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Just FYI, the Watchtower Database channel is no longer a trio. Mattie left some time ago. It's just James and Ted now.

This video by Steve Shives inspired a brand new bit of headcanon for me: The Joker first developed his "Laughing Fish" formula while he was trying to crack the problem of getting piranhas to smile in the leadup to "Mad Love": Steve's done lots of other cool videos about Batman in general and...

Conroy actually appeared in two episodes of Cheers in its 8th season. The first was in "Death Takes a Holiday on Ice," where Carla finds out her husband Eddie was killed in a Zamboni accident, and the second was in "The Ghost and Mrs. Lebec," where Carla is going out on her first date since she...

I wasn't talking about it being mentioned. I was talking about the artwork showing up online.

About the only thing that disappointed me about "World's Finest" is we didn't get a scene of Bullock and Turpin interacting. Speaking of sitcoms, here's another neat bit of trivia: Tim Daly became a household name when he was cast as Joe Hackett on the 1990 sitcom Wings. It came down to Daly...

And it hasn't made it to the internet? That's surprising.

SPOILER warning for "The Late Mr. Kent" episode of Superman: The Animated Series! There's a meme going around Twitter right now that asks: "What’s a still from a movie or TV show that will completely devastate anyone who has seen it, but seem completely unremarkable to anyone who hasn’t?" I've...

Yeah, IIRC, BT's main objection to having both Darkseid & Brainiac in the same two-parter was that it burned through two of their A-List villains in one story. It's tough finding DC villains powerful enough to challenge the entire Justice League!

Which goes to show that you shouldn't automatically believe what you see on IMDb about upcoming projects.

Update: I messaged Rich & he sent me a response. Here's what he said: Hey, John! Interesting theory. But we were not thinking about Brainiac wanting to be a “real boy” during “Stolen Memories”. The idea of Brainiac needing a new body was introduced in “Ghost in the Machine” which was...

Thanks for setting the record straight, Bruce! As the saying goes, a lie travels halfway around the world before the truth can get its batsuit on. It's good to nip these false rumors in the bud whenever we can. :)

Have they confirmed that either Zorro or the Gray Ghost will be featured on the show?

That sounds more like serendipity than intentional foreshadowing to me (especially since STAS story editor Alan Burnett wasn't involved with Justice League), but neat theory! This would be a good question for Rich Fogel, since he's the credited writer on both "Stolen Memories" and "Twilight."...

I don't blame you in the least. And honestly, you're not missing anything.

Yeah, I watched the clip from the Suicide Squad game the other day. It's in awful taste even if the folks behind the game didn't know about Conroy's health issues, and it looks exceptionally bad now.

SO happy that Suicide Squad game won't be Conroy's final voice acting appearance.

I was recently rewatching the Watchtower Database's video about Two-Face, and it occurred to me that my comment there is basically my Harvey Dent headcanon. Here's the video if you haven't seen it: And here's my comment reconciling two DCAU comic book stories featuring Two-Face, Paul Dini's...

As somebody who's been trying to document the DCAU to the best of my ability, this hit home.

I've been here for five years, already? Wow, I would've guessed three, max. I guess the pandemic and the shutdown are skewing my perception of time.

I wish they'd at least tried to do something that evoked George Pérez's drawing style. This still just looks like an episode of Archer to me.

I don't care for the hand coming out of the water. It's so obviously a fake hand it annoys me. I wish they'd gotten a real person under the water so the hand could actually MOVE. The scene at the doctor's is good, though.

I've long said that if I could edit the best bits of Batman '89 and Batman Begins together, I could get something close to my ideal live action Batman film. I still like Batman '89, but honestly, the first act is my favorite part. My interest wanes after the Joker kills Grissom and the "Wait'll...

Thanks for posting this! I'd forgotten about this piece. I can't imagine that BT would change his mind on that at this point. He's done pretty well for himself by ignoring test screenings so far. :)

Having interviewed BT by phone a couple of times and met him in person at a roundtable press conference once, yeah, he can project that vibe. There was a moment early in my first phone interview with him where he couldn't hear me for a few seconds but I could still hear him just fine. He just...

This looks cute! I'll check it out on Amazon Prime ASAP, and report back here. :)

That one-shot was more fun than should be legal.

Wow, that Bat-Mite/Mxyzptlk idea sounds fun.

Ah, OK. That makes a bit more sense, then. Thanks for the info!

So was the Judas Contract movie in the same continuity as other DC DTV movies? Were they stuck with the team lineup as established in a previous film? (I'm not trying to be sarcastic here. I genuinely don't know, as I dip in & out of the DC animated films.)

I haven't watched any of those movies, so I can't really comment on them. Which begs the question, "Why change the character lineup at all, then?" The folks who were fans of the original NTT comics would appreciate it, and the folks who weren't wouldn't care either way.

Changing the comics seems to be S.O.P. with most of the DTV movies from what I've seen. AFAIK, about the only ones that didn't extensively change something were The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One. Even The Killing Joke added all that extra stuff at the beginning to bring the runtime...

The one with Batman in front of the Flatiron Building with the comic's creative team dead at his feet is also way cool. Maybe, but IIRC, he went back to the original inspiration of Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs. Rogers probably says for sure in either Comic Book Artist Special Edition #2...

Which one? They're both bangers. It wouldn't surprise me if that was the start of it. Writers rarely totally throw away old ideas.

Yeah. The "dissolving people with his touch" gimmick is too rough for kid's TV, I'm sure. (And to clarify, I never imagined that BTAS would use that part. I mainly just wanted to see them use the cool Marshall Rogers design for Clayface III's exoskeleton.)

Honestly, the below quote sounds like early thoughts on "Growing Pains" to me. (Bold added for emphasis) I remember when I first read about Clayface eventually being put into an exoskeleton in a 1992 Comics Scene preview of BTAS (a plot element which happened in the late BTAS episode...

A fun show that did a lot to ignite my childhood love of superheroes and the DC characters in general. Heck, it's impressive they were able to make any kind of superhero show at all considering all the content restrictions they were working under. It's still nostalgic fun for me to watch the...

<shrug> The world still isn't back to normal in many ways.

And I see that I commented in that thread two years ago! I guess I'd forgotten about this project since we never got regular updates on it.

How odd. With the mention of a script by Alan Burnett, potentially reuniting the BTAS voice cast, and an audio drama with a Riddler who's on the spectrum, it sounds like Batman: The Adventures Continue, early rumors of Batman: Caped Crusader, and Batman: The Audio Adventures all mixed together...

I don't think I'm familiar with the potential BTAS audio drama you're talking about, but if Kevin announced it on a con panel in LA, and the moderator knew a lot about it too, that sounds like it WAS an official announcement. It's possible that the project just fell apart after that. It happens.