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RIght off he bat, from an art direction standpoint, it looks like these two suits were made by the same person, which is either woven cleverly into the story or not the brightest of things to do...and Catwoman's mask looks...silly.

I'll leave the Marvel/DC comics stuff to a respectful difference in preference and opinion, but there can be no doubt that the Marvel films have introduced many more characters successfully than the DC film projects. I'll even further all that by stating that the Avengers and most of their characters are not even in Marvel's top tier of successful characters and they are going toe-to-toe with the flagship of the DC stable. Does that not speak of the depth of the Marvel stuff? A prospective JL film project would need Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman to even compete with this year's Avengers film, yet Marvel does not need to plop in Spidey, Wolverine, the X-Men or the FF into the team to produce a tentpole film capable of competing with a batman film. Where would a JL film be without their big three? Black widow, a minor Marvel character, is going to be in THREE films before Warner can even mount one Wonder Woman picture, and that's the main DC female character.

I mean no disrespect to anyone, artist, creator, or fan alike, I just think the differences are obvious.

To even dispute the animation angle of this would be silly on my part. Timm and his Warner Animation mythos of stellar shows have thoroughly lapped the directionless Marvel stuff into oblivion.

I still feel that the Marvel stuff has more human, emotional gravitas and this is all being played out on the big screen, where it is easy to plug in an expansive personal angle with many of the Marvel characters into a feature films character while Warner would have a tough time beginning any film project based on parallel sub-characters. My example would be a character like Daredevil already has a (lousy) film to it's credit while a parallel DC character like...the Flash has yet to be formed into a film project. And the viewing public now knows who Daredevil is from a personal, emotional character standpoint, where the general public just thinks the Flash is a guy that runs fast. An even better example is Electra, another not-very good film that I actually worked on, that has already been made into a film while Wonder Woman, a lynchpin of the DC universe, can't even get off the ground, if I can further my previous post of the Widow/Wonder Woman comparison. Green Lantern just comes off to the general, uninformed public as a tonal rip-off of Iron Man where a spoiled brat becomes a man, and I think Warners is struggling to come up with personal slants or angles with some of the DC characters to make them into films whereas the personal angles and slants are ALREADY THERE with the Marvel stuff.

If this is where someone will post that WB should look at some of the Timm stuff and adapt that into a film, I would completely agree with that but having worked at WB animation I must state that in the grand scheme of things the studio kinda ignores the animated stuff when it comes to forging a film project, which is too bad because like Wich pointed out, there's fertile stuff there. Look at the Green Lantern Animated series, which is actually better than the feature, yet the two projects were formed in parallel fashion yet with the film division pretty much ignoring the tv show. I think that my previous posts have kinda laid out a lot of pretty good comparisons, contrasts and points. The Tony Stark/Bruce Wayne comparison, the JL needing to use their big three to match the top 20 characters that encompass the Avengers, etc.


I feel like I've belabored the point and don't want to offend anyone, so I'll leave it as this:)