DCAU: Adventures in the New Frontier - 2009!

[Kenny Eugene McCall]

Series Forty-Five:
Hanna-Barbera's More Fun Adventures 9
(Fred, Daphne and Velma are back hosting more fun adventures, brought to you by Warner Brothers' Sherlock Holmes, now playing!)

Series Hosts:

Freddie Jones: Frank Welker
Daphne Ann Blake: Grey DeLisle
Velma Dinkley: Mindy Cohn

Episode Forty-One: The Further Perils of Penelope Pitstop: Night of the Velvet Tiger

Penelope (Laura Vandervoort) is at home when she gets a visit from a friend of hers from high school named Lani Gilbert (voiced by Angel Williams), and the two girls talk about old times. But Ms. Devlin's about to find out that her old friend has a dark side, and a secret identity - the Velvet Tiger! And, this pretty little pussycat's on the prowl! But, when Lani finds herself confronting the dirtbag DC villain Hellhound (Greg Ellis) and killing him in the process, both she and Penelope come to blows over her violent methods, forcing the Golden Claw to put a stop to the Velvet Tiger's criminal tendencies and return Lani to normal in this episode!

Episode Forty-Two: The Skatebirds: Invasion: Megakat City!

The Skatebirds roller-derby team travel to Megakat City to face the Megakat City Manhunters at Megakat Stadium! And for team owner Cassius Featherstone (Edward Asner), it's a chance to reunite with an old friend, Commander Ulysses Feral (Gary Owens). Also, for Satchel (Matt Valencia), Knock-Knock (Greg Cipes), Scooter (Khary Payton), Songbird (Grey DeLisle), Ruby (Charity James) and Pinky (Ashley Johnson), it's a chance for the Skatebirds to meet the Swat Kats T-Bone (Charlie Adler) and Razor (Barry Gordon). But the 'Birds and the Kats are about to find themselves coming face to face with not only Scat Kat (Phil Lamarr), but his more dangerous cousin Dark Kat (Frank Welker)! And, when the two villains launch an army of robotic feline supersoldiers upon Megakat City, the two groups and the Manhunters roller-derby team join forces to bring down the giant robot army and the Kat Cousins in this episode!

Episode Forty-Three: Ricochet Rabbit: Who Framed Roxy Rabbit

Sisters Rachael and Roxanna O'Hare (Samantha Paris and Charity James) find themselves spending some time with each other, as little sis Roxy is about to participate in her very first charity stunt show! But, things are about to turn for the worse for Roxy Rabbit as she is framed for a robbery she didn't commit! Now Rachael must change into Ricochet Rabbit and help clear her sister's name, only to find themselves taking on the real thief, a dangerous metahuman doberman pinscher named Roland Dogsmond (Dee Bradley Baker), the Barkbuster! Can the O'Hare Sisters be able to take down this superstrong killer dog and save the stunt show? Find out in this episode!

Episode Forty-Four: The Herculoids: The War of the Rock Lords!

Not to be confused with Hasbro's Rock Lords franchise from 1987, Zandor (Phil Morris), Tara (Nicole Sullivan), and Dorno (Sam Lerner) lead the Herculoids into a battle between two warring clans of giant rock creatures fighting over who would rule a mountainous area of the planet Quasar! But, when the battle escalates into the Royal Family of Quasar's home turf, will it be Igoo (Diedrich Bader) who would be the one to negotiate peace between the two kings, since they both resemble Igoo himself? Find out in this episode!

Episode Forty-Five: Winnifred Witch: Under the Spell of Tannarak, Under the Protection of the Phantom Stranger!

Smallville's Serinda Swan permanently takes over the role of Winnifred (formerly Winsome) W. Witch, as Winnie finds herself performing a stage show at the spooky nightclub Bewitched! But, as the beautiful stage magician is about to find out, it's trap set up by the magician Tannarak (James Marsters) so that he could have the winsome Winnie for himself! But help comes in the form of the Phantom Stranger (Alexis Denisof)! Will the Stranger be able to free Winnie from Tannarak's spell, and will Winnie Witch be able to help the Phantom Stranger dispatch of his arch-nemesis before it's too late? Find out in this spellbinding episode!

