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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Jump Kick Their Way Into the Injustice 2 Multiverse

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Today, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment welcome the newest addition to the Injustice 2 roster: Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Beginning today, players who have purchased the Injustice 2 Ultimate Edition, Injustice 2 Ultimate Pack or Fighter Pack #3 for PlayStation 4 or Xbox One can play as any one of the iconic Heroes in a Half Shell – Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo. By equipping one of four accessories – swords, bo staff, nunchakus or sais – players will be able to change their character loadout to play as one of the four Turtles. Each will wield their own unique move sets, character powers and special moves and, in online and tournament modes where specific loadouts are unavailable, each individual Turtle can be chosen from the character select screen.

Beginning Feb. 20, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be available for $9.99 as a standalone purchase from the PlayStation® Store, Xbox Store, Steam and Microsoft Store.

Developed by the award-winning NetherRealm Studios, Injustice 2 features a massive roster of DC Super Heroes and Super-Villains and allows players to build and power up the ultimate version of their favorite DC characters. The game is currently available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam and the Microsoft Store, with DLC characters Red Hood, Sub-Zero, Starfire, Black Manta, Raiden, Hellboy, The Atom and Enchantress available now on console and PC. Injustice 2 mobile is available now for free on iOS and Android devices.

More Details on DC Ink and DC Zoom

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Coming out of the American Library Association‘s winter meeting were details on what we can expect from DC Ink and DC Zoom, the two new imprints from DC Entertainment.

Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen‘s Gotham: Once Upon a Crime is a new round for the Lil Gotham all-ages comics the two have worked on before. Previous entries have been fantastic reads and if you’ve missed them, there’s time to catch up.

Shea Fontana‘s Batman: Overdrive is an origin story for the Batmobile.

Meg Cabot‘s Black Canary Ignite focuses on a teenage Dinah Lance as she discovers her powers and then her place in the Gotham City. The big reveal is that Cara McGee will be providing art.

Minh Lê Reveals Details of his DC Zoom Graphic Novel, Green Lantern: Legacy

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Last week DC Entertainment announced DC Ink and DC Zoom, two new graphic novel imprints aimed at young and middle grade readers. Detached from long continuity, the graphic novels will allow writers to explore DC’s concepts focused on characters. A list of creators and titles has been released but the concepts for each has been scant. Some details are coming out of the American Library Association’s Midwinter meeting.

Minh Lê has revealed the concepts behind his graphic novel Green Lantern: Legacy, a new spin on the classic character. The artist has yet to be announced.

Lê’s Green Lantern is a 13 year old name Tai. After his grandmother passes away, her “jade ring” finds its way to him. That ring turns out to be a Green Lantern ring and his grandmother was secretly a superhero. Now, it’s up to him to carry on the legacy.

The characters and concept were inspired by Lê’s own grandmother who was a hero to him, strong willed, and passed along a jade ring to Lê 20 years ago which he has worn since.

The graphic novel will be released in 2019.

Movie Review: Gotham By Gaslight

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Gotham By Gaslight takes us to the turn of the century as America’s continued industrial revolution is to be showcased at a World’s Fair hosted by Gotham City. But while the world prepares to witness the glittery glory of Gotham’s technological advances, there is a killer loose in the city’s darkest shadows. Preying on the city’s women, this killer is as precise as he is cruel. As Police Commissioner James Gordon tries to calm the fears of Gotham’s citizens regarding the butcher called Jack the Ripper, the masked vigilante Batman enacts his own detective work – with the help of confident, capable Selina Kyle – to stop the Ripper’s murderous spree. Witness a world in flames as the notorious serial killer’s controlled savagery meets the calculated stealth of the Dark Knight.

Based on the the classic Elseworlds tale, Gotham By Gaslight is a brutal adaptation that pulls no punches in its storytelling. Fleshing out the original story to expand it for film, it covers the original tale well bringing the story to animated life. The entertainment value of this movie is two fold, seeing Batman go up against Jack the Ripper and also the different setting which isn’t quite “steampunk” but has many similar aesthetics about it.

The story itself is entertaining without a dull moment. There’s a tenseness about it all as you wonder who might be a victim of the Ripper and who is the person behind the mask. And, while there’s hints throughout, the movie and story does an excellent job of leaving you guessing until the end.

But, it’s really about this world, the turn of a century, which means few interesting gadgets for Batman to use to fight crime. That leaves a dirtier story in aspects with not just the technology but also the setting as a whole.

The coloring of the film is a dark black and brown enhancing the gritty nature of it all. There colorful energy of other animated films is missing here, instead we get the personality of the world and setting. The film is a brutal one with numerous murders and a hell of a lot of violence towards women, though not just women.

The voice cast is decent though Bruce Greenwood as Batman/Bruce Wayne is a bit stiff at times. Everyone else is pretty solid and no one is negative in any way. The voices fit the characters well. There’s some interesting accents of the characters reflecting the time, small details that stand out.

