Finally watched Teen Titans and JLU from this weekend last night.

Teen Titans was okay. I'm not sure what the message was supposed to be, though. It was cool seeing the Doom Patrol but I thought it was weird with TT's "secret identities will confuse the kids" policy that the DP referred to each other by both first names and hero names interchangably. Though no one callled Beast Boy anything but his hero name. And how many talking evil gorillas does the DC universe have, anyway?

I thought the first JLU episode was alright. Definitely a lot more violent than I expected with the obvious, if bloodless, killing throughout the big war scene. But a lot of plot points bugged, like why Supergirl's powers weren't functioning right and why that supposedly made her less vulnerable to kryptonite. I thought the whole point of Kryptonite was it was lethal to Kryptonians physiologically. It doesn't matter whether they're under a yellow sun or not. Also, don't care much for her new/comicbook-verse outfit.

I was happy to determine I had recognized Star Girl's voice as belonging to Giselle Lauren (sp?) since it sounded very Buffy-esque.

I liked the second episode a lot more, though the main storyline about the corpse of the invinicible viking was just weird. Also, why would a Viking Prince be named "John" ?

Lots of good lines in this one, and I was happy to see King Farraday coming across as closer to his comic incarnation than he did in the premier. The flying Secret Service agents were pretty silly, though and I just had to shake my head at the Wonder Woman spin.

The animated Supergirl isn't technically from Krypton, she's from the neighboring planet of Argo. She and Superman aren't cousins, they're "cousins".

They had to do it that way in Superman: TAS because of a strong edict from DC at the time that Kal-El should be the only survivor from Krypton. An edict that DC suddenly doesn't care about any more.

Oh, the comic deathmatch is down to the semi-finals. I'm really amused that, during the first round, Shack & I correctly predicted who the final four would be. There should be a fandom book in Vegas.

I'm amused that this time last round, Joss was doing better against Moore than Gaiman is now.

Damn Gaiman fanboys are probably all busy doing their eyeliner for an Anansi Boys signing or something.

I'm aware of DCAU Supergirl's origins, I just find it weird for her to have the exact powers and weaknesses as Superman, except in this one specific case.

I thought it was weird with TT's "secret identities will confuse the kids" policy that the DP referred to each other by both first names and hero names interchangably.

One of the signature things about the comic book Doom Patrol was that they almost never used their code names themselves, very much like the Fantastic Four.

As far as Supergirl goes, in the old days whenever Superman used to visit a planet with a red sun, it was almost automatic that he'd come across a piece of kryptonite, and be totally immune to it. That may have changed when he was reimagined, but JLU doesn't always follow recent canon.

Wow, they should have saved Neil and Alan for the finale against each other. Though I hope the final outcome is the winner of that match rather than Bendis or Miller.

I think I clicked on each of their names a dozen times before making my final choice.

Damn Gaiman fanboys are probably all busy doing their eyeliner for an Anansi Boys signing or something.

Neil told 'em to vote for Moore. Amazingly obedient ....

(I'm expecting and dreading the Miller outcome.)

I admit that I chose Neil, though Alan's better. Neil needed the vote more.

Well, you know, in my HEAD he needed the vote more.

(I'm expecting and dreading the Miller outcome.)

For this round, or for the whole deal?

I kept expecting someone to knock him out earlier, but that was wishful thinking.

Miller's like the Chris Carter of comic book writers in my world view: started with good and seemingly novel concepts that shook things up, but hamstrung by hubris and a belief in his own hype.