Aired last night on the cartoon network. Not bad.
•“Jayne” as Jonah Hex. [size=8]
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•As proof of context making even the most mundane dialogue utterly classic, I offer up two of the best lines from last night.
“…I’m sorry, you were saying?”
and
“Dad?”
Double
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I missed part one!
Oh well, I guess I’ll have to wait for summer reruns.
I think they’re back to repeating them - but the probably repeated it earlier today.
It was an excellent episode. Pow-Wow Smith; Bat Lash, El Diablo…
Nope. I’ve check the listings for the next couple of weeks and it’s only being shown once in its regular slot.
Oh, man, this thing is a geek’s wet dream.
Chronos, Terra-Man, Old Static, and cowboys!
This was great.
“These are the biggest, slowest, bullets I’ve ever seen.”
Man, Good old Jonah’s really on a roll, huh? First he executes Superman and now this!
Well, blast. They need to pick a policy and stick to it.
Incidentally, Jonah Hex made the show for me. His sly comments about Time Travel and Ray Guns made me chuckle.
Wish I’d seen the episodes of Justice League that had the other time travelling…
I agree. I also liked Batman’s and Green Lantern’s breakfast conversation.
How about:
WW: These boots are killing me.
Bat: You fight crime in high heels.
WW: High heels that fit.
Bat Lash grabbed something off one of the fallen guys. Don’t think it was a gun. Did anyone notice?
Unless I’m mistaken, Batlash grabbed money of the fallen bad guy.
Yup -a wad of cash, complete with a mischievous flourish of music.
So it looks like our cast includes Adam Baldwin as Hex, Peter MacNicol as the time thief (is it Chronos? Can’t remember his ID); Ben Browder of Farscape as Bat Lash; and unless my ears deceive me, Nestor Carbonell (Batmanuel) as El Diablo.
Didn’t catch the actor for Pow-Wow Smith or the Bad Guy, whose name escapes me at the moment.
Good episode. Looking forward to part 2, especially the
dad? moment.
BTW- is it just me, or is the GL/Vixen pairing sort of random? Did the writers feel like they just had to get the two black heroes together? I can see how they might want to make GL not look like he was purposely avoiding a black romantic interest, but you’ve got to know that she’s gonig to come out second best against Hawkwoman. I think you lose any perceived ‘advantage’ at that point.
Now, how come no one is mentioning what could be the coolest part of the follow-up:
Batman meeting his older self and his future protege.
I think they chose Vixen precisely because she’ll lose this one. Who cares if Vixen gets dumped? Hell, who cares about Vixen, period. Unlike say, Black Canary, she can both date GL and lose him with minimal fanboy fuss. The Black thing is just gravy.
Sorry I’m late, I just watched the episode. My favorite part was the homage to the old Justice League opening with Bats and co. walking shoulder to shoulder with the posse.
Wow, old Static is even older. In the Static Shock/Batman Beyond crossover he had black hair. Maybe something spooked him.
Well, I still have a soft spot for Vixen from her old Justice League Detroit and Suicide Squad days, pkus her Anumal Man appearance back when Morrison was writing it the title – plus her powers were nicely amped for the Wake The Dead episode. Plus she’s a supermodel!
Hawkman and Green Lantern do make a nice couple, don’t they? But let’s not assume Vixen would automatically roll over and just let Shiera take her man without a fight. Very few black superheroes end up dating or married to each other, even in comics.
I’d be cool if they introduced the Bronze Tiger as an alternate love interest, and THAT would tie in with the Suicide Squad, too. I prefer Ben to John as Mari’s love interest, anyway.
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I need help with two things. First, can somebody clue me in on who this Jayne/ Jonah Hex person is and why I should have known who he is?
Second, what is the deal with Static Shock? He doesn’t exist in the DCU, does he? I thought that he was strictly a Kids WB thing. And I have watched that show a couple of times- there was one where Batman was polishing his(Statics) knob but good.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
adam yax. Jonah Hex is a big deal DC comics 1800s western frontiersman who wandered around the west kicking ass. Think Clint Eastwood’s Man With No Name with a facial scar with slightly more social skills. Jonah, along with Pow Wow Smith, El Diablo, Batlash make up several of DC’s Old West characters. (Marvel’s Old West characters also have had time travel adventures with the Avengers.)
Briefly in the mid-80s Jonah Hex starred in a new high-concept comic book series where he was transported to a post-apocalyptic future by means of a time warp. “In a Violent New World Old Habits Die Hard,” was the ad copy with Jonah holding off a sabretooth tiger, an armored guy on a floating discus and a woman with a spear all charging him while he held only two ancient revolvers. Never read the series but I got a serious kick out of that teaser ad.
Static was created by Dwayne McDuffie for his old Milestone Comics line, distributed by DC, and precedes the animated version by about ten years. They even had an intercompany-crossover event with Milestone and the DCU in the “Worlds Collide” storyline which the DC/Marvel “Versus” event stole the “Amalgam” idea from. McDuffie has long worked with both DC and the WB animated division. My guess is that WB is probably contractually obligated to do periodic crossovers with Static, Batman, Superman, the JLU and other DCU characters for as long as McDuffie is involved in the animated division.
—The actor who did Jonah Hex’s voice, Adam Baldwin, played a rather ruthless character named “Jayne” on the series Firefly, which was basically a space-western. (Complete with revolvers and horses.)
Static’s not in the comics DCU, but he is in the animated DCU. He even had an episode where he travelled to the future and met Terry McGinnis (the future Batman), old Bruce Wayne, and his future self. He’s also had crossovers with present-day Batman (and Robin, vs the Joker), the Justice League (vs Brainiac), and I believe Green Lantern on his own.
The cartoon was hit-and-miss, IMHO, not nearly as good as the other animated DC series, but Static himself is just a nifty character. I’d love to see him in the mainstream comics DCU (he’d make a great Titan), and I’m glad to see him here.
As for why he’s older than the last time we saw Static Beyond, I’d say it’s because someone realized that Batman Beyond takes palce at least 40 years from now. Tim Drake was grey when he showed up again, and Static had a couple of years on him. He’d be pushing 60, at the very least. In JLU’s minimalist style, gray hair is the easiest way to say old, but fit and healthy.