“Hunted.” Beware the
Batman. Cartoon Network. 13 July 2013
Batman is one of those characters that fit into nearly every
medium. I could spend the next fifty pages describing the character and his
influence, but since that is Chris Sims’s bag we’ll focus our attention on the
latest Batman show. Beware the Batman
hit the airwaves in 2013 to some resistance. The preceding series, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, was a very
well regarded program and the decision to end it annoyed more than a few fans.
So, what was the selling point of the show? Would it be a wholesale re-imagining
or a straight adaptation of classic stories? How would CGI compare to the
tradition animation?
The chief selling point of the show was what it was lacking.
The audience was told at the very start-No Joker, no Catwoman, etc. Understandable,
given the iconic nature of the Rogue’s Gallery and the massive shoes left by
Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, Jeff Bennett, and the like, but the bar was set in a strange place.
