Superman/Batman: Public Enemies

Based on the comic by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuiness, the animated feature Superman/Batman: Public Enemies releases on DVD and Blu-Ray tomorrow. It looks pretty good, based on the trailer and some other footage they've released. I especially like that they're keeping the voices from the (excellent) cartoons from the 1990s.

To mark the occasion, IGN looks at the top team-ups and fights between Superman and Batman. Newsarama, meanwhile, talks to voice actors Kevin Conroy (Batman) and Clancy Brown (Lex Luthor).

News & Notes

Some news:

• Michael Caine talked to MTV and this time didn't put his foot in his mouth:
  

  "There is nobody, there's no script, there's nothing. It can't possibly be made before 2011 because 'Inception' is such a big picture."



• Legendary comics creators Neal Adams and Frank Miller are teaming up for a new series called Batman: Odyssey (pictured).


• DC will be featuring a Li'l Gotham series in the back of some upcoming comics.


• And for the first time ever, the New York Yankees did something that doesn't suck. As part of their annual rookie hazing, they forced first year players to dress up like Batman characters. Which isn't really so bad except for the poor guy in the Catwoman outfit.

News & Notes

A couple quick things:

• Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) will be playing a villain in the upcoming Jonah Hex movie, and will be using Frank Gorshin's Riddler from the '60s TV series as inspiration.


• Users are creating skins for (I think just the PC version of) the Arkham Asylum videogames, and there's a thread on their forum collecting some of the best, like the Batman Beyond version above by DarkKnight11.

News & Notes

Aaron Eckhart's promoting a new movie (Love Happens), and MTV asked him some Batman questions. He doesn't know anything about the future, really, but gives an interesting answer anyway:



Elsewhere, Topless Robot ranks the Joker's 10 craziest kills, and an Indianapolis Colts site previews the NFL season by comparing each team to a Batman character. At the risk of alienating some readers, I'm a Patriots fan, so I'd reverse their Colts and Pats comparisons, but otherwise it's pretty good.

Hollywood loves to jump on bandwagons, so after the success of The Dark Knight, there were quite a few darker takes on superheroes in the works. Io9 runs down the list of them, finding that they've all seemed to stall out, and takes a guess at why.