham !
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I even like Lois and don't miss Lana.
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Hmmm, since the CW passed on a potentially awesome idea, I'd like to suggest a replacement. How about a show that follows Peter Parker's aunt (before Peter is even born). It could show her cleaning the house and falling in love with Pete's uncle. Come on, it has the CW written all over it.
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You'd have to have a really annoying 10 year old girl to play Chloe who follows him around all the time, whining.
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it... *all* the characters on 24 fit in well with your idea.
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A teenager struggling with life after he leaves the life of a superhero to figure out stuff on his own...
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Young Justice would be nice.
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Green Arrow when he was just a tyke with a toy bow and arrow, tring to match-up his single mom with his kindergarten teacher! You know it will happen!
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I can only base this on the last few episodes since that's all I've seen this season but it does show signs of improvement. It still has significant problems (bad dialog, bad acting, some stupid sub plots, an off putting Abercrombie-ish cast, often unsuitable lighting etc) but they've made nice improvements to the story structure. Getting rid of Lex, Lionel and Lana was a good start because those characters locked the stories into the same plots and prevented the focus from shifting to the epic elements of Clark/Superman. Moving away from the high school/tweenie themes to the adult world was also a good idea for the same reason. And they're finally giving Clark a greater sense of destiny, scale and hero's path that a story like Superman deserves. If they have Clark actually "become" Superman this season, (the way they seem to be building it) then it might be something really worth watching. They've added all the ingredients for a big showdown and series changing character transformation. We'll just have to see if they have the talent and balls to pull it off. Having said that, I should reiterate that it still has a good way to go.
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So can they focus on getting us a Skeets: The Pre-production Years. Where we watch where all his parts come from? Seriously why make shows about characters before they're interesting?
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And let Clark fly already. He knows his people can do it, but he never even seems to try. Hell, he was floating off the bed in S1 before he got the x-ray vision and super hearing. It's getting about as ridiculous as Lana not knowing his secret for all those years. If DC is preventing the CW from doing it, then call it levitating or something and just do it.
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Smallville for 4 years dealing with his high school years, and Metropolis for 4 years where he is in college (Lori Lemaris folks).
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Every week, one continuous 60-minute shot of Captain America encased in ice.
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I love the idea of doing a Doom Patrol series. Start out with a silver age thing and then get progressively more intelligent and weirder, like the Grant Morrison years, but avoid the Rachel Pollack run. DC has so many properties that aren't Batman or Superman. Even outside of Justice League. Get it done, WB!
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Following the hillarious adventures of everyone's favorite green prepubescent Martian, Lil' J'onnie J'onnie. Who played that practical joke of putting Blipdor in T'onzz T'onzz's bowl of Klipbom? Yup! Thaaaaat's right. It was lil' J'onnie J'onnie! On the CW Wednesdays at 8pm
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...Is something based on the New Mutants. For once all the teen angst, spoiled brat attitude, unrequited love and token diversity would make sense. Why an American Indian girl becomes a valkrie wouldn’t, but the rest would.
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If they did do a Nightwing series they would totally "F" it up by having him not run around in the iconic Comic Costume but a long trench coat and sunglasses ala Neo in the Matrix.
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I didn't realize there was one. But from what I gather it has to do with the image/ownership of Superboy? If that's the case, they seem to have transitioned Clark into an adult and completely shed his "boy"/teen years so flying shouldn't raise any legal issues. From the few episodes I've seen, there were a lot of things hinting at Clark becoming Superman. It would be odd if they just left him as Superclark.
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Nov 07, 2008 3:59:54 PM CST
_Maltheus_ - Marvel did a "Aunt May Chronicles" comic already
by tallboy66
It was called "Trouble", written by Mark Millar, and I'm pretty sure it retconed Aunt May as Peter's actual mother. No, really.
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The teen demographic is built in as per the title and you'd get a geek comic/SF audience contingent as well. But all WB can see is Batman and Superman. The WB guys should walk over to their DC Comics division, sit down with those guys, put on a pot of coffee and discuss possible DC library characters ripe for a TV adaptation. Teen Titans could be equal parts Heroes Season 1 with the soap opera of Dawson's Creek.
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I was just going on comments I've read here before that there were legal reasons for why we'd never see him fly. Plus, it's the only thing that could explain why they haven't done it so far. Although I guess evil Clark has flown, but at the time, people were saying that was ok because it didn't represent "Superman" flying. Perhaps Shermdawg could clear up the issue?
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Follow G'Nort as he struggles with the travails of being the runt of the litter and battles the evils of ringworm and mange, in the years before he becomes the most inept Green Lantern who ever lived.
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I thought what was blocking it was the showrunners' decision of "No Tights. No Flying." That being said, those showrunners are gone.
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In good hands, this idea could have been great. Kind of a "Young Indiana Jones."
