According to The Hollywood Reporter Warner Bros. and DC Comics have announced the creation of “motion comics” based on Batman: Black & White and Superman: Red Son.  DC has already released the first two chapters of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen in the “motion comics” format.

According to The Reporter Warner Premiere and Warner Digital Distribution “will adapt the graphic album and graphic novel into digitally downloadable episodes that bring the comic to life by combining the artwork with subtle movement, voice-overs and musical scores.”   The “motion comics” are available via iTunes, Amazon VOD, Xbox Live, and the Sony PlayStation Store.

The two properties announced are DC classics.  Batman: Black & White was a mid-90s collection of succinct eight-page Batman stories by top creators such as Neil Gaiman, Joe Kubert, Brian Bolland, and Bill Sienkiewicz, while Superman: Red Son, which was written by Mark Millar and first published in 2003, is a brilliant Cold War reversal of the Superman legend in which the Man of Steel lands in Eurasia as a child and becomes a Hero of the Soviet Union.