Many of Batman's adventures have us following him through a case, a mystery, a fight, or something like that. Sometimes though, Batman works well as a stand-in for the audience. He becomes a way for the writers to explore stuff that might be outside Batman's normal subject matter thanks to his ability to slip in…

Bringing back a character from the original Batman animated series is tough. That show reimagined characters in ways that bled out into the comics and pop culture in ways that still resonate today. Batman Beyond is a very different world from that of Batman: The Animated Series, even if it was made just a few…

There are two primary kinds of villains in Batman stories--the unrepentant ones like Joker or Ra's Al Ghul, and the ones with tragic origin stories that seem more misguided than anything, like Mr. Freeze. After Batman Beyond's big two-part pilot, the show serves us up one of each in the third and fourth episodes, 'Golem'…