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Supergirl to star in animated shorts on Cartoon Network in 2012

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Supergirl, Wonder Girl, and Batgirl will star in a series of animated shorts called Super Best Friends Forever on the Cartoon Network, in a programming block called DC Nation that will debut on the American cable TV network on March 3, 2012.

The DC Nation block will intersperse a series of animated shorts with its ongoing half-hour animated series. Warner Bros. Executive VP of Creative Affairs Sam Register described the shorts as “Short, little animated bits, a minute, a minute-plus” in a video preview for DC Nation and “Beware the Batman”.

Super Best Friends Forever is created by Lauren Faust, creator of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, story artist on Powerpuff Girls and head writer on Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends. The shorts will feature Wonder Girl, Batgirl and Supergirl joining together to fight crime. You can view more artwork by Lauren Faust on her DeviantART page.

Cartoon Network has a three-year deal with Warner Bros. Animation and DC Comics to make material for the upcoming block. Highlights include Aardman Animation creating new claymation Batman shorts, Plastic Man animated shorts, and the creator behind My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic working on a series of animated shorts teaming Wonder Girl, Batgirl, Supergirl called Super Best Friends Forever. Additionally, there is also a series of Doom Patrol animated shorts in production. The block will also host a series of behind-the-scenes videos, special interviews, and much more. DC Nation, slated to run for at least three years on Cartoon Network, will debut in Spring 2012 with Young Justice and Green Lantern: The Animated Series.

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Other shorts of interest include

I’m super happy to see these characters appearing on TV, even if it’s just in the form of minute long shorts. DC recently announced a black & white Showcase Presents first volume of the original early 1980s comic Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld for release in September 2012 (available for preorder at Amazon.com, etc). I never read the original series, but as a child of the ’80s who loved all that stuff – hell yeah.

Wikipedia lists the remainder of the announced shorts as including Doom Patrol, Plastic Man, Batman, Lego Batman, and Gotham City Impostors.

While Cartoon Network is a cable TV station only available in the USA, I’m fairly certain we will see fan-uploads of these shorts appearing online very quickly, for those of us who don’t live in the USA and/or don’t subscribe to cable (which is an increasingly common choice).

Best DCnU Interview To-Date: Tony Bedard on Blue Beetle

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Newsarama interview with Tony Bedard on Blue Beetle

Now this is a great interview. A writer who respects and understands the character and his history, respects the original creators, and plans to continue what made the character popular in the first place. Unlike most of the writers interviewed so far, Tony Bedard does not appear to want to radically change the character or “reinvision” him and his cast. The book also does not seem to be affected by any editorial dictates. That’s a huge relief. This continues to be the number one book I’m interested in out of the entire relaunch. This interview reassured me about the book’s direction and put my concerns about unwelcome changes to rest, which is what I’m looking for in all these interviews.

Here are some choice portions of the interview. Continue reading “Best DCnU Interview To-Date: Tony Bedard on Blue Beetle” »