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5 on Mondo reveals Batman: The Animated Series "Two-Face" poster for SDCC's Comic-Con@HomeExclusive: Mondo gave Batman News a sneak peek at Phantom City Creative's latest Batman: The Animated Series poster that will be available this Friday (7/24/2020) at mondoshop.com/comic-con. The poster is based on the episode "Two-Face" and, true to the villain's theme of duality, is a double-sided design! And like Harvey Dent's trademark silver dollar, the…
(Bear with me for the following monologue; this is all relevant, I promise. I’ll signpost when the actual review begins.) It might surprise you to know that DC Comics is actually a person. That’s right! It’s easy to think that a comic book company is but a mere faceless conglomerate: a simple groaning limb of…
I'm hardly the World's Greatest Detective™, but I can usually deduce why an episode of Batman: The Animated Series exists. It exists to introduce a character, profile a character, or connect some greater part of the story together. This week's episode does none of that. It has a boring, one-off villain, it tells us nothing about…
Bruce Wayne, more than almost any character in comics--save perhaps Peter Parker--is defined by his tragedy. So what does it do to a character like that to take his tragedy away from him? Is it a dream come true, or a nightmare? This week on Batman: The Animated Series Remastered and Rewatched, we're looking back…
As I dig around through forums and social media to see what people are saying about Crisis on Infinite Earths, I see all these posts about how it sucks, it's terrible, it's trash. But the truth is that Crisis is its own small miracle of writing, scheduling, licensing, acting, and special effects. This isn't a…
One of the things I find fascinating going back to the shows I watched as a child is how downright scary many of them were, and how I often didn't know it at the time. Sid's toys in Toy Story come to mind, as does literally every second of Return to Oz. While Batman is…
It makes sense that we'd eventually get an episode of Batman narrated by Batman. Not only does the style of narration so often used in comics provide ripe opportunity for self-narration, but the idea for Batman is also essentially that of a hard-boiled detective with the volume turned way, way up. It works differently on…
Batman: The Animated Series straddles a weird line between being a story about a vigilante seeking justice for murder by fighting dangerous murderers and being a daytime kids' show. That dichotomy has led to some of its very best and very worst episodes. In the best moments, the limitations forced the team to get creative.…
When I think about the kinds of questions we ask about Batman, I can't help but think of Marvel's Punisher. They're alike in as many ways as they are different. Both operate outside the law. Both make questionable decisions in their pursuit of justice that inarguably harm the few people close to them and often…
I've gone on record as being someone who likes silly villains. I wrote a whole article about why the Reverse-Flash is great, and I have enough Reverse-Flash toys and shirts that even I'm starting to get embarrassed. I love Bizarro Superman. It's not just that any old villain will do. They have to have a…
To say that I loved the Arkham games would be a massive understatement. It was like someone was making the Batman game I'd always wanted. You played it, too. You know it. But for everything they got right - the gameplay, the voices, the exploration, the pacing - one thing in particular sticks out as…
The best villains in Batman stories aren't Just Villains. Characters that are just villains stop being interesting before the commercial break (Sewer King, what's up?). The good ones tell us something - something about Batman, something about Gotham, or something about someone else in the story. In this week's episode, we meet Killer Croc, but…
I'm usually not a fan of Batman episodes that aren't about Batman. I mean, it's Batman. He's why we're there. I never could get into Gotham for just that reason. But once in a while, a "Low Bat" episode hits all the right notes, such as with this week's first episode. And not least because…
In "Feat of Clay Part I," we saw the tragic fall of Matt Hagen and the arrest of Bruce Wayne. Two characters were at their most vulnerable as they lost their identities. One quite literally so, as his body dissolved into a pile of muck. This week, Clayface replaces Matt Hagen completely. Clayface is a…
We're now 20 episodes into our re-watch of Batman: The Animated Series, and a trend is starting to emerge. While the overall series holds up extraordinarily well, it's hardly surprising that certain parts just don't. Inevitably, though, it's the villain-of-the-week episodes that stand out most often as being disappointing. We get an exception like the…
Last week, we talked about a one-off episode that showed Batman fighting a villain whose complicated and tragic family dynamic was a bigger part of the story than his gimmicky invisibility suit. This week, we're talking about one of my all-time favorite episodes of Batman: The Animated Series: "Beware the Gray Ghost." It's a meta…
As San Diego Comic-Con marches on, Amazon is getting in on the fun with a deep discount on the Batman: The Animated Series Blu-ray set. For one day only, until 11:59pm Pacific, you can pick up the HD version of this set for $43.99, a 51% discount. With the remastered Batman Beyond Blu-ray set announced…
As we've gone through the first 16 episodes of Batman: The Animated Series, the results have been surprising. The show holds up extraordinarily well as a whole work, but many episodes aren't quite as good as I remember them being. Our next two installments of Remastered and Rewatched will cover two that have actually improved…
Our previous installment of Batman: Remastered and Rewatched outlined a high point for the series. If you thought that meant Batman: The Animated Series was hitting its stride, you might be unpleasantly surprised by this week's offering, which introduces Catwoman, a weird and unlikeable version of Batman, and a villain that sits among the animated…
With all these Marvel and DC movies hitting the big screen in the last 10 years or so, we're watching some of our favorite source material being mined for scripts and concepts. And usually, it's a one-directional affair. The stories in the comics influence the movies and rarely is it the opposite. But in the…
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