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.

PUBLIC ENEMIES

After putting the last minute edits together, I released the section on the website for Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

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

And in association with Animation Insider, my review for the movie is up, as well. Let's say, I'm starting to wonder if they give a hells bells about special features anymore.

http://www.animationinsider.net/article.php?articleID=2197

Favorite fight: Batman and Superman vs. Metallo
Weirdest Scene: Goes without saying but The Kiss
Favorite Special Feature: Crisis on Two Earths Preview. Hot diggity, come on March 2010, come already!
Favorite line: "What the hell is a good super villain mean?"

Hopefully, Chris got his DVD and watched it. I just realized he's sort of like the first prize winner of a contest sponsored by DCAU Resource. ;)

PROJECTS

Also, I'm nearly complete with the Teen Titans section. I'm resuming work on the last sub section left to do, Villains. Cross my fingers but I plan to be done by week's end.

After that, I'm going to watch free streaming episodes of The Zeta Project season 2. The bios will have no images but I'd rather get the written work out of the way until WHV gets their shizzer together on releasing it in some format. After that, Static Shock. I own the only volume release and I've taped all the cross over episodes so I have like 40 or so episodes to watch, heh heh.

TUCKER INTERVIEW

Success! My cohort and I finished the first round the interview and prepping for the second round/follow ups. It looks great so far. We're trying hard to make it not seem like an average or past Tucker interview you've see. After the first round, we got the drift he's a detail-oriented type of guy, which I can respect since I'm the same way.

Round one will mostly be questions about his background and they turned out to be a fascinating read, not just fluff. I'm glad it didn't become the latter.

Everyone involved are hoping to get this done soon because we got a nugget of a hint that an announcement about the USA run of new episodes is coming up soon.

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.

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.