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Warner Home Video has announced that they will bring the next direct-to-video DC Comic feature 'Green Lantern: First Flight' to Blu-ray on July 28th, day-and-date with the DVD release. This two disc set will feature 1.78:1 1080p VC-1 video. No audio spec has been been announced at this time.

Special features for this release include over three hours of content, including two featurettes and two episodes of Justice League hand-picked by animation legend Bruce Timm.

LickTheABCs

I'm a whore for anything Green Lantern related, so despite the mediocrity of the DC comic features, I'm totally buying this.

mrhan

Marvel has put out more mediocrity in their animated features than DC and that's coming from a Marvel fan.

Gizmo

Man, people must be snapping up these animated titles like crazy on Blu-ray.

Doctorossi

They sure keep crankin' 'em out!

The Valeyard

I'm buying 'em all! The DC one's have been pretty good so far. Plus, I'm a total Green Lantern whore. Really looking forward to this one.

RocShemp

So far the only bad animated releases from DC have been Superman Doomsday and that Batman release that was meant as a pseudo-prequel to The Dark Knight. Even Kevin Conroy couldn't save that crapfest.

I'll definitely be getting this and tomorrows release of the Wonder Woman animated movie.

Moopher

Well that's good to know, Superman Doomsday wasn't all that good and I had been pretty stoked for it too.. But I am a Green Lantern fan, so i'm in for this one as well.

Deftones

Chris Meloni is doing the voice of this, BTW.

PhantomStranger

I do not think that is a widely held opinion. The animated DC movies have been far superior in quality to the Marvel ones.

LickTheABCs

^ I liked Justice League: The New Frontier.. Doomsday was alright and Gotham Knight sucked.

SIUmark

I thought Superman: Doomsday was the weakest and Justice League: The New Frontier the best. I will keep going with this series. I like Green Lantern so we'll see later this year if it's any good.

Iron_Giant

LOVED both of them, yes New Frontier is the best of them all, but Doomsday was done the best it could have been. It was a 6 month story put to one 90 Min DVD - That is tough to do.

I am lovin the DC DVDs, have not seen Wonder Woman - sure hope it is going to be good.

Bring on GL, one of my favorite comics, Mike Grell was awesome when he did it in the 70's.

DthRdrX

I'm still hoping Timm decides to stick with continuing his old DC universe shows throuh the direct to video films. I know he was really interested in doing so but all of these titles have been seperate from the old universe.

RocShemp

I thought he abandoned the BTAS/STAS/BB/SS/JL/JLU continuity completely in favor of these new seperate titles. That said, it'd be great if he continued it as the series finale to JLU left me wanting more. I'd also like another Batman Beyond feature taking place sometime after (or just before) "Epilogue" in JLU.

DthRdrX

He had mentione a few times that it was a possibility that they would continue the DCAU continuity through direct to video films, but he was focusing on Superman: Doomsday at the time. I believe he is contracted for 8 of these direct to video films, of which we know about:

Superman: Doomsday
Justice League: Final Frontier
Batman: Gotham Knight
Wonder Woman
Green Lantern: First Flight
Teen Titans: Judas Contract

RocShemp

Wow, I totally forgot about the Teen Titans movie! Wasn't that announced at the time Superman: Doomsday was being made?

DthRdrX

Yep, I have no idea what has been taking so long. My guess is that it will be released before Christmas. Looks like an animated movie every six months or so.

RocShemp

So so far we have

Superman: Doomsday - mediocre
Justice League: Final Frontier - excellent
Batman: Gotham Knight - terrible
Wonder Woman - good but not great or so I've been told

Although not spectacular, that's a pretty good track record.

I wonder on what side of the spectrum Green Lantern: First Flight will end up.
And I hope the long delay on Teen Titans: Judas Contract means we'll get something truly special.

It'd be cool if they did an Outsiders feature as a companion piece to the Teen Titans feature. It'd also be great if Warner Premier would remove the 75 minute limit so they could do a fully realized adaptation of Identity Crisis. I think an animated adaptation of that story would fit in nicely with the features released so far, particularly Justice League: Final Frontier.

The Valeyard

I thought they cancelled The Judas Contract?

DthRdrX

At the 2008 ComicCon Timm stated Teen Titans was on hold while they wait and see what kind of demand there was for it. He did mention it when Gotham Knight came out though so I assume it's going to be released eventually.

As for what he might do next:

I'll fall right over if he actually gets a "The Question" film out!

RocShemp

I'd definitely be in for The Question and Jonah Hex!

The New Gods is far too large in scope to effectively condense in 74 minutes. Even with the greater breathing room in STAS, JL, and JLU, the universe of The New Gods was never properly represented.

The Valeyard

If we get a live-action Jonah Hex film, I'm sure an animated version will precede it. The Question would be great! And unless they want to devote the proper time to tell a decent New Gods story, they shouldn't even bother.