http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=2240

My formal review of Batman: The Brave and The Bold is up on Animation Insider. It's a two pager, one for the episode and one for the soundtrack. Enjoy, I totally had writer's block on this one as I mentioned earlier so I hope it seems slightly better than most of my reviews. But I found my angle, I don't think any other critic used it like I did but we'll see.

Also, be sure to tune in this Friday as the next new episode airs, "Inside the Outsiders!". I've seen it ahead of time and it's pretty cool to me and features a villain who was a redshirt in the JLU incarnation of the Legion of Doom. Then I guess next week will be the season finale.

After finishing up this The Brave and The Bold stuff, I took a break from work on The Zeta Project, lot of personal stuff going on that was draining my time and energy and I guess from the marathon of adding so many series to the website tuckered me out. But I'm looking to get back in the groove of things and finish up TZP by next week, after that I'll start watching Static Shock and after that adding Objects, Places, and Beasts to the Timmverse section, a project I've put on the backburner for years but its fitting it'd be the last thing I complete before being totally up to date.

Once that's done, I plan on getting a career after graduating college and being unemployed since May.

TEEN TITANS

Last night at 11 pm, I completed and made live, a section for the Teen Titans series. The villains section seemed to hold me the longest since it was the largest topic and had the most files to make, somewhere around 80. The last two days, I was working on them non-stop and trying to get in the zone. But finally it's finished. And it was a feeling of elation and pride that it was completed. Aside from The Zeta Project and Static Shock, I can finally say the site is 'caught up' to the present selection of series.

http://www.dcauresource.com/teentitansindex.php

BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD

I'm really glad to have finished early this month, because...as a lead in to the next subject of discussion, Batman: The Brave and The Bold is returning to television in America, woot!

Starting next week on Friday, October 16, at 7:30 pm (4:30 pm in my nick of the woods), episode 23, "When OMAC Attacks!" airs on CN and on October 23, the highly touted "Mayhem of the Music Meister!" airs. Then the next day, the soundtrack for the Music Meister episode goes on sale on Amazon or as an iTunes download for $7.98 and $6.99, respectively. I'm so happy to sort of get Season One over with, it seems like it's been hanging around too long like that cousin that gets real annoying after awhile which is why you only see them at family functions.

Anyway, logic, precedent, and number counting predicts season one to end in November and season two to start as well. Based on was talked about at Comic Con, season two will be even more great than the previous one. And around that time, Animation Insider and I will have the James Tucker interview completed. All around good news!

JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS ON TWO EARTHS

Bruce Timm dropped by on TZ and revealed some guest stars in the movie and mentioned how the main CS villains aren't mirror opposites of the JLA bunch, i e Superwoman ain't an Amazon, Owlman ain't Bruce Wayne, etc. I love it when that man posts.

A great idea for a special feature popped up on TZ last week. Wouldn't it be great if the original "World's Collide" script were included as a PDF file for fans to compare with the movie as you watch it? Heck yeah's. So I did some digging, asked Dwayne McDuffie how to get it done. He said try WHV or the producers. So I looked for WHV's website, now called WBshop.com and filled some blanks and got a response two days a later. A few members shared that there suggestions went through, too. I know the implications are if this happens, what's the chances of it every being made. Well, as far as how Bruce Timm and Dwayne McDuffie worded themselves on the preview, it's this movie or nothing. At least with the PDF file, we sort of get both in a way.

So the more the merrier! If you got 5 minutes to spare, follow these instructions:

1) Go to http://www.wbshop.com

2) Scroll down and look for 'Customer Service" and click on 'Contact Us'

3) Fill in the form blanks: Email Address, Name (I put just my First Name), Select 'Other Inquiries' in the Drop Down Selection, and input a message.

I typed in:

"To Whom it May Concern,

I was interested in making a suggestion for the upcoming 2010 DVD release of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. Since it is based on the script "World's Collide" written by Dwayne McDuffie, as a fan, I would be interested if the original script were included as a special feature as a PDF file to compare to the feature film side by side to see the changes made up close.

Thank you for your time."

4) I got an email response from them:

"Thank you for your interest in WBshop.com. I have forwarded your suggestion to our development team hopefully this will be an option when the movie is released."

