COMIC SCHEDULES & COVERING THE BASICS
This section gives a little bit more in-depth look into each monthly issue of BATMAN: GOTHAM ADVENTURES, BATMAN BEYOND, and SUPERMAN ADVENTURES. Below each comic listing is a link to the cover of that comic. TALK ABOUT SERVICE!
The price for any of these issues, unless otherwise posted, is $1.99 in the US and...grrrrr...a whopping $3.25 in Canada. (Both our editors and many subscribers are Canadian, hence the "grrr".)
If we are unsure of the exact date of when an issue is being released, just check out "DIRECT CURRENTS" at
http://www.dccomics.com for details.
FOLLOWING MONTH:
Synopsis: Everyone from the CIA and the FBI to the local Gotham mobs (Russian, Italian, Jamaican, Chinese) are in search of Kristov...and they're willing to kill to get it. Batman doesn't know what Kristov is, but he's not going to let anyone kill - or die - for it. Here is the cover:
Cover:
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/0002/
22/BatmanGothAdventCvr26.jpg
SUPERMAN ADVENTURES #44
April 12th
Synopsis: Unavailable
Cover: Unavailable
FOLLWOING MONTH:
Synopsis: Unavailable
Cover: Unavailable
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NEWS AND RUMORS
ALL-ENCOMPASSING/OTHER
-Terry Beatty has been and will be selling Gotham Adventures and Batman Beyond original art on eBay. His Seller ID is:
beatty@machlink.com Do yourself a favor and check out some great art! -Craig Rousseau has been and will be selling Gotham
Adventures and Batman Beyond original art on eBay. His Seller ID is:
cerousseau@aol.com Feel free to check it out! You don't wanna miss it!
-The award-winning WORLD'S FINEST site now has an easily accessible chat room up. Check it out at:
http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/
Taping/2928/chatmain.htm
ANIMATED SERIES (BTAS, STAS, BEYOND)
-Want news on the Emmy Award Nominations, Paul Dini's future projects, and RETURN OF THE JOKER? Go to this URL:
http://www.geocities.com/bbeyond/news.html
-Kids' WB! Animated series The New Batman/Superman Adventures and Batman Beyond earned a total of 9 Daytime Emmy Award nominations on Wednesday, including special nominations in special categories. The New Batman/Superman Adventures was nominated in the Outstanding Children's Animated
Program category (to be broadcast as part of the televised Emmy Awards ceremony on May 19th ), while Batman Beyond was nominated for Outstanding Special Class Animated Program.
Both shows were nominated - included Batman/Superman twice - for Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition, as well as for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing Special Class. Batman Beyond was nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing Special
Class. The Emmy winners will be announced on May 13.
ANIMATED COMICS
-The first six issues of BATMAN: GOTHAM ADVENTURES will be collected in tradepaperback form, being released on May 17. These six issues feature great stories by Ty Templeton and great art by Rick Burchett and Terry Beatty; characters in the spotlight are Batman, Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing,
Joker, Two-Face, Scarecrow, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, the Riddler, Clayface, Deadman, and more. It will cost $9.95, and the cover will be the same as the cover of GOTHAM ADVENTURES #1.
OTHER COMICS
-BATMAN: GOTHAM ADVENTURES #27 is as follows: A popular college professor of law who teaches a class on organized crime is in jail for the murder of a known mob boss. Has the professor stepped over the line and become judge, jury and executioner? Or is he being framed by a new player on
the mob scene in Gotham? It comes out on June 7.
-BATMAN BEYOND #10: A new, improved Golem returns on June 28.
-Ed Brubaker will be filling in for Larry Hama on BATMAN for at least six issues following 0.
-BATMAN: 80 PAGE GIANT #3, written by Chuck Dixon, will be one triple-length story featuring Batman and Robin vs. Calendar Man.
-DETECTIVE COMICS #747, focusing on Two-Face and Montoya, comes out on June 14. Here is the cover:
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/
0003/21/DetectiveCmcs747.JPG
-DARK VICTORY #9 features the first team-up of Batman and Robin. Check out the cover:
http://www.comicscontinuum.com/stories/
0003/21/BatmanDarkVictory9.JPG
-Devin Grayson will be revealing the narrator of the GOTHAM KNIGHTS series in a five issue story beginning in issue #8, this August.