What the film does really well is use its settings to not just create interesting hurdles for Batman but also explore that two worlds within. The new century they’re moving in to and and one they’ve just left. It’s a theme that’s deep within the story and expressed in details throughout the film. Batman’s use of tools in his battle, the simplistic murder techniques of the Ripper, they create aspects of the film that’s greater depth than than exists on the story’s surface. It’s one fault is not exploring that more.

The extras explore a lot of that and are well worth watching after the film. They not only shed light on the source material but also some of the themes of the film and choices made within. They all make you appreciate the film more.

This is a very different entry in the DC Animated films and while those have had no problems treading into “R” territory, none of them have been quite this brutal. An entertaining entry that will hopefully open things up to see more Elseworld tales. But, if you’re starting with any, might as well start with the first.

Overall Rating: 7.75

More Details on DC Ink and DC Zoom, Two New Graphic Novel Lines from DC Entertainment

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Last night we brought the news that DC Entertainment would be launching two new graphic novel imprints, DC Ink and DC Zoom.

The new graphic novels line will be focused on young adult readers, DC Ink, and middle grade readers, DC Zoom.

We’ll see the first titles released in Fall 2018 and now have an even fuller list of what we’ll be seeing.

  • Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass by Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh
  • Mera by Danielle Paige
  • DC Super Hero Girls: Search For Atlantis by Shea Fontana and Yancey Labat

Set to follow in 2019:

DC Ink

  • Batman: Gotham High by Melissa de la Cruz
  • Batman: Nightwalker – The Graphic Novel by Marie Lu
  • Teen Titans by Kami Garcia
  • Under the Moon: A Catwoman Tale by Lauren Myracle
  • Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed by Laurie Halse Anderson

 

 

 

DC Zoom

  • Batman Tales: Once Upon A Crime by Derek Fridolfs and Dustin Nguyen
  • Batman: Overdrive by Shea Fontana
  • Black Canary Ignite by Meg Cabot
  • Dear Justice League by Michael Northrop
  • Green Lantern: Legacy by Minh Lê
  • Super Sons by Ridley Pearson
  • Superman of Smallville by Art Baltazar and Franco
  • Superman Smashes the Klan by Gene Luen Yang which will be released as periodicals first, then collected.

DC Entertainment Announces Two New Graphic Novel Imprints Aimed at Young Readers

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DC Zoom and DC Ink are the two new graphic novel imprints announced by DC Entertainment this weekend. DC Zoom will feature stories for middle school readers while DC Ink will be focused on young adults.

The new imprints will also team up with young adult writers including Laurie Halse Anderson, Melissa de la Cruz, Michael Northrop, and Ridley Pearsen.

DC Ink will kick off with two graphic novels, one featuring Harley Quinn being written by Mariko Tamaki and art by Steve Pugh. The other will feature Mera and will be written by Danielle Paige with an artist yet to be announced. DC Zoom will debut with DC Super Hero Girls: Search for Atlantis by Shea Fontana and Yancey Labat.

Also announced was Gene Luen Yang‘s book, Superman Smashes the Klan. The title sounds like a throwback to the classic Superman radio show which took on the Klan. Ridley Pearson will write a Super Sons graphic novel featuring Jonathan Kent and Damian Wayne. Pearson’s story will tackle climate change and introduce a new character named Candice, who discovers she belongs to an African dynasty.

The announced lineup reflects the female readers of middle grade and Y.A. novels. They’ll be free from complicated continuity.

The focus isn’t superhero stories but character studies. The middle grader focused adventures will be “characters who are figuring out the world around them, including dealing with parents and teachers” while the young adult graphic novels will focus on “questions of personal identity, with budding heroes deciding what paths they will take.”

The softcover Zoom graphic novels will cost $9.99 for 128 pages with the Ink books retailing for $16.99 for 192 pages.

(via The New York Times)

DC Announces Metropolis, a New Live Action TV Series to Debut on DC’s Digital Service

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Batman before Batman = Gotham. Superman before Superman = Kryprton… and Metropolis!? DC Entertainment has announced a weekly live action series that explores the City of Tomorrow, Metropolis. The series will be set before the arrival of a certain Man of Steel and will follow Lois Lane and Lex Luthor as they “investigate the world of fringe science and expose the city’s dark and bizarre secrets.”

The series will air exclusively on DC’s upcoming digital service which will also be the home of the live action Titans series.

The series will explore the City of Tomorrow, before the emergence of Superman and establish the world leading up to his arrival. The concept sounds familiar, because it’s the same concept as Gotham and executive producers of that show, John Stephens and Danny Cannon, will oversee this. Cannon will direct the first episode from a teleplay by Stephens, and story by Cannon and Stephens.

With the series setting, the tone of the show should be much different than its similar in concept sister show with a science fiction tone.

In addition to Metropolis and Titans, the new DC digital service will also have two animated series, Young Justice: Outsiders and Harley Quinn.