After some mad amount of work I've done on the Brave and the Bold section on the website, I've also been doing my episodic reviews. Luckily, it's all in one place, about a page for each episode. Click on page five for a sneak at my review on "Invasion of the Secret Santas!" Enjoy, tell me what you think.

http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=1891

Growing Pains

It was an annoying weekend. My host provider gave me short notice that they were doing a host migration to "better serve the needs of my website." Basically, the transferred to a new IP address. Of course, I had no idea what and was constantly checking to see if all 1 GB+ of my files were okay. I've got backups in three different places, but the task of re-uploading them would have been a b. Luckily, everything went fine and it was back up late Saturday. What made me mad was when I have a payment, they'll remind me months ahead, but for something like this, I get two days notice.

Gotham Knight Review

Anyways, I finally had time to send a review of Gotham Knight to Aaron over at Animation Insider. After giving it a read, I hate it. I felt like I had to keep it professional, I couldn't go willy nilly like with Spectacular Spider-Man and I was awfully tired at the time. But on the bright side, WHV (or was it WBA) sent us a butt load of high res still capture images, 2 pages worth so oogle them.

http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=1798

You learn something new...

After looking at some background stuff, I realized I have a secret site dedicated to spitting out statistical data in the form of tables and cool charts. It tells me stuff like how many page requests and what words are searched for the most then told in a quarterly or monthly or yearly bar chart. It was kinda cool in the IT Geek sort of way. It brought a smile on my face as it stated that readership of my site grows in leaps and bounds every year. I think from when I debuted DCAU Resource in 2006 it went from 40,000 views to 400,000+ views. Then in 2007, it spiked to 1,000,000+ hits. Of course, I went about writing the site how I'd like to see it but it's always cool to see the numbers support you.

I think I need something positive like this. Along with the occasional nice 'thank you' emails, it really gives me that intrinsic satisfaction that takes the place of being paid (Open secret, costs me $100+ a year for the site). Sorta like "I Am the Night." ;)

Timmverse Project

Still going. heh heh. I'm on JLU so will be done information gathering by the end of the month. Then the task of organizing data, then digitizing them and uploading them to the server. My endgame is late August, I hope, right before I go back to college (two more semesters, left!!) when I have a week off from work. And it'll have Gotham Girls in there, too.

Speaking of under rated Timmverse series...I was listening to some official DC podcasts from Comic Con and I learned that they will introduce Milestone characters into the mainstream DCU. I still have to see if McDuffie mentions it on his blog/forum but this could be a ray of hope for Static Shock sets. Keep the dream alive.

Added Superman Doomsday to DCAUR last night so check it out when you have the time.

Also, my review was posted on AI under the Reviews section.

Still sifting through extras. Me want New Frontier. Man it looked so great...

More on what I thought about the movie but yeah, Timm was able to repackage a classic and put his own spin on it yet again. The PG-13 content wasn't that bad, something I'd see on a late,late airing of JLU on CN. Those shocker moments were great with Graves getting shot, the clone killing like no tomorrow etc. I thought Lex Luthor should have died and what happened to Doomsday's body? :P

Summer break that is...

Tomorrow is the last day for summer school and the last exam. I'm grateful for so many reasons; no more studying for a week, no school for a week, can focus on other things etc. Hopefully, my grade for it can bump me to a 3.5 GPA so I can apply for potentially more scholarships.

Over at AI, one of my articles was published http://www.animationinsider.net/ and it was for the recent DVD set release of the Tick vs. Season Two. I make it preety apparent on my opinions on the series and how it's been treated thus far. And I did the article for free, I guess I was in a good mood that day. I should be doing a review for the last season of Harvey Birdman soon.

I just bought all but one of my textbooks for the coming semester. It cost around $456 and I thought I could save by going to buy them earlier. Half were used and half were new, what a rip! But it wasn't so bad, I bumped into an old friend and I stopped to have lunch with her. We've haven't seen each other in 2 years so it was great to catch up and talk about life.

I was taking a closer look at the synopsis for the upcoming Wonder Woman DTV and it looks like a straight adaptation of the Perez penned origin with one minor substitution, Zombie army for nuclear warheads. Which is great. We all know how well robot adversaries contribute to awesome action and violence on screen, let's hope that translates over to these fights. Here's the specs so far:

"On the mystical island of Themyscira, a proud and fierce warrior race of Amazons have raised a daughter of untold beauty, grace and strength - Princess Diana. When an army fighter pilot, Steve Trevor, crash lands on the island, the headstrong and rebellious Diana defies Amazonian law by accompanying Trevor back to civilization. Meanwhile, Ares (the god of war) has escaped his imprisonment at the hands of the Amazonians and has decided to exact his revenge using the mystical "Hand of Rage,' an ancient artifact with the power to raise armies from the dead and infuse them with a thirst for blood. Ares intends to start a world war that will not only last for centuries - but will wipe out every living being on the planet, starting with the Amazons! It is up to Princess Diana to save her people and the world - by using her gifts and becoming the ultimate Wonder Woman!