Next Series: The New Captain Atom Adventures

 

[Kenny Eugene McCall]

Series Forty-Six:
The New Adventures of Captain Atom
(Nathaniel Adams stars in his very first animated series, brought to you by Dilusteel, the all-purpose indestructible armor, from Charlton Laboratories!)

Main Voice Cast:

Captain Nathaniel Adams/Captain Atom: Xander Berkeley
General Wade Eiling: J.K. Simmons
Major Clifford Zmeck/Major Force: Ricardo Chavira
Eve Eden/Nightshade: Jennifer Morrison
Amanda Waller: CCH Pounder

Episode One: The Atomic Beginning of Captain Nathaniel Adams

Here is the story of an Air Force captain who is on a mission in space when he is suddenly atomized into nothingness! Now made of nuclear energy, he is pressed into service by the United States Government under a top-secret program where he is given a special containment suit in which he can concentrate his newly-atomic powers in devastating ways, not to mention absorb energy from other sources as well! But can Captain Atom escape the brainwashing that General Wade Eiling put on him to make him a killing machine? Find out in this premiere episode!

Episode Two: A Matter of Extreme Force!

General Eiling's efforts to control Captain Atom have failed, but hope for the ultimate killing machine comes in the form of a crazed serial killer and ex-Army major named Clifford Zmeck, who was put in prison for killing innocent women and children. He is about to face the death penalty when he volunteers for the same program that created Captain Atom, giving birth to the diabolical Major Force! But, when Major Force begins an atomic-based killing spree of beautiful call girls within the streets of Washington, D.C., Captain Atom is the one who must bring him down before a lot more innocent people are killed in his wake in this terrifying episode!

Episode Three: A Touch of Deadly Nightshade

Captain Atom finds himself at one of Cassidy's concerts when the singer (Karla DeVito) introduces the nuclear-powered hero to a friend of hers named Eve Eden. She's a beautiful heiress, socialite, and singer who is about to go on tour with Cassidy and the Hex Girls in about a week! But, this freaky girl has another identity - Nightshade! And she needs Captain Atom's help in solving the murder of her mother - a murder that lead the duo to a dangerous new villain called the Ghost (Adrian Pasdar), a saboteur who could phase through anything! Will Nathaniel's atomic abilities and Eve's powers of darkness be enough to stop the Ghost? Find out in this episode!

Episode Four: Captain Atom Meets the Impossibles

The Impossibles (Kevin, Nick and Joe Jonas, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato) guest star in this Captain Atom episode where they face a brand-new foe named Doctor Spectro (James Arnold Taylor), who's looking to steal a chromacolor laser that could enhance his powers! But, what the Domaine kids will be facing is unlike anything they have faced before! Luckily for the teen singing group, Captain Atom is here in Charlton City to help! But, can Captain Atom and the Impossibles hope to stop a villain whose freakish powers are connected to every color of the spectrum? Yep! Plus, Captain Atom meets the Impossibles' mother and manager, Deborah "Felina Fatale" Domaine (Marlene Aragon), who reveals to him that his cousin, Anthony Adams, is now a superhero called the Atomic Ant, and is the target of General Wade Eiling, who wants to recruit the young teen for the Suicide Squad under the command of Amanda Waller! Can Captain Atom get to the Atomic Ant and get him out of the Suicide Squad before it's too late? Find out next episode!

Episode Five: The Great Escape

Felina's reveal of Anthony Adams' recruitment into the Suicide Squad by General Eiling has Captain Atom concerned for his cousin. Now, he must recruit the male members of the Impossibles to help break him out!, But, could our heroes be getting some help from not only Squad commander Amanda Waller, who definitely does not want Anthony (Drew Seeley) in the Squad, but guest star Christopher Chance (Mark Valley), the Human Target, who is on the same case in his own series next post, thanks to his girlfriend Anastasia, and her father, animal research scientist Dr. Anthony Peebles! Yo, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera would be smiling at these episodes, that's for sure!

Next Series: The Human Target

 

[Kenny Eugene McCall]

Series Forty-Seven:
The Human Target
(Christopher Chance stars in his first animated series based on the hit television series and classic DC comic, brought to you by America's Best Dance Crew, Thursdays on MTV!)

