Anyone check out the Brave and the Bold on Cartoon Network?

Just saw the first episode, where Batman and nu-Blue Beetle go into space and battle Kanjar Ro. Each one will show Batman run around with another character.

Good stuff! It's light and fun, a nice balance between Timmverse and the 1960s Bat-show. Batman is portrayed as a super-capable role model, and not as the tortured avenger of the night of recent vintage. I wonder sometimes if the post-Dark Knight Bats is not suitable for kids: its as if the Adam West-iteration so scarred comic book fans and pros that they must have the character behaving like a sociopath. But this show is good for all ages, methinks.

I enjoyed it too. It's very firmly a kids show, but I really like the character design and voice, as a more cynical, sarcastic incarnation of Adam West.

Have been totally digging this show - they just had a multiverse 2-parter with owlman and a good red hood which was a blast....

I saw the end of that! Surprisingly great.

I couldn't make it all the way through the one episode I tried to watch (Batman and Green Arrow); I don't mind that it's for kids but it grated on me immensely.

The adventures in camelot episode? Not one of their better ones. I do like the characterizations of Green Arrow (finger RIP) and esp. blowhard Aquaman, though.

Just watched the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh episode ("The Super-Batman of Planet X!") just because I heard Kevin Conroy was voicing. Nice treat to hear Dana Delany and Clancy Brown too! I really dig this show's sense of humor, need to watch it more often.

Surprised to see so little discussion of this show! So much of it has reminded me of ILC threads - there's a definite appreciation for the absurdism of DC comics. I mean, they even recreate this:

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Naturally it's been cancelled in favor of a more serious Batman cartoon.

so i keep seeing this and not watching it bc it seems like it's for kids - not that all things for kids are necessarily bad (i love pixar + dr. who so you know) but i guess i'm asking is this worth watching?

I think it's kid-appropriate - it's not an Adult Swim show - but I don't think it's any less appropriate for adults than the 90s Batman was. It's just that instead of the adults-will-appreciate-this elements being the darker tone and Art Deco look, the elements are the absurdity/ridiculousness (lots of lesser-known characters like Gorilla Grodd), the way it revels in the Showcase Presents era of DC comics, the occasional nod and wink to things like the Adam West Batman or the Batman and Robin appearance on Scooby Doo. It's fun but not dumb, ridiculous but not random. There's no long-form storytelling going on, except that occasionally a story element from one episode will become more important in a later one, and there are a few two-parters.

It's definitely closer to Pixar's broad appeal than it is to like ... Ice Age, or one of those other movies that's a bunch of jokes for kids loosely connecting a message about the importance of family.

I never actually am home to watch this but the few episodes I've caught rival Justice League and Ben 10 in quality.

Ben 10 was always a little too cartoon network frantic for my tastes.

I caught a few eps on demand last year - good, genuinely inspired. I only recently watched a new episode - the Bat-Mite Presents one - which was a genunine treat as it adapted the Death-Man episode from the Bat-Manga collection, wholly in something like the spirit of the 60s manga.

Have you seen the newer ones, where Ben is older?

I'm pretty biased though because some of my favorite 90s comic book creators are behind it (Duncan Rouleau, Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, and Steven T. Seagle), but I did start digging the show before I found out who wrote it.

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Cartoon Network frantic! That's a good description of what I was trying to say with "random" (i.e. the random that BtBB isn't). I haven't seen Ben 10, though. Super Hero Squad seems like it would fit that - I've seen a few minutes of it and it seemed like a show I'd be happy to watch with my niece but that I had no real impulse to seek out for myself.

I missed the Bat-Mite Presents episode because I didn't realize the show was back on - that's the problem with not otherwise watching much Cartoon Network, I don't see ads for it - but I've downloaded it and it sounds like a perfect example of what I love about the show (though also, to be fair, more ridiculous/out there than the show's norm).

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Cartoon Network frantic!

Anyone caught the Ben Jones's (aka PaperRad guy) Problem Solverz? Oh man... It's kind of the Adult Swim aesthetic taken to a hard-PG level and it is a sugar rush.

One of the Brave and the Bold directors has a blog: http://hamfist.blogspot.com/

Kind of cool for some of the how-the-sausage-is-made stuff.

If you could buy a box of the entire series, I'd be on that in a flash.

but this Cartoon network thing of releasing 3 episodes a release isn't good enough.