historic; JAY GARRICK FLASH!!!!

[RobertScorpio]

I don't know if anyone mentioned it yet. But last FRIDAY on BATMAN-BRAVE AND THE BOLD they had yet another historic moment on that show...JAY GARRICK Flash made a brief cameo at the start. I believe that is the first time he has ever appeared in a cartoon, helmet and all!!!

Rob

 

[TheArsenal]

Saw that. Jay Garrick being my favorite Flash, I was pleased.

Also had a laugh when they managed to outfit Batman is his Gotham By Gaslight uniform in a recent episode. The creators certainly look to be having a good time with this show.

 

[Kryton]

Cool...Garrick's "Mercury/Hermes Helmet" was always a favorite...that, plus no mask and simple trousers and a T-shirt always made him seem extra cool to me.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Saw that. Jay Garrick being my favorite Flash, I was pleased.

Also had a laugh when they managed to outfit Batman is his Gotham By Gaslight uniform in a recent episode. The creators certainly look to be having a good time with this show.

Yes that was cool...the SHERLOCK HOLMES/DEMON plot was cool too...and the two parter with Red-Hood/Joker was pretty cool too...

I hope they bring ALAN SCOTT Green Lantern on this show.. he is my favorite Green Lantern and has never appeared either. Though, the Green Guardsman in that JL episode when they ended up on that other Earth was very good attempt...

Rob

 

[Christopher]

I believe that is the first time he has ever appeared in a cartoon, helmet and all!!!

Almost, but not quite. He appeared briefly in the opening titles of Justice League: The New Frontier. But this is the first time he's had a speaking role.

 

[Gojirob]

Did anyone else notice that they never named him, either as Flash or JG?

 

[RobertScorpio]

I believe that is the first time he has ever appeared in a cartoon, helmet and all!!!

Almost, but not quite. He appeared briefly in the opening titles of Justice League: The New Frontier. But this is the first time he's had a speaking role.

I forgot about NEW FRONTIER..good one. I wish they would have done a 'pre-NEW FRONTIER to see what happened to them...

Rob

 

[Admiral James Kirk]

So how is B&TB? I mean The Batman was on for like 5 seasons and was actually a pretty decent show but I heard nothing but bitching (I was personally responsible for about 50% of that bitching until I actually sat down and watched it) during it's entire run. I've heard faaaar less bitching about this show. Good? Bad? Not worth bitching about?

 

[RobertScorpio]

So how is B&TB? I mean The Batman was on for like 5 seasons and was actually a pretty decent show but I heard nothing but bitching (I was personally responsible for about 50% of that bitching until I actually sat down and watched it) during it's entire run. I've heard faaaar less bitching about this show. Good? Bad? Not worth bitching about?

It started off weak...but man, I love this show because i think its fun...and the stories appeal to me and my son..and I DARE say that the recent Joker episode was great...I liked him better than Mark Hamel's Joker..

The stories dont have the arcs that JLU did but so what? It has far cooler characters (meaning DC's lesser characters)....

I hope it gets picked up for another season and they keep giving us great cameos like JAY GARRACK and others...

Rob

 

[CaptainCanada]

It was a neat appearance, though I didn't think Jay's voice was old-timey enough.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

So how is B&TB? I mean The Batman was on for like 5 seasons and was actually a pretty decent show but I heard nothing but bitching (I was personally responsible for about 50% of that bitching until I actually sat down and watched it) during it's entire run. I've heard faaaar less bitching about this show. Good? Bad? Not worth bitching about?

It started off weak...but man, I love this show because i think its fun...and the stories appeal to me and my son..and I DARE say that the recent Joker episode was great...I liked him better than Mark Hamel's Joker..

The stories dont have the arcs that JLU did but so what? It has far cooler characters (meaning DC's lesser characters)....

I hope it gets picked up for another season and they keep giving us great cameos like JAY GARRACK and others...

Rob

Depends on your attitude as well. I was at a local comic book convention this weekend and overheard some guys talking in stereotypical form, "I'm sorry but I just can't accept Diedrich Bader as Batman", "Batman does not go hopping around the galaxy, they have superheroes for that" but also sounding like they hadn't actually bothered to watch it.

This show is a throwback to the bright but sillier superhero cartoons of yore or looser modern cartoons so it doesn't rankle fans of BTAS so bad because it doesn't really threaten it or invite comparisons because it is so different.

