2013 TV News Archives
January 22, 2013: "Young Justice: Invasion - Destiny Calling" DVD Review
Reviewed by: Steve YounisToday, Warner Home Video will release "Young Justice: Invasion - Destiny Calling: Season 2, Part 1" on DVD.
- Join Young Justice and watch them battle villains and fight crime in a 2-disc 10 episode collection!
For the Young Justice squad being a teenager means proving yourself over and over - to peers, parents, teachers, mentors and, ultimately, to yourself. But what if you're not just a normal teenager? What if you're a teenage super hero? How much harder will it be to prove yourself in a world of super powers, super villains and super secrets? Are you ready to come of age in such a world? Are you ready for life or death rites of passage? Are you ready to join the ranks of the great heroes and prove you're worthy of the Justice League? That's exactly what the members of Young Justice - Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, Miss Martian and Artemis - will find out ... whether they have what it takes to be a proven hero.
The latest season of the critically acclaimed series jumps ahead in time 5 years to re-introduce the original squad as well as all new members Nightwing, Wonder Girl, Blue Beetle, Batgirl, and Beast Boy as they fight off a secret alien invasion affecting the entire planet.
I won't review the episodes in this DVD collection, as they have been well reviewed already on this website.
This new "Young Justice" release features two discs, a blue Disc 1 featuring an image of Blue Beetle, while Disc 2 is red and features an image of Wonder Girl. The binary code background on both discs can make it difficult to read the small writing letting you know which is Disc 1 and which is Disc 2. There are five episodes per disc.
Inserting Disc 1 launches automatically into a couple of preview trailers for other DVD releases. The first is for the upcoming "LEGO Batman: The Movie - DC Superheroes Unite" animated movie.
Special Features on Disc 1 are limited to three episodes from "Batman: The Brave and The Bold": "Rise of the Blue Beetle!", "Fall of the Blue Beetle!", and "Revenge of the Reach!". There's also and additional trailer for other DC Nation offerings and the DC Heroes trailer drawing attention to the "We Can Be Heroes" fundraising effort for the Horn of Africa.
Disc 2 launches directly to the Main Menu. There are no extras or bonus material items on Disc 2.
While this "Young Justice" DVD collection is once again light on extras, it is the ten episodes it contains that you're really purchasing this for... and as with all "Young Justice" episodes, the first ten episodes of Season 2 are excellent! While at first a little confusing, due to the jump forward five years into the future, "Young Justice: Invasion" continues to be a high quality follow-up to the first season of this animated series. If you've collected the three volumes collecting Season One of "Young Justice", then you'll also want to pick up this first volume collecting the first 10 episodes of Season Two.
With episode 12 of Season 2 having only just aired on Cartoon Network at the time of this review, a complete season DVD collection is a long way off (assuming one is coming at all), so this DVD offering is probably something fans of the "Young Justice" animated series will want to pick up now.
You can grab "Young Justice: Invasion - Destiny Calling: Season 2, Part 1" on DVD from our Online Store.
Below are four video clips posted by Warner Home Video promoting this release.