-Dale Eaglesham and Paul Ryan will be dropping their pencilling duties at GOTHAM KNGIHTS and move onto other projects once Roger Robinson (of AZRAEL fame) comes in with issue #8.
MOVIES
-Check out the following URL for a rather amusing Budweiser commercial featuring clips from that wonderful show, "Superfriends". You must have Quicktime 3 or higher to view it.
http://63.249.196.103/files/wassup.mov
LIVE ACTION TELEVISION
-Wanna see a pic of the actor that'll play the Joker in the upcoming ONSTAR commercials? Here's the URL - remember him from REVENGE OF THE NERDS?
http://www.geocities.com/bbeyond/onstarjoker.jpg
-For more info about the ONSTAR commercials, go to:
http://www.geocities.com/bbeyond/news.html
-The second ONSTAR Batman commercial will premiere on ABC during the Oscars this Sunday. Here's how it is described.
"Before swooping down the side of a Gotham City skyscraper, Batman uses his wrist communicator to ask an OnStar Advisor to unlock the door of the Batmobile. The cockpit canopy slides open just long enough for Batman to drop into the driver's seat and roar away in the
Batmobile. Seconds later, the 'low fuel' warning light prompts Batman to contact his OnStar Advisor for the nearest filling station with jet fuel."
All three Batman commercials were directed by Andrew Davis, who also directed The Fugitive. The visual effects for the commercials are being supervised by William Mesa of Flash Film Works. Mesa is a long-time collaborator with director Davis and producer Peter Macgregor-Scott,
having worked on The Fugitive and Batman and Robin.
SPECIAL NOTE
For more BATMAN, SUPERMAN, AND BEYOND news throughout the week, check out the WORLD'S FINEST NEWS PAGE at:
http://www.geocities.com/bbeyond/news.html
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FEATURED BAT-SITE FOR THIS ISSUE
(feel free to submit your own for our consideration)
This page consists of several unique "hideouts" created by some of Gotham's most elite criminals, as well as polls, episode reviews, and more.
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* - indicates a shameless plug for a site a certain double-faced editor created with his bare hands - in other words, a cheap advertising technique.
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don't just submit a basic review of an episode or a comic or something (because we have people writing for those purposes already) - write about an issue you'd like to discuss.
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BATMAN: THE ANIMATED ARCHIVES
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-Tim TWO-FACE Leighton and Dick Grayson, editors
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TO ALL GOOD THINGS...
...there must be an end. We would like to thank the endless amount of contributors for contributing their editorials, columns, news, jokes, reviews and other articles. We hope you've all enjoyed it as much as we've enjoyed making it! Thank you for reading! See ya next time!
CREDITS FOR BATMAN: THE ANIMATED NEWSLETTER
EDITOR AT COLLEGE, NOT IN A DORM: Tim "TWO-FACE" Leighton
EDITOR AT COLLEGE, BUT IN A DORM: "Dick Grayson"
AIR DATE SCHEDULES: Brian Cruz, RiddlerWB (at the official BTAS/STAS site), and YTV.com
EPISODE REVIEWS: Zanna/Justin Chen, and occasionally Tim "TWO-FACE" Leighton
EDITORIAL: Kelly Tindall
AND THAT'S THE FACTS: "Reliable Source"
COMIC REVIEWS: Tim "TWO-FACE" Leighton, Tim Wan, Dick Grayson
MERCHANDISE REVIEW: Various
"BTAN ARCHIVES" MODERATOR: Eileen Delgadillo
TRIVIA: Tim "TWO-FACE" Leighton
PROMOTIONS AND JUST GETTIN' THE WORD AROUND: Dick Grayson, Eileen Delgadillo, Brian Cruz, Brian Davis
THOSE WHO FILL IN FOR OTHERS WHEN THEY FOUL UP:-Y Tim "TWO-FACE" Leighton
DELIVERY: Tim "TWO-FACE" Leighton
E-MAIL RECEPTION HANDLING: Tim "TWO-FACE" Leighton
BATMAN CREATED BY: Bob Kane & Bill Finger (who else?)
Batman and all related indicia are trademarks of DC Comics, Copyright c 2000.
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