"Vixen" to get CW Animated Series.
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Actress playing Vixen was the Growth Spurt Baby in The 4400
...and she's a Real African: BLACKEXCELLENCE
CW with Another One*Biggie's Voice*
She's a Mulatto. 
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Trailer just dropped:
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Yea!!! I love Yaya!! She looks a lot like @CinnaSlim... By the way idk I think she's gonna be in the Chicago Fire Chicago PD spinoff.I anticipate we will see a live-action version of Vixen appearing on either Arrow or Flash before too long.
Let's just hope they get Yaya Dacosta for the part:
Debuts August 25th
Season premiere featurette:
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Vixen: How is CW's Animated Arrow/Flash Spinoff?
With The CW's Vixen webseries launching, we offer our spoiler-free impressions of the animated Arrow/Flash spinoff.
24 Aug 2015 By Jesse Schedeen
A couple notes to start off - Vixen is an unusual addition to The CW's lineup of superhero shows not just because it's animated, but because it's being aired digitally via CW Seed. Because each weekly installment of the web series is a scant five minutes long (there are six installments total), we won't be doing individual "episode" reviews. For now, I'll be offering my initial, spoiler-free impressions based on the first four episodes made available to press and following up with an official review when The CW makes the final two episodes available.
Vixen and the upcoming Legends of Tomorrow are the next wave in The CW's growing DC Universe, building on the foundation laid by Arrow and The Flash in recent years. The idea is that no longer are metahumans simply the result of super-soldier experiments or the STAR Labs particle accelerator explosion. They're appearing more frequently and spontaneously. That's where Vixen comes in, as it explores Mari McCabe's quest to learn about her family's mysterious past and the apparently mystical totem necklace that serves as her only link to that family.
The first and most obvious question regarding this show is whether it feels like a legitimate part of the Flash/Arrow universe. DC has run into some problems in the past when they've attempted animated tie-ins to live-action properties. The direct-to-DVD Gotham Knight movie is the most obvious example. The five animated shorts on that disc may be billed as tie-ins to Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy, but there's very little to link the two projects in terms of visual style, tone or even plot. Vixen doesn't quite suffer the same problem. The Detroit setting is pretty generic and undefined, but tonally the series feels grounded enough to be of a piece with Flash and Arrow. It certainly helps that the writers behind Vixen are also heavily involved with those shows. The dialogue is comfortably familiar.
It also doesn't hurt that several cast members from both shows reprise their roles for the web series. Stephen Amell's Oliver Queen and Grant Gustin's Barry Allen have been featured prominently in the marketing for Vixen, and both play a fairly significant role in the first few webisodes. If anything, my fear was that these two heroes would overshadow Mari's origin story and personal journey. That hasn't been the case so far. Both Barry and Ollie have a logical reason for being involved. Furthermore, their presence allows Mari to test her fledgling abilities in a way that wouldn't really be possible if she were merely butting heads with gangbangers.
On that note, the production values are surprisingly good for a web-based project like this. In terms of animation quality, the series is more or less on par with DC's recent direct-to-DVD projects. The animation is fairly static when it comes to conversation scenes or shots of characters calmly walking, but it really stands out during the action scenes. I don't want to say the action on this show couldn't have been done on a live-action series - The Flash was surprisingly robust when it came to conveying Barry's powers or characters like Gorilla Grodd - but it would have been a tall order to fill. Seeing Mari cut loose and channel the strength of a charging elephant or the flight of an eagle is easily the highlight of the series.
The voice work is a little more spotty. Megalyn Echikunwoke (The 4400) does a good job as Mari, portraying her as hardened and tough without overplaying things. Neil Flynn (Scrubs) is great as her father. Oddly, it's the established characters that sound the most flat. Amell's Ollie, Gustin's Barry, and even Carlos Valdes' sound a bit stiff and lifeless compared to their live-action performances. I definitely don't get the impression that the dialogue was recorded with all the actors in the same room.
The 30 minute total running time isn't a huge amount of space to work with when it comes to establishing a new character and her origin. So far, Vixen is doing a good job of working quickly and efficiently. The writers are quickly able to establish Mari's troubled history as a foster child and her relationship with her foster father without dwelling too much on the past. The limited space becomes more of a problem when it comes to her powers, however. No sooner does Mari discover the mystical nature of her necklace than she's wielding it like a pro and making mincemeat of her enemies. Its hard to fault the writers too much considering there just isn't time for a fully developed origin saga, but it does make you wish they had an extra 10 or 15 minutes to work with.
Time will ultimately tell how well the series makes use of its limited space. An overarching threat does begin to coalesce by the fourth episode, but it's not particularly well developed at that point. Vixen stands out less because of her supporting cast or city and more for her personal qualities. In terms of powers, motivations and personality, she's a much different hero from the Flash, the Arrow, Firestorm or the other heroes introduced so far. In that sense, the web series is already a solid success for The CW. Fans of Arrow/Flash or the Vixen character in general should definitely give the first episode a try. It's not as if the five-minute serialized format requires a huge commitment.
The first episode of Vixen will premiere on CW Seed on Tuesday, August 25, with new episodes following every Tuesday.
Vixen: What to Expect from the Animated Webseries Set in the Arrow / Flash Universe - IGN
Don't this drop today?
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All eps gonna be that short? If so I'll start watching mid season
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That's today!
Debuts August 25th
So this isn't really a "show," it's just 30 minutes long?
