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scans_dailySure, it's not perfect. It's so Batman and Superman centered that others got a bit shafted. For that matter, things didn't go so well for some Batman characters (Just ask Tim Drake). Still, it's positives far outweigh it's negatives, and aspects of it would find their way into the main DCU.
Ladies and gentlemen, the DCAU.
It started simply enough. In the wake of Tim Burton's Batman films, a cartoon was developed, combining the look and style of the films with the Bronze Age Batman comics. How it would develop would mainly be the work of Bruce Timm and Paul Dini.
Before long, the popularity of the series led to a Superman spin-off, which drew inspiration for it's design from the classic Fleischer cartoons of the 1940s.
This led, naturally, to a Justice League series.
The DCAU was so popular that elements of it would be incorporated into the main DCU, including such characters as Harley Quinn.
Renee Montoya, who is now the Question.
Livewire.
Roxy Rocket.
Others include Mercy Graves, Lock Up, and Sewer King. Another character introduced in the DCAU was Nora Fries, wife of the man who would become Mr. Freeze. Mr. Freeze had been considered so useless in the comics that he was killed off in a random and disrespectful manner. The animated series made him so pupular that he was not only brought back, but given the tragic origin from the DCAU.
Another element from the DCAU that found it's way into the DCU was the Bruce/Diana thing.
Oh, Bruce... You're not afraid of what your enemies would do to her, but what she would do to them. The Joker wouldn't survive too many encounters with Diana.
The Toyman is an example of designs and personalities of established characters in the DCU being turned into their DCAU ones. Another example was Batgirl.
The DCAU Barbara Gordon Batgirl became the DCU one, as we see in this scene from Batgirl: Year One #7, by Scott Beatty, Chuck Dixon, and Marcos Martin.
Notice the look of that series is a cross between the DCAU and Batman: Year One.
Some accused Dixon of writing the young Babs like Stephanie Brown. What he was actually doing was writing her like Paul Dini did in the cartoon. Not that Dixon didn't notice the similarities between Steph and the young Babs, having Dinah comment on it when Babs was being irritated with Steph. Dini and Timm cemented the image of Batgirl.
So, the DCAU is, in a large way, the reason Stephanie is now Batgirl.
Ladies and gentlemen, the DCAU.
It started simply enough. In the wake of Tim Burton's Batman films, a cartoon was developed, combining the look and style of the films with the Bronze Age Batman comics. How it would develop would mainly be the work of Bruce Timm and Paul Dini.
Before long, the popularity of the series led to a Superman spin-off, which drew inspiration for it's design from the classic Fleischer cartoons of the 1940s.
This led, naturally, to a Justice League series.
The DCAU was so popular that elements of it would be incorporated into the main DCU, including such characters as Harley Quinn.
Renee Montoya, who is now the Question.
Livewire.
Roxy Rocket.
Others include Mercy Graves, Lock Up, and Sewer King. Another character introduced in the DCAU was Nora Fries, wife of the man who would become Mr. Freeze. Mr. Freeze had been considered so useless in the comics that he was killed off in a random and disrespectful manner. The animated series made him so pupular that he was not only brought back, but given the tragic origin from the DCAU.
Another element from the DCAU that found it's way into the DCU was the Bruce/Diana thing.
Oh, Bruce... You're not afraid of what your enemies would do to her, but what she would do to them. The Joker wouldn't survive too many encounters with Diana.
The Toyman is an example of designs and personalities of established characters in the DCU being turned into their DCAU ones. Another example was Batgirl.
The DCAU Barbara Gordon Batgirl became the DCU one, as we see in this scene from Batgirl: Year One #7, by Scott Beatty, Chuck Dixon, and Marcos Martin.
Notice the look of that series is a cross between the DCAU and Batman: Year One.
Some accused Dixon of writing the young Babs like Stephanie Brown. What he was actually doing was writing her like Paul Dini did in the cartoon. Not that Dixon didn't notice the similarities between Steph and the young Babs, having Dinah comment on it when Babs was being irritated with Steph. Dini and Timm cemented the image of Batgirl.
So, the DCAU is, in a large way, the reason Stephanie is now Batgirl.
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Date: 2010-08-26 09:36 pm (UTC)I love the DCAU.
"I am vengeance, I am the NIGHT! I. AM. BATMAN!"
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Date: 2010-08-27 02:55 pm (UTC)I credit the DCAU with my having been more interested in DC stuff than Marvel stuff from the time I got into comics--I knew a version of the characters already, so I wasn't nearly as confused as if I had jumped into Marvel's pool. (Somehow, the X-Men series never caught my eye, probably because I was about 13-14 when both it and BTAS hit, so while Batman was on just after I got home from school, the X-Men series was on on Saturday morning, when I was busy sleeping in...)