The Official Batman TAS Thread - Part 2

[Kane52630]

^ I second that. Absolutely fantastic. Is the artist planning on doing one for every episode?

Looks like it...

Started watching BTAS and felt really inspired to do a sketch per episode for the entire first season

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

One of my favourite episodes.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

Same. That's how you make adult Batman stories.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[The Joker]

^ Even though the episode was weak, that is awesome.

 

[Decepticonus]

One of my favourite episodes.

Same. That's how you make adult Batman stories.

Yeah, this is what makes the show so great in how you age with it. As a kid I didn't care for this episode, so forgettable. Where's Joker? Where's Penguin? What, just some gangsters and this old guy, pft. LAME! Now when I watch it is powerful. It shows a caring, compassionate Batman who could have just kicked this guy's ass. But no, he wants Valestra to notice the problems here and accept defeat more or less. Batman even calls on Father Valestra who wants to give up on him, but Batman states "I don't believe you'd give up on anyone Father." Powerful words, and fair to say Batman feels the same way too. If anything Batman wasn't the hero of this story, instead Thorne's rival was, so as his brother.

 

[The Joker]

It wasn't Valestra in that episode. You're thinking of Sal Valestra, the wheezing chain smoking old man gangster in Mask of the Phantasm. The gangster in that episode was Arnie Stromwell.

 

[Decepticonus]

It wasn't Valestra in that episode. You're thinking of Sal Valestra, the wheezing chain smoking old man gangster in Mask of the Phantasm. The gangster in that episode was Arnie Stromwell.

My bad, thank you.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Hunter Rider]

Amazingly this one is even better!

 

[Travesty]

Those are all really good.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Young Superman]

That's awesome.

 

[The Joker]

That artist is so talented.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[batfreakforever]

^ Even though the episode was weak, that is awesome.

No it wasn't weak. Far from it. One of the best Penguin episodes.

 

[The Joker]

No it wasn't weak. Far from it. One of the best Penguin episodes.

Not only was it weak, not to mention an insult to Penguin's character, it's probably the worst episode of the show. Batman was useless as he was unconscious for most of the episode. Penguin was made to look like a bumbling fool by being outwitted by two children driving the Batmobile. Even the 60's TV show never went that stupid. Then the kids go all Home Alone on Penguin and his goons at the end. It was an embarrassing farce of a story.

The only positive in it is Penguin's killer vulture, it was genuinely creepy and menacing. The episode was truly terrible. Penguin deserved much better than that for his intro into the show. Even the great Bruce Timm can't stand this episode;

"I can't even watch that show. It's the epitome of what we don't want to do with Batman. The script came in and it was terrible. Normally, I tell the director to do what he can to make it interesting, and nobody could figure out a way to make it interesting. The storyboard artists didn't care, and it shows."

http://www.worldsfinestonline.com/WF/batman/btas/backstage/animato/

 

[Hunter Rider]

I had the Cat and The Claw on VHS as it was released as a movie here, really good story IMO.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[Sawyer]

 

[the5timechamp]

SO GOOD..

Id identify the episodes even if the titles werent already included...

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

I had the Cat and The Claw on VHS as it was released as a movie here, really good story IMO.

Where is here?

 

[Hunter Rider]

Where is here?

The UK.

 

[Goshdarn Batman]

The UK.

Ah, okay. I have it on VHS too, but it's in two parts. Those two episodes are among my favorites. The first BTAS episode I saw was the cat and the claw part 2.

I really miss the 90s.