DC animation

Marvel and DC both made animation news at San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday. DC announced a couple of new animated movies centered on Batman and the Justice League, while Marvel offered a sneak peek at the Guardians of the Galaxy animated series -- which boasts a style that may mark a depature for Marvel Studios' animated arm. Marvel revealed a minute of early footage for its already announced Guardians cartoon and revealed that the team will make guest appearances in all of Marvel's other animated series -- Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk And The Agents Of SMASH, and Avengers Assemble -- as the studio tries to cement their place in audience's imaginations.

After DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation announced the release of Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, it seemed inevitable that animated adaptations of New 52 stories were coming as well. Any speculation was ended earlier today, as it was revealed that Justice League War, the first DC Universe animated film of 2014, will be based on the Justice League story from Geoff Johns, and Jim

Just in time for this weekend's premiere of Superman vs. The Elite at WonderCon, Warner Bros. Animation has let loose new stills from the animated feature adaptation of Joe Kelly, Doug Mahnke and Lee Bermejo's Action Comics #775 story "What's So Funny About the Truth, Justice and the American Way...

This week, ComicsAlliance's War Rocket Ajax podcast welcomes our first guest of 2012, animator and director Ben Jones! We talk to him about his work on Batman: The Brave and the Bold, including episodes like "Mayhem of the Music Meister" and the series finale, "Mitefall" -- and you can listen to the whole show, right here at ComicsAlliance...

This week, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's All Star Superman became the latest DC Comics storyline to be made into an animated feature, and for many fans, myself included, this felt like something that was going a step beyond the stories they've adapted in the past...

Last week, talk show host Conan O'Brien took advantage of his new relationship with Warner Brothers (the parent company of DC Comics) and paid a visit to WB's animation studio where the legendary Bruce Timm designed a super-hero based on Conan himself...

"Superman/Batman: Apocalypse" is the latest direct to DVD animated film from DC Entertainment, an adaptation of the Superman/Batman six issue story arc "Supergirl" originally created by writer Jeph Loeb and artist Michael Turner. The film's title, Apocalypse, is a nod to both the word for disastrous end times and Apokolips, the grim planet of death and torture ruled by Darkseid