Comicbjooks

Starman and the Mist

2008-09-30T21:58:00.002-06:00

Here's Jack Knight and his opposite number, the Mist.

From How to Draw Batman & the DC Comics Super Heroes, published by Walter Foster Publishing

Comicbjooks, I've been ignoring you

2008-02-13T16:33:00.001-06:00

It's been a while. Some discussions over at AFI led me to come back here and dust off the cobwebs. I think I'll try to update this place some soon, perhaps even adding a few new images from the comics that have come out since I last posted. Maybe.

Legion of Super Heroes: Season 2

2007-08-05T13:38:00.000-06:00

Legion of Super Heroes will air its season 2 premiere on September 22. Image from Comics Continuum.

Steel Natasha

2007-07-25T00:03:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimted #35, published by DC Comics.

Guy Gardner

2007-07-24T22:14:00.001-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #32, published by DC Comics.

I'm Back! (with Starro!)

2007-07-23T22:07:00.000-06:00

Yeah, I've been away a while. I had some things to do, and I needed a break as well. But now I'm back and ready to go. I likely won't be posting daily, but ya never know. Let's just play it by ear.

Here's some Starro for ya. I'll probably post a few more pics from this issue a bit later.

From Justice League Unlimited #24, published by DC Comics.

Ares, God of War

2007-03-14T19:58:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #4, published by DC Comics.

UPDATE: The War God has taken his toll on this blog. Posting will resume soon, by early next week if not before. Until then, enjoy the break.

Double Flashes

2007-03-13T23:45:00.000-06:00

The cover art to Justice League Unlimited #12, published by DC Comics.

Queen Bee

2007-03-12T12:41:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #29, published by DC Comics.

Psycho Pirate Feels the Emotions

2007-03-11T00:36:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #20, published by DC Comics.

Black Condor -- Held Tight!

2007-03-10T00:50:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #17, published by DC Comics.

Scan from Scans Daily.

The Time Trapper and Brainiac 5

2007-03-09T23:09:00.000-06:00

From Legion of Super Heroes #100, published by DC Comics.

Legion Adventures

2007-03-08T00:02:00.000-06:00

From Legion of Super Heroes #100, published by DC Comics.

Amazo vs. the JLA

2007-03-07T20:09:00.000-06:00

In honor of today's release of Brad Metzler's Justice League of America #6, here's an animated tribute to the always classic JLA vs. Amazo battle.

From Adventures in the DC Universe #18, published by DC Comics.

Brotherhood of Evil

2007-03-06T23:53:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #6, published by DC Comics.

Dr. Occult's Family Jewels

2007-03-05T13:55:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #14, published by DC Comics.

Blue Beetle to the Rescue

2007-03-04T17:50:00.000-06:00

From Adventures in the DC Universe #8, published by DC Comics.

The Question

2007-03-03T01:33:00.000-06:00

From Adventures in the DC Universe #8, published by DC Comics.

Ocean Master

2007-03-02T18:19:00.000-06:00

And here's the full panel shot of the throne room picture from above.

From Adventures in the DC Universe #6, published by DC Comics.

Ultra, the Multi-Alien

2007-03-01T23:28:00.000-06:00

Published sometime after the Batman/Superman Adventures but before the Justice League cartoons, Adventures in the DC Universe allowed its creators free reign to create animated-style versions of the DC heroes and villains that weren't appearing in the cartoons at that time. The characters that appeared in this book are not necessarily in-continuity with their later Justice League appearances, but so many fun characters appeared that it's cool to see how they would have looked in an animated style.

Starting this month, I'll be adding to the Comicbjooks mix some of the characters from the ADCU comic. First up -- Ultra, the Multi-Alien.

From Adventures in the DC Universe #5, published by DC Comics.

Beppo, Comet and the Super-Pets

2007-02-28T00:11:00.000-06:00

And a few more pics of Ace, Krypto and Streaky as well.

From Krypto the Superdog #6, published by DC Comics.

All-Star Squadron and the Seven Soldiers of Victory

2007-02-27T21:44:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #9, published by DC Comics.

The Fates Command It!

2007-02-26T16:39:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #14, published by DC Comics.

