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March 16, 2009
 
5 Things I Think
  • In the weeks since Warner Brothers Animation and DC Comics released the Wonder Woman animated movie on DVD, there�s been news of Green Lantern: First Flight being released this summer and now Superman/Batman: Public Enemies is scheduled to drop this fall.

    I love seeing these quality direct-to-DVD animated movies from DC comics, but this rash of new releases has got me thinking. When Warner Brothers Animation announced this deal back 2006, one of the three original projects was Teen Titans: The Judas Contract.

    The other two project were produced (Superman/Doomsday and The Final Frontier), but still no Judas Contract.

    The Judas Contract is one of the all-time great DC Comics stories. What happened to that project?

  • If you are at all interested in the fate of the newspaper industry in an increasing digital world (I find it fascinating), then you should read what Clay Shirky had to say in a recent post.

    It looks like everyone is reading/linking/sharing it, and for good reason � he makes some interesting and insightful observations. We are in the middle of a media delivery revolution on scale with the invention of the movable type printing press and no one really knows how this digital revolution will ultimately impact the newspapers.

  • I think for all the talk last summer about how mainstream movie audiences are finally accepting of comic book inspired films with depth and maturity (i.e. The Dark Knight), ultimately the mainstream movie audience still doesn�t know what it is that they�ve accepted.

    How else do you explain the need for Chicago Tribune movie critic Michael Phillips to write a commentary arguing why parents shouldn�t take their children to see the Watchmen.

    Just because a movie has a guy dressed up in a goofy custom swinging from buildings doesn�t mean it�s exactly kid-friendly.

  • I think Burger King�s new �Whopper Bar� could just be crazy enough to work.

    The Whopper Bar

  • I feel sorta bad for Ian and Emma. Just as they�ve started talking about saving up their own money to buy their own iPods, Apple goes and releases a new version of the iPod Shuffle that I think is horrible for younger kids.

    It�s so small that I think young kids will easily lose it, plus the controls are now contained in a tiny little touch bar on the headphone cord. Instead of the uber-intuitive touch-wheel, Shuffle users have to adapt to the morse code-like tappings to control the music.

    Plus, Apple dropped all the cool colors that the second generation iPod Shuffle came in. Those colors were one of the things that Ian and Emma thought were do great about the Shuffle.

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