SUPERHEROES – Dark Superheroes

I was under the impression that the “dark superhero,” trend was dying off.  With animated shows like Teen Titans, Legion of Superheroes, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Batman: Brave & The Bold, and The Avengers: Earth’s Mightest Heroes, I thought we where now in an era where superheroes could be cool without being “dark.”

Then I read the news that Bruce Timm was going to be making some Justice League animated shorts, exclusively for the Machinima website called Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles.

This sounded great, until I read in the description of the shorts. It’s going to have a “darker” version of Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman.

Sigh…

So I drew the cartoons above.

It was all drawn digitally.

And yes, if Batman gets any darker, the only thing visible on him will his eyeballs.