Join us in this thread, this coming Sunday, September 5th at 2 PM Pacific/5 PM Eastern for Superman/Batman: Apocalypse, the animated adaptation of The Supergirl from Krypton from the Superman/Batman ongoing series.
What to know:
We’ll start promptly at 2 PM Pacific/5 PM Eastern, this Sunday, September 5th in this thread. If you run late, Granny Goodness purposely burns the cookies in the oven and/or what not, don’t fear, as the apocalypse will be averted and we’ll get you where you need to be.
Superman/Batman: Apocalypse is available on physical home video formats, Digital HD, Digital 4K and streaming on HBO Max. However you choose to watch the movie, have it ready to go at the above-listed start time.
That’s all there is to it! Grab your Mother Box and get ready for the animated epic of the best Superman/Batman arc/story there ever was!
I think I’ve told you before, but I absolutely love this movie. It’s my favorite DTV DC movie, the best of the Superman/Batman Duology and its art style perfectly encapsulates Michael Turner’s art from the source material.
Thank you for honoring the great Ed Asner here. I really hate that I can’t make it to the watches, but I truly hope you have a great turnout. As I said before, I have teared up so many times over his passing. Been watching his stuff all week, including watching Up for the first time. As I said in my podcast The X-Files “How The Ghosts Stole Christmas” will have a new meaning every year that I watch it. I honestly think I will be watching a lot of his stuff for quite a while. Of everything I have watched though, I would most highly suggest the finale of The Mary Tyler Moore Show if you can watch it. One of the all time great TV finales and guaranteed to make you tear up…
I have to pick?!?! You monster! If I had to pick one scene out of the entire move that I like the most, it’s when Kara is dodging the Omega beams and she flips Darkseid over her and he gets hit! So badass!
Thank you. I’ve got Mr. Asner covered, both here and in the next Saturday Morning WAL.
I kind of want to re-watch Freakazoid, as Cosgrove was one of my favorite characters on the show.
Cosgrove: “Hey Freakazoid, you wanna go to the petting zoo?”
Freakazoid: “Do I!”
I didn’t know he was on The X-Files. I’ll have to check that episode out.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show is great, especially the finale.
I’ve contemplated a classic TV sitcoms WAL thread in the Iceberg Lounge, and if it happened, I’d definitely see that 'Mar gets a good amount of the spotlight.
Oh yea those fight scenes are epic! Everyone get’s their moment to shine in that movie! Very well thought out, granted they had fantastic source material…
Yep! Such a great story! That was my introduction to the Metal Men!
Me too, partly because it was so different from all the other arcs that I was caught off guard and struggled to accept it and figure out what in the heck was going on!
The entire Vengeance arc is amazing too. And I think the first Annual? Where the Ultraman universe breaks in on the boat. So great!
Well he totally is because Rob Liefeld loved the Teen Titans and when he pitched Deadpool to his co-creator Fabian Nicieza, Nicieza was like “dude this is just Deathstroke!” Lmao and they basically made him different enough to laugh at the fact that he was basically a copycat. It’s great!
Speaking of Teen Titans and Liefeld, have you read the two-parter by him and Gail Simone, from the '03-'11 series? I believe it’s #'s 26 and 27.
Loeb and McGuinness’s run on Superman begins at #154 and concludes at #177 (there’s issues where other artists fill in for McGuinness, but their run is within that range), wherein parts of Emperor Joker take place.
Granted, I like Liefeld more than most. Sure, his art can be wonky at times, but it still beats my drawing skills, so who am I to act like I’m an art critic?
Speaking of Liefeld, have you read the New 52 volume of Hawk and Dove?
If you liked Loeb/McG on S/B, you’ll love their run on Superman (which preceded their S/B output). As I said, that duo does no wrong.
If I had to pick one scene out of the entire move that I like the most, it’s when Kara is dodging the Omega beams and she flips Darkseid over her and he gets hit! So badass!
