The Future Is Now for Batman Beyond
Holy shit. Dan Didio announced a new Batman Beyond comic mini-series for next year.
That. Is. Awesome.
Do I even need to say anything more? Probably not; there are very few nerds that can find a reason to dislike Bruce Timm and Paul Dini’s animated Batman series, and Batman Beyond became pretty much the perfect epilogue for Bruce Wayne’s crimefighting career. It created its own fascinating world for future Batman Terry McGinnis, while building on the original Batman mythos in consistently awesome ways. You know, if it came down to the entirety of the DC universe ending with Kingdom Come or letting Batman drift into Batman Beyond and taking the rest of the DCU with him, I’ll take Batman Beyond every time. (Via Newsarama)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.