Batman: The Brave and the Bold

[chadu]

... continues to impress.

Why? It takes my favorite bits of Silver Age Batman lore, updates it, recombines it, refilters it through it's own specific canon, and does everything proud.

Comments

[dadiceguy]

Oh yeah I love watching that show. I loved how they used the bit with the costume ball. Showing Thomas Wayne in his bat costume an idea I think first showed up in Untold Legend of the Batman mini many years ago the first issue which featured John Bryne being inked by my favorite Batman artist Jim Aparo!

[chadu]

I first came across that story in ULotB, but it's older than that.

(If I could find my BATMAN ENCYCLOPEDIA, I could tell you which mag/issue!)

[chadu]

DAMN YOU, TiVo!

Hey, if you're gonna be at Origins, block out some time for beer and Batman, k?

[chadu]

What you said, and yet, B&B doesn't lose it's edge.

This is good stuff.

Silvery

[judd_sonofbert]

It is amazingly courageous that they would go with a bright and shiny Silver Age Batman right after the movie made them a wad of cash. I know they had tread dark Gotham with the Timm cartoons but I was pleasantly surprised to see them take the character in this kind of fun direction.

I have barely caught any episodes but will rectify that.

Re: Silvery

[chadu]

I believe that Batman has now reached critical mass and become a true legend, along the lines of King Arthur, Robin Hood, the Three Musketeers, Sherlock Holmes, and Zorro -- a body of work that can support multiple, non-competing, the hell with "canon" interpretations that are all awesome in their own way.

Re: Silvery

[judd_sonofbert]

Well said.