DC Comics Multimedia General - A crisis of infinite fuck ups

[Incecticyder]

That had to have happened after I got out of DC (and Marvel) from all the bullshit they're doing during the Comic Crash.

Indeed. Still, Guy's best comics are the ones he is a Red. I recommend them.

 

[Prehistoric Jazz]

He went by Warrior and grew guns out of his arms like Marvels' Bushwhacker. Warmachine had a similar period with alien tech. Best forgotten, or lampshaded.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

While not a comics creation, you forgot Jump City, which has that cool Big Hero 6 styled San Fransokyo look. I honestly prefer the fictional location rather than the Titans being in New York as the aesthetic is cooler.

I did forget, point taken. And honestly, I'd not mind a lick for it to become the "typical" city for the Titans to be set in. Giving it that San Fransokyo or at least a colorful, edgy cyberpunk look would be a fantastic style for the city in a book meant to attract young readers.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

He went by Warrior and grew guns out of his arms like Marvels' Bushwhacker. Warmachine had a similar period with alien tech. Best forgotten, or lampshaded.

That led to his bar at least

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

absolute batman to like an animated movie or miniseries

THIS IS WHY I LOVE DC

Just the entire concept of every Absolute character, its fucking amazing. doing basically what Marvel did with the ultimates universe but it works amazingly well because they turn down the powers on everyone a lot of notches. flash without the speed force, batman without the cash, diana in hell, arthur in arizona (kidding)

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

arthur in arizona (kidding)

this but unironically

 

[el bandito loco]

I have some thoughts for the major DCU cities' looks and vibes:

Now this is the shit I'm talking about. Your descriptions were short and consice, I liked pretty much all of them. I'd probably add a little more to a few of them to make them a little weirder, but this would basically be the simplest way to differentiate a DC movie universe from the MCU. like I was saying before it's an alien and foreign world but we get what everything is.

I'd also like to add another thing they need to do is some good color palletes for each city. I've always thought the look of the Watchmen movie is the best a superhero movie ever looked, but always thought it was kind of funny because it's not what I'd do for an adaptation of that. Watchmen's shtick is ostensibly how superheroes effect the real world, but it looks like what I actually imagine the DC Universe itself to look like.

I don't want them to just do the exact same look as that and want more variety for each city/character but don't give me flat ass MCU boring lighting and colors.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

I'd also like to add another thing they need to do is some good color palletes for each city.

Hey, thank you overall!

But if we're focusing on applying color schemes to the cities at least.... it is something I tried to hit with Gotham's "neon noir" - especially purple and red - and Aquaman's Miami Vice-inspire pastels of cyan and pink. Otherwise:

-Gateway would be easy enough to describe to be a gleaming city of almost all-white outside that greenery and trim hanging here and there- I know actual classical architecture was colorful, but it's an American-built Neoclassical burg, it'll be primarily white.
-Metropolis is probably also mostly white and/or silver, but with a lot of complimentary blues, golds, and blacks like I'm seeing googling "art deco architecture" which is also what I already had in my head. And the Daily Planet's symbol on top of the building is usually gold, right? Boom.
-Coast City would definitely be bold, simple coloring in general. Primary colors. A lot of yellow, red, pink, cyan - the color schemes you see in stylized art of the 1950s-1960s and complementing the local environment since Los Angeles is close to the desert. Actually, it would be really funny if yellow in particular popped out everywhere, and is why villains could conveniently fuck with Green Lantern in the early days.
-Central/Keystone would definitely be on the redder side overall with a ton of brick buildings and brick-built rowhouses setting the tone for its "older" buildings outside the specific fancier, ultra-modernized ones I spoke of. I don't want to quite say utilitarian, but at least perhaps approaching it. A working, still-industrial city.
-Star City is definitely gonna be green and not just for the forests.
-Midway is probably as generic 20th century as you can get. Gray. Not to diss it, I just actually don't know much on it to say.
-Opal if colonial English architecture is anything to go by is a blend of brick red and white marble.
-St. Roch will also be colonial as said, evoke some color via New Orleans' ties to the Caribbean or coastal ports like Charleston SC's famous "Rainbow Row" - the French and Spanish towns could be more colorful than colonial English on average.
-Hub City and Bludhaven: lol black lol

 

[xXWild_DripXx]

This clip represents green lantern as a franchise.

