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It takes Perez’s story – Ares has a grudge against Hippolyta and her people, and uses his son Deimos and a convoluted international nuclear strike to try and destroy them, only to have Diana and Steve Trevor stop him – and streamlines it.

Written by Gail Simone (who had a solid run writing Diana just prior to this) and based loosely on George Perez’s “Gods and Monsters” story from just after the classic Crisis on Infinite Earths, this movie is widely considered one of the best Wonder Woman stories in any medium of the last 15 years. Watch Batman: Gotham Knight on Amazon Wonder Woman (2009) But the decision to keep him voicing Batman in these stories contributed to the tonal disaster that they were: his voice in anime characters fighting Deadshot and Killer Croc in a universe that was supposed to be “more realistic” just made me confused and a little nosebleedy and possibly a touch stupider from trying to reconcile it all. Kevin Conroy is the greatest Batman of my lifetime, and I don’t think you’ll find anyone who will argue that point too strenuously. Read more – The Essential Episodes of Batman: The Animated Series Justice League: The New Frontier mixes a noir story (Slam Bradley, J’onn J’onzz, Batman, King Faraday, and the GCPD investigating a cult) with the bright, shiny superheroics of the Flash, Green Lantern, Superman and Wonder Woman, and all comes together well at the end. That the story works in either medium is a minor miracle. Justice League: The New Frontier (2008)ĭarwyn Cooke’s retro- Justice League origin story is one of the most highly regarded DC books of the last 20 years, and that strong foundation served the movie adaptation well. It certainly wasn’t bad, but it was very middle of the road.

It suffered because of some iffy voice acting (Adam Baldwin wasn’t great as Superman, and Anne Heche was similarly middling as Lois) and also because it was like, 50 issues of comics boiled down into an hour’s worth of movie. The action sequences were well done, something that will remain a constant throughout these movies.

Superman: Doomsday set the tone for a lot of what was to come, structurally. Read more: The Best Batman Beyond Episodes It also combined all four replacement Supermen into one clone, and tweaks the relationship between Lois and Superman to add a bit of drama. Superman: Doomsday made significant changes to the storyline, compressing two years of stories into one 75-minute feature.

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