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Watch as Matthew Lillard (the voice of Shaggy himself!) takes us through the Character Studio experience — an exciting, interactive way for fans to design their very own Scooby-Doo character. In this video, Matthew goes through the full process, from interviewing with Scooby and Shaggy to creating his personalized character, which gets inserted into a graphic novel adaptation of the very first episode Scooby-Doo episode, “What A Night for a Knight.” After creating your character, you can have it featured on exclusive Scooby-Doo custom merch—all designed just for you!
The graphic novel sounds fun, and the only reason I’m posting this. If I had money, I’d probably go for it. When I was a kid, there was a set of children’s illustrated books where your parents could send in your name and your friends/relatives names and you’d all be characters in the book. Some were even licensed properties, like Sesame Street. I think I still have mine somewhere. This would be the spiritual successor because I don’t think they do those anymore despite the technology being better for it now. Honestly, though, if all you get with this creator is your likeness on Scooby merch it feels limiting, even with the episode adaptation. I don’t expect to be in a new episode or something (except maybe as a voiceless background character), but being in a game Mii style would be cool.
Want to create YOUR own Scooby-Doo character for FREE? Head over to https://scoobydoo.characterstudio.com/
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Miller & Snyder: Why I Hate Their Views On Batman And Superman
Well look who said something stupid. Again.
I’m at a point where I’m willing to call Frank Miller overrated. Apparently he did some good stories, but I’m never exposed to them. Whatever good faith he earned with The Dark Knight Returns, a story I clearly don’t share the world’s opinion on, should have been gone with All-Star Batman & Robin and what he did to Wil Eisner’s The Spirit in the movies. Learning that he disagreed with Eisner in how the character Eisner created should be depicted by Eisner, I’m convinced that movie was Miller trying to prove he was right…and only succeeded in doing the opposite and killing any chance the character had to get out of the comics. Then again, Judge Dredd and the Punisher each got a second chance as a movie, so anything’s possible.
Then there’s Zack Snyder. You know, the guy who said if someone thinks superheroes wouldn’t kill they live in a fantasy world…ignoring the fact that creating fantasy worlds is literally his job. He made Superman kill and every attempt to defend that movie makes me dislike the movie more…and I’m the guy who said Man Of Steel was a good superhero movie, just a bad Superman movie. The more he forces me to think about it, the more I change my opinion. His Batman was sentencing thugs to death. This to him is what real heroes are, psychos and whiny boys. The man is the embodiment of what I was talking about earlier in the month when discussing the fading use of bright colors in Hollywood. I’m not surprised that Snyder is a huge Frank Miller fans. Both like bleak and depressing takes on heroes I love. Just Miller is more in love with cities and sleazy women.
So, what happens when two bad tastes are brought together like the peanut butter cup of my nightmares? You get this interview from the Inverse magazine site, as Zack Snyder interviews Frank Miller…and reminds me why I don’t like either of their takes on the superheroes that most created my tastes and got me through my young life. Of course I have to dissect this one after I heard about it. Bounding Into Comics just reported on it. I’m here to deconstruct the deconstructors. Hold on to your hard hats, kids! They think BATMAN is the happier character of the two.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on October 23, 2024 in DC Spotlight, Movie Spotlight and tagged Batman, commentary, Frank Miller, Interview, Superman, Zack Snyder.
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