 

[Pedophobe]

Guy was prefect when Justice League America was almost a comedy series in the early 1990ies. Also back when Adam Hughes was still an up-and-coming artist who did comic interiors for JLA at the time.​

What do you mean "almost"?

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[Alexander Thaut]

Hey, thank you overall!

But if we're focusing on applying color schemes to the cities at least.... it is something I tried to hit with Gotham's "neon noir" - especially purple and red - and Aquaman's Miami Vice-inspire pastels of cyan and pink. Otherwise:

-Gateway would be easy enough to describe to be a gleaming city of almost all-white outside that greenery and trim hanging here and there- I know actual classical architecture was colorful, but it's an American-built Neoclassical burg, it'll be primarily white.

Gateway City would probably be some sort of blend of NeoClassical burg with maybe a hint of spookiness evident in it. It's not just one of Wondy's cities, it's also one of the Spectre's.

-Metropolis is probably also mostly white and/or silver, but with a lot of complimentary blues, golds, and blacks like I'm seeing googling "art deco architecture" which is also what I already had in my head. And the Daily Planet's symbol on top of the building is usually gold, right? Boom.

It's a mix of art deco (for the golden age) and maybe a little Frank Lloyd Wright in the whole "glass and steel" for a lot of the newer skyline.

-Coast City would definitely be bold, simple coloring in general. Primary colors. A lot of yellow, red, pink, cyan - the color schemes you see in stylized art of the 1950s-1960s and complementing the local environment since Los Angeles is close to the desert. Actually, it would be really funny if yellow in particular popped out everywhere, and is why villains could conveniently fuck with Green Lantern in the early days.

I think it'd be funny if Coast City also just had some random yellow ore/rock deposits that get in the way of everything too.

-Central/Keystone would definitely be on the redder side overall with a ton of brick buildings and brick-built rowhouses setting the tone for its "older" buildings outside the specific fancier, ultra-modernized ones I spoke of. I don't want to quite say utilitarian, but at least perhaps approaching it. A working, still-industrial city.

Those feel like a sort of stylized and retro edition of. . . Detroit? It could work.

-Star City is definitely gonna be green and not just for the forests.
-Midway is probably as generic 20th century as you can get. Gray. Not to diss it, I just actually don't know much on it to say.

Midway probably has a lot of places where people can see the Hawks. Lots of spires, open windows and skylights. Plenty of places for the Hawks to perch.

-Opal if colonial English architecture is anything to go by is a blend of brick red and white marble.
-St. Roch will also be colonial as said, evoke some color via New Orleans' ties to the Caribbean or coastal ports like Charleston SC's famous "Rainbow Row" - the French and Spanish towns could be more colorful than colonial English on average.
-Hub City and Bludhaven: lol black lol

Yeah, I got nothing. I think you forgot Ivy Town (Atom's home), National CIty (another generic city that seems to be the home of Wondy sometimes and also Supergirl).

-Metropolis: a perfect cross of interwar art deco and modern classy-glassy buildings, some of them weird-looking to evoke the movie of the same name and let Superman fight in some cool spots. Think New York at its best.

Yeah, Art Deco+ Frank Lloyd Wright+ bits of atomic age stuff.

-Gotham: neon noir crossed with crumbling gothic buildings. A more 'historical' feeling than Metropolis. Think Philadelphia's stronger ties to its past vis-a-vis New York.

That works, but I'd also just add a consistent eerieness to it. Gotham's said to have had weird cultists design it, so maybe lean into the pseudo-Lovecraftian elements.

-Gateway City: a cross of Greek and American architecture styles that are already fairly Neoclassical themselves. Lots of greenery, vines rambling down buildings when applicable. Think San Francisco but actually what it claims it is, combined with ancient Greece.

