Recent content by RuneKnight3

I've always thought Black Manta was a weak concept for a villain OOooh I'ma do bad things in the water, ooooh! The super villain equivilent of peeing in the kiddie pool.

System Usually I like the various essays that get thrown up around here. They show, among other things, a lot of love and fine appreciation. It's a stamp of quality that so many adults and near adults take real time to consider the finer points and compare the variant strengths and weaknesses...

The Get of Modi Part I Metropolis Central Museum 3 A.M. The chamber was like a music hall the moment before the commencement of an opera. The frozen eyes of paintings and statues stared out, an audience with baited breath. Calm of a cathedral. Still of the grave. John Stewart...

I think you've taken my commentary a little too literally as well as too personally. With that in mind, allow me to answer the real thrust of your commentary rather than the analysis of the animation. First of all, congratulations on becoming a criminal justice major, I hope you go on to do...

With some exceptions of course, where just bad writing can be at play, I would point out that you have to consider the character's motivations for unmasking or not. The Joker wouldn't unmask bcause he doesn't care about the man beneath the mask, he wants Batman and only Batman. Some villains...

When commentng on animation I strive to adhere to the intent of this forum - DC animation - but since other people brought up marvel I'll follow suit. To whit I agree nominally that marvel does tend to have more 'thinking man' superheroes, however I also have to disagree on some level...

Aww but I like crime dogs.... :) Thanks for the correction

I just finished my first year at a four year private liberal arts college, focusing on symbolism (in renisance France, but I digress). As part of my last quarter I ended up reading a book from 1962 called Anti-Intellectualism in American Life whose core argument, while dated, stipulates that...

I wasn't trying to assert that those things which are human or alien are 'better', rather I was trying to present the argument that in terms of a real sense of the alien DC or at least it's animated presentations tend to fall flat. For instance, Hawkwoman has this electrified mace that is...

Well said, although I feel I should point out that if you look at it Superman, Hawkgirl, and some of the other aliens and quasi aliens that flit through the Justice League really aren't any kind of 'alien' at all. They have by whatever means very human conceptualizations of right and wrong...

More immediately to the point of the thread perhaps there's a question of approach? Certainly as others have pointed out there is a question of independence, but I feel even more importantly one has to consider intent. The villains in question don't just want to 'get' the Tomorrow Knight, they...

I think the phraseology 'dirt' is confusing some, it's a personal idiom and therefore probably imprecise, so let me change it to 'Artifice'. BTAS had a profusion of minor touches that gave it a greater visual depth, as did TNBA although as you strongly point out an entirely different kind of...

Absolutely. Indeed, I'm a BB fan. Even the episodes that people seem to dislike I ate up with childlike eagerness. One of the things I despair on occasion in fact is that, for all our intellectual sophistry, these animations are made towards a key audience that is sometimes hard to discern. Old...

Another fair point, although from my own perspective I do strain to seperate comic universes and televised universes no matter how similar. The various animated series do have an advantage in that they have the 40+ years of mistakes in comicdom to learn from, and yet they can still make their...

As far as Zeta and Static go I always thought they were derivatives. The 'suits' trying to cash in by creating flash in the pan characters. In my experience a derivative will never hold up to an original concept. But then I don't presume to claim my interpretations are perfect either, so no...