Hear, hear! I’ve seen nothing to suggest that they have a clue how powerful the Flash can be, either from simply being faster than we can imagine or by using his power creatively. They should have shown the soldiers’ weapons simply disappearing and then revealed that the Flash had disarmed them in the blink of an eye. Hell, they make Hawkgirl (I think she should be called Hawkwoman) seem more dangerous than the Flash.
Other than that, I’ve been pleased with the the way they’ve handled the heroes’ powers and characters. Superman and Green Lantern are powerful but not godlike. J’onn J’onz depends mostly on his shapeshifting/phasing ability, keeping him from being nothing but a green Superman. Green Lantern has a chip on his shoulder.
The art is not thrilling, but I’d say the series is off to a good start.
My problem with the way they’re using G.L. is that the ring seems to only have four functions: repellar beam, tractor beam, force-field and cutting torch. Where’s the giant boxing-gloves? The pair of pliers? Anything!
What in heck do the Manhunters have to fear from the Green Lantern Corps? All they’d have to do is paint themselves yellow, and they could go and trash Oa any time they wanted to without having to worry about Power Rings.
If I was a Green Lantern, I’d use my ring to heat the air (which is not yellow) around the Manhunters until the paint bubbled off, or get really nasty and super-heat the air until the Manhunter melted.
The Manhunters could always release a yellow dye into the air around them. (And, of course, there’d be no air around them when they were outside of Oa’s atmosphere.)
The producers are BIG Kirby fans. They had The Demon (Billy Zane) in their Batman series and they had Darkseid (Michael Ironside) and Apokolips and The New Gods and police Lt. Dan “Terrible” Turpin in their Superman series. (Turpin bore a close resemblance to Kirby and had a wonderful Brooklyn voice courtesy of Joseph Bologna.)
I wanna see the JLA visit Apokolips and fight Darkseid.
Yeah. I wet myself during the Superman Apokolips episodes. Even the one where Supes is brainwashed which started out kinda lame.
They get Darkseid right. Exactly right. Kicks Superman’s ass no problem (Big Blue won once, when he forced an omega beam lite to go off right in Darkseid’s face, and even then, the Lord of Apokolips snatched victory from defeat). There is no other. Lex Luthor? A petty thug. The Joker? Don’t make me laugh. All hail Darkseid.
And my jaw dropped when they actually killed Turpin! They aren’t supposed to do that! A brilliant episode.