First picture of Mera in next year’s Justice League has surfaced:
Loving the costume design, but the washed out background, muted greens and grey, grey, grey ocean just scream Zack Snyder.
Geoff Johns certainly plans to brighten up the DC film universe, anyway, if this news story is anything to go by.
While there’s not exactly a massive amount of detail in that story, there is this:
Johns and his co-head Jon Berg worked closely with Justice League director Zack Snyder and screenwriter Chris Terrio to make the film closer to their vision of the DC Universe.
“We accelerated the story to get to the hope and optimism a little faster,” Berg explained.
To my mind, that sounds like Johns and Berg looked at the reaction to Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman and even the not-as-light-hearted-as-the-trailer-made-out Suicide Squad and have said “Enough with the dark and the rain and the grimness of it all!”
Even the above picture is brighter and sunnier than anything we’ve seen from the DC films so far and that, this news, and the excellent Wonder Woman trailer all have me hoping that the Zack Snyder/David Goyer grim as all hell era is behind us.
Mrs Earth-Prime and I went away over the last weekend; we’re having work done on the house so it was nice to get away from it all and go and explore a few places. One of which was the city of Brighton which we’d visited briefly before but hadn’t had the chance to wander around together. Indulging my comic hobby as she does, Mrs Earth-Prime researched the place before hand and found Dave’s Comics

which had a fantastic array of back issues all neatly arranged in boxes or on the wall.
And it was hanging on the wall that I caught sight of two comics marked up at a price that made me think “I’m on holiday . . . . I can afford that amount . . . . I should treat myself.”
So I did. A quick chat with Dave himself and I am now the owner of Justice League of America #21 and #22, featuring the first crossover with the Justice Society – the original Crisis!

It’s probably just as well that Dave’s Comics isn’t online . . . . I could easily spend a lot more money there.
This looks fantastic!
There’s a lot going on here but damn me it looks splendid. One of the biggest things that instantly impressed me: it’s in daylight! After the ridiculously constant darkness of Batman v Superman, the fact that you could see what’s going on here is excellent.
Gal Gadot looks to be building on her much underused appearance in B v S; Themyscira looks suitably otherworldly; Amazons Attack!; the lasso really shines; and Wonder Woman going over the top was just a piece of genius.
And the costume throughout looks so much brighter than in B v S:

This looks so promising!
Oh, there was also a Justice League trailer released as well.
It’s okay.