Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Tuesday, 8 Sep 1992 09:17:29 CDT
From: <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc
Subject: Re: Batman: the TV series
 <SS.92Sep6170145@wpi.WPI.EDU>

Oh, come on guys! "I wish he were drawn more in proportion" or "I wish
his ears were longer."  This stuff looks like the 1939 Bob Kane stuff, and
I think its great.  But hell, looks alone aren't anything if you have a
script that comes out of the Super Wimps, er Friends ("I've got to stop that
(insert runaway menace here) with my (insert hero or heroine's mighty ability
here)")  The scripts are fantastic.  This could be Ren and Stimpy Animation
(no, don't even think about it, it'll give you a mental meltdown) and I'd
like it for the voice acting.  As it is, you've almost got real actors in
terms of animation.  No one sits still, their faces show actual emotions,
and they walk along, not move like they have a seventeen inch dildoe up
their butts ("He-Man!  Hurry up!" "I can only run so fast with a foot long
salami in my anus She-Ra!") (Stop me before I subreference and parenthesize
again).

I also like the fact for the first time in a serious adventure cartoon, there
is actually and acknowledgement of sex.  In the first two episodes, you have
Selina fawning over Bats, Catwoman giving him a fifteen to thirty second
Vacu-seal liplock, those two lab assistants at Phoenix engaging in after
hours festivities, Alfred cancelling "Master Bruce's rendezvous with Bambi"
(alright, anyone wanna tell me what you think of when you hear rendezvous
with Bambi?)

And also, this Batman is a lot more talkative, and he actually smarts off
at times.  Other times, he just has some cold lines...

No Alfred, I only toss butlers (after Alfred jokes about Batman's frame-up)
Good night, "Humanitarian" (after some rich asshole gets busted for murder
and is nearly freezing to death in Freeze's ice sheath)
I'm gonna lean extra hard on the mob families, and if you thought I was
bad news before... (getting information on a terrorist.)

It's also nice to see Bats and Gordon are so politically correct.

No one's safe with these savages on the street. (Gordon, referring to
terrorists)

You're still both scum. (Bats shaking down gangsters about aforementioned
terrorists.)

Also, nice items of note:

Batarangs that slice backs of hands open to make them drop guns (Catwoman
episode)
Agile martial arts moves.
Gordon ordering to keep his men's guns trained on a pair of unarmed
terrorists (In a CARTOON!!!!!  WOW!!!)
Joker's new playing cards (Eat your heart out Gambit, in fact, get hit
with this, you won't have a heart to eat out.)
Catwoman with real claws.
Manbat looking like a monster from hell.
Manbat's transformation.
Hidden drug addiction message in Manbat episode (same speech as an addict
about not being able to control himself.  Raiding pharmacuticals.)
Bats generally backfisting, kicking and grabbing people by the face in
order to get the job done.

In short, I like the show.

Douglas P. Wojtowicz.

But something tells me that X-Men's gonna suck.  Why?  Because the comic
sucks cheese at this point already, and the animators are trying to stick
true to the comic.  But don't worry, Ren and Stimpy are forming the
Brotherhood of Stupid Mutants (The Littlest Giant, Mr. Horse, Stinky
Weasleteats, Commander Hoek and Cadet Stimpy, Powdered Toast Man, and
the derranged Fire Chief, with help from JR Bob Dobbs and Connie if things
really get heinous, or heavy.)

That's Ren-Men, you eeeeddeeeeeeeot!
From: daq@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Doug Quarnstrom)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:10:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Comics as Literature
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA