Quick Question?

Did anyone like Wednesday Comics?

I don't think I enjoyed them that much. Though the Metamorpho wasn't that bad.

Wonder Woman Fans?

This one's for you!

Smallville Returns, Less than Spectacular Support

Yes, yes. Smallville has returned for a groundbreaking ninth season (isn't Tom Welling a little too old to be pre-Superman now?). Sadly, the show has had a schedule change, to 8:00 p.m. EST/7:00 p.m. Central on Fridays (pretty much the dead end zone of all that is television).

Even us here at Haphazard Heroines missed the first two episodes because, well, we were out doing something else! We're not Perez Hilton, you know :D

SPOILER AHEAD!

The first episode this season, Savior, takes place three weeks from the end of season eight. Now, remember, Lois had transported herself via flight ring to the future, Jimmy is dead, Clark had turned his back on humanity, Chloe is barely living, Green Arrow and the others have dropped off the radar, Tess Mercer was hunting down Kryptonians, and the world was saved from Doomsday.

Okay, now that we're all caught up...

The first episode shows Clark, now only Kal-El, in his new uniform, black trench coat and black shirt with the family crest on it (the infamous 'S'!). He is very, very distracted from his previously uninterrupted work with Jor-El due to the mysterious reappearance of Lois Lane, whom he admits to enjoy talking to (Chloe seems hurt). He saves her, she doesn't realize she's been gone and still likes the Blur way more than she should. She meets John Corben (to all you DC fans, the name should be a tip off, dontcha think?), who ends up taking Clark Kent's spot at the Daily Planet (Clark is "visiting family indefinitely"). He's a tool.

So, now we have a distracted Clark, an even more curious Lois (possible? unsure...), a slightly annoying John Corben, a sad and a little disappointed Chloe, and...other characters.

Now, Tess Mercer has been chilling with the Kryptonians who pretty much vanish into thin air after crowning Zod their leader once again (some had strayed from the path!). She, being Tess, has to know what's going on (bring back Lex! We all know he's not dead!)

Blah, blah, blah. Lois hunts down Green Arrow and deems him a loser, blah, blah, blah...wait, what? I do loves me some Justin Hartley.

Oh, and there's an assassin hunting Clark. He kills her though (supposedly).

End of the episode - Chloe asks for Clark to go back in time and save Jimmy. He states that he can't, that he's seen what happens when he tampers with time (ummmmm his father dies?), so he says no. Chloe bites back that there is nothing human left in him before leaving the Kent barn, where the fight between the assassin and Clark went down. Lois dreams that night of things that we must assume happened in the future. Including sex with Clark. Yowza!

Second episode - called Metallo. Hmmmmm :D

Long story short, Corben becomes the infamous Metallo, beats the living crap out of both Lois and Clark (who can't get near him - kryptonite battery), Chloe starts up the Watchtower again, and Clark admits that he can't protect society if he isn't one of them.

He restarts his career as Clark Kent, Daily Planet Reporter (future husband of Lois Lane?).

Oh, and Tess gives Lois's job back to her, though she's spying on her. Eep!

I really enjoyed this part.

Enjoy, all of my little Smallville addicts. I am one of you!

5/5 I think :D

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is out, and it stays pretty true to the comics. It's nice, actually. I just wish they'd had Starfire say a bit more and Superman say a bit less :D I just love hearing Kevin Conroy and Clancy Brown though (sorry Tim Daly). Voice acting kudos to them!

*Spoiler*

It is nice, though, when Batman sacrifices himself for Earth, how Supes refers to him as his "best friend" as he beats up Lex Luthor. That really tweaks the heartstrings.

Watch the movie here.

Superman Being Taken Away From DC?

I do NOT believe this!

Time to revolt? Yes, yes, yes!

If I am wrong in any of this, please let me know.

Supes - In GL Too?

Today is the day Superman might get a real comeback by forcing himself upon everyone who loves comics.

See here to learn all about the incredibly juicy information on the lawsuit with DC and Warner Brothers against the heirs of Jerry Siegel. Here's a bit to whet your Superman-loving appetite.

"The judge, who conducted a 10-day bench trial, also noted that Warner Bros. chairman Alan Horn had testified that he hopes to make another “Superman" movie but added that the property wasn’t under development at the studio, that no script had been written and that the earliest another “Superman” pic could be released would be in 2012."

Have at it!

Tron Legacy Date

Wow, this blog has been about film a lot lately.

