Justice League: The New Frontier Images

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
By: Ryan Ball

Hot on the heels of the very successful Superman Doomsday comes Justice League: The New Frontier, the second entry in the DC Universe series of PG-13 direct-to-video movies. The good folks at Warner Bros. Animation were kind enough to send us some advance images from the eagerly awaited superhero mash-up, which is set to debut on DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc on Feb. 26.

Based on the graphic novel by Darwyn Cooke, Justice League: The New Frontier is produced by Michael Goguen and animation legend Bruce Timm, the man behind Superman: Doomsday and such beloved superhero shows as Justice League and Batman: The Animated Series. The movie also boasts a voice cast featuring David Boreanaz, Brooke Shields, Lucy Lawless, Neil Patrick Harris, Miguel Ferrer, Kyra Sedgwick, Jeremy Sisto and Kyle MacLachlan.

Written by Stan Berkowitz, New Frontier tells the epic tale of the founding of the Justice League. DC Comics legends Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter and The Flash band together to form the legendary league of caped crusaders and combat a monster that threatens to wipe humanity from the face of the Earth.

Bonus features on the two-disc special edition DVD will include Super Heroes United!: The Complete Justice League History, a documentary chronicling the forty-seven-year history of the Justice League from its inception in the comics to its various animated renditions. There will also be a documentary about the pathology of the super villain, three bonus episodes from the Justice League animated series selected by Timm, and a sneak peak at Batman: Gotham Knight and how Warner Bros Animation is working with renowned Japanese animators to create the highly anticipated anime film set for release in 2008.

Check out the images from Justice League: The New Frontier here: www.animationmagazine.net/batman_legion2.html

Reader Comments

• omar : creator : breakthrough images

  Thursday, December 20, 2007

  Someone needs to say it...
  The emperor has no clothes.
  These WB/DC superhero animated productions are AWFUL.
  From day one they have been badly written, badly drawn (enough with the horrible square block anatomy) marginalized, uninspired spins on wonderful characters. The WB catalogue of superhero animation is basically made by and for insecure fanboy geekdom. This demographic is comprised mainly of mid twenties to mid fifty year old men because let\\\\\\\'s face it, children have WAY too much taste to bother with this drivel. This mob of WB lovers are essentially insecure haters that need to see classic icons be \\\\\\\"brought down a peg\\\\\\\" by bad writing and drawing so they can validate their own les than heroic existences. Sorry for the venom. Really it\\\\\\\'s not personal, but sadly there is no other explanation.
  The art is deliberately BAD and the writing is always villain-centric, mean-spirited, anti-heroic, morally vacuous garbage that really insults the bright and golden pop cultural canons of art and literature that put the WB \\\\\\\"properties\\\\\\\" on the map in the first place.
  Bruce Timm really does need to stop.
  I can watch any episode of Super Friends, the Filmation animated catalougue of DC Heroes, and of course the Fleischer Superman shorts all day long. The work is still fresh, vibrant, soulful, and BEAUTIFULLY drawn. The linework is lush, the backgrounds are gorgeously painted, and the timing and editing of the animation are driven by the creative content and not some arbitrary production process. Sure the WB stuff moves at 12-24 frames per second. So what? It looks like it was done on an assemblyline by laborers (underpaid Koreans) who HATE having to render badly drawn square people (can\\\\\\\'t blame them either). 12 plus frames a second of bad drawing, yuck. Oh make no mistake I love Korean animation and even Korean?American animation hybrids when there is love involved. There is no love in the WB/DC slate though.
  Bruce Timm and his colleagues often site that the Batman/Superman/Justice League stuff are more sophisticated than these character\\\\\\\'s earlier on-screen incarnations. Huh? Last time I checked an entire generation of fans and artists of all ages have been and continue to be inspired by the original animated versions of the DC icons (including Bruce Timm). The work has a depth on par with museum quality pop-art and requiress a high degree of connoisseurship to truly grasp let alone create. I wish WB\\\\\\\'s animation department would put their professional jealousy aside and stop hating.
  Enough depressing negative colorless drek. Enough Superman stories with Lex Luthor being depicted as a godlike being who is above punishment and Superman as an impotent jerk who is continually beaten humiliated and emasculated (SuperMan Doomsday anyone?). Enough Batman as a dark avenger who never seeems to be able to stop crime and is apparently the Joker\\\\\\\'s bodyguard. And most of all enough HORRIBLE drawing.
  But then again, Bruce Timm and company can keep rollinig out garbage in perpetuity. The good thing is no one really cares. It\\\\\\\'s just souless corporate junk that is forgotten as soon as it is made so they need to keep pumping it out so it doesn\\\\\\\'t entirely slip into non-existence. It just took 16 episodes of Challenge of the SuperFriends to be permantly installed as an American Animation milestone by people who embrace animation as an artform. That honor will NEVER be bestowed upon the WB retreads.
  I just wanted to provide a breif respite from the WB hatefest, the fanboys can go back to drooling over their posters of the square Lex Luthor.

• Lex Luthor : Lex Corps

  Friday, December 21, 2007

  I think it looks cool

• Omar : creator : Breakthrough Images

  Friday, December 21, 2007

  Everyone has a right to they\'re own opinion but the fact still remains that this stuff is very badly written and drawn even if someone thinks it looks cool.

• Dr. Katz : Phychiatrist :

  Thursday, December 27, 2007

  Wow!!!
  
  I guess posting here is cheaper then going to therapy.

• J.R. : Hero : The Justice Group, Inc

  Tuesday, January 08, 2008

  Guy writes an excessively long tirade about his favorite characters in a manner that can be viewed as TRYING to be persuasive, someone else gives his own opinion, and here comes \\\"the fact remains\\\"! The only fact remaining is that everyone\\\'s opinion is their own. No matter how much you may dislike something, there are others who may enjoy what you may not. Respect another person\\\'s opinion without trying to bring them over to your side unless you\\\'re trying to garner votes or something. Frankly, it\\\'s kind of cool to see the differences in the way things were done then to the way they\\\'re done now. Watching the old stuff takes me back and also lets me share the experience with my young sons. Seeing the new \\\'toons allows me to educate them on the variations. No bad or good, just enjoyment... not anything so serious that a mini-dissertation was needed. Lighten up a bit and take the shows, movies, etc., for what they are meant for: ENTERTAINMENT! And if you\\\'re not entertained, and mad about it, too, don\\\'t hate on another\\\'s right to like something you don\\\'t. And ma God continue to bless all of you REAL GOOD!

• AniFan :

  Thursday, March 06, 2008

  I think Timm and Cooke\'s designs are just fine, but I\'ll agree about the quality of the animation. I\'m astounded at how many reviews I\'ve read praising the animation New Frontier contained. As a whole, the animation quality was pretty bad. Characters were routinely drawn off-model, there was no weight or life to the characters. The story and voice acting deserved better, I thought