The Collywobbles

The introduction to the new DC Universe (DCU) has been executed remarkably well. The stories seamlessly connect to the past while also promising an exciting future. I want to commend the art style of the animation chosen by the creators; it has a comic feel that captivates the audience. The new storylines that James Gunn has brought forward for comic book lovers and DC fans are impressive and offer a lot of potential moving forward. The characters stand out as unique yet relatable.

That being said, I do feel the DCU is on the right track, although there are a few aspects I'm not fond of. One of my main concerns is the music-it feels repetitive at times, especially given the limited 20-minute runtime of each episode. I'd also love to see more attention paid to the choreography of the fight scenes and further development of the art style. Additionally, making it an adult-oriented show doesn't automatically enhance its quality. These are just a few points to consider.

The first episode is a decent start, the animation is impressive, although the characters are just being introduced, but Rick Flag Sr is quite tough and charismatic somewhat removed from his son's personality, it has The Suicide Squad vibes with some humor , blood, very good and well animated action. Although to be an introduction to the New DCU it is something decent, not impressive but it still achieves its purpose, to entertain, as I had said before, the animation is its strongest point being very colorful which I say as something positive, although in itself not I laughed at his humor, it's okay, it's not bad humor or good.

When it comes to James Gunn's DCU, I've been cautiously optimistic. I have faith that Gunn and his crew can make something really special out of it, but at the same time, there's been a frustrating lack of clarity as to exactly what the heck's been going on! With the premiere of Creature Commandos, we fortunately have some clarity about what's canon within the DCU. While that clarity may be a make or break for some, it does at least give better insight into what to expect from this new universe. Now as for Creature Commandos itself, I think it's a good show but probably one of Gunn's weaker efforts. The beginning of the premiere is hampered by exposition reminiscent to that of the DCEU's Suicide Squad (2016), and there's a certain level of raunchy goofiness which, while not foreign to Gunn or his DC projects, is something I'm not completely on board with or at the very least felt it wasn't in very good taste this time around. Nonetheless, to say this is a weaker effort from Gunn doesn't make it bad, because like every great project from him, there's a colorful cast of characters to follow and the animation is quite clean and crisp! Overall, not the best start, but pretty good!

Probably the worst animated project in DC in the last 20 years probaly???

DC animated films were always a blast and perhaps achieved a style and storytelling worth from the level of comics in a great way of introducing classic stories to the big public and from a generation that grew up watching Justice League and Batman peak animation shows this Creature Commandos was a dissatisfaction.

Firstly James Gunn recycled the overused already Suicide Squad format again again and again here and where is the fun to see the same archetype from two films and some pretty good animated projetcs. And for a first in a new highly anticipated DC that was a slow start.

In retrospect DC has a legacy in animated films and stories and this looks worse than maybe the 90s and 2000s features in sense of creative and narrative choices.

It is interesting that Gunn has decided to officially start his new DC Universe with an animation, and about characters most people didn't even know existed, instead of starting with a mainstream blockbuster from the main Justice League memebers like the DCEU and MCU did. But it is definitely a fresh and different start to a universe, although I'm sure the new DC isn't gonna be offcially offcially start until Gunn's Superman film comes out.

What is not fresh though, is the Suicide Squad formula Gunn seems to be really fund of, but I guess it makes sense here since Amanda Waller is literally putting a team together again with Rick Flag as the leader, but this time with creatures instead of humans.

I personally feel like we've had too much Suicide Squad these past couple of years and I'm tired of it. And obviously, this show isn't about that group and it's completely different characters with a different mission, but you could've literally slapped a "Suicide Squad" title on it and no one would've batted an eye.

This is much different from Gunn's Guardians and Suicide Squad formula, but at the very least, the formula actually works and it's decent. And at least he's not doing the literal Suicide Squad again and rebooting all the characters and doing it all over again. This is actually the continuation of the old DC timeline, at least for The Suicide Squad film.

So the positive here is that thankfully Gunn isn't gonna do famous characters we've seen a thousand times before and everybody knows of again. He's giving us new characters as it is a tradition with him at this point, and giving us new lore to the universe. We get introduced to characters like Frankenstein that I didn't even know was in DC, and many other less known characters instead of having Harley Quinn and Deadshot or Boomerang again.

As for the animation itself, I don't really care for this style of animation honestly. I liked how old DC animated movies looked like before they started doing this type of animation where it looks like a mix of CGI with animated parts and characters having a thick black borders making them look like those 3D book pages that pop up when you open them. The same style that was used in Batman: The Long Halloween and I wasn't really fond of.

With that said, the animation isn't that bad and I know that it would've took them more time and money to create a more alive and dynamic style, and you'll get used to it pretty quickly.

The action scenes look decently animated too and it's not all lazy Family Guy animation level where characters sit and talk for 10 minutes and they occasionally move their hand. Although I found the action scene's direction a bit lazy and confusing with quick cuts and extereme close-ups where you have to rewind to see what actually happened because it happened so fast and it was so close that you didn't get that the first time.

Overall, this was a pretty decent start to the series but nothing amazing or new. It's enjoyable and serviceable like every James Gunn project we've seen. I'm sure it's gonna get better with each new episode, but so far, the start was just ok and watchable, nothing you haven't seen before.