Day: August 8, 2004

Newsarama has put up a preview of the first eight pages (plus cover) of the first issue of “Madrox.”

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I hadn’t watched the JLA animated series for a while, mostly ’cause I was watching so many names of people I know scroll past in the credits and getting bummed out that no one’s ever asked me to write a script for them. But I tuned in last week because, hey, Supergirl was on it, so I just had to.

And then I watched last night’s and we’re about a minute into the episode, with Batman and Wonder Woman entering the Fortress of Solitude talking about Superman’s birthday, and I’m thinking, Dang, this seems familiar for some reason. Then the moment I saw Superman with the tentacled thing on him, I realized it was the Alan Moore annual story.

More than that: An astoundingly faithful adaptation by DeMatteis, right down to the key dialogue phrases that I remembered (including Superman’s terse “Burn” as he switches to heat vision and nearly lasers Mongul in half).

It was seriously cool, and if you missed it, check Cartoon Network listings to try and catch it.

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