Just got through doing a major update for the website! I added Gotham Girls relevant material to the Timmverse section and added some long needed bios for Sroya Bashir, VR Reporters from Batman Beyond, Derek Powers' assistant Miss Winston, and pretty informative bio on Adolf Hitler, taken from a notes I kept from a college prep course I took 6 years ago.

Check it out here: http://www.dcauresource.com/may22update.php

Also did a lot of background work laying down code for Green Lantern: First Flight, Superman Batman: Public Enemies, the Plastic Man failed pilot, and Green Loontern!

Did the usual site update for The Brave and the Bold tonight, too, and I'm bushed. I plan on doing screengrabs of the past five episodes this weekend, too.

I didn't enjoy "The Color of Revenge!" as I thought it would. I pray next week will be way better.

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.

Timmverse Project

Still information gathering (rewatching every episode and taking notes), probably the most pain staking part of this biz, especially with the Timmverse since it's so big. I'm on JL Season Two so I should be done definitely by the end of July and move onto digitizing it all into files. I decided it'd be smarter to lump the Gotham Girls addition in with this project than stopping for two days like I did with Gotham Knight.

Holy Brainstorm, Batman!

I just got this great idea, after I updated my Firefox 3 browser. One of my add-ons is Nitro PDF Download, which when you press a file link that's PDF, you now get a box to select downloading it or opening it (which is a hassle). I mainly got the add on so I could download Heroes GN's. But a recent update added a new feature, convert web pages to PDF.

How do this have to do with the site? I figure, for that extra benefit, I could convert all the pages on the site to PDF and offer it as a downloadable primer of sorts. It sounds cool, but I still have to experiment with this over the months. I love the concept though. And it's FREE. I need free after pre-ordering the Real Ghostbusters series set on Time Life for $180.

Wonder Woman

Glad to see it'll be a straight up origin story of WW based on Perez's work. "Secret Origins" sort of rushed Diana's and we never got the cool stuff like the tournament to see who'd go to Man's World. Got some A-listers there like Alfred Molina and Rosario Dawson, awesome. It was funny hearing Molina joke about him being another British actor cast as villain. Dawson is just plain awesome. I loved her roles in Tarantino's movies. I think Lauren Montgomery will be great for this. She's another one of those up and comers who was a lowly story boarder for the Timm clique back in the day, like Joaquim Dos Santos and even James Tucker. She directed some of my favorite Legion of Superheroes episodes so I got faith. And can't forget Nathan Fillion will voice Steve Trevor, should be a lot lighter than Patrick Duffy's portrayal on "The Savage Time." ("Angel," gosh that ending was a tear jerker [so I'm a sap!])

But February 2009?! Me thinks a TV series release is in store between these 7 months [I'm paranoid, too!]. I just want Zeta (for the obvious reasons) and LoSH (would you believe the first episode is still one I haven't seen?).

Brave and the Bold

Thanks to TV guide, we know a boat load of characters appearing and I think diehard fans will jump for joy. But if you're spoiler-adverse, skip the rest of this LJ.

Black Manta, Ocean Master, the Flash, Green Lantern Corps, Huntress, Black Canary and Grodd will be appearing!

First of all, now that the silly Aquaembargo is off, we actually get Aquaman villains, with their real names!! So cool. Judging by a picture, Black Manta may be sticking to precedent and is trying to get Atlantis.

Green Lantern Corps sounds neat (though I cringe when I have to ID them, it's hard cause some are so obscure!!). Not to sound ungrateful, I hope they don't stick with Sinestro, the go-to GL enemy. There are others, Star Sapphire, Shark, Goldface, Tattooed Man, etc.

And it's revealed Tom Kenny (Spongebob) is voicing Plastic Man. Sweet. It's odd, I remember when we didn't know what the next series was, there was rumor that a Plastic Man series involving Kenny was coming. Then B&TB news as well as an online Plastic Man series. Go figure. And John DiMaggio will voice Aquaman. I hold judgment until I hear it. Scott Rummel was awesome on JL as Arthur.

ADDITION

After a rather beautiful check up on Amazon, I realized that three particular items had dropped down well enough for me to qualify for free shipping near the $25 mark. The first was the miniseries trade paperback, Batman: Harley & Ivy. It was a lovely romp starring the unlikely duo, written by Paul Dini and drawn by Bruce Timm. The second was the ill-fated Static Shock Volume One. Haven't gotten to it. But the third item, which is the point of the LJ is the prototype of WBA's DTV project, Superman: Brainiac Attacks. It was about 50% off so I bought it. It was a breeze and I worked on it for a good three days. Oddly enough, the movie appears to be more entertaining on mute. In any case, I made a section for Brainiac Attacks public on DCAUR.

REFLECTIONS

It's a nice milestone for me as I've finished everything I originally set out to do when I took over the website. Since then I've expanded my horizons and look to do The Batman and Teen Titans soon. For now, I'm focused on doing Gotham Girls and Batman: Gotham Knight in July. After I complete Gotham Girls, I suspect feeling slightly prouder as my Timmverse section will be 80% complete as it will still be missing The Zeta Project and Static Shock. It seems ironic that as I talked with Matt about the WHV surveys and asking for TZP, the voice for Batman on the new Brave and the Bold series was announced to be Diedrich Bader, who voiced Zeta (and Shadow Thief on The Batman).

Legion of Superheroes should be out soon enough. When that Teen Titans movie gets revived, I'm sure Judas Contract will be revisited... Overall, the show I'm most skeptical will never get season sets is Krypto. As far as I know there's two or three single disc volumes out there. It's totally skewed for children but I think I'd still enjoy it as a light hearted interlude in the DCAU.