Posted by banson on April 30th, 2012 | Comments Off
Mee-Wow
Day time talk show host Kelly Ripa made quite an entrance when she hosted the TV Land Awards. She was lowered down to the stage wearing a very Catwoman like costume.
“This is my second time hosting the TV Land Awards and I need something special…something classic yet fashion-forward,” Ripa said during the show’s opening segment, which had her dressing like TV characters such as Wonder Woman, Sue Sylvester, Tootie from The Facts of Life and Daisy Duke, while trying to find the right outfit for her hosting duties.
Ripa ended up going with the Catwoman costume cooing that, “It’s purrrrfect.”
Posted by banson on April 22nd, 2012 | Comments Off
Dark Knight Rises Piggybacks On The Avengers
I don’t need another reason to see The Avengers when it opens on May 4th, but the Nolan Fans Site posted a page from the WB Exhibitor site indicating that the third trailer for The Dark Knight Rises will play before The Avengers. The Dark Knight Rises opens on July 20th.
Posted by banson on April 18th, 2012 | Comments Off
Beware
Cartoon Network has started airing a brief teaser promo for the new animated Batman series, Beware the Batman, which will premiere later this year. The new show will break from past interactions of Batman and render caped crusader with CGI animation.
Official Synopsis Follows:
A cool, new take on the classic Dark Knight franchise, Beware the Batman incorporates Batman’s core characters with a rogues gallery of new villains not previously seen in animated form. Along with backup from ex-secret agent Alfred and lethal swordstress Katana, the Dark Knight faces the twisted machinations of Gotham City’s criminal underworld led by the likes of Anarky, Professor Pyg, Mister Toad and Magpie. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, this action-packed detective thriller deftly redefines what we have come to know as a “Batman show.”
Featuring cutting-edge CGI visuals to match the intricate twists and turns of the narrative, Batman steps out of the shadows and into the spotlight for an entirely new generation of fans. With WBA’s Sam Register executive producing, and Batman Beyond’s Glen Murakami and Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated’s Mitch Watson producing, Beware the Batman, based on characters from DC Comics, is coming soon to Cartoon Network.
Posted by banson on February 27th, 2012 | 2 comments
Victorian Batman
In 1989, Brian Augustyn and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola started a new DC Comics imprint for alternate reality graphic novels. Their first story, Gotham by Gaslight, took Batman and imagined him as a character in a European Gotham City of the 19th century. Here the Victorian styled Dark Knight set his skills against Jack the Ripper. This started a long run of graphic novels that put DC characters into tales set in alternate realities.
Gotham by Gaslight also became the inspiration for a video game. Day 1 Studios, the developer behind F.3.A.R. and Fracture, was working on a Batman video game based on the graphic novel. The game was being developed for the PS3 and Xbox 360 between 2009 and 2010. An animation prototype was created for the game before it would eventually be canceled.
Posted by banson on February 27th, 2012 | 1 comment
The Bat Is Back
I am incredibly excited for May to bring back one of my favorite comic book worlds, DC’s parallel Earth-2. I was a big fan of Earth-2 way back when, and I always hated that DC got rid of their multi-verse with the cataclysmic Crisis On Infinite Earths series. But now DC is bringing back the world with an alternate look to characters that are familiar, yet different from the ones that we know in the mainstream universe.
DC’s blog, The Source, gives us this sneak peak at Jim Lee’s design for the Batman of Earth-2. Earth 2 will be parallel reality from James Robinson and Nicola Scott that will be the home of an aging DC trinity and the Justice Society. Pat McCallum, editor on the series offered this glimpse into the alternate Dark knight, ”Who will Batman kill to save his own daughter? Right out of the gate that should tell you we’re dealing with a different kind of Dark Knight here. More ruthless, dangerous…the costume is familiar and yeah, there is a Wayne under the mask, but we’re looking at a man desperate to save the only family he has left. ‘Earth’ 2 is about to become a very bad place to be a bad guy.”
