MTV is reporting:

Hitting stores on April 7, 2009, WHV presents the first authorized collection of the Max Fleischer series of Superman theatrical shorts. Originally shown in cinemas in 1941-1942, anyone who’s had the chance to check out these cartoons knows that the animation not only holds up to today’s standards, but arguably surpasses it. ( Read more... )

Since I was up in Bethesda for dental issues, I decided to try to hunt down another branch of the Big Planet Comics. It was Wednesday after all. After some misadventures, I found the store. They have a guy waiting at a half door waiting for his regular subscribers and he'd point in the right direction for other books. Which is good, because ( Read more... )

Newsarama has a rather fascinating and painful peek at the early depiction of Lois Lane and Superman. DC Comics entered the documents in the Siegel case to demonstrate Superman as a work-for-hire. Those documents don't do DC any favors in showing how they treated Siegel & Shuster. We bemoan the changes in Lois in the 1950s, but apparently it ( Read more... )

I definitely want to listen to this later.

From Superman Homepage and iconic_loislane:

In 1981 the BBC aired a special presentation on Arena in the U.K. titled "The Comic Strip Hero" in which Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster discuss the creation of Superman ( Read more... )

So, in sound mind and all that, I'm signing up for dcu_freeforall. Only ten prompts, so they should be fairly easy to fill up. I'm claiming the Fleischer Superman cartoons, because that is fascinating universe to visit. It has most of the pieces of the Superman we know and love and yet it's constructed completely different. I'll probably one of two or three ( Read more... )

New Wolverine promo image: As someone on my flist said, it's nice that we get Hugh Jackman all ripped and arrr, but it'd be kinda nice to see some stills of the other characters.

dcau_rewatch: Comm for rewatching DC Animated series. Poll is now deciding where we'll start.

Project Rooftop has the finalists for the Superman: Man of Style contest. Some are neat ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who doesn't like Renato Guedes Lois at all? I like his Clark mostly, but she just looks so... mousy. And that's not how I picture Lois Lane at all. It's weird because I loved his Supergirl because she looked like a teenage girl. So I don't know why I have the polar opposite reaction to his Lois.

Good thing I checked ToonDisney's schedule. In two weeks, it looks like they're finally cycling into episodes of STAS and BTAS I haven't seen twenty times already. They skipped the "Late Mr. Kent" again. I finally broke down and found a torrent, because that's the one last season two episode left, going by the dvd sets. They're even showing the ( Read more... )

DC vs Mortal Kombat: I'm not a gamer, other than old arcade style ones, but even I went "Huh?" at crossing DCverse with MK. They've posted some preview artwork, including a very nice hi-res of a rather imposing Superman. The Metropolis artwork elicits a "Meh". I mean, c'mon, how many times has Metropolis been destroyed now? I'd hate to figure out ( Read more... )

I've been going along Netflixing Superman Animated Series. I finished volume one and thought I should check my queue for the next two. Only to discover Netflix in its finite wisdom only carries volumes one and three and leaves out two completely. Whiskey tango foxtrot? I guess I'd better hope ToonDisney comes around and shows the rest of the ( Read more... )