 

[Christopher]

TB&TB is a great deal of fun. It's an unapologetic throwback to the comics of the '50s and '60s, before things got all gritty and mature and comics were lively, zany, larger-than-life fantasy adventures. But it's done with a lot more sophistication and maturity than you'd expect. It's a Silver Age universe, but handled with modern storytelling sensibilities. At first, skeptical fans were dismissing it as a dumbed-down kiddie show, but it's nothing of the kind -- it's dealt with death, murder, zombies, and other such ideas far more overtly than, say, Batman: TAS was allowed to by Fox censors. And there's some pretty interesting characterization too, with some of the recurring characters growing and evolving over the course of just the few episodes they've been in (notably Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle). Just because it's light doesn't mean it isn't smart.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

They seem to use Gentlemen Ghost a lot. Not that that's a bad thing.

 

[RobertScorpio]

So how is B&TB? I mean The Batman was on for like 5 seasons and was actually a pretty decent show but I heard nothing but bitching (I was personally responsible for about 50% of that bitching until I actually sat down and watched it) during it's entire run. I've heard faaaar less bitching about this show. Good? Bad? Not worth bitching about?

It started off weak...but man, I love this show because i think its fun...and the stories appeal to me and my son..and I DARE say that the recent Joker episode was great...I liked him better than Mark Hamel's Joker..

The stories dont have the arcs that JLU did but so what? It has far cooler characters (meaning DC's lesser characters)....

I hope it gets picked up for another season and they keep giving us great cameos like JAY GARRACK and others...

Rob

Depends on your attitude as well. I was at a local comic book convention this weekend and overheard some guys talking in stereotypical form, "I'm sorry but I just can't accept Diedrich Bader as Batman", "Batman does not go hopping around the galaxy, they have superheroes for that" but also sounding like they hadn't actually bothered to watch it.

This show is a throwback to the bright but sillier superhero cartoons of yore or looser modern cartoons so it doesn't rankle fans of BTAS so bad because it doesn't really threaten it or invite comparisons because it is so different.

Well, the BATMAN in the BRAVE AND THE BOLD comic book did zip around the galaxy quite often. He went to OA, Rand, not to mention the future..this BRAVE AND THE BOLD cartoon is meant to be in the style of the 70s Brave and the Bold comic book, which is great...

And I think this new guy doing BATMAN's voice is doing a great job...so..I'm all good with it..

Rob

 

[drychlick]

i love it i read the oid bb comic when i was a kid

 

[Saul]

Seeing the two worlds greatest Detectives Holmes and Batman next to each other was all kinds of coolness. This show is quite fun.

Has Bruce Wayne actually shown up in this? I have only seen Batman so far.

 

[Christopher]

Has Bruce Wayne actually shown up in this? I have only seen Batman so far.

We've only glimpsed the young Bruce in flashbacks. Other than that, he's all Batman all the time, and we never see his face even on those occasions when he changes costume. (For instance, when he disguised himself as his alternate-universe evil twin Owlman, he did the costume change in shadow.) We rarely see the civilian identities of any of the heroes, except for Jaime/Blue Beetle and Jason Blood/Etrigan (and we briefly saw Red Tornado in his civilian disguise as a college professor named John Ulthoon).

 

[TheArsenal]

So how is B&TB?

As I've noted before, I quickly dismissed it, but not afraid to admit I got this one wrong. It had a shaky start. Or perhaps, in fairness to the show, it took a couple of episodes to get used to the style as it is very different in tone and target demographic than the DC animated shows that came before it.

Either way it is Batman as breezy family all ages fun. And I mean that in a good way. The plots are simple, but not insultingly so, and they touch the four corners of the DCU in ways I never expected. Owlman, Red Hood and a Vampire Batman in the same episode, for example.

 

[RobertScorpio]

So how is B&TB?

As I've noted before, I quickly dismissed it, but not afraid to admit I got this one wrong. It had a shaky start. Or perhaps, in fairness to the show, it took a couple of episodes to get used to the style as it is very different in tone and target demographic than the DC animated shows that came before it.

Either way it is Batman as breezy family all ages fun. And I mean that in a good way. The plots are simple, but not insultingly so, and they touch the four corners of the DCU in ways I never expected. Owlman, Red Hood and a Vampire Batman in the same episode, for example.

is VAMPIRE BAT a real character? Or was that a BRAVE/BOLD creation???

My son's favorite scene so far, and it was funny, is when Joker is in the Batmobil and keeps asking batman what this or that button does...then he presses the one that sprays him with knock-out gas after Batman tells him "you REALLY don't want to touch that one"...yeah, I know..it was silly...but if it makes me and my son laugh? I love it even more.

Classic...

Rob

 

[TheArsenal]

is VAMPIRE BAT a real character? Or was that a BRAVE/BOLD creation???

I ran across him briefly in some multiverse thing or another, a 52 or Countdown to Final Crisis off shoot perhaps. But I think the character has origins prior to that.