YES! I completely forgot to mention this. I'm loving it because it's so faithful to the movies. My wife however does not get it because she's never seen them.
While the reboot movie was pretty good, this show is how it should have been done.
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I've just started watching Batman The Animated Series.
Very enjoyable.
Beware The Batman is the CGI show. Caught an episode or 2 on tv so went out and bought the dvds. Is aimed at an older audience. Probably why it got canned. Was actually good we thought.
And if you want dark Batman stuff, might I suggest The Dark Knight Returns cartoon movie. They separated it into 2 parts but you can track down a release that put it back together. You'll notice alot of references of this Frank Miller story in the upcoming movie. Kinda why I am excited for the live action movie because this comic story is just brutally awesome. And Year One is also another Frank Miller story, great cartoon and worth watching too.
And another dark comic that is being made into a cartoon movie is The Killing Joke. It is the origin story of the Joker and it is quite quite brutal. And topping it off, they've given it a go ahead for an R rating, only way it can be done if you've read the comic. And if that ain't enough, Conroy and Hamill will reprise their iconic roles. Hamill, while retired from the Joker, always said he would come back for this role. Tim Burton, and a number others, have cited this story as inspirations.
Sorry for the essays, but I am a massive Batman fan
I loved all the Arkham games. Even though the panned Origins, mostly for the controls, the story was great. When Knight was coming, I played through Origins Asylum and City all again. I love that the games all have massive references to the comics all through them. Knight was a little dissapointing due to the heavy reliance on the Batmobile, but storywise again it was just awesome. Wish they went with Jean Paul Valley as Azrael, but he was the old comics while Michael is the new Azrael.
Speaking of which, I would love to see Knightfall done as a cartoon movie, or 3 because of how damn long it is. Probably my favourite Batman stories of all time, which I was reading the TPB only to realise it is missing a massive amount of comics. So I am on the hunt for the ones I need to complete the story. Damn these publishers for having a great story arc spanning a number of comic titles