Superman / Doomsday, on DVD 9-18-07

Flying_Infant · May 16, 2007, 05:50:04 AM

Quote from: Lex LuthorEnjoy your reign while you may, Superman. For as surely as night follows day...There comes a time when even gods must die.

http://www.warnervideo.com/supermandoomsdaydvd/

Ajax · May 16, 2007, 10:52:26 AM

:thumbup: I can't wait.

JeyNyce · August 23, 2007, 08:07:42 PM

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thanoson · August 23, 2007, 10:20:32 PM

Awesome.

stumpy · August 24, 2007, 04:57:05 AM

Coolishness. :cool:

BTW, Spike is doing the voice of Lex Luthor? Hmm. I didn't catch his voice in those clips, but he could be good. I wonder what happened to Clancy Brown? He has a very ... menacing ... voice. I liked him as Luthor in JLU.

Protomorph · August 25, 2007, 07:11:27 PM

SWEET :wub:

Talavar · August 25, 2007, 09:14:57 PM

Quote from: stumpy on August 24, 2007, 04:57:05 AM
Coolishness. :cool:

BTW, Spike is doing the voice of Lex Luthor? Hmm. I didn't catch his voice in those clips, but he could be good. I wonder what happened to Clancy Brown? He has a very ... menacing ... voice. I liked him as Luthor in JLU.

None of the voice cast from Superman/JL/JLU are returning, because they supposedly want to differentiate between this film and the Timmverse, of which, despite being produced by Bruce Timm, it is not part.

MJB · August 26, 2007, 01:30:57 AM

This movie may have been intended to be seperate from the "Timmverse", but I feel that the character and art designs, that I have seen, are not different enough from the original "Timmverse".

Don't get me wrong I think they did an excellent job updating these characters, I just think that the previews I have seen still exude a lot of "JLU".

-MJB

Flying_Infant · August 26, 2007, 07:11:11 AM

I think I read somewhere that its closer to that style because it got rushed, so they didn't have time to change it.

I was hoping for an update on the animation and what-not, but since I'm a giant fan of the DCAU as is, I'm happy either way.

Uncle Yuan · August 26, 2007, 08:16:56 PM

When is this supposed to take place? Supes looks so OLD!

I dunno, I'm not impressed. The production quality looks pretty run-of-the-mill, the character designs are decidedly derivative and off-screen or not, Doomsday obviously killed at least two people in the trailer alone. And after the hack-job JLU did with Doomsday I just can't get excited . . .

BentonGrey · August 26, 2007, 08:38:48 PM

I really liked JLU's take on Doomsday, and I actually find myself wishing that this was in Timmverse continuity.

thanoson · August 27, 2007, 10:04:54 AM

yeah, I liked Timmverse Doomsday too. He killed the Dr. in the last episode with him in it.

The Pwime · August 27, 2007, 11:46:31 AM

awesome, awesome, awesome! :D

Talavar · August 27, 2007, 03:29:06 PM

Quote from: Uncle Yuan on August 26, 2007, 08:16:56 PM
When is this supposed to take place? Supes looks so OLD!

I dunno, I'm not impressed. The production quality looks pretty run-of-the-mill, the character designs are decidedly derivative and off-screen or not, Doomsday obviously killed at least two people in the trailer alone. And after the hack-job JLU did with Doomsday I just can't get excited . . .

JLU did a hackjob on Doomsday? Doomsday was always a hack job, until they used him in any sort of interesting way.

As to the style, Lois certainly looks a lot different than the Timmverse version.

BentonGrey · August 27, 2007, 06:30:51 PM

Quote from: Talavar on August 27, 2007, 03:29:06 PM
Quote from: Uncle Yuan on August 26, 2007, 08:16:56 PM
When is this supposed to take place? Supes looks so OLD!

I dunno, I'm not impressed. The production quality looks pretty run-of-the-mill, the character designs are decidedly derivative and off-screen or not, Doomsday obviously killed at least two people in the trailer alone. And after the hack-job JLU did with Doomsday I just can't get excited . . .

