JamesG
09-26-2018, 04:13 PM
Warner Bros TV Casts The Monitor for The CW Superhero Crossover
by Geoff Boucher
Sept. 26, 2018
Warner Bros TV announced on Wednesday the casting of LaMonica Garrett (Designated Survivor) as the role of The Monitor, a cosmic character with a singular spot in the eight-decade publication history of DC Comics.
In April 1985, The Monitor was introduced as a powerful entity at the center of Crisis on Infinite Earths, a miniseries that sought to streamline all the alternate universes that had over the years created a thicket of confusing overlaps and contradictions in the DC canon. The Crisis mini-series eliminated hundreds of characters — including Supergirl, a shocker at the time for DC readers.
The Monitor, also known as Mar Novu, was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez, the same writer and artist team that turned the Teen Titans into a 1980s publishing sensation as well as the creators of Cyborg, the character Ray Fisher portrayed in the Justice League film.
Pérez, a living legend among comics artists, will be illustrating a sketch of the Monitor that plays a prominent role in the crossover story, according to Warner Bros TV.
https://deadline.com/2018/09/warner-bros-tv-imports-dcs-elseworlds-and-the-monitor-to-the-cw-superhero-crossover-1202471716/
by Geoff Boucher
Sept. 26, 2018
Warner Bros TV announced on Wednesday the casting of LaMonica Garrett (Designated Survivor) as the role of The Monitor, a cosmic character with a singular spot in the eight-decade publication history of DC Comics.
In April 1985, The Monitor was introduced as a powerful entity at the center of Crisis on Infinite Earths, a miniseries that sought to streamline all the alternate universes that had over the years created a thicket of confusing overlaps and contradictions in the DC canon. The Crisis mini-series eliminated hundreds of characters — including Supergirl, a shocker at the time for DC readers.
The Monitor, also known as Mar Novu, was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez, the same writer and artist team that turned the Teen Titans into a 1980s publishing sensation as well as the creators of Cyborg, the character Ray Fisher portrayed in the Justice League film.
Pérez, a living legend among comics artists, will be illustrating a sketch of the Monitor that plays a prominent role in the crossover story, according to Warner Bros TV.
https://deadline.com/2018/09/warner-bros-tv-imports-dcs-elseworlds-and-the-monitor-to-the-cw-superhero-crossover-1202471716/