The show quietly hits its stride from there, demonstrating how it can swing from the serious (“Dawn of the Dead Man!” and “Fall of the Blue Beetle!”) to the silly (“Journey to the Center of the Bat!”) as it ramps up in quality steadily. While its earliest episodes are solid but not overwhelming, the first episode that really captures the show’s loopy charm comes by episode 5, “Invasion of the Secret Santas!” with its slightly demented take on the android hero Red Tornado and his Pinocchio complex, set against the backdrop of a Christmastime team-up with Batman. Marathoning the first season on this Blu-ray set shows that this perception might have been an accident of ordering or scheduling in their original broadcasts. I haven’t revisited the show since it went off the air in 2011, but I remember feeling like season 1 took a while to really find its footing. Season 1 was released on Blu-ray by Warner Archive early last year and season 2 arrived late last year we may be a little behind in getting our reviews up, but a series as good as Batman: The Brave and the Bold is a perennial that will hopefully always be in style.īatman: The Brave and the Bold borrows its sub-title and its central concept from the popular DC comic book, teaming up Batman with some other superhero in a fight against evildoers. If Batman: The Animated Series made an impression by cherry-picking their favorite bits from the character’s long history and dispensing with the rest, Batman: The Brave and the Bold succeeds by wholly embracing nearly everything from that history, contradictions and all. Like many comic book superheroes with publication histories measured in decades, Batman has gone through numerous changes over time, with different creators putting different stamps on him, and different eras demanding changes to address their conception of what a superhero should be.
I think the fact that the show isn’t 100% serious is exactly what I love about it.
I’ve read a lot of reviews of Batman: The Brave and the Bold by writers ( including here) who feel the need to bend over backwards explaining how they can like the show even though it’s not 100% serious in the way that Batman: The Animated Series or Beware the Batman are.
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