What was the balancing of making sure it parodying some of the tropes of that era without making it a mean-spirited mocking of that animation era that many people have a lot of reverence for? It has a sense of humor, too, and that humor sometimes takes aim at the format itself. RELATED: Interview: Matt Lanter on Voicing the Blue Beetle, Debunking IMDB Triviaīlue Beetle’s short is an homage to classic comic book cartoons like ’60s Spider-Man and stuff like that. Just trying to like separate out from the stuff that James Tucker did. And so I think that informed the look of them as well and the style of animation. And oddly enough, they all kind of became period pieces in a way. I like being a chameleon and trying new things and trying to make things work and maybe some things don’t work, but it’s just I like the challenge of that.Īnd so mostly it was the stories that informed the look of these things, but for something like Blue Beetle for example, that is such an homage and it’s so meant to feel like it’s an old pilot that’s been pulled off the shelf that was lost in the ’60 or something. If you look at everything that I’ve done from the Lego stuff to Scooby-Doo to Mortal Kombat, you can’t really say that there’s one style that Rick Morales does. There’s just no other reason to do it really in my mind.
So with Kamandi, it was obvious to me that if we’re gonna do this, it’s gotta be Kirby. Rick Morales: I think it had to do with the the material itself and where it derived from. What led to this very versatile selection of styles? Michael Leri: Each of the four shorts has a pretty different art style and many of which are like homages to past cartoons. All three have appeared in past DC Universe Movies collections as special features, so they aren’t exactly new to fans who may be big fans of the world of DC’s animated features. ComingSoon’s Michael Leri spoke with DC Showcase: Constantine – The House of Mystery supervising producer Rick Morales about the new Blu-ray release that features four DC Showcase shorts.Īlongside the all-new Constantine short, DC Showcase – Constantine: The House of Mystery also features three other shorts in the form of Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth!, The Losers, and Blue Beetle.