By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 2/12/2016
Personal confession time. Over the past 15+ weeks I have reviewed each and every #1 in the ongoing Marvel All-New, All-Different Universe…except for one. One that still haunts me to this day. See, the day Marvel launched Secret Wars #9 was also the same day that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 came out. I wanted to […]
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 2/26/2015
It looks as though The CW is going to have its own Avengers after all, or at least a live-action Brave and the Bold style team-up show…
Deadline has reported tonight that the network is developing a multi-superhero series featuring some of the characters that have debuted in Arrow and The Flash, including The Atom (Brandon Routh), Firestorm (Victor Garber and Robbie Amell), Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) and Black Canary (Caity Lotz). The latter is particularly odd, as Lotz’s version of the character died this season on Arrow.
There must be a Lazarus Pit somewhere, or her stories are set in the past perhaps?
Also, the report states three new DC characters that haven’t appeared yet in either existing series will debut in the new team-up show. Given that Vixen is appearing in a new animated series on CW Seed, it’d be a safe bet to assume that she might be one those referenced.
Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, Marc Guggenheim and Sarah Schechter will reportedly executive produce this new project, which may skip the pilot stage altogether and head straight to a series order.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 1/11/2015
The CW, hot on the heels of their announcement that both Arrow and The Flash have been renewed for fourth and second seasons respectively, revealed that DC super-heroine Vixen will be joining the shared universe of both hit series in an animated offering on the online network CW Seed.
Arrow showrunner Marc Guggenheim will executive produce the new series that will debut this Fall. Based on the promo art, it looks like we’ll see some type of appearance from Oliver Queen and Barry Allen. Does that portend Stephen Amell or Grant Gustin lending their voices? Signs look good, but we’ll know more soon.
Hopefully this is just a prelude to a live-action Vixen appearance in either series, or her own series proper. A minority actress starring in a superhero show would be a tremendous move for the network in the near future.
With a “pre-Vibe” Francisco on The Flash, this Vixen announcement, and a name-dropped Ralph Dibny (maybe dead, maybe not), we keep creeping closer and closer to Justice League Detroit territory. I can’t say I ever imagined that possibility arising.
Interesting indeed. Methinks Lotz would have to come back to life as the Atom suit (presumably) was finished after she died. So either he goes back in time (unlikely as Firestorm didn’t exist before the particle accelerator blew up) or she comes back (more likely, plus she has better chemistry w/ Arrow).
Interesting idea. Sounds like it could be fun. Maybe they’ll treat Black Canary’s return the way Kevin Smith wrote Green Arrow’s return in “Quiver?” Also, no one’s commenting on Captain Cold as a hero?
I’m sure they could bring Sarah back in some way – maybe the person who returned to Starling wasn’t really Sarah? All sorts of options.
Since she’s not really a character from the comics, and now that Laurel is Black Canary, I think you could have her still be just “Canary” and maybe wear white.
But yes, there’s going to have to be some ‘splainin’ about Captain Cold. People in the comics tend to forget past crimes sometimes but I don’t think that’s plausible to a TV audience. Maybe it will be like a Suicide Squad sort of working-off-his-sentence sort of thing.