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Paul Dini Revives Batman: The Animated Series as New Comic Series

Published Thu, 13 Feb 2020 15:00:45 -0600

Batman: The Adventures Continue is a new digital comic book series by Batman: The Animated Series co-creator Paul Dini, along with collaborators, TV series co-producer Alan Burnett and longstanding Batman Adventures creator 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!

Merch based on cartoons? Cartoons based on merch? Which came first?

"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."

No 5G here…

Paul Dini Revives Batman: The Animated Series as New Comic Series — Batman: The Adventures Continue #1 cover by Dave Johnson

"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."

Any chance it could be Luke Fox?

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.