Thanks to Brother Erik for sending this to get my morning started off right. I like how the creators seemed to have ditched everything they knew about Batman and built their cartoon from the ground up. New allies, new villains, new style. I am there.
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You're welcome Kal.
What gets me is that the title logo the show uses is almost identical to the one used in the comics during the 1960s. For as much as people complain about the corniness of Silver Age Batman and the Adam West, it seems we keep pulling back to that era especially when the cartoons like "The Batman" and "Batman: Brave and the Bold". With "Brave and the Bold" it was a clear stylistic choice, the other two I'm not so sure. Maybe because that was last time Batman was consider fully family friendly? I dunno.
I'm glad their honoring the Dark Knight's history, its just something that I'm surprised keeps getting brought up.
People forget how amazing The Batman Adventures were when Bruce Timm and Paul Dini first brought it to TV. It was on prime time on Sunday nights. Each episode was a gem of animation and storytelling.
Brave and Bold was great because it rewarded us Silver Age fans and brought a whole new audience to that style.
I love that with Beware the Batman they have thrown out everthing they have done before (including familiar partners and villains) and gone for something different. I am looking forward to the style of this one just like I loved the style of all the recent Batman Cartoons like Justice League and The Batman.
I actually look forward more to new Batman iteration than I do new actors playing James Bond.
Batman is such a enduring character with a rich, diverse history, and nowhere is that more prevalent than his animated adaptations, were each is so unique from any of the others and yet you still see the same man at the center.
The only Batman cartoon I didn't like was "The Batman". It was the first show to be made that wasn't connected to the Timm Dini-verse and it was clear it was uncertain about what kind of show it wanted to be and just pulled pieces from other shows alone to end up feeling very schizophrenic.
And I loved The Batman. Their version of the JOKER was cool. He was like a monkey joker - very frenetic and hard to catch, has prehensile feet. Reminds me of when they combined the Joker and Sabertooth to make the HYENA. in those Almalgam comics.
And let's not forget Batman Beyond.
VERY nice intro..
People who diss the '60s show ALWAYS forget about just how terrible the comic was prior to Infantino's 'New Look'.
Idiots, one and all.
Batmite, Bathound, 'Outer-Space Batman'..? C'mon. Apparently the comic was close to being cancelled as well.
Despite it being over-the-top, that show essentially revitalized the ENTIRE comic industry, both DC and Marvel owe the series so much. Imagine all the writers and artists like Adams and Steranko who were now drawn into the Pop Art aspects of comics.
Fast-forwarding, the Bruce Timm 'Animated Show' art really made comics FUN again, especially in the dire post-Miller grit of the '80s and early '90s.
Acch, couldn't stand those comics, most of which you can't even give away now at shows or eBay.
i am also looking forward to this- I love that Katanna is in it
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