Moe Lane

Honest Trailers has views on Batman: The Animated Series.

Extremely sensible ones.  This is one of the Honest Trailers where they didn’t try real hard to nit-pick it, mostly because there isn’t that much to nit-pick.  I mean, dagnabbit: Batman: The Animated Series ruled so hard it violated the Constitution’s requirement for republican forms of government.  Sometimes you just gotta know your limitations, amirite?

It’s complicated.

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I’d totally watch that.

Profound Shower Thoughts [Pics] https://t.co/CXDtqL3kXW pic.twitter.com/w2pessQGlh

— Geeks are Sexy (@geeksaresexy) May 23, 2018

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That’s what the fever swamp rumor mill is suggesting: “Sources say Warners will make an ambitious attempt to use [Martin] Scorsese to bring Leonardo DiCaprio into the world of comic-book movies.” The idea is that Scorsese and DiCaprio work together a lot, and thus having the one might entice the other to play the Joker for Scorsese’s DC Comics art film*.  Apparently this would not replace Jared Leto in DCU continuity, which will either please you or sadden you, depending. (more…)

He may be an Adam West Batman, but dagnabbit: there have been worse versions to wear the cape and cowl.  The bad guys didn’t get away, which is the important thing.  Also: this really needs the Batman 1966 fight music.  It REALLY needs it.

This store clerk was determined to stop two armed robbers. Really, really determined pic.twitter.com/XOqQpGanV9

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 1, 2017

You will probably not be surprised to hear that Batman vs. Two-Face is on the direct-to-DVD Express (October 10th/17th).  It doesn’t appear to be entirely wretched, though. Adam West sounds better than he did in the last one and William Shatner isn’t bad as Two-Face.

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And on that note…

It’s supposedly leaked, but I have to wonder whether I should be writing ‘leaked.’ After all, what is the downside of people learning a month and a half early that the upcoming Batman and Harley Quinn DVD is going to have a sneak peek at a hitherto-unannounced Gotham By Gaslight project?  The original title is popular,* and strategically revealing the feature on the DVD may spark both sales and interest.

I mean, I may now pick up B&HQ.  Because Gotham By Gaslight would be pretty cool, if they do it right. And if it works, they could do The Doom That Came To Gotham, which would also be pretty cool (and is exactly what you’d expect it to be, from the title).

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*For those who don’t know, it’s a Mignola/Augustyn Batman story that reimagines him in Victorian England, hunting Jack the Ripper.  The favorable reception of this caused DC to come up with their alternate DC history Elseworld series. So, pretty seminal, there.

Via… well, Twitter, obviously.

Los Angeles is lighting up the Bat-Signal tomorrow night in honor of Adam West: https://t.co/TxJbFwYxMW pic.twitter.com/xwV6lT2CO0

— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) June 15, 2017

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It’s not a very imaginative name, is it?  ‘Batman & Harley Quinn’ sounds like a working title that they chose for the filing while somebody came up with a new, better one; only that person was let go, or something, and by the time somebody noticed it was too late to come up with anything else.

…That’s my guess, at least.

This one is gonna be direct to digital on August 15th.

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PS: There should be all sorts of entertaining subtext, given that Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy are dating in the comics now (and maybe in the upcoming standalone Harley Quinn movie). What’s that?  Oh, yeah, Suicide Squad ended up making almost seven hundred and fifty million bucks globally.  That’s enough for sorta-kinda sequels.

He’s got the physical moves you’d need to be Robin…

…and he was good as Hiro in Big Hero 6. So, sure, give Ryan Potter an audition, at least. Probably won’t happen – this video was a publicity stunt, of the sort that usually don’t work – but what the heck, right?