That works but I'd also add on eccentric elements. Make it a hub for the supernatural too.

-Central/Keystone City: A major city that somehow evokes both classic 19th century Americana while having a blend of impressive fancy-smancy modern-art architecture, evoking both the past and the future. The best of St. Louis, basically.

I'd keep the Carmine Infantino vibe.

-Coast City: Beach city and atomic era architecture thriving in its sunny clime but not run down at all. IE, Los Angeles if it was actually good.

Also easily nuked, right?

-New Venice: Aquaman's burg he protects when he's in solo/non-JLA heroics. Caribbean-focused, touristy, blended with the canals Venice is known for. Pastel coloring everywhere and utterly all-in on the Miami Vice aesthetic... because it's based off of Miami.

Aquaman has a place? I swear. I remember fucking Sub Diego too.

-Star City: Meant to be Seattle, even casual comics nerds know this by now. But play up how it's in the Pacific Northwest rainforest - a city proudly having trees and greenery everywhere between buildings. Heck, this lets Green Arrow have even more reason to be based there: perfect spots to hide and snipe alike!

There's also the idea of giant redwoods.

-Midway City: meant to be a Midwest analogue, specifically on the Great Lakes. Rust belt without the Rust Belt, one supposes, rowhouses ahoy interspersed with classic 20th century skyscrapers, but actually up-kept. Chicago analogue, much more major than its traditional non-usage in the comics and focus on the 20th century versus the above cities would imply.

Midway City being a lowkey Chicago analogue works. Hawkman and Hawkgirl were, in-universe, fairly historically important so their home city has to be a fairly relevant analogue.

I'd maybe throw in something like give it more high-rise stuff.

-Opal City: Colonial-style architecture ahoy, since it's meant to be on the eastern shore of Maryland, an area I'm intimately familiar with.
-St. Roch: Another colonial city, but of French and Spanish influence via its analogue as New Orleans.

You've also read the one run with St. Roch being another one of the Hawkman/girl towns, eh? Yeah it works.

-Hub City: Who cares on specific architecture it's all abandoned and run down lol. But we all know it's meant to be an East St. Louis analogue with hints of Cairo, IL and Gary, IN - a river city that never got to even get to the Rust Belt days when the river trading of the 19th century finally dried up (pun not intended).
-Bludhaven: You thought Hub City was bad? Wilmington, DE to Gotham's Philly.
-National City: Supergirl's haunt should probably evoke vibes of a metro area in New England, NE I mention so it still gives vibes of having a park or town green even within the middle of the city, a closely-knit village that's somehow city-sized. Probably Hartford, perhaps New Haven to keep close to Metropolis's New York.

And of course:

-Smallville: The most stereotypical small-town Americana ever. And we love it for it.
-Amnesty Bay: Your typical fishing village, if New England style, since it's based in Maine if I remember right. A perfect spot to spend a night during a drive.
-Ivy Town: The ultimate college town. Not many tall buildings at all.

Ah okay.

If I remember correctly, there's a few other fictional cities that escape me. Didn't we also have a place the Hall of Justice was in? Or was that always Metropolis.

 

[Overly Serious]

He has overstayed his welcome though.

Still good for the odd joke, though.

Now this is the shit I'm talking about. Your descriptions were short and consice, I liked pretty much all of them. I'd probably add a little more to a few of them to make them a little weirder, but this would basically be the simplest way to differentiate a DC movie universe from the MCU. like I was saying before it's an alien and foreign world but we get what everything is.

I'd also like to add another thing they need to do is some good color palletes for each city. I've always thought the look of the Watchmen movie is the best a superhero movie ever looked, but always thought it was kind of funny because it's not what I'd do for an adaptation of that. Watchmen's shtick is ostensibly how superheroes effect the real world, but it looks like what I actually imagine the DC Universe itself to look like.

I don't want them to just do the exact same look as that and want more variety for each city/character but don't give me flat ass MCU boring lighting and colors.

