To be fair, Catwoman disappeared from the comics in the mid 1950s until 1966 due to the Comics Code. For a time in the late 1960s to mid 1970s, she also had two short lived costumes (green suit and mask and then a black bodysuit with light blue tights and red mask) The mid 1970s brought back the late 1940s costume until Crisis.
Which is funny, considering Catwoman would still appear in the TV series from the 60s where Lee Meriwether, Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt, respectively, played her. So if anything, her TV appearance became popular that she ended up returning to the comic
thanks! that is interesting. that period in Batman is a big blindspot for me. silver age batman is something I've looked at hardly any of (outside of the Black Casebook collection of stuff that informed Morrison's run & World's Finest) I love the TV series but that period of Batman is so sci-fi I never had much of an interest in it because I've read all the Silver Age Superman/Flash/Green Lantern/Hawkman stuff and a lot of it is lots of fun and those characters lend themselves more to that type of thing so I have/had 0 context for who if any main Batman villains were used during that period of time.
No actress has ever brought such enthusiasm to the role as Lee Meriwether.
To be fair, everybody on that show brought more energy and enthusiasm than their counter parts.
meh, i can see where he's coming from, back in the early days of the internet when he was a literal who it was fairly normal to answer the one question a day you might get from fans. especially in the low budget world that sort of interactivity can supercharge a persons fandom especially because it was a lot harder to communicate with say Ben Affleck vs Doug Sakmann. Imagine if somehow Kiwifarms suddely became the #1 social media site, obviously null would still act the same and treat the website as such even if its detrimental to everyone involved. FFS his blog is the reason he's at warnerbros instead of being blamed for how awful Marvel is doing right now.
why do i have a feeling catgirls only exploded in popularity after the tv show, as that one guy said catwoman is a relic from the golden era.
the only true Catwoman
Honestly I don't know why anyone would want a continuation of JLU since the show had a pretty conclusive ending.
yeah that was part of my point, it ended perfectly, and really beyond that there isn't really any major JLA stuff in the last 15 years I'd want them to adapt in it anyways. they pretty much covered all the characters and stories I would have wanted to see them do. most of n52 and after JLA has just been remixes of stuff we had already seen or just a setup book for shitty events, the one thing I really wanted them to do as a kid back when it was on was a real adaptation of death and return of superman over a few episodes but in the years since we had 3 piss poor animated movies based on it, and 2 piss poor live action movies vaguely using elements of it and I no longer ever want to see that story adapted anywhere.
I agree with you 100%. for me it is my Batman specifically, and I like everything else in it (outside the Zeta project that show sucked). my pop and brother had taped all of BTAS as it aired and I was a kid during Superman through JLU. watched 'em all religiously. they managed to cherry pick everything to make a distilled cohesive thing, and it worked wonderfully. however we are so far removed from it and there is nothing like that with DC today. what they should copy from the DCAU is that aspect, but we have another 20 years of material since to crib from. I think the reliance on Batman is probably a mixture of DCAU and the fact that the only DC movies that didn't suck were the first two Batman movies.
I didn't get this from the DCAU. Superman was easily the main IP come Justice League and the best story arcs and moments are relegated to him. Cadmus may as well have been a Superman story feat the Justice League. The last season of JLU was practically Lex's show, and, in all honesty, most of JL seemed to be Lex's narrative more than anybody else. Even the non-Beyond ending was focused around Superman getting his world of cardboard speech while beating Darkseid.
I never minded them. He did it because BTAS had struggles getting animated overseas, so he simplified the designs.
I think you're right to some extent, but it started earlier. it didn't necessarily permeate into everything else like it did after TDK where Green Arrow on CW was basically just a shitty Dark Knight trilogy Batman show down to it's first season doing the plot beats of TDKR and the later seasons being the Ra's Al Ghul thing, but it started in the early 90s in comics. due to the success of Batman, Returns and BTAS Batman went all in with there being a mini series and one shots every month, Batfamily titles became the main focus point of the DCU. Superman had tons of ongoings at the time too, but the big difference was that the Superman books were all essentially one series with dif writers and artists assigned a book each week, but were to be read as a weekly comic and the mini series and one shots were also designed to fit in to them in that format where it was a weekly book telling one story. Batman however might have a throughline during crossovers but even during them was CONSTANTLY getting side books that were 'new reader friendly' and either set early in his career or ambiguous time frames so anyone would pick it up and know what was happening without any other context and I think this is solely built on the back of the movies and tv show being so mainstreamly popular. DC being the House that Batman built had been a thing for 20 years before TDK movie.