Wonder Woman stars in this next installment of the DC Universe series of original animated movies!

Target: Males 18+, Women 18+ and Girls 9-17

Proposed Rating: PG-13

DVD Street Date: Q4 2008/ Q1 2009"

I pondered this past Friday, what should I do? Start studying for finals coming in several days? Start working on part two of the top secret DCAU Resource project? Bake a cake? Hell no. I took advantage of a time honored perk of being an Animation Insider Forum Moderator...screening a free DVD release then turning in a review whenever you feel like it (well if you did the last part like that, you'd be a dick).

This Thursday, I think it was, I received a copy of Venture Brothers Season Two, the only thing I have watched on CN in the span of a year! I pretty much spent my weekend watching the two-disc-er, listening to the brilliant yet off topic creator commentary for each of the 13 episodes, featurette of the creator's, Doc Hammer and Jackson Publick, animation/moon base and crappy deleted scenes. In one sentence, Venture Brothers is what Adult Swim and all of CN should be. All of Ben Edlund's friends should be given money and make cartoons, dammit!

So yeah, perhaps in the coming days, you may see an article by yours truly about Venture Brothers. My real name will show up so...consider that a cheap easter egg or perhaps build up your collection of mundane names that could be sexy with a poly syllabic middle name. I felt extra witty because I found a dollar in a parking lot. Good day.

What a week, for only two days of classes, I found myself with so much work to do. I had to blow off a fly club retreat at a beach house to get up to speed.

Past Weekend
-Sony Expo
Every Fall, Sony sponsors this expo at the Ala Moana Hotel where they show off the hot goods. I went to go drool over the Sony SXRD Bravia TV's and of course, the ps3!! And it's free to go, swanky.

Monday
-Work
Ohhh, man. It's that time of the year for Macy's, nationwide. Vendors begin sending overwhelming amounts of Fall/Winter merchandise for the Christmas Season. As a result, our stock rooms are stuffed. I mean stuffed, by that feeling you get after Thanksgiving and you haven't even started on dessert. We also experienced a minor pipe rupture in our receiving dock area. Some clothes got 'dampened' so we might keep it or damage it and return to sender. We'll see. I haven't seen any clothing that's wowed me yet but then again I do work in Mens most of the time, and function is more preferred over design.
-PI Mixer
I think PI stood for Professional Invitation Mixer but anyway, one of my clubs had one of the big semester events. We invite several business contacts (alumni, recruiters, yada yada) to come to a swanky dinner, this year at the Manoa Grand Ballroom at the Japanese Cultural Center and we mingle and talk about...stuff. You can exchange anecdotes about life and work. Sure you can go for the Q & A about what their companies can offer but I enjoyed the water cooler talk more. Then there's the musical chairs aspect, we swap tables and mingle with more people. All in all, it was a blur, the steak was a little to rare for me and the company rep that impressed me the most was a Marketing Director named Jill from all places, Starbucks. She had this really great handle on team work, ethics and sense of community. It really altered my pov on what Starbucks is, especially after they went corporate one or two years back.
-Heroes
Micah is a technophage (or whatever the term is, my Marvel terminology is rusty) and Matt's wife was cheating on him?! Holy guacamole. Theo seems to be a red herring for this impending disaster. Would Tom Kring really introduce a Captain Atom to a savy audience, I think not. The Peter-Simone's dad dream was pretty cool and melancholy at the same time, hopefully this will make Simone less annoying and screechy (Max from Batman Beyond) and make her believe Peter. My guess is that painting is some shot of Claire's school, hence giving away the location. Why Linderman bought it, I got nothing. Kinda wondering when that guy will show up onscreen. I had this one idea that he had powers,too, shape shifting. And he doubled up as Ms. Sakimoto as a way of preventing any assassination attempts.

Tuesday
-Election Day!!
Luckily I went into my local elementary school cafeteria and voted around 10 a.m. Avoided the crowd and there weren't any mad delays like I saw in the news. I heard there was this one district in Washington that was flooded out, that's a reasonable delay...And the odd thing about Election Day in Hawai'i...we get the day off but the state is notorious for low voter turn out. We can be just too laid back, sometimes.

