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Episode #34 (385-858) – A League of Their Own: Part One Original Airdate – March 1st, 2003 Static and Gear are alone in the Justice League’s headquarters when Media by Bird Boy, James Harvey | Credits: Supervising Producer Alan Burnett Producer Denys Cowan, Swinton O. Scott III Associate Producer Bobbie Page Story by John Semper Jr., Ernie Altbacker Teleplay by Ernie Altbacker Directed by [Uncredited] Music by Richard "Wolfie" Wolf Animation by Koko Enterprise Co., LTD. Voices: |
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| Review Static teams up with the Justice League in the first part of this two part episode. The episode opens on the Watchtower when a space anomaly hits it and it breaks orbit. Batman tells Flash, Hawkgirl and J'onn J'onnz that he knows who they can get to recharge the thrusters keeping it in orbit–Static. They fetch Static (Gear insists on coming along) and Static and Gear fights the robots that Brainiac has made to kill them while Gear manages to contact the league to get them to return. When they return they provide a distraction for Gear to have Backpack upload some music into the Watchtower computer to get Brainiac to crash. He does and the League tell Static and Gear they saved the world. Later when Richie is alone with Backpack Brainiac reappears in the robot telling Richie he downlaoded himself onto Backpack from the computer and that it wasn't over. This was a really well done and thought out episode. I think I appreciated it opening like a Justice League episode as that just made the reveal of Static that much cooler. It was such a fanboy moment to see Static geeking out over the League. Static's relationship to Batman has evolved to the point that Batman almost treats him as an equal and I appreciated that. Hawkgirl scolding Gear was funny and the Flash is like a big kid himself so he fit in great. I had two concerns one small, one big. Corey Burton has really made the role of Brainiac his own over the years and it was disconcerting that the producers felt the need to alter his voice's decibel to almost the point of unrecognizing. It's good that they managed to snag Burton but I wish he sounded as cold and calculating as he did on the Superman cartoon. I would have loved to hear Brainiac say "lay the funk down" in his own voice. The other concern is the animation. While it is bright and colorful here it's obvious that Static Shock animators really never had practice animating space battles and it shows with how clunky the animation is. Other than those two points which had nothing to do with the story I thought it was a really good episode. Story: ***** Now continue to Part 2! |