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The Killing Joke basically should not have been make into an animated story. The original source material story was a very short read and the fact that they had to pad it out with a very weak and unnecessary Batgirl-centric prologue only watered down the main story.

 

I thought of that too. It just feels longer than it is when reading it.

 

Totally agree. It was weak. They are totally running out of shit.

 

They aren't running out of shit, they're just being lazy about what stories they could adapt and how to best translate them into animated features.

Better still they need to go back to making original animated features that aren't based on actual DC Universe stories. Out of all of the recent animated stories that were based on actual recent DC storylines, Flashpoint Paradox and Assault on Arkham were the only two that were any good. And the one original non DC storyline animated feature, Justice League :Gods and Monsters, was far better than all of the combined New 52 version Justice League & Batman features that have been released IMO.

 

Loved it and waiting for the next movie.

 

I actually liked all the Son of Batman features

 

I thought that the was too short but this is WB Animation, all of their films are over 60 minutes and under 90 minutes.

I haven't read The Killing Joke. But I do understand that this film was different from other stories. Batgirl's prologue seemed out of place. Her being shot by Joker was pretty shocking, although in the comics, Barbara Gordon revealed that she was Batgirl to her father.

The Joker, having many names as well as lives before his transformation, realizes, in the end, he cannot defeat Batman.

Batman, cannot get into the inner pain of Joker because he is owning up to the fact that he didn't save him from falling into the vat of acid. Batman didn't know who the Joker was before the incident.

I think both Joker and Batgirl were trying to remind Batman that he is a man.

Sometimes, a truce between protagonist and antagonist occurs in a story. They meet someplace and have a drink. Joker tells a Joke and Batman laughs.

That's what I got out of the film. Perhaps it would have worked if it was a live-action film than animated.

 

And that is the main problem with all of those particular Batman features. They are all essentially Damian stories featuring Batman and other Bat-Family characters. Same thing with Justice League vs Teen Titans. It's a Damian story featuring the Justice League and the Teen Titans.

 

Starting to become Damian & Friends :smt043 :smt043

 

lmao:lol:

 

But it was good though.

 

It is hurting the storyline. batman vs robin is a good example. It should have been batman vs the court of owls. I mean that was a great saga in the comic book. It went through all of the bat family. In the movie, it wasreduced to barely anything of importance. I don't even remember Robin having to deal with joining the owls.

 

Yep. They could have done a Court of Owls Trilogy basically introducing them and setting up just how deep they operate in Gotham. They could have even teased the possibility of Dick Grayson becoming part a Talon for the Court and then spun a Nightwing feature from that to tell the story of whether or not he actually was working for the Court.

SPOILER ALERT : He's a double agent who accepts a role as a Talon in the Court, but does so to infiltrate the Court in order to help Batman eventually take them down.

 

Justice League Trailer

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This is on amazon prime. I think the more people that watch it the better shot the new season has at returning.

 

Is it any good? I loved the old show from the 90's.

 

ROBERT KIRKMAN Announces End of INVINCIBLE Series




Invincible co-creator/writer Robert Kirkman has announced that the series will be ending after the upcoming 12-part "The End of All Things" arc. Scheduled to end with Invincible #144, the series co-created by Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley has grown to be one of Image Comics' stalwart titles alongside The Walking Dead, co-created by Kirkman and Tony Moore.

Here is Kirkman's letter announcing the end of the series:

"My greatest hope in life is to one day, when I'm much older, be reading an INVINCIBLE comic book by younger creators I haven't met, who are doing a book that I hate."

I've been asked many times over the thirteen years of writing INVINCIBLE how long I think this book will go. Some form of that statement has always been my answer. I always thought it would be a great honor to see Invincible rise to the level of Superman or Spider-Man in the pantheon of comic book superheroes. Characters who far outlived their original stories and eventually transformed into story engines that sort of tell the same story (to a certain extent) in perpetuity for generation after generation.

It wasn't until recently that I realized that goes against everything INVINCIBLE, as a series, has stood for since the very beginning. When Cory Walker and I created him, and with Ryan Ottley, since he joined the team with issue 8, the point of this series has always been to celebrate what we love about superhero comics, but always put our own spin on it. To play with the tropes of the genre, but twist them into something new, at all times, no matter what.


That is why villains sometimes win, and heroes give up... and eventually stop being heroes altogether... and change happens, and sticks, and characters die, and never come back... no matter how popular they are (we maybe should have kept Conquest alive).

So then, it stands to reason, that if most superhero comics continue forever with no end in sight and over their runs do not, in any way, tell a cohesive story that holds together to form a singular narrative... shouldn't INVINCIBLE do the exact opposite?

It's been many years now that Ryan Ottley and myself, with occasional help from co-creator Cory Walker (issue 130 in stores soon!) have been chronicling the adventures of Mark Grayson and the many characters that orbit his life. As I began plotting out the issues that lay ahead of us over this next year, I started to realize I was reaching a... conclusion. The big Viltrumite epic, which began with Nolan Grayson going to Earth and fathering Mark, and kicked off with their confrontation all those years ago in issue 11... was coming to an end. Everything was converging in this one story, and looking back, I realized I'd been working toward this the whole time. In talking it over with Ryan I learned, much to my surprise, that the idea of drawing something other than INVINCIBLE someday... and not being stuck in this monthly grind we've been in for well over a decade... appealed to him. So it was clear, I was writing to a conclusion and Ryan was also drawing to one.

So that led to the question of what comes next?

I briefly considered bringing on another team, starting that eventual march to that book I'd read in my old age and throw across the room saying, "This isn't INVINCIBLE!" And while I did consider some really cool options that would have led to some really cool issues of INVINCIBLE... more and more as I thought about it, I realized ending the series was the right thing to do.

So that's what we're doing! Issue 144, the conclusion of the 12-part epic THE END OF ALL THINGS, will be the final issue of Invincible. I'm sure when it's all said and done, I'll be sad, and I know I will miss these characters, but for the time being, I'm excited. Ryan will be coming back to the book with issue 133 in November, and we're going to hit the ground running. We've got a wild ride in store for the fans where we're going to touch every corner of the Invincible Universe, and in the end, tie things up in a really cool and unexpected way.

So we've got a little over a year to go, and it's going to be one hell of a year! So please join us for our swan song, thirteen years in the making! We couldn't have done it without you, the fans, so lets all cross the finish line together!

Robert Kirkman
Backwoods, CA
2016

 

The live action version from the day is a bit more funnier but this new one has better graphics.

I think it has potential.

 

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Found something I had heard about a while when I explored kickstarter. might start looking at kickstarter again. They got the first pilot out through kickstarter.

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The art looks nice.

warning it is very out there so .....