With all due respect, your boy needs an edu-ma-cation. 
Thanks for the link! (although I already saw it when you linked to it in another thread. Now I’m going to bookmark it)
Lou,
There are several Capt. Atom action figures available. I’m not sure if Mattel makes them (that would be DC’s decision), but there are several here and I believe there is a JLU one.
Xan: Blue Beetle pops stars in the Justice League Unlimited comic #5. Its’ pretty funny. At one point he steals a carton of milk from the JLU fridge, presumably Zatanna’s as it has “knird ton od” written on it. 
: Snort :
Everybody knows that the REAL GL wears black and white and a crab mask.
: d & r :
Howdy, Sir!
Actually, DC Direct made the only existing Captain Atom figure so far, as part of its “Batman/Superman: Public Enemies” line, based on the art of Ed McGuinness. I own it – that is the one you linked to. Presumably DC Direct can produce any characters they want, since they are an actual branch of DC Comics – that’s why they’ve also made Blue Beetle and Question figures (one of each, a few years back).
There are also Captain Atom and Blue Beetle HeroClix game pieces made by WizKids, and Hasbro made a Blue Beetle action figure back in 2000 as a special mail-order figure for their Total Justice toy line. I’m not sure of the legal machinations behind this, except to just hypothesize that each merchandising company has its own set of licensing contracts with DC, and each contract has specific lists of characters they can and cannot portray or produce.
We know Mattel does not have permission to make the big three Charlton characters as JLU figures, in that specific scale (4") and art style (based on Timm): Blue Beetle (who isn’t allowed in the cartoon either), or Captain Atom or Question (who both are). We also know they cannot make Captain Marvel either, despite his single appearance in JLU – and other toy and merchandising companies have made Captain Marvel stuff in years past, adding to the confusion. I can’t explain why, but I can clearly guess that the master list of characters Mattel got from their contract with DC and WB Animation has a long list of possibilities for them to produce (which is how we’ve gotten some oddball figure choices like Aztek, Waverider, and the Ditko Starman), just not those four. Since Beetle, Question, Captain Atom, and Captain Marvel were all acquired by DC from different publishers that no longer exist (Charlton and Fawcett), I can see why they might be under a different set of contracts, rather than with the “homegrown” DC characters.
Then again, if you ever happened to see this picture on my website with my JLU figure display (complete with Blue Beetle and Captain Atom), I should tell you they were customized figures made for me by our very own Doper Selkie, a top-notch professional sculptor:
http://www.geocities.com/bigbadvoodoolou/toys/jlu.jpg
Wolfian, you’re just asking for a world of hurt, aren’t you?
You gotta get your son to see the 2 parter ‘The Once and Future Thing’. There were some weird time fluctuations going on and at one point John Stewart turned into Hal Jordan- pretty cool.
At which point you should point to Hal and yell, “See, son? Pay attention. HE is the one true Green Lantern!”
Alan Scott would disagree with that.
Nice ep. Orion is kind of an odd foil for the Flash, and it’s kind of embarassing to see the wielder of the Astro-Force get smacked around by the likes of Capt. Cold and capt. Boomerang.
The contrast between how the Flashand Batman interact with both the local citizenry and their Rogues Galleries is exquisite.
Wally’s boss is definately a tribute to Barry Allen. Not only Barry’s blond buzz-cut (and his job) but his trademark bow-tie as well.
Mirror Master was voiced by Alexis Denisof. I didn’t recognize his voice at all though.
I would have said it when we saw the episode, but I had already said it about Kyle Rayner in the Amazo Returns episode!
“… you just pull another bleedin’ mirror out of your arsenal…”
I agree. Orion is (near?) Superman-level strength and durability. Captain Cold and Captain Boomerang would not have slowed him one bit. However, like most comics and especially tv shows based on comics, his powers were adjusted to the appropriate level for the story. I like (even if it probably wasn’t in character) how, after berating Bats for giving into Flash, he gave in to Bats.
I really liked how Flash handled The Trickster, plus his attitude towards the rest of his rogues. I also enjoyed Flash’s interaction with the crowd and the people of Central City. It stands in stark contrast to The Batman (wasn’t there a joke in this episode about that, or did I read it in a comic this week?). I thought the writers could have done a little better with the closing speeches, both Flash to the press and Orion to Flash.
Do you think that episode may have been a pilot-with-a-show for a Flash cartoon?
Maybe. They probably just wanted to give Wally his proper respect, since he got nerfed more than anyone in the early Justice League seasons, and then took a long hiatus due to scheduling conflicts with Michael Rosenbaum.
The next thing we’ll be seeing from this team is Legion of Superheroes, but early reports hint that it’s going to be more like Teen Titans than JLU, in style and perhaps in how it’s a half-step removed from the established animated continuity.
Oh, please. Not more of that wildly exaggerated faux anime style!
I’ve grown to enjoy the TT series, but I’d prefer to see LSH done in the JLU style.
I don’t like how Braniac 5 looks in JLU style. Too big and muscular looking.
Actually, I’m probably just going to go ahead and say that I don’t care for how any of the LSH costumes look when done by Bruce Timm. I didn’t like them on Superman: TAS, and I don’t like the look of the screenshots I’ve seen for the JLU appearance.
Flash was depowered by an amount equal to Hawkgirl’s (or is that Hawkgrrl’s?) empowerment. Or maybe by an amount equal to all the Thanagarian’s empowerment, depending on how you feel about Flash. GL is also annoyingly depowered, but I can’t think of anyone who was empowered to make up for it.