BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES 12

show extras 1992-5 OUT NOW BD EXTRAS Commentaries, Featurettes, Animated films

Before Joel Schumacher trashed the Batmobile, Bruce Timm/Eric Radomski’s Batman-imation navigated between Tim Burton’s expressionist Gotham and the neo-noir comics. Pitch-perfect voice-work (Arleen Sorkin’s Harley Quinn, Mark Hamill’s glorious Joker) anchors meaty plotting that juggles serial-style adventures with ambitious what-if gambits. As for Bats (Kevin Conroy, superb), spin-off Mask Of The Phantasm (included) sliced open his romantic torments long before Chris Nolan arrived. Kevin Harley