TVGuide.com reports that Cartoon Network confirmed the rumored Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon this morning:
Also on that slate is The Secret Saturdays, about a family of “world-saving adventure scientists,” and the new Batman series, whose guest stars include Green Arrow, Blue Beetle, Green Lantern and Aquaman. No clip was shown, but Rob Sorcher, Cartoon Net’s chief content officer, says The Brave and the Bold will be “equal doses of comedy and high stakes.”
The show will run on Friday nights, but no premiere date was announced. They also talked about — you guessed it — the upcoming Clone Wars cartoon, as well as the new Ben 10 series Alien Force. Click the link up top to read more about it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 pm
WOOT! Jaime is in the house!
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I am so happy to see Jaime as Blue Beetle on TV. That’s pretty awesome.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:44 pm
it’s…it’s… JAIME!!!!
yay!!!
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Jaime has hit the mainstream. It’s amazing that he’s in the first promo art for the show.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
With all the excitement about Blue Beetle, I’d be remiss in my duties as a
huckstereditor if I didn’t point out Michael May’s interview with Jai Nitz earlier today on an all-Spanish issue of Blue Beetle:http://blog.newsarama.com/2008/04/03/qa-jai-nitz-on-blue-beetles-all-spanish-issue
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Hooray for High-Mee design!
In other news, I hear it’s Ted under there.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Orale, Jaime! They can’t cancel his book now! Um, right?
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
AH! I don’t really care for the style, but JAIME REYES! YESSSS!
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
i like the style … kinda reminds me of carmine infantino (kids look it up)
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
While everyone’s apparently excited about Blue Beetle (I have no opinion on the character), I’m dismayed over the “cartoonish” (Yeah, I know it’s a cartoon… You know what I mean) art, and the fact that a a series with Batman is going to be as much a *comedy* as it is an an action/adventure show.
Are they going to hire Adam West to voice Bats too?
People may actually start looking back on “THE Batman” with fondness now. Who’d a thunk it?
At least there’s the Gotham Knight DVD — and The Dark Knight of course — coming this summer. May WB keep making some darker and adult-oriented animated Batman. With Kevin Conroy doing the voice.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Sure it’s cool they have blue beetle but dosen’t this look and sound too much like an adam west sort of batman show?
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Looks very much like Mattel’s new “Super Friends” line of young kids action figures, and the comic based on it. I wonder if this was coordinated with that line/comic?
(And if that IS Ted in the suit instead of Jaime, I think there will be a revolt based on the excitement in this thread
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Sweet — a funny Batman? I never thought I’d see that again. It’s worth it just for the new approach.
But Jaime makes one helluva nice topper!
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:42 pm
I’m not too crazy over the style — the blockish figures. It looks too much like what they’re using in the new Super Friends comic book.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Yeah, the return of the Silver Age Batman to animation.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Look’s like fun. My daughter’s really getting into superheroes right now, so here’s hoping that this show doesn’t ignore a potential female viewership and Bats teams up with Wonder Woman, Batgirl, Supergirl, Hawkgirl, etc. etc.
I was pretty disgusted that the Justice League that was formed on “The Batman” featured not one single female character.
I guess the marketing folks won on that one, what with their asinine belief that girls only like Barbie and Bratz. I guess that’s why my daughter wants to play superheroes outside all the time and adores “Tiny Titans” and “Super Friends”.
I look forward to watching this with her and eagerly await an announcement of the line up of guest stars.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:53 pm
I love the dismay that there might be even one version of Batman in the media that doesn’t suffer from irritable bowel syndrome and TMJ.
Please don’t worry. One happy Batman kids cartoon doesn’t negate your jaw-clenching, teeth-gritting, I-am-the-night-and-I-can-feel-my-ribs-moving “The”.
So relax. And in the meantime, you might want to go up a size on your underwear. It seems to be pinching.
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:03 pm
EEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWW……….
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:14 pm
“I love the dismay that there might be even one version of Batman in the media that doesn’t suffer from irritable bowel syndrome and TMJ.”
I’m not so sure about that. Looking closely at that picture, Batman still looks pretty grumpy.
