Gone but not forgotten, the excellent Batman: The Brave and the Bold will release the complete season 3 on DVD June 19. In addition to the shows third season, the set will include the episode 'The Masks of Matches Malone,' which has not yet been released on DVD.
The underrated, misunderstood thing of beauty that is Batman: The Brave and the Bold will be off the air soon, making way for a new Batman animated series. But it's going out with a bang, as this Friday's episode sees Batman teaming up with Superman and Wonder Woman. DC's big three together at last, for a baseball match vs.. the Legion of Doom, a dinner of bacon cheeseburgers, and, of course, a fight. They'll each be faced with their arch-nemeses, as the episodes titular "Triumvirate of Terror" consists of the Joker, Cheetah, and Lex Luthor.
Lex will be played by Kevin Michael Richardson (The Cleveland Show), while Morena Baccarin will voice Cheetah and Tippi Hedren plays Queen Hippolyta.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold airs Friday at 6:00 p.m. on Cartoon Network.
Friday, September 16, 2011 at 12:58PM | Matt Sager
DC Superheroes are back on Cartoon Network tonight, as Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice return to the air.
Brave and the Bold kicks things off as the series begins its last run with the episode "Scorn of the Star Sapphire!", with guests Green Lantern and, making her debut on the series, Wonder Woman. Check her out in this badass opening sequence with the old-school theme music!
Next, the not-sidekicks of Young Justice are back for the second half of the first season in an episode titled "Targets," spotlighting Red Arrow.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold and Young Justice air tonight at 6:00 and 6:30 on Cartoon Network.
And although generations tastes may change, corporate synergy - like great characters - can never die.
The classic pairing of Dark Knight Detective and clearly stoned high talking dog is happening again, on the tragically underrated, misunderstood and, in my opinion, generally awesome Batman: The Brave and the Bold. Sadly, I understand the show's fate is to end after this season, but in the meantime we're in for some fun, particularly with the episode scheduled to air April 1, titled "Batman's Strangest Cases."
Hosted by Bat-Mite (voiced by Paul "Pee-Wee Herman" Reubens), the episode will revisit some of the Batman's particularly strange adventures and crossovers, and how could they not include Mystery, Inc.?
I just hope Velma comes strapped, because The Joker will put her in a goddamn wheelchair for the rest of her life. This ain't the '70s, toots.
Oh wow, Weird Al's in this one, too! Can't wait! Here's a clip.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 at 2:01AM | Matt Sager
I think Gail Simone's a little sick of hearing how awesome her comics are. So Gail, allow me to take a moment to mention that your animated teleplays are freakin' hysterical as well. Last week's episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold featured one of the many teams Gail's well-known for writing, The Birds of Prey, performing a little number in which they rate the sexy score of the DCU characters as portrayed in the Brave and the Bold-verse - musically. No punches are pulled. Gah if only the Spider-Man musical had a prayer of being anywhere near this good - but then again, U2 aren't going to be making fun of Aquaman's weenis, so really Spidey just doesn't stand a chance.
Even by the high standards of this seriously underrated show, this was an instant classic.
(Spoiler alert: The Flash and and Green Arrow take it on the chin pretty hard in this number too.)
Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 9:13PM | Matt Sager
via Underwire First appearing in DC Comics’ The Brave and the Bold in 1960, the once-corny starfish supervillain Starro predates Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi classic Alien by nearly two decades.
Well, duh. Still, this three-minute animated promo for the Batman: Brave and the Bold games is pretty sweet, if only because it exists at all. Seriously, it's like a free, three-minute-long cartoon, albeit one that's doing a bit of shilling. Still, I probably enjoyed it more than half the fan-made videos I was sent last month. And isn't nice to confirm that Batman's "total preparedness for every situation" includes playing videogames? Just in case?
The Batman/Scooby team isn't anything new; Batman guest-starred in more than one episode of the 1970s series The New Scooby Doo Movies, alongside Robin and villains like the Joker and the Penguin, demonstrating the early power of corporate synergy to a still-innocent generation of children.
This news makes me so happy it's embarrassing. I also thought, for a second there, how cool it was that the second time the Bat and the Scooby Gang met we lived in a world in which Techland, part of Time Magazine's Website, covers this sort of thing.
Then I saw that line about "corporate synergy" and remembered that Time is the first word in Time-Warner, which owns, well, all of these characters and shows.
So, we live in a world in which news is basically promotional chatter for the properties which the parent corporation owns. I'm sure that will bum me out later.
In the meantime, though, this still rocks my world, under the strict stipulation that they're the original Scooby Gang, not the lame, watered-down Venture Bros. wannabes I've been seeing - uh, by accident, while flipping through channels, of course - on Cartoon Network.
Normally, fans make their choice between Marvel and DC each Wednesday at the comic book store. But this week, it’s also a choice to make Tuesday at the video store with new releases from the new Batman and X-Men animated series to choose from.
On the feature film side of things, there’s Furry Vengeance, starring Brendan Fraser as a real estate developer who feels the wrath of a pack of CG-animated animals.