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Dude, two things:
Basic Blond Boy said:
I really hate the Voltron art style it has, would rather have the Archer style modern DC animated flicks are going with. Lois' design is also super off-putting given it looks like an Owl House character. I genuinely want to know who the black guy is that Superman fights. I swear, if it is black Lex Luthor, then that will be peak comedy.

I don't know. I guess new Supes isn't egregious yet, but I didn't see anything stand out as particularly good. Rate me optimistic, but my hope would be that this is a Justice League Action situation where it looks bland/bad, but turns out to have quite a bit of heart.

At least now we have seen one of DC's new animated series. We still got:
  • Batman: Caped Crusader
  • Creature Commandos
  • Wonder Woman??
coming. Again, not really sold on any of these being worthwhile.
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1. Settle down, you’re sperging a bit.

Basic Blond Boy said:
If we are lucky, maybe DC will right their wrongs and hire Faust back for DC Super Hero Girls season 3. That is the one thing I can see salvaging this.
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2. DC Superhero Girls is a mediocre show. It’s a boring show even for little kids.

Not to mention, the fanbase is full of soyjacks, autists and manchildren/womanchildren.
 
So a hundred pages ago I posted the oldest surviving work of western animation. Well here we are a hundred pages later so may as well post another historic milestone.
Crusader rabbit, the first cartoon developed exclusively for television. Now it's definitely a LOT cheaper looking than anything Warner, Disney, or MGM was making at the time, and you can see they cheated and cut corners everywhere. From covering mouths so they wouldn't have to animate them moving, to keeping almost every frame stiff to where it's more like an audio picture book. Still they made p for it by having each drawing as detailed as possible right down the cross stitching and shadows.

Animation in the 50's for television was all really cheap looking. Almost every show was still images with the only movement being the mouths if at all. It wasn't until Hanna Barbara began moving away from MGM and starting their own studio and the development of limited animation did TV animation have some better movement. While never as fluid or stylized as the golden age theatrical animation you can see a huge jump in quality when you compare Crusader Rabbit or Clutch Cargo to Ruff and Reddy or Rocky and Bullwinkle.
 
Creep3r said:
@Basic Blond Boy I'm guessing Space Jam A New Legacy didn't do any favors for them either right?
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Nah the movie bombed hard. It was supposed to be their intro to HBO Max.

Creep3r said:
It also looks like that weird Scoob movie was their attempt at reinvigorating the H&B franchise after having horribly mismanaged it for so long only for the film to turn out as another flop on their hands.
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This too.


WB has no idea what it wants to do with its IPs. They have been trying to tie them all together since at least LEGO Dimensions in 2015. Going into Multiversus, the leaks make it seem like it was Dimensions 2.0 given the characters they were picking. Then there was apparently an internal leak at Tt for an actual Dimensions 2 where Rick & Morty meet Stranger Things. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2...ects-among-multiple-cancellations-at-tt-games
Project Rainbow Road', a non-Lego shooter featuring Warner Bros. IP (including DC, Rick & Morty, and Looney Tunes, along with Netflix's Stranger Things), which reportedly started life as a Funko project at TT Games before developer 10:10 was set up and took the Funko license. TT apparently tried to salvage what it had, coming up with different ideas for its own mascot character designs to 'wrap' the WB properties around
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In addition to this, you had the weird crossovers they were doing to tie things together. You had Tom & Jerry in Charlie & The Chocolate Factory + Wizard of Oz, TTG meets BeetleJuice, then the numerous bizarre Scooby crossovers for Guess Who.

Soon CN (edit: might just be HBO Max) is going to get Gremlins Secrets of the Mogwai in WB’s increasing attempts to make Gremlins hip again.
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WB just wants to tie everything together at the cost of the individual brands. They have been doing clean ups of CN, Adult Swim, DC, and pretty much everything they own in a weird attempt to create a WB universe.
 
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This new kiddie-looking Superman cartoon is actually appearing on Adult Swim. It just looks like a kids show, like 'what if Superman was my friend'.

But I guess they're just using [AS] as a dumping ground, now.
 
Commander X said:
This new kiddie-looking Superman cartoon is actually appearing on Adult Swim. It just looks like a kids show, like 'what if Superman was my friend'.

But I guess they're just using [AS] as a dumping ground, now.
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Nah, is in the same level as Voltron visually.
They're gonna be hard with LGTB+ and wokeism.
Mark my words, gentlemen.
 
I'm just saying the animation has kid's show aesthetics, and the animation also looks pretty choppy as well. Also, one of the co-producers worked on that She-Ra cartoon, so...
 
Commander X said:
I'm just saying the animation has kid's show aesthetics, and the animation also looks pretty choppy as well. Also, one of the co-producers worked on that She-Ra cartoon, so...
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It is literally a kid’s show, so no need to mask anything. It was said to premier on CN ages ago, how it got onto Adult Swim seems to be a series of mismanagement.
 
Basic Blond Boy said:
It is literally a kid’s show, so no need to mask anything. It was said to premier on CN ages ago, how it got onto Adult Swim seems to be a series of mismanagement.
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All I can say is, I sure hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
 
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