Giving voice to the DC Universe

This is probably old news to many, but Sony got a pretty damned impressive lineup of voice talent for DCUO.

Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) announced today that two of animation’s most well-known talents lead a triple-A cast of voice actors in providing their skills for the upcoming online action game, DC Universe™ Online. Mark Hamill (Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman: The Animated Series) will once again voice The Joker, while Kevin Conroy (Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League Unlimited, Batman: Arkham Asylum) brings to life everyone’s favorite dark knight, Batman.

This is full of win, of course.  Hamill is a splendid Joker, and Conroy is the modern voice of Batman (even Diedrich Bader emulates him in BBatB).

But equally cool are some of the other voices (which haven’t gotten as much publicity):

  • Adam Baldwin as Superman: I’d prefer Tim Daly, but Baldwin’s pretty solid.
  • Gina Torres as Wonder Woman: Good pick.
  • James Marsters as Lex Luthor: Again, I’d prefer Clancy Brown, but Marsters works, too.

Wow. That makes it look like a Joss Whedon production doesn’t it?

  • Michelle Forbes as Circe: And a bit of BSG goodness, too. She sould do a nice voice for Circe.

Good stuff.

Wherein Dave tries to demonstrate that he is, in fact, not just a Twitter bot

Yeah, Blog of Heroes hasn’t been getting a lot of love lately.  But at least that annoying auto-playing CoH trailer got finally pushed off the front page …

Things have been uber-busy the last month or two.  November was pretty much sucked up with NaNoWriMo — after hitting my 2K words, I had no energy for gaming.  December, thus far, has been mostly holiday prep, but Margie and I did get some CoH in over the weekend — mostly taking some of our newly-arrived Praetorians through their low-20 adventures, evil twins, all of that.

I19 is out, of course, alas right about when I couldn’t talk about it at length (esp. having been in closed beta).  There’s just a whole bunch of nice QoL improvements, from trains that run everywhere (and tell you about where you’re going) to being able to sign out without logging off (though it’s a kludgy implementation, and buggy to boot).

Over on the DCUO front, various beta keys are being given away, etc. and so forth.  Not that I would, theoretically, have any time to be playing with that, either …