Old School Titans

2007-02-25T14:56:00.000-06:00

Here are a few more Teen Titans Go! picutres with Wonder Girl, this time featuring the first five old school Titans.

From Teen Titans Go! #36, published by DC Comics.

Wonder Girl

2007-02-24T14:32:00.000-06:00

From Teen Titans Go! #36, published by DC Comics.

Manta and Faust: A Most Unlikely Pair

2007-02-23T07:12:00.000-06:00

The REAL Black Manta, by the way.

From Justice League Unlimited #26, published by DC Comics.

Krypto and Friends

2007-02-22T20:30:00.000-06:00

From Krypto the Superdog #1, published by DC Comics.

Ragman

2007-02-21T00:14:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #15, published by DC Comics.

Space Cabbie to the Rescue!

2007-02-20T07:16:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #18, published by DC Comics.

Legion of Substitute Heroes

2007-02-19T07:31:00.000-06:00

From the Legion of Super Heroes episode "Substitutes." The first three screencaps were taken from the Comics Continuum.

Zauriel and Etrigan

2007-02-18T16:20:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #14, published by DC Comics.

Mystics Unite!

2007-02-17T16:05:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #14, published by DC Comics.

Composites

2007-02-16T00:09:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Advenures #29, published by DC Comics.

The Kobra Strikes

2007-02-15T00:05:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #23, published by DC Comics.

Titan Love

2007-02-14T00:02:00.000-06:00

Happy Valentine's Day

From Teen Titans Go! #39, published by DC Comics.

What's in a Name?

2007-02-13T22:58:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #20, published by DC Comics.

Scans from scans_daily.

The Endless Adventures

2007-02-12T03:14:00.000-06:00

From Vertigo's The Endless Gallery, published by DC Comics. What fun. (Art by Linda Medley)

Justice League Unlimited -- Beyond!

2007-02-11T00:44:00.000-06:00

Masters of the Occult

2007-02-10T21:45:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #14, published by DC Comics.

Psycho Pirate

2007-02-09T00:22:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #20, published by DC Comics.

Black Lightning

2007-02-08T16:42:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #27, published by DC Comics.

Freedom Fighters

2007-02-07T07:52:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #17, published by DC Comics.

Blue Beetle

2007-02-06T21:27:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #5, published by DC Comics.

Stranger Things Have Happened

2007-02-05T00:39:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #14, published by DC Comics.

Villains United

2007-02-04T17:28:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #6, published by DC Comics.

Plastic Man

2007-02-04T03:09:00.000-06:00

While the unaired Plastic Man pilot may not have stayed up on You Tube for long, there is still art from the show on the web. Like this:

This show could have been REALLY fun.

You can see more pictures at Andy Updates and Stephen DeStefano.

The Original Flash -- Jay Garrick

2007-02-03T13:47:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #12, published by DC Comics.

Cold War!

2007-02-02T00:27:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #12, published by DC Comics.

Kamandi!

2007-02-01T23:50:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #30, published by DC Comics.

Animal Man

2007-01-31T17:37:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #29, published by DC Comics.

Teen Titans Go!

2007-01-30T23:07:00.000-06:00

Mary Marvel and the Girls

2007-01-29T21:29:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #20, published by DC Comics.

Firestorm and Power Girl: Any Excuse to Party

2007-01-28T04:21:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Unlimited #16, published by DC Comics.

So Swears the Phantom Stranger!

2007-01-27T03:43:00.000-06:00

Fom Justice League Adventures #31, published by DC Comics.

Stranger and Stranger

2007-01-26T16:58:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #25, published by DC Comics.

The Legion Lives!

2007-01-19T19:03:00.000-06:00

New Johnny DC Legion of Super-Heroes book

2007-01-16T14:36:00.000-06:00

DC has announced a new Johnny DC book to go with the Legion of Super-Heroes cartoon on Kids WB. The Legion of Super-Heroes in the 31st Century, with an opening story by J. (Teen Titans Go!) Torres and Chynna Clugston-Flores, debuts on April 18. Can't wait.

Of interest in a Newsarama interview with writer J. Torres was this note that confirms that internally they were considering this a Superboy project at one point.

NRAMA: And just for continuity buffs - that guy with the S on his chest – Superboy, or a young Superman?

