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NEWS: DC Studios, Warner Bros. Animation Announce Joker: Laugh Riot Anime With Sola Entertainment


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Lizuka



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 26, 2026 10:08 pm Reply with quote
Personally I absolutely love My Adventures With Superman. Yeah, it wears its influences on its sleeve and changes a lot of stuff, it still really fundamentally understands the root appeal of the character and it's just endlessly charming. Really looking forward to Green Lantern too.
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BadNewsBlues



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 26, 2026 11:39 pm Reply with quote
Purple Tentacle wrote:
So was The Batman but Hindsight is always 20/20. If people knew just how bad DC animation would become with the faux-anime Superman cartoon and other modern DC works


If you think the modern DC animated shows is worse than all those corny Superfriends cartoons that were being churned out in the 70’s and 80’s. You don’t know what terrible looks like.

And no the people that pissed all over Teen Titans 03, The Batman, TB&TB would still piss on those series for not being their idea of what they think those series should’ve been. Let’s not whitewash fans being nitpicky.


Purple Tentacle wrote:
The real losers here are fans of the OG Teen Titans since the new Starfire cartoon looks like it's based on Go and Go continues to do well and rub it in the faces of the old cartoon fans constantly


At this point if 03 fans are still pissed about Go not being what it was never intended to be and being a bigger success than the 03 series years after the fact . That’s problem on their end not the show itself.
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Top Gun



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2026 12:26 am Reply with quote
Lizuka wrote:
Personally I absolutely love My Adventures With Superman. Yeah, it wears its influences on its sleeve and changes a lot of stuff, it still really fundamentally understands the root appeal of the character and it's just endlessly charming. Really looking forward to Green Lantern too.

Seriously, MAWS is fantastic. Before it the only real exposure I'd had to Supes was his DCAU incarnation, which was of course great but was a mostly traditional take on the character. After the sea of grimdark garbage that DC's live-action failures pumped out for years, it was so refreshing to get a take on the character that was so...joyful and optimistic, like Superman should be. And while it's certainly appropriate for a wide age range, it's hardly "kiddie"...Kara's backstory and emotional turmoil are some genuinely heavy stuff.
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Beatdigga



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PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2026 5:13 am Reply with quote
Purple Tentacle wrote:


So was The Batman but Hindsight is always 20/20. If people knew just how bad DC animation would become with the faux-anime Superman cartoon and other modern DC works I'm sure people have a new found appreciation for those shows now. As little interest as I have in a Joker anime or an Absolute Batman cartoon at least they're something different than the usual kiddy stuff.

The real losers here are fans of the OG Teen Titans since the new Starfire cartoon looks like it's based on Go and Go continues to do well and rub it in the faces of the old cartoon fans constantly like the recent promo bragging about their episode count being higher than the OG Laughing I can appreciate the snark at least.


At this point there might be more TT Go episodes complaining about and/or making fun of people preferring the original show than Simpsons episodes where Marge and Homer have marital issues. It’s kind of a “Them” problem at this point.

Absolute Batman hopefully will look closer to Blue Eye Samurai or Dorohedoro than Beware, which was…not a great looking show. It’s particularly important since outside of some animated movies, this is the first time one of the Big Two comic publishers has said “the heck with it” and just adapted a comic 1:1/1:2 like a manga. And its success could lead to the other Absolute titles being adapted in the same way.
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Scion Drake



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 28, 2026 10:57 pm Reply with quote
residentgrigo wrote:
Comic Krypto is fine as a background character, outside of Morrison´s N52 Sabertooth ghost. All his adaptations but Superman 2025, including Supergirl 2026, are failures and even Gunn´s Superman underperformed outside of America. Jeff the Land Shark, he is not, and DC has been hit with an animal epidemic under Gunn & Safran. I just can´t anymore.


Really the genetically modified wolf monster is what gets your approval?

Dude the character is supposed to be a superpowered dog with a red cape. You don't have to edge him up to make him seem cool.

Also your comparison to Jeff being better is hilarious as many Rivals players can agree that the character is massively overexposed and that Marvel really overplays his cuteness. Dude has like 10 legendary skins, that is insane considering so many characters in that game don't have one 1 legendary.
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Slizardo



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2026 12:34 am Reply with quote
Jeff at least has a unique gimmick and look. Krypto is just a dog. Never saw the Gunn movie so I don't know what his deal is and why people hate him but I don't mind him in the old comics I've read. The old cartoon was fine for a kids show though.
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Cardcaptor Takato



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PostPosted: Mon Jun 29, 2026 10:35 pm Reply with quote
I feel like one of the only people who actually liked The Suicide Squad anime and was hoping for a s2 of it. I find as I get older I find the Joker to be less interesting as a solo villain and he already gets a lot of movies and spin off material but I'll probably give it a shot.
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