Pretty sure that's me you're recalling as I brought up the Question and that mini-arc in Metropolis where Lex is using Feng Shui to kill Superman. And yes, I love that sort of character interaction and I find it a lot more natural than MCU's continual snark-offs. What's funnier - an Iron Man quip or Vic Sage asking Superman to pass on a message to Sage's crush, Lois Lane? I know my answer!

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

Honestly, have a question for the thread. If you were to handle the DC Universe, how would you go about it? I have honestly been thinking through how I would set up this universe, more importantly Superman and Batman, but am curious as to how others would create a cohesive DC world. I find that in thinking about it, I come up with too much as DC has so many characters I would want to have roaming around.

Bored today, so wanted to come back to this.

Honestly as we talk about DC and how they would diversify from Marvel for films, I think my general concept would be to focus on the generations aspect of DC. Skip the origin movies as, really, who cares, that is DC at its most boring, and jump straight into the middle-to-older years of our heroes with a great deal of focus being on the family building aspect of these characters. Rather than solo films, I would want the individual films to focus on the mentorship/parent dynamic of the various heroes and their sidekicks/allies. From this base, you can easily define the heroes based on how they interact with the younger generation.

Superman will start out with Kara being around. Taking what some on here were saying awhile back about the STAS Lois and Clark relationship, I feel that I would take that dickish, somewhat competitive relationship, and make Superman and Kara similar. They are two characters that like to play the "I'm better" game to tick off the other, but ultimately hold a very strong and supportive relationship.

Batman will start out with Dick and Barbara being around and a relationship that should be similar to the Batman (2004) or Young Justice. Batman is distant and not great at showing emotion, but does little things to show he clearly cares about the two. As for Dick and Barbara, would differ from the comics and do what the 2004 series did instead, making them more like siblings than a romantic couple. Feel like this would be cuter for the two and flow better given that Starfire will be an inevitability in the series.

Wonder Woman starts out with Donna and parents her in a way that alternates between being very motherly and going hard on her to make her into a proper Amazon warrior.

Flash starts out with Wally and they have a friend-like dynamic rather than a parent one. The Flash family is easily the most stable of the heroes, with the whole family Jay, Barry and Wally all being very supportive of one another with little to no conflicts.

Green Lantern begins with training John. The two have a more work-associate dynamic rather than a familiar one, with Hal acting the part of the hotshot every now and again.

Aquaman starts with Garth and they have the most classical family dynamic of the heroes. Aquaman really takes to the dad role and Mera the mother, similar to Batman B&TB. Aquaman is just an optimistic Chad who loves his wife and adopted son, the type of hero where that road trip episode from B&TB doesn't feel out of character.

Green Arrow's series starts off with Black Canary and Roy being present. GA and Canary are loving to Roy, but often neglectful as they get caught up in their own activities. They arguably have the least stable foundation as a "family," potentially being worse than even Batman as Ollie is a little to irresponsible to be handling a kid.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

But if we're focusing on applying color schemes to the cities at least

i remember seeing some dumb concept of embracing that DC has these cities by someone going "oh back in the 1900s there was a movement to rename cities to make them less identifiable to any one nationality so immigrants all over europe wouldn't feel out of place" and thats why you'd have a Gotham instead of a NYC and a midway city instead of a st.louis or wherever the fuck.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

Skip the origin movies

seriously I will hate origin movies forever at this point
that Gendy Tartakovski Popeye was a fucking origin story

 

[Breadbassket]

Do you know what time it is?

Spoiler

Harley Quinn's special "comic" has arrived.

 

[Prehistoric Jazz]

So given how retarded DC is these days, how long do you guys think it'll be before the Fartacular gets an animated adaptation? I'm gonna guess a year if they haven't already made it a priority.

 

[Fatsuit Shinji]

Still good for the odd joke, though.

Good joke but it still hurt my soul watching it.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

I was thinking, did they ever throw in Alfred E. ?
iirc he's legally a part of the DC empire since... at least the 90s?

 

[UCT]

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This clip represents green lantern as a franchise.

Hey the current GL run is really good at least!