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If you're looking for the best animated Dark Knight since Batman: The Animated Series, look no further than EPs Bruce Timm, J.J Abrams, Matt Reeves, Ed Brubaker, and Sam Register's Batman: Caped Crusader While the two series share the same level of excellence, they are also two very different takes on Batman – and that was[...]

Discovery's Max streaming service, executive producers Bruce Timm, J.J Abrams, Matt Reeves, Ed Brubaker & Sam Register's Batman: Caped Crusader would officially make the move to Amazon's Prime Video in early 2023 – with the streamer confirming a two-season order Thanks to Entertainment Weekly's interview with Timm, we're learning some details about what viewers can expect[...]

While we await word on when executive producers Bruce Timm, J.J Abrams, Matt Reeves, Ed Brubaker & Sam Register's Batman: Caped Crusader will officially hit Prime Video screens, Timm is shutting down some reporting out there regarding the late voice actor Kevin Conroy – considered by millions to be the definitive voice of Batman[...]

 Through home video and TV airings, though, the film caught on, and fans around the world realized they had not only missed a great Batman movie in theaters, but they may have missed the greatest ever made. Now there are a ton of reasons why Batman: Mask of The Phantasm didn't work at the box office,[...]

I pitched it to Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett, and Bruce was like, 'That sounds like fun.' So I wrote the script, and Bruce did the design of her in the classic jester outfit, and everything just clicked." Harley Quinn would make her first comics appearance in Batman Adventures #12 a year later and would enter DC[...]

 Bruce Timm and co didn't just create a great Batman cartoon; they created the gold standard for Batman. The entirety of Batman: The Animated Series is available to stream on HBO Max. If you were a kid (or kid at heart) lucky enough to have been hunkered down on the best seat in your living room on[...]

 And yet, not many people got to as it only lasted 13 episodes and was quickly canceled. There wasn't an animated version of Superman again until 1996, when hot on the heels of their megahit Batman: The Animated Series, Bruce Timm and his team created an animated Superman show for the new WB Network[...]

 Series creator Bruce Timm explained that it was a strenuous process to get the voice he was looking for and it required a lot of work between him and Ansara. "He was acting too much It was really frustrating for him He had never done cartoons before and an actor's first natural instinct is to act[...]

 This resulted in a product that series creator Bruce Timm was very unhappy with, as he deemed the animation in the episodes to be inadequate and not up to his lofty standards. So if you'll recall in Part I, the plot revolves around Catwoman trying to stop a corporation named Multigon from building atop a mountain lion sanctuary[...]

 One of the series' greatest legacies is creating such a big character and it all started here. Harley Quinn, as drawn by Bruce Timm. The character was created by writer Paul Dini, who spoke about how he took the simple idea of the Joker having a female sidekick and fleshed it out into what would become one of[...]

To me, this is the epitome of how Batman should be portrayed." Series creator Bruce Timm was also a fan of the episode and said "It's a real witty script and Boyd Kirkland did a great job directing it His storyboards were staged brilliantly There's this one great shot on the storyboard You're looking at a church[...]

 The episode was animated by a studio named Tokyo Movie Shinsha, who ironically, completely disregarded the coloring instructions they were given by the show's creators and instead created their own palette of earthy browns and reds. Seeing the results though, series creator Bruce Timm loved it and wasn't upset about the rejection of what they were directed to[...]

 It's never been stated by Bruce Timm or anyone that this was a direct homage, but Timm and other B: TAS creators have often cited The Outer Limits as inspiration for other episodes, so I can assume that was the case here too. Hagen's friend tries to argue with him that the cream he's using is definitely harmful to[...]

Freeze until the 1966 Batman TV series when the show made the name change that stuck while maintaining his overall goofy presentation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6b3y8idVN4Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Dynamic Duo's Most Chilling Cliff-Hanger! – Batman – 1966 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6b3y8idVN4) B: TAS creator Bruce Timm wanted to take the character in a new direction and came up[...]

 The episode's title is believed to be inspired by a line from Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian, which reads, "in the night bats came from some nether part of the world to stand on leather wings like dark satanic hummingbirds and feed at the mouths of those flowers." So why did they want to launch a new animated[...]

