One of my favorite episodes of Justice League Unlimited is "Dead Reckoning", featuring Deadman. It was the first appearance of the ghostly character in other media, and it did not disappoint. I loved his animated design and the scene where he uses a gun while inhabiting Batman's body (and Batman's reaction to that). The best decision was to give Boston Brand a distinct accent, which the voice actors for the various posessed JLAers would use as well, a very effective device.
One wonders if Denny Colt had an out-of-body experience while he was in that regenerative coma (discourtesy of Dr. Cobra).
ReplyDeleteI do not remember The Spirit's movie at all and I watch most comic movies either in theater, DVD (or VCR in old days) I bought, TV or somewhere else (recently saw Spider-Boy and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse on plane). That is was directed by Frank Miller does not surprise me for when I look at IMDB it looks like a Sin City movie.
ReplyDeleteGreat cover!
ReplyDelete@Glenn: I saw the first five minutes on DVD. Believe me! You didn't miss anything worthwhile.
ReplyDeleteGreat cover! Great concept!
ReplyDeleteYeah, the Spirit movie followed the unfortunate steps of the Dick Tracy and the Green Hornet movies in playing up the outlandish designs of the characters and action pieces along with the dated morality plays. Its like the directors (and studios) knew they loved the strips and radio shows as kids, but couldn't remember why. My theory is that they were all sugar-bombed out of the minds by their double-helpings of weekend cereals.
ReplyDeleteThat's the Spirit. Next, he can team up with the Freedom Fighters, or at least Uncle Sam.
ReplyDeleteThis just in: From Ralph Dibny of Central City - "It's been confirmed Deadman leaves a bit of himself behind when he leaves his hosts. That is great news for raising Boston's popularity. His BRAND is everywhere."
I have to get a start on JLU some time. I've seen a few clips and individual episodes, but getting into the full series sounds like fun. Now if I could just find it somewhere....
ReplyDeletePS: Some time ago, someone suggested a match-up of the Question versus the Spider-Man villain calling himself the Answer. At the time I didn't know anything about the latter character, but now I've been exposed to a little of him and I think it'd make an interesting cover (and probably an interesting story as well).
Wow, Bob - I'm almost jealous that you haven't watched it yet, I'd love to see the series again fresh.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I hope folks don't mind the comments being moderated now. Deleting over 30 Felix the cat requests and then a flurry of fanfic porn passages yesterday kind of gave no choice, though.
The Spirit movie was from 1987 or so and had Sam Jones of Flash Gordon advertisement. It also had Deep Space 9's Nana Visitor. THIS SHOULD BE TRIED AS AN ANIMATED MOVIE.
ReplyDeleteactually there were TWO Spirit movies.... the one that DC50 mentions was a made for TV movie and the theatrical released one with Gabriel Macht and Samuel L. Jackson....
ReplyDeletegreat cover and story idea, Ross.... thanks....
P.S.---This would make a great part-one for a crossover with today's cover.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind the moderation of the comments -- its a sign of success that you are now attracting the trolls, Ross. What I do mind is, at least one my Win10 box with Firefox, is how when you click the comments link from the home page the tab switches to just the individual cover page and is positioned AFTER the last comment, so I have to scroll up to see the comments, then Back button to get back to the home page (I always read the replies and late comments for yesterday's post before looking at today's. Ross, I don't know if you have any control over the layout of the comments, but I much preferred the old pop-up window (and yes, I had your site white-listed for popups).
ReplyDeleteOK, Pop-Up Window restored.
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