Remember: December 17, 2009.

That's when Tron Legacy comes out. The sequel to the Tron from 1982, it's going to go head to head with Michael Gondry's Green Hornet, starring Seth Rogen.

Which do you think will do better?

For more information on the original Tron, click here.

Yes, it is True. Superman Gets Another Movie!

Stupid, stupid, stupid. The last, like, three didn't do too well in the DC Comics viewer demographics.

This is the official plot synopsis that has since been removed from Slashfilm,

“Ramping up the action of its esteemed predecessor, the sequel to ‘Superman Returns’ promises to raise the stakes and take the audience to heights of action that no other superhero movie can achieve.”

Now, Bryan Singer may or may not be included in the reboot, but a while ago, the Wall Street Journal announced that there will be asequel in the near future.

Warner Bros. also put on hold plans for another movie starring multiple superheroes — known as “Batman vs. Superman” — after the $215 million “Superman Returns,” which had disappointing box-office returns, didn’t please executives. “‘Superman’ didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to,” says Mr. Robinov. “It didn’t position the character the way he needed to be positioned.” “Had ‘Superman’ worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009,” he adds. “But now the plan is just to reintroduce Superman without regard to a Batman and Superman movie at all.”

Oh, and Kevin Spacey is confirmed for the movie (good or bad news? I'm sick of Luthor by now).

For now, let us see how the production goes...

Green Lantern Troubles?

According to Inside Film, The Green Lantern shoot, which is to be held in Australia, might be on hold for now! And it's all due to production costs!

"Warner Bros is understood to be negotiating with the NSW State Government to receive a higher level of concessions in an effort to claw back between $US15 and $US25 million in value eroded by the currency gains."

Yet, according to Slashfilm.com, the movie will be shooting in part around New Orleans. As long as it gets done, I say!

Ryan Reynolds will be playing the part of Hal Jordan, the most well-known (yes, I am aware that this point can be argued) Green Lantern.

Deadman Gets a Director - Finally!

The movie based on the DC Comics supernatural star Deadman has finally earned the right to a director, apparently. According to DC On Film.com, the Danish director Nikolaj Arcel.

Deadman is a ghost that was murdered in a circus in which he worked. Formally named Boston Brand, he got a cool superhero name and decided to seek out his killer and protect people.

For more information on Deadman, see here.

Wonder Woman Review

Yes, we here at Haphazard Heroine just got around to watching this movie. How sad.

We give it a 4/5. It was well done and well written, yet we felt like the fight scenes were a tad too long. We enjoyed the portrayal of Steve Trevor, though, and the way that Hades was done had us laughing.

Despite the feminist undertones and the fact that Wonder Woman is now a murdered (before Maxwell Lord, even!), it was a good movie with several funny lines ("You seem as eager to meet me on the battlefield as you did in the bedroom, Hippolyta." "I only hope you prove more skilled in this arena, Ares." ). Diana had a strange shaped face though.

But! Rosario Dawson was in it, and she is a great actress and had a perfect voice for Artemis. Keri Russell did the voice of Diana quite well, as did all of the other voice actors.

It was actually quite suggestive, from the word rack to castration to suggestive sexual intercourse.

On a final note, this was a good movie, well worth an hour of your life.

"They're messing with Lincoln. Nobody messes with Lincoln!" - Steve Trevor.

Have a nice day.

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

As everyone is well aware (I hope), there is a new DC movie coming out, starring Batman and Superman, entitled Superman/Batman: Public Enemies (didn't I read a comic called the same thing? Oh, yes, I did).

The movie focuses on the same thing in the comic: a kryptonite meteor is heading straight for Earth, following Superman, so President Lex Luthor orders Superman to turn himself in. Instead, he goes to Batman. They are attacked by villains (Mongol, Solomon Grundy, Silver Banshee and Lady Shiva being among them) and then heroes (Captian Atom, Major Force, Starfire, Black Lightning, etc.). So, Batman and Superman have to team up.

Actually in the movie, the kryptonite meteor "drives Superman mad, leading him to commit murder".

And, via Batman on Film.com, we have stills from the upcoming animated movie. Hopefully, you can name them yourself, as I am too lazy to.











This movie will have the voice of Kevin Conroy for Batman, Tim Daly as Superman, and Clancy Brown as Lex Luthor. Others include: John McGinely (Metallo), LeVar Burton (Black Lightning), Xander Berkley (Captain Atom), Allison Mack (Power Girl), Ricardo Chiavera (Major Force), CCH Pounder (Amanda Waller), and a bunch of others.