Welcome Back
Tactic Strategic Retreat
Blue Beetle
Less Fan Girl, More Wonder Girl
2013 Television News
Listed below are all the Television News items archived for 2013 organized into various categories:Young Justice Animated Series News:
- January 2, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 10 - Before the Dawn
- January 4, 2013: Weisman & Vietti Talk Young Justice
- January 10, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 11 - Cornered
- January 18, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 12 - True Colors
- January 22, 2013: Young Justice: Invasion - Destiny Calling DVD Review
- January 24, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 13 - Fix
- January 28, 2013: Cartoon Network Cancels Young Justice
- January 29, 2013: Fan Petition to Save Young Justice
- January 30, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 14 - Runaways
- February 5, 2013: Young Justice Cancellation - Poll Position
- February 7, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 15 - War
- February 14, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 16 - Complications
- February 20, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 17 - The Hunt
- February 28, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 18 - Intervention
- March 6, 2013: Young Justice Season 2, Episode 19 - Summit
- March 14, 2013: Young Justice Series Finale - Endgame
- March 18, 2013: Young Justice Fan Survey
- May 8, 2013: Young Justice: Game of Illusions - Season 2, Part 2 DVD
- May 15, 2013: Crowdfunding Campaign for Young Justice Season 3
- July 15, 2013: Young Justice: Game of Illusions - Season 2, Part 2 DVD
- January 24, 2013: DC Nation Farm League Preview Clip and Images
- February 20, 2013: DC Nation's Farm League Episode 2 Preview
- March 14, 2013: DC Nation Farm League Episode 3 Preview
- April 13, 2013: Full DC Nation Farm League Animated Shorts at DC Website
- June 28, 2013: DC Nation Animated Short Tales of Metropolis
- July 30, 2013: Tales of Metropolis: Lois Lane - Preview Clip
- August 13, 2013: DC Super Pets - Krypto vs. Streaky
- August 15, 2013: Super Pets Ð World's Finest Bark - Preview Clip
- August 21, 2013: DC Nation - World's Funnest
- November 5, 2013: Full Lois Lane Tales of Metropolis Episode Online
- January 4, 2013: $100 Million Smallville Legal Battle Partly Settled
- January 22, 2013: A Look Back at the DC Universe of Smallville
- May 20, 2013: Smallville Lawsuit Settles Out of Court
- July 15, 2013: Erica Durance Talks About Playing Lois Lane
- August 19, 2013: Lee Thompson Young Dies at 29
- January 9, 2013: The Making of the Justice League Animated Series
- January 16, 2013: A Look Back at Superman in Justice League Animated Series
- January 30, 2013: Pioneers of Television - Superheroes Full Episode
- January 31, 2013: Best of Warner Bros. - Superman TV Collection
- February 12, 2013: Superman TV Collection - Poll Position
- February 28, 2013: Pre-Order Best of Warner Bros. - Superman TV Collection
- March 4, 2013: Superboy and Lana Lang 20 Year Reunion
- March 6, 2013: Reel Tears: The Beverly Washburn Story, Take Two
- March 8, 2013: Superman Super-Villains DVDs
- March 9, 2013: The Best of Superman DVD Collection
- March 17, 2013: Justice League Coming to Netflix
- March 18, 2013: The Best of Superman DVD Collection Packaging
- March 20, 2013: MegaCon Report - Dean Cain Panel
- March 25, 2013: Robot Chicken: DC Special on DVD and Blu-ray
- March 27, 2013: Shopping - Upcoming Blu-ray and DVD Releases
- April 2, 2013: Adventures of Superman Lands on Warner Archive Instant
- April 2, 2013: John Shea and Dean Cain Panel at St. Louis Wizard World
- April 16, 2013: Superman Animated Collections Coming for UK
- April 29, 2013: Teri Hatcher Sells Her Superman Collectibles
- May 5, 2013: Super Friends Season 5 Coming to DVD
- May 6, 2013: The World's Greatest Super Friends! DVD
- May 11, 2013: Best of Superman TV Collection Now Available
- May 13, 2013: Robot Chicken Announces DC Comics Special Sequel
- June 9, 2013: Why Seinfeld Loved Superman
- June 11, 2013: The Animated Series Man of Steel
- June 11, 2013: The Man of Steel on the Small Screen
- July 2, 2013: All Superboy TV Episodes Now Online
- July 10, 2013: The Adventures of Superboy Season 3 DVD Coming Soon
- July 13, 2013: Super Friends Season 6 Coming to DVD
- July 13, 2013: DC Super Villains Superman: Worlds At War! DVD
- July 15, 2013: The Adventures of Superboy: The Complete Third Season DVD
- August 11, 2013: Warner Home Video Superman Releases
- August 18, 2013: FanAddicts on Reelz
- August 21, 2013: The Never-Made Superman vs. Batman Animated Series
- September 4, 2013: LoveFilm to Stream Superman Animated Shows
- September 13, 2013: PBS Announces Superheroes Night on October 15
- September 17, 2013: Henry Cavill Teaches Respect on Sesame Street
- October 20, 2013: Filmation Co-Founder Lou Scheimer Dies
- October 25, 2013: Superboy Season 4 Available on DVD Now!
- November 13, 2013: Dean Cain Appearing at Niagara Falls Comic Con
- November 25, 2013: Happy Birthday Noel Neill! 93 Years Young!
- November 28, 2013: Jack Larson's 1990 Superman Festival TV Special
- December 2, 2013: Live-Action Young Justice TV Series in 2015?
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