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The Batman is a children’s cartoon that examines the
early years of Bruce Wayne’s adventures as the crime fighting
Dark Knight. This box set collects the first thirteen episodes
of this newer series, a series, that, truth be told, managed
to escape my attention. Now this could be because f my Marvel
Bias. (Sorry but Wolverine could trash Batman any day),
but believe it or not I still used to watch Batman The Animated
Series regularly in my youth. That series featured epic
scale tales, with fantastic voice actors like Mark Hamill
(of Star Wars fame) as the Joker.
It’s very rare that once a show manages to master a
good formula that it’s success is repeated. Every so often
magic happens with cartoons and you get Batman Beyond, a
fantastic look at a futuristic Gotham, with an aging Bruce
Wayne and youthful angst ridden Terry McGinnis taking up
the mantel of the Bat. Sadly The Batman has lost the magic
that made it’s predecessors work.
Part of the problem is that it seems that as cartoons
get newer their art style become lazier, and this show suffers
from overly stylized designs, and a suffers for it. To me
this was Batman trying to be an anime. The story lines seemed
silly as well. I didn’t quite get into the idea that Bruce
Wayne would eat nachos, or blow off an opera for bubble
gumy music. Fans of the bat may find material like this
particularly offensive.
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