Bruce Timm

We suspect that a certain comic-book barbarian caused a lot of adolescent grief for little Conan O’Brien while the red-headed tyke was growing up outside Boston. This week , the grown-up O’Brien got some payback against the spinner-rack world. The talk-show host riffed on some of the sillier corners of DC Comics history (yes, Marvel, you got off the hook this time — but that Spider-Man musical should be good for months and months of material) and then sat with the great Bruce Timm (he’s far more than “an animator,” Conan viewers, just so you know) to get his own super-hero identity. The results are pretty flipping funny. – Geoff Boucher MORE SILLY VIDEOS How many Spider-Mans fit in a Jamba Juice? William Shatner climbs the Mountain of Love Star Trek meets…Monty Python? Iron Man v Bruce Lee They’re taking the Hobbits to Isengard “Watchmen,” Saturday morning […]

Plenty of of fanboys are anticipating the new Justice League DVD “Crisis on Two Earths,” which premieres on Feb. 23, but that disc will also give birth to a new DC must-see home movie when the Dark Knight saga “Batman: Under the Red Hood” launches one of its first promos. Written by Judd Winick and based on his 2005 Batman comics story line, it’s Batman versus another vigilante, Red Hood, who doesn’t mind cleaning up Gotham by leaving dead bodies in his wake. Animated guru Bruce Timm exec produces this pretty violent look into crime on the streets, and it’s directed by “Superman Doomsday” co-director Brandon Vietti, with a cavalcade of stars as voice talent. It all starts with Bruce Greenwood (“Star Trek”) as Batman, then continues with “Supernatural” star Jensen Ackles as Red Hood, Neil Patrick Harris (“How I Met Your […]

Next month marks the 70th anniversary of “More Fun Comics” No. 52, which brought a strange and enduring apparition into the page of DC Comics: The Spectre, that scowling avenging force from beyond the grave. The supernatural being scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid; when I 5 or 6, I got a hold of a Spectre story in which the spooky hero turned some bad guys into wood and then ran them through a sawmill. Wow, if Superman had that kind of finish-the-job attitude, Lex Luthor wouldn’t keep breaking out of prison, would he? The core premise of the Spectre has changed through the years, but the most recurring concept is that Jim Corrigan, a hard-bitten cop, was murdered but then came back to the living world with a connection to a powerful undead spirit. That classic story foundation is back […]