<![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter]]> The bit about 'registering' is long standing DC lore meant to be some kinda metaphor for red scare shit in the 50's.

I also think one of the reasons I enjoyed the book and movie so much is the recontextualized histories of these characters.

Putting them back into the Post WW2 era really worked.

JohnnyZito

]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter]]> Yeah, the movie wasn't great, but I can think of much worse ways to spend 1hr 11min 46sec.

As comic dork said, they chopped a lot of the storylines to near nonsense. As a kid who grew up reading mosly marvel, a little more info would have been appreciated so that my long lost memories could be helped out of the dark corners.

But yeah, I agree with ElijahDProphet. That was one of the better lines I've heard come from batman, and he always has a few zingers.

ThatGuyOverThere

]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter]]> "Additionally, certain heroes like The Flash are being sought by the government, who want to unmask them and expose them and have them register, just like in the recent Civil War series from Marvel."

Or, like in various JSA stories LONG before Civil War. It's not like it's an original plot, even back in the 70s.

vjmurphy

]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter]]> I was just glad to see Hal Jordan in a cartoon.

Also, it did feature one of the best Batman lines in history.

"Make no mistake though, I have a $70,000 sliver of radioactive meteor to stop the one from Metropolis. With you, all I need is a penny for a book of matches"

ElijahDProphet

]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter]]> Some of the animation looks a little slapdash . . .

Annalee Newitz

]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter]]> @92BuickLeSabre: well that answers my hi-def question.

and I agree Kevin. if DC is going to start churning out animated flicks like this, then they'd be foolish not to cash in on other, more appreciated arcs and/or graphc novels like "kingdom come" or "superman: red son" or even a jeph loeb batman GN.

the earl of weaver

]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter]]> It's unfortunate they diminished the John Henry storyline. But I couldn't give a shit about lack of Adam Strange dialogue or not enough Wildcat. They weren't major players in the book, so it shouldn't surprising they didn't make a big splash in the movie.

droracle

]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter]]> I wanted to LOVE this movie the way I do the book... but I don't. It is clearly made to be shown on TV and it just has problems. It was ambitious of them, and I respect that, but the final product isn't worth the money... since clearly it'll be on Cartoon Network in a few weeks.

What works:
- they tried. God bless 'em for that.

What doesn't:
- Sometimes the art just gets really bad
- Stories are ridiculously shortened, unexplained or don't make sense (I'm looking at you rocket to mars storyline)
- King Faraday's death
- so many great moments are just left out entirely
- What was Bat-Man doing at the cape? Just had to work more Bat-Man in didn't they?

>sigh< I was so looking forward to this too...

ComicDork

]]> <![CDATA[Justice League Movie Takes Us Back to the Origins of Green Lantern and the Martian Manhunter]]> I like how they've really committed to the past by releasing it on HD-DVD.

92BuickLeSabre

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