But Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Fire, and Icemaiden? That’s practically Justice League of Substitute Heroes. Superman, Wonder Woman, even Green Lantern would have mopped the floor with Vampire Batman. And it had to be the minor league version too. The JLA (minor league version) was cool to see again. (I can’t remember if it was a comic or a show-I just remember it was bad.) They even had him rhyming, which is one far-cry of an improvement from the last time I saw an appearance of him. I liked the appearance of The Demon Etrigan. I was a kid once!) So there’s homage here.Īgain, I’m just not sure this is stuff that’s worthy of homage. In fact I think they ripped the profiles straight from my television set. I liked the fact that the rainforest versions of Batman and Robin were drawn almost exactly like the animated opening of the 1960’s Batman television series. Dematteis) and these directors (Michael Goguen) smoking?” and “… This is awesome.” Batman’s Greatest Cases Featuring The Jungle Batman? Bat Ape? (“A loyal partner in the fight against jungle-based crime.”) As ever I’m conflicted, half torn between “What are these writers (J.M. I mean, you have to laugh at some of the crap they drudge up for these cold openings. Who else even lets this crap bother them? Who the BLEEP cares?! I’m probably the only nerd alive who watched most of the episode with the deadly intent of scouring the internets immediately after for DC mythos that pertained to vampirism. Ol’ Bats made the whole thing up in his mind after she chomped him.ģ. Most of what happened turned out to be a dream. There’ve been single-bite turns, triple-bite turns, triple-bite-drink-my-blood turns (I’m still waiting for a triple-bite turn ending with a triple-flip, double Salchow) …Ģ. Earth-1, Earth-2, they all have had conflicting tales in the past, even within their own mythos. There is no real DC “canon” as to how vampires turn their victims. Well I had three things stopping this rant.ġ. Canus, Chemo, the Atom, Despero, The Red Hood, and some others that I either missed, forgot or don't want to spoil here.BATMAN: THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD “Shadow of the Bat” Season 3 Episode 5 – So there I was, notes in hand, all ready to come hard at the show for its most egregious DC continuity conundrum yet: the fact that Batman: The Brave and the Bold played loose with their own vampire creation canon, allowing that a single bite from a vampire (Dala DuBois in this case) will turns a victim. Lee Emery), Fire (AKA Green Flame), Sinestro, Guy Gardner, Kite Man, Doctor Fate, Jonah Hex, G'nort (actually pretty much every Green Lantern), Bronze Tiger, Doctor Polaris, Clock King, Etrigan, Deadman, Kanjar Ro, Felix Faust, fucking Sportsmaster, Fun Haus, B'wana Beast, Slug, Dr. Just in the first half of the first season you get: Blue Beetle (both the Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes versions (and Wil Wheaton voices Kord)), Gorilla Grodd, Green Arrow, Red Tornado, Gentleman Ghost, Black Manta, Plastic Man, Elongated Man, The Outsiders (minus Geo-Force), Wildcat (R.
Growing up, I was a DC kid and the sheer number of semi and totally obscure characters that show up is kind of staggering.
They made Aquaman into a legitimately awesome character. Even said notable exception, who I won't spoil here, is introduced in a manner as far from their traditional depiction as possible.Īlso, they turned Aquaman (voiced by John "Bender" Di Maggio) into the best character on the show. A dark, sarcastic sense of humor, but still. The action almost never takes place in Gotham City, the normal Batman supporting cast (with one very notable exception) is replaced with a colorful menagerie of B-F listers from the greater DC universe and even Batman himself (voiced by Diedrich Bader, doing a pretty great Kevin Conroy) has a sense of humor. Brave and the Bold is a funny, bright-hued romp through the fifty years of DC history that preceded the turn toward grim and gritty that comics are still sort of recovering from. In the wake of Christopher Nolan's immensely popular, joyless (but also very good) Dark Knight, the creators chose to go as far in the opposite direction as they could. If the preceding sentence caused you to scowl and declare it "stupid" or "childish" or "not at all dark and morose, the way I like my Batman," while stroking your 18" Sideshow Venom bust to the deep baseline of the Inception soundtrack, you should probably stay far away from this newest animated incarnation of the Caped Crusader.īrave and bold are, in fact, excellent descriptors for the show. Your opinion of Batman: The Brave and the Bold will be surmised by your reaction to the following sentence: "Batman in 'Terror on Dinosaur Island!'" (exclamation theirs).
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