Bruce Timm (Batman Animated Series, Superman Animated Series) is the executive producer, while Alan Burnett is editing the already amazing script.

Screenwriter Stan Berkowitz has worked on a lot of DC Animated movies. He's doing this one as well, and was interviewed about the movie. On the topic of why he decided to pen this particular movie, he stated:

"In the comic book...it was assumed that everyone knew the backstory to how Luthor got elected President. But we needed...to show an audience, who might not be familiar with the comics, exactly what would have to happen for Luthor to be elected. I sort of envisioned Luthor ascending to the Presidency somewhere around 2012...I figured that something bad would happen, and then Democrats would be elected in 2008, they wouldn’t be able to solve the problem and, in 2012, a tough, Ross Perot-style third party bid would be the one who’d be elected."

When asked about how he felt adapting a well known story, he said,

"For Public Enemies, there was also the issue of credibility. We were concerned that if a person who vaguely knows Superman and Batman grabs this off the shelf and sees Lex Luthor as President, he might think, “hey, what’s going on here?” It might just put them off, or make them think this was an alternate world story. And that’s not how it’s advertised. The other credibility issue is that in the comic, Luthor believes that the meteor is coming to Earth because of Superman. As a reader, I could not get past the fact that the public buys Luthor’s explanation. I didn’t believe an audience watching this as an animated production would buy Luthor’s explanation. So Alan (Burnett) and Bruce (Timm) and I had to figure out an alternate way for Luthor to frame Superman. I think it worked very well."

He also, when the interviewer wonders what it is like writing Batman and Superman together, says:

"Well, Batman and Superman are opposites. Superman has always been presented as the character from the light, the daytime; Batman from the nighttime. They have decidedly different outlooks. Superman is the ultimate kid from Kansas, who had a real healthy upbringing. Batman is the tormented orphan. In a way, Superman’s outlook is too sunny, and Batman’s is too dark. The two of them work against each other, trying to temper each other’s attitude.

Superman wants to cheer up Batman to a certain extent, and Batman wants to make Superman aware that there is a darker world under what Superman normally sees. It’s fun to create banter between them. It was also fun to adapt the banter that was in the graphic novel, and we used a lot of it. Jeph’s words were so good, we just pulled dialogue directly from the pages of the novel."

The DVD drops on September 29, so be ready, it's only a month (less!) away.

If you want more information:

The Full Interview with Stan

Extra Information

For the DVD Version on Amazon, click here.

For the Blu-Ray edition, click here.

For the 2-Disc Special Edition, click here.

You Know, After All of the Times that Raven's Family have Tried to Kill the Titans, You'd Think They'd Learn Not to Mess With Anyone Related to Her

Titans - Old Friends, starring Donna Troy, Nightwing, Flash, Starfire, Beast Boy, Cyborg, and Raven, my personal favorite.

I have to say, as much as I don't like Judd Winick, I liked this graphic novel. The artwork was great, too (thanks, Ian Churchill and Joe Benitez).

I think it's time for a Haphazard Heroines Comprehensive Review! It starts out by recapping a tale of the original Teen Titans (well, maybe not original, but one of the first few). You even get to see Dick in all of his Robin-pantsless glory. Ah, it was worth the $25.

They're fighting Bizarro and the Joker (odd couple...actually, nevermind). The Joker is impeccably drawn. Even when he's frowning, it's still a smile XD

Skip to the present day. Cyborg is forming the Titans East. He asks for his old buddies, but all of them are somehow otherwise occupied with superheroic duties (actually, Raven is trying to fit in at high school, but that's pretty much a full time thing). Cy is disappointed, but he gets some cool characters for the Titans East (Hawk, Dove, Power Boy, Anima, Little Barda, Lagoon Boy, and Son of Vulcan).

Cy sets up a little game of tag, but in the end, Power Boy is murdered and the others end up all critical in the hospital. What was it Deathstroke once said? Or was it Jericho? "Kids shouldn't be heroes"? or something like that.

Well, one of them said it. Deosn't matter - both are pretty messed up.

Then Cy gets firebombed and we switch to Nightwing's POV.