JLU did a hackjob on Doomsday? Doomsday was always a hack job, until they used him in any sort of interesting way.

As to the style, Lois certainly looks a lot different than the Timmverse version.

Amen, I found that the Death of Superman story was pretty poorly written. If Doomsday can hurt Superman with a punch, shouldn't his SEVERE beating of Blue Beetle have left him DEAD about a thousand times over?

Talavar · August 28, 2007, 08:52:38 AM

Quote from: BentonGrey on August 27, 2007, 06:30:51 PM
Quote from: Talavar on August 27, 2007, 03:29:06 PM
Quote from: Uncle Yuan on August 26, 2007, 08:16:56 PM
When is this supposed to take place? Supes looks so OLD!

I dunno, I'm not impressed. The production quality looks pretty run-of-the-mill, the character designs are decidedly derivative and off-screen or not, Doomsday obviously killed at least two people in the trailer alone. And after the hack-job JLU did with Doomsday I just can't get excited . . .

JLU did a hackjob on Doomsday? Doomsday was always a hack job, until they used him in any sort of interesting way.

As to the style, Lois certainly looks a lot different than the Timmverse version.

Amen, I found that the Death of Superman story was pretty poorly written. If Doomsday can hurt Superman with a punch, shouldn't his SEVERE beating of Blue Beetle have left him DEAD about a thousand times over?

Even beyond that sort of logistical concern is the fact that Doomsday wasn't a character at all. In the Death of Superman story he had no motive, no personality and no history; he should have just have been named Plot Device.

herodad1 · August 28, 2007, 12:23:53 PM

to me he's just another hulk rip-off.its dc's way of having another character being more powerful than everybody.

Agent · August 28, 2007, 02:26:37 PM

And the Hulk is just a rip-off of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Seriously, it is possible for Marvel and DC to do things without it having anything to do with the other company.

Anyway, like Talavar said Doomsday was just the plot device used to get to the real story which was "How would the world react if Superman died?" and then the "Reign of the Supermen" storyline that came after it. From what I read, Doomsday always seemed like he was meant to be a throw away character. That's why he was never really developed beyond just being a super powerful killing machine. They did go back and reveal his origin in the Superman: Hunter/Prey limited series but Doomsday was also killed off at the end (Waverider transported him to the Big Bang). That was really meant to be the permanent end of Doomsday.

BentonGrey · August 29, 2007, 08:23:55 AM

Yeah, you know....just like with just about EVERYTHING else, the JLU version is about a dozen times better than real DC continuity....this is why Timm and Dini should be placed in charge of DC.........under my supervision, of course. :P

Agent · August 29, 2007, 11:29:38 AM

Well, Paul Dini's already writing Countdown and one of the Batman books and Dwayne McDuffie, producer and story editor for JLU, will be taking over as writer of JLA after Meltzer leaves. So there's some good news. :thumbup:

steamteck · August 29, 2007, 01:07:14 PM

Quote from: BentonGrey on August 29, 2007, 08:23:55 AM
Yeah, you know....just like with just about EVERYTHING else, the JLU version is about a dozen times better than real DC continuity....this is why Timm and Dini should be placed in charge of DC.........under my supervision, of course. :P

We are completely on the same wavelength here. I wish the Justice league/JLU continuity was the "real" one.

BentonGrey · August 29, 2007, 10:38:28 PM

Quote from: Agent on August 29, 2007, 11:29:38 AM
Well, Paul Dini's already writing Countdown and one of the Batman books and Dwayne McDuffie, producer and story editor for JLU, will be taking over as writer of JLA after Meltzer leaves. So there's some good news. :thumbup:

Well, in a way, but the problem I have, as I've said a few times in various places, is that whenever good writers actually have good ideas, they are saddled with a whole lot of TERRIBLE continuity. If JLU was the real continuity, AND these guys were in charge....I'd most likely be bankrupting myself buying DC comics.