DC Nation is a collaboration far overdue and, if we may say so ourselves, a step in the right direction we’ve been waiting to see from a couple of our favorite media producers: the Warner Bros. parented DC Comics and the Warner Bros. owned Cartoon Network. It’s a programming block that will become part of the Cartoon Network line up sometime in 2012, featuring two of Cartoon Network’s current half-hour action ‘toons featuring DC characters: Young Justice, which will be starting its second season in the next year, and the recently launched Green Lanter: The Animated Series.
But aside from those two, the block is also going to host a series of incredibly diverse shorts produced by Warner Bros. Animation, and the teaser showed us tiny glimpses of each of them. From Lauren Faust‘s first prost-MLP project, to that live-action Blue Beetle footage that  showed up on the internet and then never got talked about again, ever. Lets take a look!
First, there’s Plastic Man, from the talents of Andy Suriano, Tom Kenny (voice of Spongebob, et al), and Stephen DeStefano, who actually put together an entire pilot for the series that you can watch here to get a sense of what the shorts will be like.
Stills from this Blue Beetle footage was actually revealed more than a year ago on DC’s official blog, though this is the first concrete indication we’ve seen that something Blue-Beetlish will actually air.
The Teen Titans, a Cartoon Network hit but with new episodes absent from television since 2006, will be returning in chibi form but with all the same voice actors, to the delight of many, we’re sure.
Bronys and pegasisters everywhere mourned Lauren Faust’s departure from the My Little Pony franchise, but as a DC fan I’m extatic to see that she’ll be in charge of Super Best Friends Forever, shorts about Supergirl, Batgirl, and Wonder Girl teaming up to fight crime. Edit: This is actually apparently Amethyst, Princess of Gemworld, who hasn’t appeared regularly in DC Comics since the 1980’s!
Then there’s Lego Batman, a cartoon based on the game based on the Lego set based on the comic book.
We don’t really know much about this Aardman Animation-esque Batman and Robin clip, other than that it looks a bit Aardman Animation-esque.
Last but not least, there’s shorts based on Monolith Production’s upcoming Gotham City Imposters video game, a team-based first person shooter where teams of Imposter Batmans fight Imposter Jokers.
DC Nation is definitely something we’ll be tuning into, even if it didn’t have a Teen Titans comeback and Lauren Faust’s involvement! But, sorry, we don’t have any idea what this is:
We’d chalk it up to Plastic Man loony-ness, but it’s not in the same animation style. Anybody know? Here’s the whole trailer itself:
