Urban Comics continues its DC Comics publications, and it is more on the side of children or nostalgic "Batman: The Animated Series" that this second volume of Batman Adventures is addressed. After a first volume that plunged us directly into the universe of the animated series of the 90s, this second volume makes us continue our journey, for our greatest pleasure!
While a giant bat haunts the sky above Gotham, the city below is ruled by crime, sometimes in the form of a clown, a ventriloquist or a Scarecrow. So it's time for Batman and Robin to welcome a third member into the bat-family…
Return of the adventures of the Batman of the animated series in this volume 2. A real pleasure to find all the characters who rocked our childhood, with the excellent graphics that the time offered us. Do not expect to find simply an adaptation of the 85 episodes of the series but new short stories, featuring the majority of the characters present in the work of Paul Dini and Bruce Timm.
The opportunity to immerse yourself in ten different stories, and to find Talia Al Ghul, Robin, Batgirl and the others. A reading both adapted to the little ones but which will also be perfect for fans of the Dark Knight. Â
Taken from a monthly derived from the animated series, the stories and graphics respect the universe we know. It is interesting, especially for children (or neophytes!) to find before each story a small one-page technical sheet summarizing the known information about a character, and this second volume sheds light on the characters of Man-Bat, Batgirl, Talia Al Ghul, Scarface, Jim Gordon, the Joker, Ras Al Ghul, Robin, the Scarecrow, the Brain, Mister Cool and the Professor.
Some will say that it does not serve much, but it is a good initiative of the publisher to perfect his knowledge, or downright to discover it!
If you know the series, this collection will be a perfect complement to deepen your knowledge through the discovery of the weaknesses and strengths of the villains of the Batman universe, like Man-Bat and his wife Francine for example. It is true that the universe described is quite light, that the stories are not dug in, and that everything goes very fast. But this is guilty pleasure, a way to prolong the pleasure that one could have had by watching the episodes of 1992.
The dark and gothic aspect is very well reconstructed, all in a relatively playful cartoon and burlesque universe. As always, the most pessimistic among us will say that it is for children, and even at the limit made by children if we compare to other works much darker.
But this Batman Adventures is not intended to revolutionize the genre, it is fully and simply in a continuity. The one that can serve both as a gateway to the youngest, but also to make fans of the animated series of Paul Dini and Bruce Timm.
Urban Comics, as always in its Urban Kids collection, delivers a very beautiful product, with a soft cover with a beautiful illustration. For a small price of only 10 âŹ, 272 pages to discover, to plunge back more than 20 years, as if the credits began and we were sitting on our sofa. Because somewhere, we are all still ten years old…