agreed
yeah I get why they did it, and it never bothered me I just don't think they're particularly attractive designs. they'd never be able to animate efficiently the DC animation I'd want which is like in that Superman anniversary short they did where they animated Dan Jurgens' Death of Superman art and it looks just like the comic that shit is insane I wish it was feasible to see some of those classic comic art styles animated but it would be too much work, time and money.
I thought the Injustice comics were very good. Their biggest limiter was the mandated format that each episode was very short but I never saw why some people hated it. So far as I could tell it was just some reaction to the idea of an evil Superman being inherently some "edgy" try-hard thing when in the comic they actually did it exceedingly well. He doesn't go "Zap! I'm evil now!" and start wearing a goatee like people make it sound. He loses Lois and his child and he decides to go further in making the world safe. It starts small and it escalates bit by bit. Unless we're talking about the movie adaptation which was impossibly short and does feel like that. But the comic is excellent with many good scenes. I liked his playing chess with Flash whilst debating gun control. It's key that the first two games Superman wins (Flash has only just learned). But by the end of the conversation, Barry is wining each time.
And this I disagree with as well. Shameless rip off of Batman? Oh, no doubt. I think they originally wanted to do Batman but couldn't get the rights at the time so swapped it to Green Arrow. Frankly, I think that was for the best because it let them take a slightly fresher approach and also the Arrow killed which brought a lot of interesting aspects to the story. Couldn't do that with Batman. Also, Stephen Amell was superb and the dude himself hugely likeable as a person. Great casting. The character led to some sparingly used but excellent humour.
I liked it a lot but I think the point @Basic Blond Boy was making was that the tone of it and the basic storyline of evil superman batman kicks his ass was detrimental. I think the comic is quite good for what it is, and wish instead of that garbage ass movie they would have just animated it as a series. it would have done huge numbers because despite the vitriol fans have for injustice and evil superman, normies FUCKING LOVE it, but have never read the comic. the Injustice 2 comic was hot garbage though.
it was always a green arrow show. it was supposed to be a Justin Hartley led spin off of Smallville (which coincidentally was a Batman show being developed but Aronofsky's Batman Year One movie was in development so WB vetoed any Batman origin stuff.) Smallville was on from when I was 6-16 so I was plugged in online to it because it was the one TV show I watched every week as a kid through the good and terrible. I followed Arrow's development for a long time up and to the release and essentially what happened was they wanted a Smallville sequel through Hartley's Arrow but everyone on that show had been doing it for years and would not agree to show up. like they wanted to do Green Arrow but use the DCU of Smallville and Welling/Rosenbalm and others were basically like fuck no we are not showing up for a few episodes of that so they went back to the drawing board and did a reboot, and basically used TDK trilogy as their blueprint. I remember reading all of this as it was happening, and people involved basically saying they were specifically doing TDK plot points and stuff because it resonated with people. and at the time this made sense, this is pre Netflix Daredevil and superhero tv had never even tried to be serious really so you might as well use what works. it's funny you mention Merlyn and Deathstroke because they're the only things I liked about that show at all (outside of Amell himself he was great casting the show is just written poorly especially after season 2. I personally like the first 2 a lot). all of my knowledge of this comes from a smallville based forum kryptonsite/k-siteTV which repurposed itself into an Arrow forum when it started and then I stopped going there basically halfway through Arrow's first season because I was 17 or something and was waiting for DvDs of shows and not watching them week to week anymore.
Well thank Fuck they did. I'm very glad we got what we did rather than a Smallville spin-off. That would have been dire (no disrespect to Smallvill, it just would have been a bad idea).
*gasps in CW*
I go back and forth on Injustice and I think my main takeaway is that it does minor characters really well, but the main ones have to act wildly out of character (even within the story) to make any of it make sense.