INNERMONOLOGUEINNERMONOLOGUEINNERMONOLOGUEINNERMONOLOGUE

So, Nightwing ends up in a fight with a bunch of creepy ninjas, a naked Starfire is almost devoured in Animal Man's pool in front of Animal Man's son, Raven is attacked by a demon in her high school, Red Arrow is on his bike when spikes shoot up from the ground to kill him, Beast Boy's home is on fire and melting onto his head, Donna Troy and Kyle Rayner are attacked while in outer space by something that looks like Kory's hair, and the Flash is taking a shower when sticky red stuff attacks his naked bod. Oh, and the New Teen Titans (Robin, Miss Martian, Wonder Girl, Supergirl, Ravager, Kid Devil, and Blue Beetle) are also attacked (by the ground, no less. I thought Terra was back, originally).

So, Batman helps out Nightwing, and the older Titans meet up together at the site of Power Boy's murder.

This is it. The moment we've all been waiting for - Raven announces that Trigon has returned.

Turns out Poppa Demon is attacking all former Titans - anyone who was a Titan ever. The older Titans and their mentors/allies/parents save Argent, Bumble Bee, Vox, Red Star, and Someone whose name I can't remember.

So, they really need to figure out what's going on, so Rae-Rae takes a trip to her father's realm. He actually isn't powerful anymore. He's frail and weak and has almost no power (still manages to almost strangle Raven, though...).

Oh, and he isn't alone now. The Titans hunt down anyone other than Angela Roth that might have had Trigon's kids, but all of the women are dead. Too bad their kids aren't. And they're annoying too.

They make Wally and Donna insanely jealous of each other, Nightwing and Starfire have passionate sex in somewhere that is not their bed, and Beast Boy and Raven go at it for a while.

Envy. Lust. Wrath. - sins, right?

It takes a while, but the kids are sort of defeated...if helping their father come to Earth and then sapping his power and leaving him alone is defeating them. They didn't get much power though.

There are a couple of cutsie BB/Rae moments (that I just so happen to love). They go get food, Starfire and Nightwing have a moment, and then back to Raven and Beast Boy.

Raven goes crazy, as usual. Really, I love it when this happens. The number of times she's helped her father! XD

Her brothers have come for her and take her to wherever her other brothers are. Donna Troy has a doohicky that takes them to Raven and they attack her and her evil brothers. Turns out, Raven is the sin of Pride. She takes her brothers powers and plans on giving them to her real family - the Titans. She's planning on killing Beast Boy to channel the energy, but the thing Donna got them to the place with glows and a phantom Raven comes out of it, defeating her evil side.

The novel ends with Jericho, who breaks into the Tower. He is unable to get out of the body of Match.

Wonder where that will take the old Teen Titans...

Hope you enjoyed the review and the comic (buy it.)

Guy Ritchie to Direct Lobo

Wow. Madonna's ex, Guy Richie, is going to direct a live-action version of Lobo. For everyone who knows nothing about Lobo, he's an alien bounty hunter that pretty much hates everyone, but really dislikes Supes.

This better be good.

In the film, instead of pale while and leathered up, he will be an everlasting, blue-skinned, 7-foot-tall, muscular antihero who drives an eccentric motorcycle and visits our planet looking for four fugitives bent on making trouble.

This has the potential to be either great or super sucky. Which do you think it will be?

And how will this work with the several other superhero movies coming out in the near future?

JSA Classified #15 - A Game of Chance?

Not sure if this is new or not, but I'm putting it under that because I just got it.

I don't follow the JSA. Actually, I don't think any of us here at Haphazard Heroines follows them. Sure, there are some great characters, but why read JSA when you can have JLA?

My thinking exactly.

I liked this issue. It was comprehensive with several issues being cleared up at one time. We see Gypsy forced out of her body, Wildcat acting with no morals and showing how good he really is, and some insecurities of both Stargirl and Vixen. And even some anxious Green Lantern stuff.

It wasn't good though. There wasn't much flexibility, but they couldn't really go anywhere, being under mind control and all. It's not particuralry thrilling or anything, but I liked the characters and how they were portrayed.

No review for this one, just a statement that it was enjoyable but I probably wouldn't read it again.

3/5.

Deathtrap Going Better Than Expected

Just read issue 12 of Deathtrap: Part One and it wasn't a piece of crap.

Well, it wasn't particularity good either. If Jericho is going to be bad, then make him bad, not some whimpering fool. I miss the days of Evil Joey in Azarath. Now, he's only caring about not being like his father, yet he initiated this "Deathtrap". Crazy guy.

Spoiler Alert! DO NOT READ IF YOU DON'T WANT A REVIEW OF ISSUE #12.

