Batman Beyond returns.….but in comic book form.

Most of us loved the old Bat­man Beyond car­toon that aired around a decade ago.

It was the amaz­ing child of the excel­lent Bat­man ani­mated series that aired before it, and was a lot darker in tone than most car­toons air­ing at the time, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing it’s tar­get audi­ence and time slot, it was a Sat­ur­day morn­ing car­toon, yet the sub­ject mat­ter and vio­lent nature of this show was def­i­nitely aimed towards older viewers.

Any­one who loved Bat­man: The ani­mated series quickly became fans of Bat­man Beyond, even cre­at­ing new fans with its mature sub­ject matter.

Sadly, it was can­celled abruptly after only two and a half sea­sons, specif­i­cally on the third sea­son in Jan­u­ary of 2005, after the episode :“The Once and Future Thing, Part 2″.

Since then, all we’ve received to whet our Bat­man Beyond appetites was a ter­ri­bly writ­ten ret­con induc­ing Jus­tice League episode where we find out Terry McGin­nis (Bat­man Beyond’s alter ego) was some­how made to be the actual son of the orig­i­nal Bat­man , Bruce Wayne through some far­fetched genetic swap­ping method that is a ridicu­lous stretch, even for DC comics.

Google it, I don’t have the stom­ach to even get into it.

Now, the gods of every­thing awe­some in comics , will bestow upon us a new six part Bat­man Beyond series start­ing next Wednes­day, June 30, and car­ry­ing on until when­ever the hell they fin­ish it.

Art is being done by the phe­nom­e­nal Ryan Benjamin:

http://www.ryanbenjamin.com/

And it is being writ­ten by Adam Beechen, who wrote some issues of Count­down to Final Cri­sis for DC.

This comic series is vol­ume 3 of the series, con­tin­u­ing after the first 2 vol­umes of comics which were based on the TV series, and car­ry­ing on after the Return of the Joker movie as well, but before McGin­nis finds out Bruce Wayne is his bio-dad.

The story is about some pos­si­bly new vil­lains going around and killing any­one who has ever had ANYTHING to do with the orig­nal bat­man, friend or foe.

So this looks like it’s going to carry on the mature sub­ject mat­ter we’ve grown to expect, and also sounds like it’s really going to be interesting.

Here is a pic­ture of the first issue, looks good, I can’t wait until next week when I receive my copy and begin to dive right into the new adven­tures of Bat­man Beyond.

What do you all think of the sec­ond, errr, third, or fourth(?) com­ing of Bat­man Beyond?

I’m fuck­ing excited.

Bryan

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