As someone once said, “Everything’s better with Batman.” As a little kid, I watched Filmations’ ‘The New Adventures of Batman‘, featuring Adam West and Burt Ward reprising their roles from Batman ’66. I vividly remember Lou Scheimer’s voice contributions, especially his Bat-Mite, and still find great charm in the limited animation, which even my seven-year-old self could tell was cheap. Even, so I never found it to be boring, though I preferred Olan Soule’s Super Friends Batman voice, and have used it as a yardstick against which each successive Cartoon Batman must be measured. Thus far, none have fared worse, and Deidrich Bader is actually something like SEVEN TNAoB’s in his portrayal, leading to today’s Saturday morning query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is really fighting hard not to end today’s MS-QOTD with “and why is it ‘Batman: The Brave and The Bold”, asking: Which outing of the Caped Crusader is the best cartoon Batman?
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Batman: TAS, of course. Better writing, better art, better voice actors.
Batman: The Animated Series, but Brave and the Bold is a respectable second place.