Sunday, December 10, 2023

Madman and Krypto

 

James Gunn has proven very adept at including animal characters in his films.  There have been rumors that Krypto will be making his big screen debut in the DCU, and I can't wait to see how that is handled.  Let's hope Ace the Bat Hound isn't too far behind!

7 comments:

  1. Since Krypto has worked with the (Justice Animal League of America) and (Scooby-Doo & the gang), he is getting some decent exposure. He couldn't talk, but he could work a computer. Kryptonian brains enhanced by yellow sun. Superman used to show that ability too. Too bad they can't bring Topo, the octopus back again.
    This is a great cover!

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  2. I remember a Silver Age Nightwing and Flamebird tale where Ak-Var (Van Zee's nephew-in-law) was framed for some Kryptonian high crime and got chased by Kandor's Finest using what were called "esper" hounds. And, back in the mid-Sixties, on the Filmation Adventures of Superman, there was a Superboy cartoon that sort of hinted Krypto was telepathic. So, maybe, they (DCWB) could depict a CGI version of Krypto a semi-sentient telepath.

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  3. Oops! Sorry; that should've read "...as a semi-sentient telepath."

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  4. Maybe Bob Greenwade knows for sure. But, if I recall correctly, Madman was supposed to be a hi-tech zombie whose reanimator (re)named him "Frank Einstein" (as in, Sinatra and Albert).

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  5. just the right time as volume 5 of the complete Madman has just been released,
    it looks like an Early version of Krypto, he became more like a proper dog in later times, cross between a Greyhound and a beagle,
    unless someone tells me otherwise…
    we can always use more Krypto…

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  6. Nit: live-action big screen debut. Krypto has been in theaters already in DC League of Super-Pets. (Which I liked less than I'd hoped, but others felt differently.)

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  7. @LHN: I have to echo that feeling. "League of Super Pets" is about as canonical to the DCCU as any of the Dark Horse-era STAR WARS books and comics are to the present Marvel-Disney era.

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