So, this is after Joey (inside Cyborg) tried to murder the Titans and beat up Beast Boy pretty well (he admits that he had to turn into a salamander to get proper healing). You can practically feel the animosity between Raven and Beast Boy. Apparently, she denied him.

So, anyway, Ravager is still off of the radar after the whole Dark Side Club thing and Kid Devil is not so devilish anymore (bring Eddie's powers back!). Troia, Cyborg, Red Arrow, Raven, Beast Boy, Starfire, and Flash decide to fake Cyborg still being controlled by Jericho to bring out the Vigilante, who wants him dead for some reason or another. They do indeed manage to lure out the Vigilante, who shoots Cy in the head. How's that for a cliffhanger?

I liked the artwork. Unzueta wasn't bad. It's softer than some other issues of DC I have read lately. Keep up the good work.

More Batman Three News

According to sources, the third Batman movie may be produced in only IMAX footage, which would require Christopher Nolan to get new cameras and everything.

We hope not. There's something about the regular movie theatre that is invigorating.

Plus, in this economy, can they afford to make the entire movie in IMAX? And has Christian Bale even signed on? He has expressed his distaste for the subject of the movie before.

It's rumored to be starting filming next year.

Are We Forgiven?

Haven't posted in forever, I know.

The girls here at Haphazard Heroines are having a bit of computer trouble. Yes, all three computers were hacked with a virus.

Many, many apologizes.

Enjoy the newer posts.

DC Spotlight, late once again.

Don't kill me!!!!

I've always been interested in the lore focused on Terra. She's interesting, what can I say? From the first incarnation being involved with Deathstroke, the second one from the future but secretly the real Terra, to the third incarnation, who is the subject of today's spotlight, I have read and been awed (okay, maybe not, but that's not the point).

Her name is Atlee, and she's from underground. Seriously. She's from an alien race of underworld ecologists who protect the Earth, like we don't have several heroes doing that already (Geo Force, Poison Ivy, Black Orchid, even the Blue Beetle's Scarab won't hurt nature).

So, she was given Tara Markov's powers. She hit the streets of New York and was first seen by Supergirl, whom she helped out. Still didn't have a name though.

So, she swooshed around the world helping people out until she met Power Girl, who brought her back to JSA Headquarters, where it was discovered that she was a genetic match to the "original" Terra (so, yes, Tara Markov, the international geokinetic love slave to a pedophile).

Atlee was pissed and took off, heading to Markovia, the home of Tara Markov and Geo-Force, She fought some evil bad dude with Geo-Force, but he was hurt and so she took him back to her underground home world, where, in the end, she got his blessing and his mind was wiped.

Well, wasn't that nice?

She worked with Geo-Force and Power Girl several times, and also the Teen Titans, being forced to participate in the Dark Side Club, which was bad. Very bad.

Try looking up the other incarnations of Terra here and here.

Review: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

I'm going to start this one out with stating that I don't like Superman, but I did enjoy Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Alan Moore was right on target with that one. It was a good tribute to the Man of Steel.

But, as much as I love Neil Gaiman (and I'm sure this was his intent), I didn't really understand Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?

It started out in Gotham, as usual, and people are talking, but we don't see who. I mean, you assume that one of them is Batman, but whatever. Anyway, we follow Selina Kyle at first. She goes to a bar, talks with a dead man, and gets a bunch of cats to watch her car for her.

Then we see Alfred. Then we see Batman's dead body in a casket.

Depressing much?

So, the theory that it is Batman's disembodied voice we have been reading is confirmed when he is surprised to see himself in a coffin.

Two-Face, The Joker, Dick...all are at this "funeral".

People begin to speak. We start with Selina Kyle, who mentions her rooftop romance with the Caped Crusader.

Then we head on over to Alfred, who decides to explain that he was the Joker in the beginning, to keep "Master Bruce" alive.

a) when did it become alright for him to mention Bruce's name in front of his most hated enemies?

b) what the hell? Alfred is not the effing Joker!

That's when we stopped reading.

I'm sorry to everyone who wanted a full review, but I was utterly perplexed. I read a bit more, honestly, about the Penguin and the Joker, but I was just far too confused. So, instead, I watches eight seasons of Smallville and the pilot of Aquaman (with Justin Hartley aka Green Arrow as Arthur "A.C." Curry, also known as Orin. Whewww) that wasn't picked up by the CW. Good times.

I give it a 3/5.

I was confused as all get out, but the artwork was amazing.