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Disco Steve said:
J.M. Dematteis writing the episode was a nice treat.

Can't wait to see what Warren Ellis has to offer.



I can't wait for the Morrisson JLU/The Filth crossover Episode!

Now on to the episode:

The Moore episode IMO was as good as an abridged animated version of his story could get. That's a good thing.

It omitted ALL of the political Jor-El stuff and just stuck to the emotional stuff with Kal-El's son.

My one beef though with the episode was that in the classic 'burn" scene, the voice actor recited the word in that same wimpy Superman voice he always does, thus kind of watering down the intensity Superman was supposed to have been feeling at the time. Someone should have coached him more on the signifigance of that scene IMO.

The animators however more than made up for this in the incredible and violent slugfest they rendered. I'd say that was as violent and intense an episode as I can remember from ANY animated show. Again, that's a good thing.

The omission of Robin and some very very minor changes (no Kandor replica gift) were pretty much negligible and IMO were an improvement. Do we really need a perv Robin comment on WW's costume to make the ep. work? NO.

It would have been nice if we'd have gotten a glimpse of Mongul's "Black Mercy" inspired dream, complete with Warworld and Braniac kneeling before him as in the comic, rather than just the sound effects. But that's just fanboy nitpicking now......

I happened to give a review for the 1st Episode over at the DC boards where I posted that I was less than impressed.
The premeire Episode seemed to rely more on fanboy wish dreams of Animated versions of the ENTIRE DCU (complete with 1 dimensional personalities) more than they relied on good solid storytelling.

This episode made up for it and then some. However, the fact that this 2nd episode is derived from one of the best Superman stories ever told might actually have something to do with it.

So the jury's still out on JLU as far as i'm concerned.

P.S.
Jack in the Box happens to have a Justice League promo right now. So if you guys dig collecting tiny toy miniatures of the JLA, I suggest you get them while you can. I've already got most of them as one store happened to start passing them out earlier than the stat date of their promo.