Anthonynotes
08-17-2001, 01:29 AM
Apparently some sort of article/interview was done last week with Bruce Timm and the rest of the JLA series staff, and here it is:
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/episode-guides/t-jla-animated.html
Said Superman website has been on the web for some time and has been a pretty reputable source...
My comments are as follows:
- Looks like they are using Hawkgirl's alien origins after all...
- The "Injustice Gange" is more-or-less what the Superfriends' "Legion of Doom" called themselves in the actual comics. First appeared....uh...no idea (the sixties?). Same premise as the "Legion of Doom" (stop heroes, wealth, dominate humanity, blah blah blah :-)
The villains:
- The Cheetah: old Wonder Woman foe; appeared on the Superfriends IIRC...
- The Ultra-Humanite has the distinction of being comics' first regular superpowered (more or less) supervillain, first appearing way back in a 1939/40 issue of Superman (or Action Comics). Basically, he was some scientist that had the power to transfer his personality into another body. Appeared often in early Superman comics before being replaced by Luthor; made cameos over the ensuing decades, transferring his brain into various bodies, including that of a giant albino ape. I know, Sharklady, but I have no idea what Mojo Jojo would make of all this :-)
- Vandal Savage appeared first in the 1940's comics as a foe of the Justice Society of America, the JLA's predecessor. He's a 50,000-year-old immortal caveman... (shrug)
- Copperhead: no clue about him.
- Star Sapphire: what the article said. Struck me as pretty lame from the one story I read with her in it...
- The Shade: an old villain of the 1940's/"Golden Age"-era Flash, he's reappeared over the years (including as one of the bad guys in the famous "Flash of Two Worlds" story). Basically, a creepy guy with a cane with the power to emit absolute darkness...
- Solomon Grundy: giant swamp monster that looks/acts like Frankenstein-meets-Bizarro; first appeared in the 1940's comics. Was on the Superfriends as well IIRC....
- Pleased to see the Joker's unchanged...
- In the traditional comics (before the mid-80's), Lex Luthor was a "mad scientist"/rogue genius who performed constant crimes/acts of evil in a personal vendetta against the Man of Tomorrow, and spent more time in the slammer than in a penthouse apartment (though stories in the 70's suggested that when he wasn't in jail, Luthor did live pretty luxuriously when in hiding from/preparing his next attack on Supes). See: my description of this version of Luthor's origin a month or so ago under one of the "Smallville" threads. Guess the writers must not've cared much for the billionaire version of him even on the Superman series (where Luthor never did seem to get used as well as the Joker was on B:TAS to be honest...even in the World's Finest movie, Joker stole the show villainy-wise...).
- Batman as a...(gasp) *detective*?! Gee, there's an original idea...wonder if the current Bat-comics writers are paying attention to this ;-)
-B.
Guess I should *really* try getting cable after reading all this...(grumbling about calling up Time-Warner today and being told it's $39/mo, with HBO/Showtime/Cinemax being $10 each extra and an $11 installation fee...)
http://www.supermanhomepage.com/tv/episode-guides/t-jla-animated.html
Said Superman website has been on the web for some time and has been a pretty reputable source...
My comments are as follows:
- Looks like they are using Hawkgirl's alien origins after all...
- The "Injustice Gange" is more-or-less what the Superfriends' "Legion of Doom" called themselves in the actual comics. First appeared....uh...no idea (the sixties?). Same premise as the "Legion of Doom" (stop heroes, wealth, dominate humanity, blah blah blah :-)
The villains:
- The Cheetah: old Wonder Woman foe; appeared on the Superfriends IIRC...
- The Ultra-Humanite has the distinction of being comics' first regular superpowered (more or less) supervillain, first appearing way back in a 1939/40 issue of Superman (or Action Comics). Basically, he was some scientist that had the power to transfer his personality into another body. Appeared often in early Superman comics before being replaced by Luthor; made cameos over the ensuing decades, transferring his brain into various bodies, including that of a giant albino ape. I know, Sharklady, but I have no idea what Mojo Jojo would make of all this :-)
- Vandal Savage appeared first in the 1940's comics as a foe of the Justice Society of America, the JLA's predecessor. He's a 50,000-year-old immortal caveman... (shrug)
- Copperhead: no clue about him.
- Star Sapphire: what the article said. Struck me as pretty lame from the one story I read with her in it...
- The Shade: an old villain of the 1940's/"Golden Age"-era Flash, he's reappeared over the years (including as one of the bad guys in the famous "Flash of Two Worlds" story). Basically, a creepy guy with a cane with the power to emit absolute darkness...
- Solomon Grundy: giant swamp monster that looks/acts like Frankenstein-meets-Bizarro; first appeared in the 1940's comics. Was on the Superfriends as well IIRC....
- Pleased to see the Joker's unchanged...
- In the traditional comics (before the mid-80's), Lex Luthor was a "mad scientist"/rogue genius who performed constant crimes/acts of evil in a personal vendetta against the Man of Tomorrow, and spent more time in the slammer than in a penthouse apartment (though stories in the 70's suggested that when he wasn't in jail, Luthor did live pretty luxuriously when in hiding from/preparing his next attack on Supes). See: my description of this version of Luthor's origin a month or so ago under one of the "Smallville" threads. Guess the writers must not've cared much for the billionaire version of him even on the Superman series (where Luthor never did seem to get used as well as the Joker was on B:TAS to be honest...even in the World's Finest movie, Joker stole the show villainy-wise...).
- Batman as a...(gasp) *detective*?! Gee, there's an original idea...wonder if the current Bat-comics writers are paying attention to this ;-)
-B.
Guess I should *really* try getting cable after reading all this...(grumbling about calling up Time-Warner today and being told it's $39/mo, with HBO/Showtime/Cinemax being $10 each extra and an $11 installation fee...)