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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:19:35 JST clacke
   Mark Hamill, Conroy's frequent voice actor co-star as the Joker, spoke highly of working with Conroy. Regarding his willingness to be involved in a Batman-related project, Hamill says, "When they offer me roles now, I say, 'Is Kevin doing it?' ... I don't even have to read the script, if Kevin's doing it I'll do it."

   
   🥰

   Thank you for all your years of work, Mr. Conroy. You left us too soon.

   (I'm currently watching Justice League Unlimited and he was a great singer too!)

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Co…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:19:38 JST clacke

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     Kevin Conroy's autobiography comic "Finding Batman" is linked to from dc.com/blog/2022/11/11/read-fi… , free to read for some people, presumably people in the US at least. In my region it's sadly not made available through this link.

     #KevinConroy #FindingBatman
     #Batman

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:19:43 JST clacke

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     Conroy's own favorite performance was in "Perchance To Dream", Batman TAS (1992) S1E26, where he can be said to have played four different roles in one episode.

     Steve Shives explains what's so great about Conroy's work in general and this episode in particular, and speculates on why this episode might have resonated strongly with Conroy personally.

     "Kevin Conroy's Favorite Batman Episode"

     farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

     youtube.com/watch?v=b97mjteJ4e…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:19:53 JST clacke

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     Oh! Strong wasn't in TAS, she was in "The New Batman Adventures". Confusing.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:19:54 JST clacke

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     Interviews with Conroy, Hamill, Tara Strong (famous for many roles -- in this series she was Batgirl), recording (and casting?) director Andrea Romano and other people from the voice cast of Batman TAS: How did Conroy and Hamill become Batman and the Joker for the first time, and what was it like to work on this production?

     farside.link/invidious/watch?v…

     youtube.com/watch?v=JnIFuOJ-4O…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 00:19:57 JST clacke

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     Still watching JLU. Suddenly: Jeffrey Combs! 🥰

     (The Question)

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 13:07:09 JST clacke

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     JLU is not self-contained, it has explicit continuity with "Justice League". My current episode is "The Return", of a character from the previous series.

     Also I'm learning here that we have both "The Atom" and "Captain Atom". I was assuming until now that Captain was some version of The.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 13:07:20 JST clacke

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     Next episode, one minute in:

     "Not them again."

     Maybe I should watch the previous show first. But this is the one people say is great. =)

     Aquaman has a hook for a hand now?

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 13:08:24 JST clacke

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     "Dark Heart"

     The understanding of orbital mechanics in this scriptwriting is in the negative. If you don't understand the words, don't use them! Get a science babble advisor.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 13:08:24 JST clacke

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     I love how Superman has weapons of mass destruction on his face, but he just prefers good ol' punching. Even when facing ten thousand enemies.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 13:09:11 JST clacke

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     Suddenly: Michael Dorn!

     (Kalibak)

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jan-2024 13:09:12 JST clacke

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     Suddenly: Armin Shimerman!

     (Dr. Milo)

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 01:13:29 JST clacke

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     S2 was satisfying. Now watching S3.

     I love that the Flash is more social worker than cop to at least some of his rogues.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 01:13:30 JST clacke

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     I'm loving the S2 arc! S1 was a little all over the place, but it's all coming together now and a lot of things make sense in retrospect. I love that Green Arrow explicitly points out the JL's problem with consent. I should have given the writers more trust.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 01:13:31 JST clacke

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     The story is referenced in the episode "The Balance" on the cartoon program Justice League Unlimited. The episode originally aired on 28 May 2005. In the episode, members of the Justice League visit the Library of Tartarus where the fictional Menard's story is said to reside.

     
     ...which is the episode I'm at right now and how I ended up in this article. 😃

     en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_M…

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 01:13:32 JST clacke

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     Green Arrow is such an insecure macho douche. But Black Canary has so much internalized misogyny that she likes it.

     I guess this Green Arrow and the one in BM:TBatB are pretty much the same.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 01:13:34 JST clacke

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     JLU has so much bad writing when it comes to the technical details and other excuses for the story to happen. But the characters and relations are good, and I guess that's why people like it. I guess that's why I like it.

     There's the casual sexism, but it's mostly played for "look how backwards this character is", unlike in "Batman: The Brave and the Bold", which lets all of it slide.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 22:38:41 JST clacke

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     • Jason_Dodd
     @Jason_Dodd What did you hate?
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     Jason_Dodd (jason_dodd@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2024 22:38:42 JST Jason_Dodd

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     @clacke my wife watched this. i hated it.

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     Jason_Dodd (jason_dodd@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 09:08:06 JST Jason_Dodd

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     @clacke The acting, the writing, chemistry, all were blah.

     And this, too, "Green Arrow is such an insecure macho douche. But Black Canary has so much internalized misogyny that she likes it."

     My feeling on this series is on par with a bad high school play.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2024 19:28:59 JST clacke

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     I watched all of the JLU.

     S1: Necessary for S2
     S2: Fantastic, one of the best DC arcs, retroactively improved S1
     S3: Felt like B5 S5, they were caught off guard getting another season, but still good and one or two solid twists

     #JusticeLeague #JusticeLeagueUnlimited #JLU

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     LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 04:17:51 JST LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     @clacke Are you watching a movie or the "Arrow" TV series? #sonTwo used to watch Arrow (so much that he streamed it when he visited #SoCal from his then-current home in #FL).
     
     I don't think that's the show that the dog got its name from though. I think that was some other series.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 06:17:06 JST clacke

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     Also the writing in JLU is far superior, no matter how high or low a level you look.

     And the voice acting.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 06:17:07 JST clacke

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     Watching the preceding Justice League series.

     Wow, all technical aspects of JLU were improvements on this one.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 06:17:09 JST clacke

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     Justice League is objectively bad in multiple aspects, but I'm unironically enjoying it while also cringing. It's fun enough to outweigh it.

     All the heroes, but especially Superman, are so incredibly nerfed ... except when they're not.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 06:17:11 JST clacke

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     They have an F- in international relations and will gladly enter foreign countries or planets without warning, and then slaughter their defense forces that are trying to deter the sudden invasion.

     Then they'll go "actually we're just here to investigate a crime / visit a friend / observe a trial" and victim nation will go "oh alright then, come on in", while their friends and buildings are still on fire.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 06:17:12 JST clacke

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     The League *hates* buildings and just indiscriminately mows them down, with zero efforts to take the fight out of town. 🤣

     Episode after episode.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 06:17:18 JST clacke

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     Except for those occasions when they're inexplicably nerfed and get immediately captured. Then they'll later denerf, destroy the town escaping captivity instead, and then they'll tell their captors "ok, now that's done, actually we just want to ask some questions".
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     Jim (sullybiker@sully.site)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 06:17:20 JST Jim

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     @clacke This sounds like Team America

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     Martin Owens :inkscape: (doctormo@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jan-2024 06:17:56 JST Martin Owens :inkscape:

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     @clacke

     Team Infradestructor!

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:31:13 JST clacke

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     Ooh, this is the origin story for Etrigan!
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:31:14 JST clacke

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     Suddenly: The Music Meister^W Master!
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2024 00:31:16 JST clacke

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     Suddenly: Rene Auberjonois!