10 Weirdest Moments In The Early Days Of DC Movies
9. Nobody Asked For A Gen¹³ Film
The nineties were a strange time for comics. A lot of the old familiars of the industry were pushed into a Dark Age by a mass exodus of their big artistic talent for the creator-owned publisher Image, and a reliance on variant covers and other gimmicks which didn't help much when the back issue market totally collapsed and nobody bought anything for a bit. It wasn't great to be a comic reader then, either, because artists were mostly terrible writers. And they didn't have a whole lot of original ideas, opting instead to just rehash the famous characters they worked on before. That's how former X-Men artist Jim Lee came to create Gen¹³, a team of teen heroes born with superpowers thanks to special genes. Hmmm. Despite the obvious rip-off, Gen¹³ not only got optioned for an animated movie, but it was even made. Just never released. Which itself is pretty weird, because 86-minute animated movies don't come cheap. The best it got was a video release in Europe and Australia. The weirdest thing, though? Flea from Red Hot Chilli Peppers starred in it.
Tom Baker is the Comics Editor at WhatCulture! He's heard all the Doctor Who jokes, but not many about Randall and Hopkirk. He also blogs at http://communibearsilostate.wordpress.com/
