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.

Project Timmverse: Part "I've Lost Count"

I'm a couple days into the information gathering phase of my latest project. Early on, I wasn't satisfied with what I had and decided I'd have to rewatch the Timmverse from BTAS to JLU and get better notes. I'm thorough and I always want that quality/obsession to show up on the website. I'd never put out anything less. Of course, I may have to diverge if it is still going on when Gotham Knight releases. I've pretty much got the backbone of that section completed so it won't that big a deal.

TV series News

Looks like some convention photos of Batman: Brave and the Bold are popping up. The other day, someone posted a pic from the Licensing International Expo: http://www.dcauresource.com/images/bnb_redtornado.jpg

And it revealed a new hero appearing, Red Tornado. Thanks to a keen observation by fellow AI moderator, this version is the modern one showing the series is mix of old and new. Seems to be a great forumla for success. Recently look what Spectacular Spider-Man is doing with the Silver Age! A TV Guide article also revealed Plastic Man, too!

Also on imdb, there's some other voice credits that haven't been confirmed but it'd be kinda cool: Greg Ellis as Gentleman Ghost, Dr. Fate and Cavalier. Yes, Cavalier, that evil version of Zorro who Batman could take out rather easy.

Also, it was great move to have DCAU episodes available online for fans' viewing pleasure. I've read in a press release that this same website will soon feature an online, brand new Plastic Man animated series. Haven't heard anything new in months but with Comic Con fast approaching, word should get out.

Movies

Gotham Knight will be pretty sweet but as I watch more Dark Knight trailers, I feel more and more convinced to venture out to the theaters again and see this one. If you recall it was noted that the DTV will feature some aspects of Batman from the comics that have gone unexplored in animation. Let's just say gruesome violence will be one of them.

It's the end of May and we DCAU fans are knee deep in the annual three year hump of no new news until the San Diego Comic Con ramps up in late July. But I'm honestly looking forward to Gotham Knight, some new music, Stargate and so much more, as yes and the recent news about a complete series set for the Real Ghostbusters animated series has me hyped for the fall as well.

Anyway, in terms of the site, I've mostly been twirling my mustache and plotting. I recently finished doing some background work on my sections for Legion of Superheroes and Batman: The Brave and the Bold. I'll be digging around for info on the online Plastic Man series until I get the usual visits from WB suits with uzi's. ;P

WHV is following the same pattern with Legion as the did with Teen Titans, release terrible volumes aimed at children instead of season sets aimed at 18-something year olds who have a flipping disposable income! Turning to my brilliant power of deduction and precedence, March might be an ideal time for a release of a season/series set of Legion and Zeta Project. The DTV project seems to have a five month release pattern so I did the math. Whether it's Wonder Woman (which I think will more likely be December) or...whoops almost gave it away (Hmm, I actually did give a sneaky hint in the second paragraph).

Back on tangent, I think June may be a good time for me to finish off a Timmverse project I put off for awhile. It was to add Objects, Places and Beasts similar to how other sections have them. I recently looked at the screengrabs I made for them and realized I have to put those beauties out. I have watched the last four episodes of LoSH recently thanks to an AI comrade. Will post my thoughts soon.

Well, it's 5:30 here and I'm slowly getting excited about the Lost season finale tonight. Please let there be zombies, :D Laters.

Gotham Knight

Those who are pre-screening New Frontier, got one early or saw a leak online will know four familiar villains will be appearing on Gotham Knight. One makes perfect sense, the other three were an interesting surprise. Let me know if you want the down low. The show itself looks great, very much like the Animatrix styles (same animation studios for the most part).

The Brave and the Bold

"According to World's Finest, a new animated series will premiere in the fall that will showcase Batman with another DCU hero every week. This would be a new animated incarnation with no ties to previous ones (i.e. not "Batman: The Animated Series," not "New Frontier," not "The Batman," not "Gotham Knight" and so on)."

A fine comic book series, can't beat a series built on an anthology/ self-contained stories (refer to Lost season one). But to play devil's advocate, is there such thing as too much Batman? I'll leave that to you. But to me, I'll take it. I'm just curious to see who is in charge of this project. Maybe, Glen Murakami, what's he doing these days...I recall Ben 10 and The Batman. Hmm, if The Batman is ending...

But if you recall back in the final days of JLU, there were several series on the table to be crafted and produced (Doom Patrol, Plastic Man, Shazam!..etc.). Brave and the Bold was one of them. If I recall, Bruce Timm and/or Dwayne McDuffie pitched the Brave and the Bold but it didn't fly at the time.

I think this series may be why so many directors were cannibalized from Legion of Superheroes this season. If you hadn't noticed, Brandon Vietti directed a whoppin' 8/13 episodes this current season.