DC Nation - Super Best Friends Forever - Name Game

Why could DC have not made THIS into a regular series?
"Watch it Bratgirl!"
"How dare you mock the sacred name of the bat?!"

Super Best Friends Forever - DC Nation Shorts

THIS is one of the cartoons that Cartoon Network and DC should have turned into a regular series.
The other was of course Batman of Shanghai.
Super Best Friends Forever was part of the DC Nation Shorts.
These short cartoons were aired when Cartoon Network aired Green Lantern: The Animated Series and Young Justice, before replacing them with the vastly inferior Beware the Batman and Teen Titans Go!
(No I'm not letting that go!)
Out of all the shorts, SBFF and Batman of Shanghai were the best.

SBFF was created by Lauren Faust, who you may know from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends and The Powerpuff Girls.
It starred Wonder Girl (Grey DeLisle), Batgirl (Tara Strong) and Supergirl (Nicole Sullivan) and was awesome.
Wonder Girl actually looked ethnic and had an accent, Batgirl was hyper and Supergirl was curvy and cocky.
It all fell together perfectly.

There were only five episodes....

1. Invisible Joy Ride
2. Time Waits for No Girl
3. Grounded
4. Name Game
5. Solomon Grundy Don't Fight Girls

The best thing about the cartoons is that they are actually funny!
You don’t have to be a comic book fan to get the jokes, but it helps.

DCNation has them all on YouTube so you can check them out. 
And they are VERY kid friendly.
So children of any age can watch them.

Steven Blum = Wolverine

A lot of people think of Kevin Conroy as Batman, and some even say that he is the BEST Batman.
The same with Mark Hamil and the Joker.

Another guy that should be mentioned in the same breath to me, is Steven Blum.
Steven has do a LOT of voice acting.
But since 2008, he has pretty much been Wolverine in anything animated.

Take a look....
Wolverine and the X-Men (2008)
Spider-Man: Web of Shadows Video Game (2008)
The Super Hero Squad Show (2009)
Hulk Vs (2009)
Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 Video Game (2009)
Marvel Super Hero Squad Video game (2009)
Marvel Super Heroes 4D (2010)
The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (2010)
Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet Video game (2010)
Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds Video Game (2011)
Marvel Super Hero Squad Online (2011)
X-Men: Destiny Video Game (2011)
Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat Video Game (2011)
Ultimate Spider-Man (2012)
Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth Video game (2012)
Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. (2013)
Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload (2013)
Marvel Heroes Video Game (2013)
Deadpool Video Game (2013)
Lego Marvel Super Heroes Video Game (2013)

To me, if I read a comic and Wolverine is speaking, it's Steven's voice I hear in my head.

So yeah, to me, Steven is Wolverine.
At least his voice is.

Does Avengers Assemble Equal The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes?

I know I hated this new cartoon from the getgo.
They lied when they said that "Avengers Assemble" would be a continuation of the vastly superior "The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes".
Or did they?
Look at these screen caps from the flashback in episode 8, "Molecule Kid"....

Those are The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes designs....in the new show!

Was I Wrong About Avengers Assemble?
http://www.bubblews.com/news/2732593-was-i-wrong-about-avengers-assemble

Batman The Brave and The Bold - Part 1

Batman: The Brave and The Bold was a cartoon that aired on the Cartoon Network from November 14th, 2008 until November 18th, 2011.
It was different from the usual Batman portrayal in that this Batman was not dark at all.
No, this wasn't the dark, brooding Batman, this was the science fictiony, fun Batman that was around in the 1950s and early 1960s.

Now a LOT of Dark Knight fans hated this version at first because...well because they were "Dark Knight" fans.
But a lot of them warmed up to the series over time.
Mainly because it was fun.
I mean this was not a cartoon to be taken seriously.
I dont think you would have seen a lot of musical numbers (or an entire musical episode) in Batman: The Animated Series.
Now that's not to say there were never any serious episodes.
They did the the murder of Bruce Wayne's parents, the death of the Ted Kord Blue Beetle, the creation of Deadman, the death of the JSA's Black Canary, the origin of Gentleman Ghost, and B'wana Beast and the Doom Patrol both being killed in the line of duty.
The last two were especially haunting considering this was supposed to be a "kids" cartoon.

Green Arrow and Speedy Foreshadow Young Justice in Justice League Unlimited

Remember the Justice League Unlimited episode where Crimson Avenger and Speedy were teleported in to help Green Arrow.
It was from the episode "Patriot Act" which I thought was one of the best JLU episodes.
What caught my eye (ear actually) was the little exchange between Green Arrow and Speedy at the beginning....

Green Arrow: The Crimson Avenger and my ex-sidekick!
Speedy: Ex-Partner....
Green Arrow: Speedy...we gotta do this now?

What made this funny (and cool) to me was that four years later in Young Justice, Speedy would be the main catalyst in the separation of the heroes and their "sidekicks".
He was even the one that delivered the line "Don't call us sidekicks".

Even though, I know JLU and Young Justice are set in different universes, that kind of tip of the hat is what makes the DCU cool to me.