Metropolis, which will debut in 2019, has received a direct-to-series order for a first season of 13 episodes and will go into production later this year.

Lost Siegel And Shuster Superman Story To Be Published in New Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman Hardcover Book

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A new hardcover book, Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman, is being published by DC Entertainment as part of its celebration of the one-thousandth issue of Action Comics—the longest continually published comic book of its kind in history, the series that introduced Superman to the world and the title that launched the superhero genre. The collection features a series of essays and iconic Superman stories edited by former DC Publisher Paul Levitz. Most notably, the book includes a never before published 12-page story from original Superman writer Jerry Siegel with art by the Joe Shuster Studio titled “Too Many Heroes.”

The 384-page hardcover book will cost $29.99 and hit store shelves on April 19. Highlights and key Superman stories in this collection include:

  • A new cover by legendary artist and DC Publisher Jim Lee
  • Text pieces including: an editor’s note by Paul Levitz, a tribute to Action Comics by Laura Siegel Larson (daughter of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel), an introduction by Jules Feiffer, plus essays by Tom DeHaven (“It’s Superman!”), David Hajdu (“The Ten-Cent Plague”), Larry Tye (“Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero”) and Gene Luen Yang (Superman, New Super-Man and the National Book Award finalist “American Born Chinese”)
  • “The Coming of Superman,” from Action Comics #1, written by Jerry Siegel with art by Joe Shuster
  • “Revolution in San Monte,” from Action Comics #2, written by Jerry Siegel with art by Joe Shuster
  • “The Terrible Toyman!,” from Action Comics #64, written by Don Cameron with art by Ed Dobrotka and George Roussos, featuring the debut of Toyman
  • “The Super-Key to Fort Superman,” from Action Comics #241, written by Jerry Coleman with art by Wayne Boring and Stan Kaye, featuring the first appearance of the Fortress of Solitude
  • “The Super-Duel in Space,” from Action Comics #242, written by Otto Binder with art by Al Plastino, featuring the debut of Brainiac
  • “The Supergirl from Krypton!,” from Action Comics #252, written by Otto Binder with art by Al Plastino, featuring the debut of Supergirl
  • “The World’s Greatest Heroine!,” from Action Comics #285, written by Jerry Siegel with art by Jim Mooney
  • “The Superman Super-Spectacular!,” from Action Comics #309, written by Edmond Hamilton with art by Curt Swan and George Klein, featuring an appearance by President John F. Kennedy
  • “Superman Takes a Wife,” from Action Comics #484, written by Cary Bates with art by Curt Swan and Joe Giella
  • “If Superman Didn’t Exist…” from Action Comics #554, written by Marv Wolfman with art by Gil Kane
  • “The Game,” a new original story written by Paul Levitz with art by Neal Adams
  • “Squatter,” from Action Comics #584, written by John Byrne with art by Byrne and Dick Giordano
  • “Ma Kent’s Photo Album,” from Action Comics #655, written by Roger Stern with art by Kerry Gammill and Dennis Janke
  • “Secrets in the Night,” from Action Comics #662, written by Roger Stern with art by Bob McLeod
  • “A Hero’s Journey,” from Action Comics #800, written by Joe Kelly with art by Pasqual Ferry, Duncan Rouleau, Lee Bermejo and others
  • “The Boy Who Stole Superman’s Cape,” from Action Comics #0, written by Grant Morrison with art by Ben Oliver
  • “The Mystery of the Freight Train Robberies,” from Action Comics #1, written by Fred Guardineer with art by Guardineer, featuring the debut of Zatara
  • “The Origin of the Vigilante,” from Action Comics #42, written by Mort Weisinger with art by Mort Meskin, featuring the debut of the Vigilante
  • “The Assassin-Express Contract!,” from Action Comics #419, written by Len Wein with art by Carmine Infantino and Dick Giordano, featuring the debut of the Human Target

Action Comics #1000: 80 Years of Superman is just part of DC’s Superman celebration, with the seminal Action Comics #1000 also released in April and a series of Superman-themed variant covers and even more to come.

Geoff Johns Says Garth Ennis and John McCrea’s Hitman is Being Talked About for Television

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This past weekend was the DC in D.C. event which had DC Entertainment bringing actors, writers, and artists to Washington, DC for signings and panels. Kicking off the day was the “Art of the Matter” panel which featured Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Geoff Johns, Salim Akil, Cress Williams, Candice Patton, and Danielle Panabaker.

During the question and answer portion, one individual stated that Hitman was his favorite character and wondered if the character of Tommy Monaghan was coming to television?

Johns said he’s been asked this before and he gave a vague answer but here he gave something a little different, saying it is something “they’re talking about.”

Hitman is about Tommy Monaghan, an ex-Marine Gulf War veteran who is a contract killer. When he is attacked he his metagene is triggered granting him x-ray vision and some telepathy.

The character was created by Garth Ennis and John McCrea and debuted in The Demon Annual #2. He was first published as a comic series that ran 60 issues, with one annual, and one event tie-in.

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