NOT A HOAX!

NOT AN IMAGINARY STORY!

So I recently read that Batman: The Brave and the Bold will be on hiatus for the next six months which will mean the delay of an episode I've really been looking forward to, "The Super-Batman of Planet X!" but luckily Amazon's video on demand service has it. $2.99 was a small price to pay to see an adaptation of that Silver Age story and this was even better.

First off KEVIN CONROY was the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh. That's right. The villain of the piece Rohtul (spell it backwards) was none other than Clancy Brown and Dana Delaney was seemingly typecast as a meddling reporter who falls for the new superhero in Gothtropolis.


I had a smile on my face throughout this whole episode.

While chasing down some criminals in space with Green Arrow, Batman gets sucked through a wormhole and ends up in Zur-En-Arrh and right away stops a familiar looking crime in progress (guy robbing a couple for the mother's jewelery and threatening to make the kid an orphan?). That's when the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh shows up and enlists Batman's help to stop the mad scientist Rothul after hearing about it from Chancellor Gorzon. While fighting giant robots Batman of Earth discovers he has superpowers and quickly dispatches them.

Batman spends the day essentially being Superman while Tlano goes to work as a reporter, writing headlines about what Batman was up to all day. Later, Rothul figures out Batman's Kryptonite and sends out more giant robots. In the end, Batman and the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh team-up to take down Rothul without any powers and Vilsi (not actually Lois Lane) decides the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh is the Batman for her.

I give this episode 10 Bat-radias out of 10 and would like to see more now please. I really don't want to wait six more months for more of this show.

Also, please make a Batman of Zur-En-Arrh figure. Anybody, DC Direct, Mattell, anybody. I'll buy one right away. Hell, maybe I'll be the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh for Halloween. I just can't get enough of that wacky Tlano.


BJ Dowd of Zur-En-Arrh