Batman: The Adventures Continue Arrives from Paul Dini, Alan Burnett and Ty Templeton!
New Comic Books, Set in the World of Batman: The Animated Series, Coming this May
From the visionary team behind Batman: The Animated Series come all-new stories set in this seminal animated world! Batman: The Adventures Continue, DC’s new, digital-first six-issue mini-series, launching in print on May 6, 2020, is co-written by Paul Dini and Alan Burnett, both producers of the original animated series, and illustrated by Ty Templeton, who has brought the world of B:TAS to comic books since 1992’s Batman Adventures #1.
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| (Batman: The Adventures Continue #1 artwork by Ty Templeton) |
Inspired by the beloved and Emmy Award-winning Batman: The Animated Series, these new comics reflect a new era of the long-running DC Collectibles action figure line by featuring newly designed characters never before seen in the beloved animated shows! DC’s Batman: The Adventures Continue characters are all based on art by Ty Templeton in the iconic Bruce Timm animated style. New figures from DC Collectibles launch this spring, and now, together with these new comics, the legendary Batman: The Animated Series continues to reach new audiences!
“Fans familiar with the Batman of The New Batman/Superman Adventures will be right up to speed,” says Paul Dini. “Alan and I approached the writing with the idea that we were doing the season you might have seen if we had not put the series aside to do Batman Beyond.”
“Tim Drake is still a very young Robin,” added Ty Templeton of the timing of the series. “Batman isn’t middle-aged or anything, and we’re not even close to the events of Batman Beyond.”
“What is different, however, is that we’re going back to cover certain gaps in the original series, events that didn’t have a bearing on the series at the time, but now do,” continued Alan Burnett. “In other words, there will be secret histories that will turn Batman’s world upside down. Things that no one knew were out there, until now.”
“Perhaps the most intriguing character in the run will be young man whose story threads through most of the issues,” teased Burnett. “He’s a smart, super-elusive loner who knows way too much about the Dark Knight. How this mystery man fits into the world of Batman Adventures and what he means to accomplish should, I hope, be a real jolt for old fans.”
In the first issue of Batman: The Adventures Continue, collecting two digital-first chapters, Wayne Enterprises in Gotham City is attacked by a giant robot that steals an entire room from the laboratory. Who’s controlling the robot? How will Batman stop the mechanized menace? And what does it all have to do with Lex Luthor’s sudden appearance in Gotham?
Batman: The Adventures Continue #1, written by Paul Dini and Alan Burnett with art by Ty Templeton and color by Monica Kubina, featuring a cover by Dave Johnson and a variant cover by Dan Mora, hits shelves on May 6, 2020. Digital-First chapters will be released beginning in April 2020.
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| (Batman: The Adventures Continue #1 cover by Dave Johnson) |
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| (Batman: The Adventures Continue #1 variant cover by Dan Mora) |
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| (Batman: The Adventures Continue #1 artwork by Ty Templeton and Monica Kubina) |
BATMAN: THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE: DEATHSTROKE, ROBIN, SUPER ARMOR BATMAN, AND THE JOKER ACTION FIGURES
Inspired by the beloved and Emmy Award-winning Batman: The Animated Series, this new era of the line features characters never before seen in the series with designs by Ty Templeton in the iconic animated art style. These 1:12 scale action figures include a number of accessories.
- Allocations may occur
- Final products may differ from images shown
DEATHSTROKE
ROBIN
SUPER ARMOR BATMAN
THE JOKER
ON SALE JULY 2020
Each figure sold separately
Other figures shown at New York Toy Fair 2020 below:
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| Batman (Azrael) |
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| Red Hood (Jason Todd) |
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| The Batman Who Laughs |
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| Catwoman (Selina Kyle) |
Yes, you read that right. There's going to be a CONTINUATION of
Batman: The Animated Series coming sooner than you think. The announcement was first made back in mid-February and I'm honestly surprised that it's not making as much traction as it should, even if it means that we're not getting a new cartoon out of this. I'm sure given enough support it would convince DC Comics and Warner Bros. to consider that possibility, especially with the popularity of that series as the
definitive Batman animated series.
The accompanying toyline looks even better than the figures based on The New Batman Adventures from a few years ago with the same level of detail. At the same time though, $35 for a single figure seems pretty steep though, no matter how much you may love these characters. It's already a stretch to pay $10-$25 for wrestling-based and Marvel Legends figures. Then again, retailers have been making bank off toy collectors for years and even more so on the second hand market, so I'm sure these are going to sell just fine.
In terms of the characters shown in the toyline, I'm anxious to see how they are going to adapt characters such as The Batman Who Laughs (who is a recent new entity that came out of that DC Metal event last year), Deathstroke, Azrael, and even Jason Todd/Red Hood of all people existing in the DC Animated Universe. I thought it was established that Tim Drake was pretty much Bruce's only Robin in his origin story and even borrowed some elements from Todd in that aspect too to avoid the controversy with that character at the time. That's going to be interesting to see how they shoehorn Red Hood into the Batman TAS continuity. I have faith in this team as DC Comics did some interesting stuff with the
Batman Beyond 2.0 and
Justice League Beyond books that stayed true to the DC Animated Universe's continuity while expanding upon it. Besides, this team still has the ability to tell great stories. Say what you will about
Justice League: Gods and Monsters and
Batman & Harley Quinn, but they were both great additions to DC Comics' reputation of great animated series. The only sore spot was their adaptation of
Batman: The Killing Joke, but that's a story that I felt that didn't need an animated adaptation in the first place. The only thing that adaptation did was remind people of the lowest point in Barbara Gordon/Batgirl/Oracle's character history, which was amplified by the original prelude that was slapped on the first half of the story.
I hope this mini-series gets enough attention that justifies an adaptation or a possible continuation of the original Batman: The Animated Series. If the original cast are still willing and able, get the old gang back together for some new adventures or even a few direct-to-video movies. I know I would be game to investing in seeing those for DC Universe or via DVD/Blu-Ray.
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