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Jamie Benning has released the first seventeen minutes of his latest creation, “Raiding The Lost Ark,” via Wired’s GeekDad column. Without further ado… enjoy, and be left wanting more!

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So… we have “Once Upon a Time” and “Grimm” on television, and now we have the Fairy Tale movies enroute! The clip above does look, IMHO, pretty good. The hot chick from Aeon Flux wants to kill the annoying chick from Twilight, so she has Thor go after her in a magical wood. This isn’t your Disney “Snow White” anymore! “Snow White and the Huntsman” should hit theaters next summer.

Twenty-four years later, “Batman: Year One” is the latest offering from the D.C. Animated Universe.  The animated version sticks to the original story, and the artistic style does a fantastic job evoking the original.

DCAU has found a fantastic actor to voice Jim Gordon.  Bryan Cranston (most recently seen on “Breaking Bad”) sounds absolutely perfect in the role.  Katee Sackhoff gives Detective Sarah Essen her voice, and to be honest I didn’t even realize it was Sackhoff until I watched the credits.  Eliza Dushku provides the voice of Selina Kyle/Catwoman.

For some reason, Kevin Conroy, who has voiced animted Batman in almost everything since “Batman: The Animated Series,” is not in the lineup.  Ben McKenzie (Southland, The O.C.) tackles the iconic role.  At first, I found his take on Bruce Wayne/Batman a little flat.  But it grew on me, and by the end I was again absorbed in a story that I’ve practically had memorized since High School.

I bought “Year One” on Blu-Ray because it came with all sorts of extras.  The disc includes a Catwoman short story that starts out as a T&A fest, then rapidly turns into a non-stop action thrill ride.  There are a couple of episodes from “The Animated Series” picked by Bruce Timm, and a pretty decent feature regarding Frank Miller’s work in the Batman universe.  Oh yeah… there is a long preview for the next DCAU release in Spring, 2012:  “Justice League:  Doom.”  Yep.  The Legion of Doom.  How funny that we just saw the Legion of Doom appear in last week’s episode of “Young Justice.”

My only real complaint about “Year One” is this:  it’s only 64 minutes long.  But in that 64 minutes, it manages to capture the original feel of the comic.  Check this one out– enjoy the early fumblings of a young Batman and develop an appreciation for just how big of a bad-ass Jim Gordon can be.  “Year One” gets my recommendation as a “must see” offering from the DCAU.

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