Justice League Unlimited - Season One (DC Comics Classic Collection)

Justice League Unlimited - Season One (DC Comics Classic Collection) | George Newbern, Kevin Conroy | simply the best

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	Justice League Unlimited - Season One (DC Comics Classic Collection) George Newbern, Kevin Conroy Warner Home Video, 2006 average customer review:based on 108 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Justice League Unlimited Season 1

Add another 50 or so members to the 7 core members of Justice League.
Write a terrific story arc mid-to-end of the season, and you have some of the best cartoons Warner Bros have ever made.
This set comes with extras, and brings the Batman/Wonder Woman romance to full fruition in "Kid Stuff" and "This little Piggy" (in which Batman sings, to persuade Circe to remove her spell which turned WW into a pig.) Is this an homage to the Muppet Show episode with Lynda Carter, where Miss Piggy became Wonder Pig? (The episode also builds on the Batman/Zatanna friendship introduced in Batman episode "Zatanna" in 1993).
Sadly the romance appears to be undone by a time travel plot in "The Once and Future Thing" pt2 in mid season (or else it's just never shown again. I did read some great online fan fiction stories which filled the gap nicely, for fans of the Batman/Wonder Woman entanglement).

New characters Green Arrow, Question, Huntress, Atom, Black Canary, Wildcat, Capt Atom, Supergirl frequent a number of the stories. You'll also see many other DC heroes, all conveniently added to the newly renamed JLU (including cameo appearances of most members of Justice Society of America, whose heyday was in the 1940s in the comics????).
If the New Gods episodes of Superman and Justice League left you wanting a focus on Mr Miracle and Big Barda, you'll get it in "The Ties that Bind". Flash teams with them on a trip to Apokalips.
Hawkgirl gradually rejoins, and Luthor's character development after his JL Season 2 pardon is interesting.
The series is wrapped up with "Epilogue" which is set several years after "Batman Beyond" and sees an adult Terry McGinnes Batman looking back on his own time with old Bruce Wayne, Justice League Unlimited (introduced in Batman Beyond: The Call), and searching for answers about his own past.
It was intended as an epilogue to all the DCAU shows, but JLU Season 2 went ahead, and that's another review.
This is great stuff.

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The stories are a little lighter than the Justice League season 2, but there are more varied characters filling in the main roles for each of the episodes. The Batman-Wonder Women romance is still progressing as well as Green Lantern and Hawkgirl's, and these take center stage in a few of the episodes. My girl's all-time personal favorite is "Kid's stuff", which they can watch again and again. Four of the heroes have to stop Mordrid, who has banished all adults to limbo, and in order to do this, Morgan le Fay turns them back into 8 yr. olds. It is a hilarious romp and just one of many excellently written episodes in this 4 disc collection.

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Dramatic, powerful and most importantly, huge fun.

The thing that I have always loved about the DCAU is that though the characters are fantastic and iconic they are very human and the plots are very layered in nature. The series as a whole explores the role of superheroes in the modern security conscious world. It also seems to reflect the industry of comics itself. The episode "clash" is both an excuse to have old rival's captain marvel and superman fight and also could be interpreted as a Meta fictional fight between the more innocent era of comics and the more modern, socially reflective, grittier comics (a kind I personally prefer.) Justice league unlimited also makes reference to the DCAU's past, using plot points and character relationships established years ago, showing the dedication of the creators to make something for the fans. i love the way the series uses all its heros in some form and really make the storyline immersive

A great many of the Justice League appear in the series, including my personal favorites, hourman, and the creeper in small cameos. The question, another of my most loved heroes is shown in a much bigger role. He bears a much stronger resemblance to his earlier appearances but is more of a conspiracy theorist than anything else bringing his character into the modern day at the same time. I did spy some martial arts in tiny doses (He is beaten by green arrow at one point but as a fan of his Richard dragon trained incarnation I choose to think he allowed himself to be beaten...heh). With real human relationships between characters and the feeling of adult drama that the writers bring to the series and voice talent from many Whedonverse actors and other high profile stars (like ben browder of farscape fame) it takes on a level that seems more like primetime drama than kid's animation, something that the creators aimed for.

My one dissapointment with the series is nothing to do with content or quality. its more of a wish. As a fan of Superman's clone Kon-el and his clone Match I saw parallels in supergirl and her clone. I just wish they would (or could? i'm thinking of the superboy court case.) have used Kon-el. particularly since they used the idea of superman being cloned in superman TAS and they had set up cadmus in the same way as the comics. This series is fantastic and I urge you to buy it, what ever your age or your comics knowledge. Oh and look out for Jonah hex in a brilliant showing.

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The Best of The Best

I have always liked the newest Justice League show, but Justice League Unlimited blows everything else out of the water. The animation is top notch, the character design is flawless, and the voice overs are brilliant. If you are a DC fan and are ready to see some of your favorite heroes that don't get a lot of limelight in pop culture, you need this collection.

One of the greatest

The new anime and dc shows can't compare to this show, but its not as good as the orginal JL.

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