JT: They started off calling him Superboy in the scripts and other show material I was given for reference, but somewhere along the way it was changed to Superman. I'm assuming it's a legal thing. Or they wanted to tie it into the new movie franchise. Or both.

Chronos Time Loop

2007-01-15T17:57:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #11, published by DC Comics.

Cosmic Treadmill

2007-01-14T07:07:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #11.

Legion of Super Heroes

2007-01-14T04:24:00.000-06:00

From Justice League Adventures #28.

And later, when a time-lost Wonder Woman and Hawkgirl have to disguise themselves, they dress an awful lot like Laurel Kent and Dawnstar.

A New Direction

2007-01-14T02:01:00.000-06:00

When I started this blog I did so to keep bjooks, my first blog, focused more on religion and politics and keep the toys and comics and pop culture stuff here on this new companion blog, Comicbjooks. Well, it didn't work out that way, and I ended up with a blog that I didn't really do much of anything with.

So today, here at Comicbjooks, I am starting over with a new mission. I'm deleting all but a few pieces of the crap that was here before, and I'm going to instead be posting some of my favorite images from the animated DC Universe (from both comics and television, although to begin with comics will dominate, especially characters which didn't appear in the Justice League Unlimited cartoon). But don't worry -- I won't limit myself to the DC Universe forever. We'll spread out of a bit once we get going.

I'll also be occasionally posting news and tidbits about comics and cartoons, but I'm going to be keeping that to a minimum. No, this blog is primarily a place for the enjoyment of pretty pictures. Let me know in the comments what you think.

More on Titans in Tokyo

2006-08-22T06:57:00.000-06:00

Comics Continuum had an update from writer/producer David Slack on the Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo animated movie:

"Without giving anything away, there's a little bit of romance between two our lead characters," Slack said. ...

"Obviously, if you're going to have it take place in Japan, there's a lot of Japanese things that you need to see," Slack said.

Also at Comics Continuum, Kristopher Carter, Michael McCuistion and Lolita Ritmanis -- music composers for Justice League Unlimited and Teen Titans -- discussed the new movie:

"We tried to make it feel different from the rest of the show," Murakami said. "We wanted to make it feel like a movie. I think I said, 'Make it bigger,' and since we're going to Tokyo, it's like Godzilla music."

One of the big difference is that the film features live musicians, rather than the in-house creation, for a bigger sound. And, of course, a film based in Tokyo featured new challenges -- like Japanese super-hero music.

"Glen told us we could have open season on the Asian thing," McCuistion said. "And I don't think we had done that on the series before."

Shew, I'm glad they're making the music feel more Asian, 'cause a show that featured a theme song by HiHi Puffy AmiYumi (singing in Japanese about 50% of the time, no less) didn't have an Asian feel AT ALL.

But seriously, glad to hear they've gone all out on the Titans' last hurrah. I'm very much looking forward to it.

UPDATE (8/24/06): I just found this preview for the new video online at Youtube.

Titans in Tokyo Airs in September

2006-08-21T07:53:00.000-06:00

According to the Comics Continuum:

Cartoon Network has informed The Continuum that Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo will air on Friday, Sept. 15 at 7:30 p.m.

Here's how the network describes the film:

"When a high-tech ninja attacks Titans Tower, Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Raven and Beast Boy spring into action. Robin finds out that the ninja was sent by a mysterious and menacing Japanese criminal known as Brushogun, and the Teen Titans travel to Tokyo to track the villain down."

The film is also scheduled to repeat on Saturday, Sept. 16 at 7:30 p.m. Please note Cartoon Network's schedules are always subject to change. No word yet on when the movie -- which was screened at Comic-Con International -- will be available on DVD.

Looking forward to what may be the swansong of this incarnation of the animated Titans. Thank god, because that last episode sucked eggs.

Teen Zatanna

2006-08-04T16:20:00.000-06:00

I hadn't seen the teen Zatanna web cartoon.

Strange. Only two episode are online now. Did it just end, or are they still in production?

New Legion of Super Heroes Cartoon

2006-05-08T06:44:00.000-06:00

Looks good. I like that the animation style is somewhat similar to the recently cancelled Teen Titans cartoon.