Kenny Eugene McCall
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The Return of the DC Animated Showcase
By Kenny Eugene McCall, 6/18/07
By Kenny Eugene McCall, 6/18/07
Hello Hypesters:
For some time now, I've been doing the Marvel Spotlight with characters from the Marvel Universe in one shot, five-episode stories. But, I think that the DC Animated Showcase should make its return after a stellar first cycle, and a less-than-promising second (blame it on me).
But, as with the current and upcoming cycles of the MS, there are gonna be some serious and interesting changes, as many Ruby-Spears and Hanna-Barbera-created superheroes and adventurers will join the DC Animated Universe, as well as characters from a legendary toy company that had just purchased the DC Comics toy license two years ago.
Yes folks, as with Hasbro and the Marvel Universe, Mattel and its primary characters (Barbie, Masters of the Universe and Hot Wheels/Matchbox) will make their first appearances in the DC Animated Universe in the upcoming Brave and the Bold storyline based on the DC comic "52", which just ended and segued right into "Countdown."
Set one year after the events of the Justice League Unlimited episode "Destroyer," Barbie and the Rockers will set up shop in Central City as allies of the Flash and Birdman. Meanwhile, Eternia is the latest planet on Superman, Green Lantern, Hawkgirl, and Martian Manhunter's radar, as He-Man and the Masters of the Universe make their first appearances as new allies of the Justice League and Young Justice. And finally, the events of Destroyer have brought both Lex Luthor and Darkseid, now with the Anti-Life Equation, to the mysterious racing portal known as Highway 35 and a showdown with the Hot Wheels Acceleracers as the two villains try to make their way back to Earth and Apokolips.
Speaking of the various H-B, R-S, and Cartoon Network heroes joining the Showcase, Space Ghost, The Galaxy Trio/Teen Force and The Herculoids will make their first full appearances, as well as Thundarr the Barbarian in the DCAS.
The Impossibles, as well as newer updates of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids, The Neptunes, and even get this, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels will join Scooby-Doo girl group The Hex Girls as the newest members of the DC Universe music scene.
Young Justice is about to get an upgrade, as Ben 10, DexStar, Young Samson, a now-teenage Jana of the Jungle and a merged, teenage version of Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup called PPG join the DC teen team in the Bruce Timm animated style.
The Justice Guild makes their very first solo-series appearance as Seaboard City is reborn, and a new mayor, Barbara Hanna, restarts the JG with many different H-B heroes such as the new female Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, F3 (Buzz Conroy's update on Frankenstein Junior), Mightor, Dino Boy, Moby Dick, Shazzan and even Mighty Man and Yukk, as they take the heroic call for justice
And, even Bruce Timm's own Freakazoid will join the Justice League as its newest member, as his alter ego, Dexter Douglas, leaves LexCorp and gets a job working at Wayne Technologies in its Metropolis Branch.
Of course the Brave and the Bold returns with a new segment called "Messages from Atomic Skull" in which the villain says some of the craziest **** ever!
It's gonna be a great 2007/08 for the Showcase, and just in case I forget to mention anybody else, you will see them in this cycle's Showcase in July. So look for the fun to begin on July 9th.
Kenny