Comic Book, or TV?

[Bird Boy]

OK. Now, what do you take as batman FICTION or batman Non-Fiction? Do you:

A)Believe that whatever happens in the comic book applys to Batman history, not what appears on the TV

B) Believe that whatever happens in the TV applys to Batman history, not what appears in the comic book
or

C) Believe both apply. (But somtimes it can't. Like in the dark knight returns, bruce becomes an old fart, whereas in Batman Beyond, he becomes and old fart w/ a new Batman)

sorta confusing, but I believe you'll figure it out. So, which do you believe? I believe B...but, that's just cuz I don't read many comic books.. :D

-Bird_Boy

[Trent Lane]

i think it should all be taken into consideration. to me, the different series are all different timelines. the animated stuff has its own history and timeline, whereas the other books kinda stick to their own timeline and history... i think that makes sense...

[Beyond Batman]

Well, the comics did come first. Since 1946 I believe.

Just to point something out. In my opinion, The animated series was made great due to all the past Batman comics since 1946. I look at the animated series as a refinement of the old Batman. It seemed Dini and crew brought Batman into a new light.

Question. If the animated series didn't have the past comics to guide them, do you think the animated series would be as great as it was? I'll let you be the judge.

I'm a huge BTAS fan, but I also pay much respect to the comics. I read almost all of the Bat titles. Seeing them both animated and comicly depicted allows me to appreciate each creators' ideas of how to portray Batman.

For those of you that don't read the comics, did you know Bruce Wayne now has a female bodyguard named Sasha? It's pretty interesting to see the differences between the comics and the animated series. I'm just glad they're both closely consistant.

[Firefly]

I think if something happans in the animated world it should apply to both the comic and the show. The only thing is Gotham adv. came out near the end of TNBA tv run.So there could'nt be much relations.


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[Vigo Sprax]

I think they're both rather independent of eachother but at the same time can draw from one another when it suits. Once example I've seen several times is that there were 3 Robins in the comics while in the TV show only the 1st and the 3rd appeared. Also, I don't see the comics ever accepting the BB version of the Joker's death (Whether you think he died of getting shot or electrocuted). One good example of the comics drawing from the TV show is Harley Quinn.

[mxyzptlk]

since i am comic reader and the comics are older i would say that comics are the non-fiction

[watsonlives]

ther is no real fiction or non-fiction. It's more like alternate realities or elseworlds. They have their own internal timelines and continuities. what is good in one influences the others, though. After thr first two batman movies, they put batman on an all black suit with a yellow symbol like in those movies rather than blue and grey. TThe batman look for the second series was influenced by Batman Year One and The Dark Night Reurns.After the second series became popular The mainstream comics changed the batsuit to that one and introduced Harley into the universe.