Right after work, I zipped over to Best Buy and picked up the newest straight-to-dvd DCU animated movie,
Justice League: The New Frontier. Now while I haven't actually read the graphic novel, I've heard lots of good things about the storyline. Plus, you know, superheroes...animation...several actors I like doing voices...cool stuff.
I liked it a lot more than
Superman: Doomdsay. Though that *could* be because I'd read the novelization of
The Death and Life of Superman comic arc (at least twice) and so knew that there was a *lot* missing from the story. And while having the story circle around Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) and Martian Manhunter wasn't hugely thrilling to me, there was enough of the characters I like the most (the Big Three - Supes, Bats, and WW) to make me happy. It was amusing to see WW bigger than Supes -- Darwyn Cooke even commented on it in the special features. The voiceover from Kennedy's speech at the end was very moving (I get moved by things of patriotic nature but not typically sad things...go figure.)
Still not a huge fan of the particular art style that was used for this tale -- which is admittedly part of the reason I've never picked up
The New Frontier trade paperbacks. But...I may have to see about changing that. I know there's gotta be a whole lot more story to this even if the 75 minutes was pretty full as it was (though a bit of a slow start).
All-in-all, a satisfying movie. Color me pleased.
I just hope that their next one,
Batman: Gotham Knight (due in July), done by several anime folks is as good. Oh, and the WW coming up...eventually. Though Keri Russell doing WW just seems...odd. I do like Nathan Fillion as Steve Trever, though. ~grin~
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