DC Showcase: Blue Beetle

DC Showcase: Blue Beetle (2021) is a 16-minute animated short you can watch online on iFILM. It's a love letter to the Silver Age of comics: retro line work, candy colors, and Ted Kord as the Blue Beetle with none of the gloom of modern superhero fare.

Ted rounds up the old Charlton Comics crew — Captain Atom, The Question and Nightshade — to shut down Doctor Spectro, a villain who plays human feelings like a control panel. Director Milo Neuman styles every frame after 1960s Saturday-morning cartoons, and that's exactly where the fun lives. Matt Lanter, Jeff Bennett and Ashly Burch lend their voices. A breezy, nostalgic one-off for fans of classic DC. Stream Blue Beetle (2021) online on iFILM.