Main Voice Cast:

Christopher Chance: Mark Valley
Winston: Chi McBride
Guerrero: Jackie Earle Haley
FBI Special Agent Emma Adams: Emanuelle Vaugier (intro to the anmiated version)

Episode One: A Chance with an Angel and an Ape

It's part two of the special Angel and the Ape/Human Target crossover, as terrorists from Kobra take control of the cruise ship, leading Chance, Guerrero, Winston and guest stars Angel O'Day (Leighton Meester) and Sam Simeon (Scott Bakula), as Chance and O'Day try to find the bomb and end up falling for each other, while Winston and Guerrero find themselves teaming up with a gorilla (Sam) to fight off the Kobra operatives! But, the biggest surprise for Chris and Angel is the ship's captain he's impersonating, is none other than Mark Compass (Rick Springfield), the crimefighting ship's detective known as Captain Compass! Compass, Chance and O'Day are about to defuse the bomb and join in on the fight in this concluding episode!

Episode Two and Three: Breakout From Belle Reve Prison!

Continuing from the Captain Atom series, Christopher Chance is hired by an old friend of Winston's named Dr. Anthony Peebles (Michael Sheehan) and his daughter Anastasia (Alyson Stoner) to break Ana's boyfriend, Anthony Maxwell Adams (Drew Seeley), from Louisiana's Belle Reve Prison, where General Wade Eiling has put him so that he has to serve in the Suicide Squad, despite the objections of Amanda Waller (CCH Pounder), who knows the girlfriend's father from her days visiting the scientist's own father's pet store (and meeting the first Magilla Gorilla with her best friend) years ago! Throw in Captain Atom (Xander Berkeley), three of the Impossibles (voiced by the Jonas Brothers), Plastique (Juliet Landau) and Deathstroke the Terminator (Ron Perlman), and man, this mission is gonna be a mother in the Big Easy, as Waller and Chance must lead this team of unlikely heroes against a plot by Eiling and Deathstroke to use the Atomic Ant to eliminate both the Squad and the covert-ops organization Checkmate! in this one-hour animated episode!

Episode Four: The Human Target, The Winsome Witch, and the Mistress of Magic!

Speaking of insane DC/H-B crossovers, Zatanna Zatara (Jennifer Hale) and Winnifred Witch (Serinda Swan) star in this spellbinding episode where Chance and Guerrero are caught up in a mission where Chance becomes an assistant to both Winnie and Zatanna, who have joined forces for a special performance for Metropolis Children's Hospital! But, when a dangerous new magician (Nicholas Brendon) with an unhealthy fixation on the young Winnie Witch begins stalking her, It'll be up to Chance and Zatanna to protect their friend and put the screws on this guy before it's too late! Plus, what happens when Guerrero tries to put the moves on Zee, only to find himself in a Chinese water-torture box, courtesy of Winnifred W. Witch? Find out in this episode!

Episode Five: Chance and the Sundance Kid

Chance arrives in Coast City at the behest of restaurant owner Mathilda "Ma" Hunkel (Andrea Romano) when her grandson, pop singer and government agent Butch Cassidy (Zac Efron), is targeted for assassination by Intergang after the Sundance Kids helped the son and daughter of a former Intergang enforcer get their father out of the organization! Now, Chance must pose as a new member of the Sundance Kids to help the band snuff out both the assassin targeting Cassidy, and crime boss Bruno Mannheim (Bruce Weitz) before it's too late for Butch! Plus, Chance finally meets the mysterious Socrates computer unit, in this episode!

Next Series: Suicide Squad: The Animated Series

 

[Kenny Eugene McCall]

Series Forty-Eight:
Suicide Squad: The Animated Series
(Yo! Amanda Waller leads a strike force of the most dangerous badasses in their first series since the DC Showcase fanfic years, brought to you by Mountain Dew!)

Main Voice Cast:

Amanda Waller: CCH Pounder
Richard Rogers Flag Jr.: Adam Baldwin
Because of the large number of heroes and villains recruited into the Suicide Squad at any time, they and their voice actors will be introduced in the episode descriptions.

