My Adventures With Superman

It's other posters that nailed it for me. The more tomboyish look actually should do it for me, I have 0 problems with a short haired slimmer woman. The people posting helped me identify she looks like a girl, not a woman.
Hell, you could argue she looks like Luz from Owl House

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I hate owl house and it's fandom
 
The only people that are into superman are Jews
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Leave my boy Jerry alone, after based Kramer Jerry is the only other show runner that wasn't a gigantic democrat talking piece.
I don't mind a good henshin, but yeah wtf this would be okay for some of the Reign Of The Supermen guys but not the real deal
I find it funny how his little transformation still needs him to buckle his belt.
 
but that's not Fleischer Superman, which modern science has confirmed for nearly a hundred years is the best fucking Superman
Came here to post this. The Fleisher animation is ridiculous, even before you realize WHEN it was made.
Fuck this cal-arts owlhouse shit.

Superman VS The Elite
The DC animated movies are usually pretty great, I'll have to check this out if its got a recommend.
Assault on Arkham is what the suicide squad movie should have been.
 
Came here to post this. The Fleisher animation is ridiculous, even before you realize WHEN it was made.
Fuck this cal-arts owlhouse shit.


The DC animated movies are usually pretty great, I'll have to check this out if its got a recommend.
Assault on Arkham is what the suicide squad movie should have been.
Superman VS The Elite is great. It helps that it's an adaptation of just a single issue. So, it can really flesh things out. The art style is a bit off-putting for some. But, the animation itself is really smooth. And the story itself does a great job of encapsulating just what makes Superman so cool and endearing. The voice actor is really acting his ass off here too. Superman's VA here, George Newburn, used to voice Sephiroth. And it shows. He gets downright menacing at one point.
 
Superman VS The Elite is great. It helps that it's an adaptation of just a single issue. So, it can really flesh things out. The art style is a bit off-putting for some. But, the animation itself is really smooth. And the story itself does a great job of encapsulating just what makes Superman so cool and endearing. The voice actor is really acting his ass off here too. Superman's VA here, George Newburn, used to voice Sephiroth. And it shows. He gets downright menacing at one point.
I was definitely put off by the art style at the time, but compared to the bland style in their recent animated movies, it's a minor complaint. The story is interesting, as well.
 
Superman VS The Elite is great. It helps that it's an adaptation of just a single issue. So, it can really flesh things out. The art style is a bit off-putting for some. But, the animation itself is really smooth. And the story itself does a great job of encapsulating just what makes Superman so cool and endearing. The voice actor is really acting his ass off here too. Superman's VA here, George Newburn, used to voice Sephiroth. And it shows. He gets downright menacing at one point.
I actually just finished watching that movie today, and it's really damn good.
 
Came here to post this. The Fleisher animation is ridiculous, even before you realize WHEN it was made.
This scene lives rent-free in my head.

they're really fucking amazing
reminds me of that bit from Ghostbusters
"I guess they just don't make them like they used to."
"No! Nobody *ever* made them like this! I mean, the architect was either a certified genius, or an authentic wacko!"
 
The artwork on this show is terribly bland, like Tumblr meets the sort of "art" you'd see in a cheap "How To Draw Manga" guide from the mid 2000s aimed at teenagers, or some "Amerimanga" comic at the time, put out by some no-name publishers in hopes of riding the wake of manga's increasing popularity in the States.
I caught the first episode. The art style is really generic and bland. You could line up random shows that use this same character designer and I couldn't tell you who was from what show. The animation itself is really cheap and choppy. There's no real sense of weight or a good sense of movement. Everyone being raceswapped or gender-swapped around is really distracting. The Newsboy Legion being turned into a bunch of brown girls is so on the nose for modern diversity standards that it seems like something an AI would make. It took me too long to figure out the bad chick with the shitty haircut was Livewire. Ditching the shock jock origin in favor of a generic army girl thing is insanely uninspired.

The biggest offender, for me, is the dialogue. That quirky, "cute" dialogue is so annoying. It's all so tiresome with that "realistic," Whedon-esque dialogue. Just a step away from someone unironically saying "Soooo, that just happened." Clark being some kawaii uguu weirdo is really lame. I know Clark is supposed to be a dork, but it just seems like trying to pander to that "heckin' smol bean" crowd.
 
Clark being some kawaii uguu weirdo is really lame. I know Clark is supposed to be a dork, but it just seems like trying to pander to that "heckin' smol bean" crowd.
This hurts me inside.

Why can't Superman get anything good anymore? You can't give the "cool, semi-edgy" character (in this case Batman) everything, it gets boring once you've seen enough franchises do it that you notice the pattern.
It really makes me miss DCAU Superman a lot...
 
If you want to suffer, the full episode is on YouTube.
Anime effects. Fucking anime effects everywhere. That can be tolerable though, I enjoyed Teen Titans and it is not as bad as that.

Less than a minute and a half in and I am laughing as a woman who has just had her car stopped by a child clearly visible in her rear view mirror and just standing there just drives off because the writers have no idea how to end that scene.

Superman as a grown man apparently routinely cannot control his strength to the degree that is destroy taps and shoes when trying to use them like a functional human. Also giving himself this pep talk, "Shake gentle, do not crush his hand."

Less than 4 and a half minutes in and an elderly shopkeeper is putting a bib on Clark. Because he cannot eat doughnuts without making a mess. Also the shopkeeper's husband does not appear but has a wonderful accent which no doubt will be called racist when we see him on screen.

He broke the shop door walking out of it.

And Lois is risking the future careers and lives of two complete strangers for her own benefit. Not entirely out of character especially for a younger version of the character but still pretty selfish.

Largely tuned out here as it was all largely dull.

Mildly funny villain duo that are almost certain to be recurring. Someone give them a talking animal sidekick.

Superman getting a power up moment and punching a robot into the heavens. Nice to see they saved on animating the robot actually being launched and are stupid. Also he apparently still does not know who he is at this age suggesting that it's going to be part of the story alongside Lois and Jimmy.

Oh Ma and Pa Kent made it in. In the ending credits as a single photo. I suppose stable and loving families will not be something their target audience can understand.
 
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