DC Showcase: Adam Strange

DC Showcase is an area of DC animation that creates animated shorts to introduce audiences to characters too obscure to get their own film. Adam Strange, from what I've heard, is a much different character than this short. You don't even get a good idea of who the character is. Instead of showing who Adam Strange is in his prime, where audiences can get a good idea of who he normally is, they decide to show him as a drunk, miserable person who nobody likes. The rest of the characters aren't given much either. Most of them come off as A-holes. The positives is the animation. It's not amazing, but it was clean. The action was overly violent and almost indiscernible.

Watch DC Showcase: Adam Strange as a jaded hero leads audiences on a sinister and exciting adventure. In this short film, Adam Strange drowns his sorrows in a pub while we are transported to the frigid depths of an alien mining colony. Flashbacks paint a picture of a terrible history driven by loss and battle. The fight scenes are visceral and vicious, even though the animation style may not be to everyone's taste.

The film's examination of a hero struggling with hopelessness is its real strength. Though there are glimmers of Adam's past bravery, his interstellar travels have clearly taken a toll on his emotions. The audience is left wondering at the conclusion if Adam will be able to face his fears and accept his protective position once more.

I love what they did on this one, it felt like a big improvement from the Phantom Stranger. I hope DC continues to release these, I'm glad that they're becoming more frequent. I'm not really familiar with Adam Strange, other than his appearance from the 52 comic event, but I really liked the aesthetic of this short, especially the Dead Space vibes. It would be cool to get a rated R animated like this; I'm sure it wouldn't make money though, so I doubt it.

It was really something fresh that i saw from DC comics i literally enjoyed these shorts cannot believe i missed these these are a must watch series by everyone.

Bloody boring. Ultra predictable, with the same flat animation that DC's animated universe has. Short presentation of a good character, whose best characters are opaque and absent. With much violence and blood they try to make up a script without ideas.