Wednesday
-Last minute Short Report Deadline Drama!!
I had to whip up a short report for my Business Writing course. Either compare and contrast a company, do an analysis of some sort or a recommendation. I chose the shoe beast, Nike, since I own a couple fo the bad boys. I was surprised that they are on the path to being a healthy company for many decades to go. There financial statements are proof enough. They are increasing profits at a constant rate each fiscal year. And to boot, they chomped up and acquired some smaller companies like Converse and Hurley...daaaaaamn. That was a shocker.
-Lost
After this six episode run, I think I agree more with the staff's original desire to air 22 straight episodes from January. Damn you ABC Exec's!! I wasn't expecting Nathan Fillion (Whedonverse, Whoop Whoop!!) and the marriage aspect, but I remembered the baby issue from last season when Sun confided in Kate. And I have a certain theory about that one,too. I think Matt remembers my long run on sentence on that one. Jack's the man, finally that stubborn-ness comes in handy and he attempts to make his own solution...too bad he doesn't know they are on another flippin' island. Alex is growing on me, but I am left with the question, is she on Juliet's side or just some lone wolf looney that no one understands? And who the flip is Jacob? Listen closely to Pickett's dialogue as he's heading to cage at the end of the episode. He remarks "Shepard wasn't even on Jacob's list." I remember Ethan Rom. Does this mean that Ben isn't really the big fish, after all? I also thought maybe this Jacob is some precog that figures out which of the survivors are 'good' and matches up the names with the descriptions that the Others spies compiled. We'll see...
-NSCS
Had our third General Meeting. We officers (yours truly included) are planning at least one more event~community sericve-like where you participate in a local charity program that adopts a family and buys them gifts that they need for their family. We did this last year, so it should go through with our Salvation Army contacts. We're also trying to get an end of the semester social going to we can all mingle and stuff. Our club has about 80 people that participated in club activites (tutoring, campus tours for high school students, football game fundraising, canned goods drive, Make a Difference Day, Cookie Corner Fundraising...) but a lot of members want ot just do more social events that are chill and low key. Fine with me.
-Animation Insider
My article got published to the home page, today, Huzzaah!! It's a DVD review for Harvey Birdman Season Two. The perk is you get it for free, just have to write up a review for our resident reporter bossman, Aaron. Reporting was my first gig before becoming a Moderator and Webmaster, but it still put a smile on my face to see my name attached to some random news byte. It helped me get through the day.

Thursday
-NSCS
Officer meeting early in the morn. We're trying to figure out next semester's activities and outline them. Kinda hard process, no doubt. About half of our board is graduating after next semester, so finding a new staff is on my mind. I'm slowly spreading an idea about creating a co-op program where we take potentials under our wing and work with them through out the semester (as opposed to dumping our notes on them one time at the end of the year meeting) and they can build up some experience with the job. It's hard because there is some minor drama with officers that want to leave next semester cause they senior year is a strain.

Friday
-New Clothes at in4mation!!
Yey for fashion, Boo for my wallet. A whole bunch of Fall lines for one of my favorite labels, Crooks and Castles came into my favorite local store in4mation (in4mants.com). Their motto is the crooks are a metaphor for the underdog of society. No one expects the lowlifes to rise up to the top with the decadent elites and get their castles (fulfill their wildest dreams). It's definitely something I can relate to on a personel level. As you know, I don't buy clothes because it's hot on the street. I really look closely at the label and see if there's a connection and if their graphics allow me to get some additional thoughts about life.

Just as I'm looking around, a Fed Ex brings a whole cart full of new stock, Dang!! It's Christmas for Kevin and company heh. Looked like some new Nike SB's but this new label putting out their first season came in. Atwater. Guy behind it used to be with Hurley (there's a lot of people in the biz with a similar story, it's getting more and more common). Has some potential, kinda Stussy like. The symbol is a spin on the basic skull and crossbones motif. Instead there's a tiger head where the skull is. Neat stuff.

The crew (or Aloha Army as they say) put up some new art in the shop, too. Their in4mation guy in New York went around and took some photos then went to work on Photoshop and overlayed some words of wisdom on them. They all look awesome, I enjoy looking at them everytime I get in the shop.

-DCAU Resource(www.dcauresource.com)
I recently added somemore entries to the site's Timeline after viewing the second season of Batman Beyond. The writers seemed to be better at the chronological aspect of Beyond so it was easy to write it down and digest some proper figures.

I also started a big image update. BIG. Check it out. The home page has the details. And there's way more to come. Since JLU came out on DVD, my screengrabber got the opt to take some better quality grabs and he was gung ho despite having a big (and still secret) job on his plate. Kudos to him. I'll probably be cranking on the images tomorrow and Monday at the least. As for tonight, time to chill and think about this rare thing heard of called sleep.