{"id":49240,"date":"2015-01-12T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T18:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/vixen-to-get-her-own-dc-animated-series.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:22:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:22:58","slug":"vixen-to-get-her-own-dc-animated-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/vixen-to-get-her-own-dc-animated-series.html","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Vixen&quot; to get her own DC animated series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complete with ties to Arrow and the Flash (in some fashion).<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve always liked Vixen &#8212; her powers (especially in an animated format) are very dynamic, understandable, and, when used right, imaginative. She tends to be overpowered, though, by the biggest guns in the DCU, so having her own series may make sense (with sufficient guest starpower to keep things interesting).<\/p>\n<p>The only other issue I can think of is how they&#39;ll handle her cultural (and magic) ties to Africa, which could be really interesting or potentially handled really poorly. <\/p>\n<p>The illustration below has a &quot;Young Justice&quot; look to it &#8212; which would be pretty cool, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/vixen-animated-series-cw-seed'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/35dlHbM9hxtAI7H1HLo3T6P_FAM_pMXGcJJnUSGCUDBbJ4ItjtiFEApIFpCeIgEreZnFPZ1bWSluAhNfQ7TBvXq6E_4i1DsPQrBu6O2gVI51-aUkPT6G=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/vixen-animated-series-cw-seed'>[UPDATED] DC Comics&rsquo; Vixen is Getting Her Own Animated Series on The CW Seed<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/XD32EsehB6Q'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complete with ties to Arrow and the Flash (in some fashion). I&#39;ve always liked Vixen &#8212; her powers (especially in an animated format) are very dynamic, understandable, and, when used right, imaginative. She tends to be overpowered, though, by the biggest guns in the DCU, so having her own series may make sense (with sufficient &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/12\/vixen-to-get-her-own-dc-animated-series.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&quot;Vixen&quot; to get her own DC animated series&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dc-cinematic-univese"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":128219,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/03\/vixen-is-finally-worth-watching.html","url_meta":{"origin":49240,"position":0},"title":"&quot;Vixen&quot; is finally worth watching","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 3-Oct-15 11:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Why CW Seed thought that breaking the Vixen animated feature from about 25-30 minutes run time into six 6-odd minute episodes (including a minute of credits in each one) is beyond me. 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