Episode One: Task Force X - Director's Cut

Yep folks, it's the episode from Justice League Unlimited, told from Rick Flag's point of view! When Rick Flag and a team of operatives consisting of Deadshot (Michael Rosenbaum), Captain Boomerang (Donal Logue), and Plastique (Juliet Landau) attempt to break into the Justice League Watchtower satellite to acquire the Annihilator battle robot, they get more than they bargained for when they face the Justice League Unlimited! Can they fight off the League and escape with the Annihilator before it's too late? Plus, Rick Flag Jr. and Amanda Waller conduct several interviews with voice actors Lex Lang and Adam Baldwin, and actresses CCH Pounder and Pam Grier, on playing Rick Flag Sr. and Jr. in JLU and Justice League: the New Frontier, and Amanda in JLU and Smallville, all in this episode!

Episode Two: Payback For Mr. Peebles

Remember those episodes of Captain Atom and the Human Target that dealt with the Atomic Ant and his connection to Atom and the Peebles family? Well, there is a Part Three to this, as Amanda learns from Deathstroke the Terminator (Ron Perlman) that he and Deadshot were the ones that killed pet store owner Albert Peebles and the ape Magilla Gorilla ten years ago - under orders from Intergang! Now, the information has sent Waller over the edge, for there was a little girl from forty-five years ago that used to frequent that pet shop, and was one of Amanda's best friends from childhood! Now, when she finds out that the now-adult woman (Rosie O'Donnell) is an animal-rights activist working in Metropolis, she sends a team consisting of Bronze Tiger (Greg Sturgis), Vixen (Gina Torres), Black Thorn (Eliza Dushku) and Congorilla (Malachi Throne) to protect the young woman from a $1 million dollar hit on her life by Bruno Mannheim to prevent her from testifying at the trial for Peebles and Magilla's murders! But, will there be a nightmarish surprise for Mannheim in the form of the ape's cold-blooded offspring, Magilla Gorilla Jr. (Khary Payton)? And, what happens when Junior finally meets Amanda Waller to thank her? Find out in this episode!

Episode Three: To Take Down the Great Ten

Dr. Jonathan Quest (Rino Romano) guest stars in this Suicide Squad episode where he is contacted by Amanda Waller to help the Squad investigate a plot by Madame Zin (Gwendolyn Yeo) to steal secret information from a Cadmus Labs facility in Star City. Trouble is, that Cadmus info is related to Dr. Benton Quest and the family's Questworld project! Now, the former Jonny Quest must accompany Nightshade (Jennifer Morrison), Judomaster (Mark Dacascos), Captain Boomerang (Donal Logue) and the Tattooed Man (Stephen Baldwin) on a trip to Madame Zin's Malaysian stronghold to assassinate her! But, the Squad and Quest find more than they bargained for when they come face-to-face with members of the Great Ten, and their leader, The August General In Iron (Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa)! Will Jonny and the Squad take down this group of Chinese super-functionaries and Madame Zin before all of Questworld's secrets fall into China's Communist hands? Find out in this episode!

Episode Four: The Chang Tzu Affair

When a group of top scientists are kidnapped by assassins and taken to a mysterious island to work for a mad scientist by the name of Chang Tzu (James Sie), Waller and Flag dispatch Captain Cold (Lex Lang), Mirror Master (Greg Ellis), Lady Shiva (Elisa Gabrielli) and Blockbuster (Dee Bradley Baker) to Monster Island to deal with the egg-shaped madman! But, are they ready for the myriad of mutant monsters standing in their way and waiting for them once they land on the island? It's the Island of Dr. Moreau - only ten times worse, in this episode!

Episode Five: Secret Squirrel and the Suicide Squirrels

Greg Cipes lends his voice to the classic H-B character Secret Squirrel, as he gets involved in this Hanna-Barbera tribute to the DC covert-ops team when Secret is contacted by the organization Task Force Z, and its director, Amanda Walrus (a female walrus, voiced by CCH Pounder)! The mission: Lead a team of badass squirrel nutcases called the Suicide Squirrels on a mission to rescue Top Cat (Jim Cummings) from Gorilla Grodd (making his first Hanna-Barbera universe appearance, and voiced by Powers Boothe), who has imprisoned the feline government agent in a secret prison on Gorilla Island! But, will the Squirrels be able to get TC out of Grodd's deadly grip alive? Find out in this funny-animal episode of the Suicide Squad!

Next Series: Batman: Gotham Adventures