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| Posted By : jonesha - 9/26/2005 5:24 AM | Did anyone happen to catch Justice League this Saturday? We were flipping through the channels and up it popped at 9:00 our time. The Justice League plane, half full of heroes I've never heard of (they must be newer ones) gets sucked through a hole near the North Pole...
And wham, they're in Skartaris! It was pretty swell seing Morgan the Warlord and all the gang in animated form. Did anyone else catch it?
Back to back with this was another episode where the Justice League ran into the preserved body of The Viking Prince, an old s and s hero from the early days of the comics.
Makes me wonder, since the Viking Prince was so prominently featured, if DC might plan on reprinting the stories. I've heard about them but never read them.
Both characters are discussed in detail in an upcoming article for Swordandsorcery.org, penned by Charles Rutledge.
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| Posted By : PaulMc - 9/26/2005 5:26 AM | quote:
Originally posted by jonesha
Did anyone happen to catch Justice League this Saturday?
And wham, they're in Skartaris! It was pretty swell seing Morgan the Warlord and all the gang in animated form. Did anyone else catch it?
Back to back with this was another episode where the Justice League ran into the preserved body of The Viking Prince, an old s and s hero from the early days of the comics.
Yup. Heck, about the only regular scheduled shows are watch are cartoons - Justice League Unlimited, Family Guy, American Dad and the Venture Brothers.
I liked all the still art they used when Grodd was telling the story of the Viking Prince. It was really different, a great change of pace!
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| Posted By : trey - 9/26/2005 10:14 AM | I saw it. I had been waiting with anticipation since it was announced a couple of months ago.
I thought the voice actors for Travis Morgan and Deimos were great.
I don't understand why Jennifer seemed to have a Eastern European accent, though. Some of the pronounciations for things Skartarian were a little odd, too. But these are quibbles.
All and all, a very enjoyable set of episodes. |
| Posted By : jhmcmullen - 9/26/2005 11:15 AM | quote:
Originally posted by jonesha
Did anyone happen to catch Justice League this Saturday? We were flipping through the channels and up it popped at 9:00 our time. The Justice League plane, half full of heroes I've never heard of (they must be newer ones) gets sucked through a hole near the North Pole...
I didn't catch it--I haven't had a chance to watch cartoons since June.
The datum I was going to add was that Justice League Unlimited gets to use any character who has ever appeared in a Justice League comic (subject to restrictions of other licenses), and they try to use lots of them. Plus the creative team kicks butt. I don't know the actual number of the Viking Prince or Warlord guest appearance in JL, but I'm pretty sure there was one. Or two. |
| Posted By : CharlesR - 9/26/2005 12:37 PM | "Makes me wonder, since the Viking Prince was so prominently featured, if DC might plan on reprinting the stories. I've heard about them but never read them."
Howard, DC is about to start a new line of black and white trade paperbacks, similar to the Marvel Essential books, where they can reprint pretty much anything fans want to see in inexpensive volumes, so Viking Prince, Warlord, maybe even Claw, Stalker, and the gang aren't out of the realm of possibility. I've sort of been expecting a Viking Prince Archives since DC has published other Joe Kubert volumes including Enemy Ace and Sgt Rock, but so far no go. Of course the Archive's are 50 buck hardbacks so those of us who just want to read the stories would probably be better off with the trades.
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| Posted By : jonesha - 9/26/2005 5:48 PM | You're kidding--enemy ace? I'll have to go pick that up. I always loved that backup feature. I'll go to Amazon and check it out right now.
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| Posted By : Bruce Durham - 9/28/2005 4:05 AM | quote:
Originally posted by jhmcmullen
The datum I was going to add was that Justice League Unlimited gets to use any character who has ever appeared in a Justice League comic (subject to restrictions of other licenses), and they try to use lots of them. Plus the creative team kicks butt.
Yes, the episode where Booster Gold was doing crowd control while the mainstream members were having their butts handed to them was kind of funny.
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| Posted By : Dragon Angel - 9/28/2005 1:39 PM | I liked all the still art they used when Grodd was telling the story of the Viking Prince. It was really different, a great change of pace!
I could have done without the horned helmet on the Valkyrie. |
| Posted By : PaulMc - 9/28/2005 3:51 PM | quote:
Originally posted by davidolson22
I liked all the still art they used when Grodd was telling the story of the Viking Prince. It was really different, a great change of pace!
I could have done without the horned helmet on the Valkyrie.
That's comics for ya.
I never understood the tusks on Marvel's Conan's helmet, either. Nor that three disc necklace he wore. Wouldn't that thing rattle a bit when he was jumping over walls trying to burglarize in stealth?
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| Posted By : jonesha - 9/29/2005 2:44 AM | If we're going to pick nits, Grodd's whole speech mentioning Odin as a real entity, the curse, etcetera, would most likely have provoked SOME skepticism from Luthor or some of the others. It didn't quite work, did it?
No matter, though. It was pretty cool. My guess is that the whole look of the flashback was based on art from the original stories, which are several decades old at this point, back when there weren't as many nit-picking "experts" like ourselves to tear everything apart...
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| Posted By : Dragon Angel - 9/29/2005 11:44 AM | Grodd's whole speech mentioning Odin as a real entity, the curse, etcetera, would most likely have provoked SOME skepticism from Luthor or some of the others.
You think? So, Luthor is talking to an intelligent ape from a hidden city of apes in another dimension. He finds himself fighting a man from another planet with super powers on an almost daily basis. He knows people who have come from Greek mythology. Is he really going to be so skeptical about Odin? With all the crazy things going on in that series, he'd be wise to believe almost anything can be true. |
| Posted By : jonesha - 9/29/2005 1:10 PM | Touche (or that WOULD be Touche with a little accent over the e if I could figure out how to do that).
I guess the wife and I hit the suspension of disbelief wall after the talking gorilla mentioned Odin matter-of-factly, and you hit yours when you saw the wings on the helmet--someone else probably hit it when the gorilla actually started talking, or maybe when all the weirdos in suits sat down around the table...
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