The only bad idea is ever letting the guys who made Smallville do any more DC properties. Or the WB. Or is the network some other name now? I can never remember . . . -
making it faithful to the comics would be even better, unlike SHITVILLE with Tom Welling and Erica(who should do porn) Durance.
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A few have mentioned a Green Arrow spinoff, why not team him with Air Force Pilot Hal Jordan as he becomes Green Lantern. There has been a demand for Green Lantern movie/series for a while now, and the best incarnation of GL was his teaming up with Green Arrow in the 70's. The conservative justice oriented Green Lantern and the liberal "Robin Hood" do gooder Green Arrow made a great team for years.
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Nov 08, 2008 12:03:20 AM CST
We can all rest easy that they're going to rape a different char
by rbatty024
I never got into Smallville, so I probably won't follow whatever copy-cat/spin off they come up with. What's a CW anyway?
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Meh. Why not?
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Nov 08, 2008 2:22:38 AM CST
"Smallville for 4 years dealing with his high school years, and
by bob cryptonight
LOL!!! Good one! Actually, they could slowly show the ice melting...by season 5 (and still with higher ratings than HEROES) a hand comes loose.
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sorry that they dont get that comics are art
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Or this "Batman's retired/missing/dead" shit from Birds of Prey. Here's a crazy idea for a show... just fucking "Batman". Wait till Nolan's done his 3rd movie then just do a proper Batman series that's as good as the best cop show and the best genre shows. That'd really let you do stuff that the movies can't really do - I really think Batman's actually better suited to TV than films.
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...the post-Kingdom Come son of Superman and Wonder Woman who was raised by Bruce Wayne. Can you imagine a man with Superman's powers, Wonder Woman's near divinity-level power with a mind trained by Batman? His is the unkickable ass! Give THAT character a series.
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Everyone has been running away from Smallville. First all the real actors - Schneider, O'Toole, Glover, Rosenbaum - evacuated themselves, then the two responsible for the whole mess ratted away (do I remember correctly that one of them is deluded enough to think he'll be given a new Superman movie to helm?). There's nobody left now. Welling's outlook on future may now have to include unpleasant thoughts of having to take acting classes.
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The planet Bizmol is way overdue for a deep, multi-storyline project. Like "The Wire", but with people eating everything.
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Oh COME ON people!! This news pisses me off. First off: A Bruce Wayne series would be fucking retarded. Sorry, but come on, that's what we have Batman Begins for, there's no reason to retell that story. Second off: If Christopher Nolan is too scared to do the Robin Story, somebody fucking should. Third off: A series about a traveling circus family in the DCU would have been fucking great! You think we wouldn't have gotten amazing origins of Killer Croc, The Penguin and others? You think Dick's parents wouldn't have died at the end of season one? You think the second season wouldn't been full of discovery and ended in Dick's first night as Robin? You think you wouldn't have fucking LOVED all the seasons of training? You think the series finale showdown with Batman and revealing of Nightwing wouldn't have been the fucking shit??? GOD DAMMIT PEOPLE!!! This is a MAJOR missed oppurtunity... This sucks.
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They should revive that Aquaman pilot, that was great.
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You actually think that any of that would have happened. It is very unlikely that Warner Brothers would allow Batman to be a major player in the show, as they wouldn't even let the Smallville people use Wayne. What your talking about could possibly be interesting. But look at Smallville, and you can see what kind of show we were likely in for.
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They just need to bring in some old school hunters like Ash or even Reggie Bannister to make this show horror geek heaven. This show fucking owns and if your not into yet you really need to try it out.
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That's what they need to make into a TV show. Awesome comic. Being a cop in Gotham would make for great drama.
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I'm not one of them nor do I like him. But still..
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God! Fans really do know better. Sheee-it!!
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The only ones they give a shit about are Superman and Batman! They've tried doing a Batman show WITHOUT Batman. Flawed as Birds of Prey was, this was many times worse. If they want another Smallville, they should have gotten their act together and pushed forward on movies about the Flash, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman, all of whom--yes even Aquaman--could have been cool movies. The only thing left would be to do a Legion of Superheroes spin off with Superman and Smallville. I doubt they have the nerve to try a sci-fi setting though.
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Just imagine the possibilities! Bruce Wayne and Oliver Queen go to the same high-priced prep school and get into all sorts of hijinx.
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The pilot is light-years better than FRINGE and the premise is much stronger. Make it happen!
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What about a...waitasec, "Matter Eater Lad: The Early Years"??....Okay, how about Dick Grayson sells out to the National Enquirer in order to finally make a buck ("What if Batman lived in the real world" concept). He writes a tell-all memoir about his teen years growing up in the batcave. His controversial book and the "continuity-lite" series would both be titled
Under the Knight's Wing.
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...lots of teen angst as a post boy wonder tries to find an identity of his own, out of the shadow of the bat. Maybe he tries to go it with out the costume, but circumstances keep drawing him back to the life he used to live.
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... Captain America On Ice. I love it!
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...All hail the Hypnotoad!
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Damn you all to hell!!!
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