Batman: the Grumpy Knight
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:37 pm
Is that something you
postedread on AICN, “Ugly American?”April 3rd, 2008 at 6:50 pm
Can’t reveal my sources, but you heard it here first - the voice of Blue Beetle is Will Friedle (Batman Beyond)
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
But it is Jaime in the suit
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 pm
You guys realize this is marketed towards children, right? The network execs don’t care much about what 40 yr old men think about the animation.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
Maybe i spoke too soon. It was hard to see batman and here he looks like the most serious of the three there (earlier when the image was smaller just seemed to look not too serious while here he does). i’m hoping that he’s more of the iritated straight man sort of thing like how bats was in the giffen dematis justice league. you know have ollie and jaime be cracking jokes and the like and batman being can we be serious. that i would live with.
April 3rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
plus i’m 21 not forty! though i somtimes feel like i’m gettin old too fast
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Sure they care about the older audience. They just make the direct-to-DVD features to sell to them while they are focusing on the youth market on Cartoon Network. The cool thing is that we’ve been getting a range of DC shows for all ages over the last 10 years or more and I like that.
I for one can’t help but dig the Dick Sprang-look Batman there. It’s looks like the stilted animation from the opener to the old 60s Batman show come to life.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I meant Cartoon Network execs.
But to be honest, most animation is ideally geared towards children. Execs just know that the older audience likes this stuff, too, and caters to them, as well.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Yeah and i do like dick sprang (sure i know what your gonna say but i thought you didn’t want a humorous batman but the early sprang batman wasn’t as goofy as later apearances anyway who cares) i think i just heard gail simone is attachted to write some eps so maybe it won’t be that bad.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Adam West teams up with Robin Hood and JAIME!!!???
I’m sold. ^_^
And I’m DEAD SERIOUS.
April 4th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Jim - we realize the executives at Cartoon Network don’t care about our opinion. That’s why we’re expressing it where people DO care, on Newsarama message boards!
April 4th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Well, my hopes for this show are lower now. At least the Superfriends had Alex Toth character designs. I miss Jim Aparo.
April 4th, 2008 at 9:11 am
Perhaps, and this seems like a no-brainer to me, Cartoon Network should go ahead with their goofy, kiddie Batman show, and ALSO create a new “Gotham Knight” series (based on the forthcoming DVD) for Adult Swim?
Put it out sometime next year, after The Dark Knight has run its course in theaters and on DVD, with the same style of animation and (most importantly) keep Kevin Conroy on board. That way, the grown-ups have their Batman fix too.
I have to politely disagree with those who say no one cares what adults think. If that were true, why does Adult Swim exist? Anime is big thing now… Combining that with proven, popular characters like Batman actually makes perfect sense if it’s handled properly. With so many comic book movies being made, and marketed at adults (TDK is NOT going to be a kiddie flick), it just makes sense.
I mentioned this in another post, but it bears repeating here. My nine year old daughter is going to take one look at this new B&B show and call it “stupid.” She greatly prefers stuff like the old Timm-verse Batman. I dunno… Maybe B&B is trying to aim even younger than that?
April 4th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Well, I’m all for this, as I’ve been pretty pleased with pretty much every DC animated series so far (call me too easily entertained, but generally I’m not). Possible exception is Legion, but that’s because I don’t care so much about the Legion. These guys, I’m all about. And re: the “comedy” aspect, some of the best Batman stuff is when he stays grumpy while everything around him is hilarious.
April 4th, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Full agreement on the Dick Sprang look. The style also makes me think of the new Superfriends toy line and comic book, but Sprang seems to be the primary influence.
And the Adam West show was campy, yes. But not comedy.
As for Blue Beetle. Well, never cared much for the character. Goofy superheroes have never been my thing. But those old enough to remember the 1970s Batman show with the Batmite sidekick will remember a Dark Knight toon with a comedic edge.
April 8th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Well I’m willing to give it a shot and hopefully we’ll see some DC characters that we haven’t seen in animation yet like any of the following:
The Spectre(Jim Corrigan version)
The Metal Men
The Phantom Stranger
Ragman
Animal Man
Judomaster
Son of Vulcan
..just to name a few.
I’d also like to see new advs with Bats and:
Metamorpho
Deadman
Hawkman
Flash (Barry Allen version)
Capt. Atom
The Question
The JSA
and Jonah Hex
Who knows? It may turn out to be a cool series afterall.
Rod 8^)
April 13th, 2008 at 11:37 am
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April 22nd, 2008 at 10:55 pm
well atleast lets give it a shot… And hopefully this one wont stink bigtime!