Back in May 2021, animation fans learned that Bruce Timm, J.J Abrams, and Matt Reeves (The Batman) were teaming with HBO Max and Cartoon Network to expand Batman's animated universe with the new series Batman: Caped Crusader Executive produced by showrunner Timm, as well as Abrams and Reeves, co-executive produced by James Tucker, and produced[...]

wanted to fully capitalize on the new "Bat-Mania" and the decision was made to create a new animated program for Batman to reinforce his standing as a merchandising juggernaut with kids. From the studio's own Tiny Toon Adventures, animator and producer Bruce Timm was granted the opportunity to pitch his vision for what a new Batman cartoon would/should[...]

Fans cannot get enough of the pair, and Batman: The Animated Series creator Bruce Timm has been right there teasing it for years now Up for auction at Heritage Auctions, today is a beautiful sketch by the artist featuring Harley Quinn hugging Poison Ivy from behind in a cute pose Currently sitting at $975, this[...]

They've got Scott Snyder, but no mention of Josh Williamson, Tom King, James Tynion IV, Jorge Jimenez, Sean Gordon Murphy or Greg Capullo this time around… they just make the place look untidy after all. Fewer Comic Creators, More TV/Film/Gaming/Toy Stars At DC Fandome So here's the full list: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, JJ Abrams, Steve Agee, Melissa Benoist,[...]

Any ideas? Jeph Loeb – Co-creator of modern Calendar Man. Al Milgrom – co-creator of the second Thinker Frank Miller – creator of Corto Maltese Sheldon Moldoff – co-creator of Polka-Dot Man and Calendar Man. Jimmy Palmiotti – developer of the current version of Harley Quinn Tim Sale – Co-creator of modern Calendar Man. Mike Sekowsky – co-creator of Javelin, co-creator of Starro The Conqueror. Gail[...]

Bruce Timm, J.J Abrams, and Matt Reeves (The Batman) are teaming up with HBO Max and Cartoon Network to expand Batman's animated universe with the new series Batman: Caped Crusader Executive produced by Timm, Abrams, and Reeves, and produced by Warner Bros Animation (WBA), Bad Robot Productions, and 6th & Idaho, the series will be[...]

Not only will you get comic book creators and autographs, but something to keep your lunch in as well.   Neal Adams, Mike Mignola, and others – Lunchbox Sketches Original Art (2006) What is more novel than to take a lunchbox to San Diego Comic Con to be signed and sketched on by comic artists and pop[...]

This is a relative steal at $750. Naughty and Nice Good Girl Art of Bruce Timm Signed HC A rare hardcover to find, even rarer signed,  limited to 1000 copies Currently at just over $500. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1988 Set of 7 Playmates AF  Thirty years and change, these have been waiting for you… currently at[...]

Designed by Bruce Timm, sculpted by Jonathan Mattews, it will be shipped in five separate pieces for you to assemble yourself Man, you may pay $5200 but that won't include the manual labour. Oh boy, there is just so much that could go wrong with this But anyway, I'm sure they know what they are doing… It[...]

The "Architect of Modern Superhero Animation" Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League), has steered the course for most of the DC Comics Animated Universe (DCAU) since he shook the world with his brilliant vision for Batman: The Animated Series in 1992 – and now in 2019, he sits down to chew the fat[...]

Many of the original voice actors from the Bruce Timm-era are also back. The more elegant Fleisher-esque look of the characters are a welcome relief from the stiff, uglier faces of the current more grim and serious animated movies It feels like another episode of the original much-missed show. The movie also continues DC's current soft re-launch[...]

Pictures official Twitter, btw), you can see the bone charm pretty clearly. Zooming in, you can even read the name engraved there, which just HAPPENS to be… BRUCE?! This could be for one of two reasons: maybe, because Batman saved Harley in Suicide Squad from the sinking car, and SOMEHOW she ascertained his identity, it's in thanks? The other[...]

To promote the set, Warner Brothers sent legendary producers Bruce Timm and Eric Rudomski and actors Diane Pershing (Poison Ivy), Loren Lester (Robin/Nightwing), Tara Strong (Batgirl), and the Batman himself Kevin Conroy   First of all, the remastering looks great We saw a few clips, split screen between original and remastered and the remastered is really[...]

The only input I had in it at all was the Adam West show from the '60s, and when I told Bruce Timm that at the audition he said 'No, NO, NO, that's not what we are doing!' He said, 'We love him, we love that show, But that's not what we are doing.' He[...]

Bleeding Cool got the chance to sit down with Andrea Romano, voice director of Batman: The Animated Series. Watch the interview here.