New series at Mockingbird on Justice League/Justice League Unlimited

There's been a big gap between the last series on the DCAU for Mockingbird and this one so it seemed like this post might be a way to get readers up to speed and get some sense of where the newly launched series comes from and what it builds on. 

Back in 2010 DZ at Mockingbird and I briefly discussed the possibility of Wenatchee The Hatchet writing an overview of the DC animated universe (aka Timm-verse).  The idea sounded fun and the prototype for what was in mind was something like the Onion AV club overview of the animated shows.

In early 2011 Wenatchee wrote a few thousand words about Superman: the animated series.  Then in the summer of 2011 with Michael Bay's third Transformers film released still more thousands of words were written explaining how and why the old Transformers cartoons were actually kinda lame as they were slaved to shilling toys.  Only in the fall of 2011 did essays about Batman: the animated series take shape and the series Batman: The Agony of Loss and the Madness of Desire wrapped up roughly in time for the 20th anniversary of the classic cartoon.  In case you've never read any of that stuff here's a comprehensive table of contents.

In case you might be interested in reading what Wenatchee The Hatchet had to say about the Toy Story trilogy, here you go.

http://www.mbird.com/2010/08/toy-story-as-trilogy-of-heroic/
http://www.mbird.com/2010/08/toy-story-as-trilogy-of-heroic_12/
http://www.mbird.com/2010/08/toy-story-as-trilogy-of-heroic_19/
For a discussion of social identity in Ratatouille and Pixar films in general.

For a discussion of last year's Pixar film Brave.

For a discussion of Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, there's "A Path Through Three Prisons"

Finally, because you probably knew this was likely, we're kicking off a new and probably more-intermittent-than-ideal series on Justice League/Justice League Unlimited.  Given the weird and annoying gaps and erratic scheduling the series had during it's run readers who enjoyed the show may simply sigh and note that there were intermittent annoying gaps in the air dates of episodes for the show itself.  We're only human here, after all.  But rest assured the first essay in Justice Has Its Price: The Orphans and Exiles of the Justice League has officially gone up today, just in time for the release of Man of Steel.  Yes, we did plan for that and at least pulled that off.  :)  No, there's no way we're waiting to publish the Green Lantern film in association with another Green Lantern movie. 

So, here you go..

http://www.mbird.com/2013/06/saving-the-world-from-better-worlds/

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