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Dawn of the Dead Man!
Original Airdate - January 16th, 2009
Deadman and Batman team up as spirits to stop
Gentleman Ghost from raising an army of undead
criminals. Green Arrow and Speedy Thief join in
the battle to save London. In this week’s
teaser, Batman and Kamandi outrace a horde of
monsters from the future.
Written by Steven Melching
Directed by Ben Jones
Animation by
Dong Woo Animation
Review by Andrew
Media provided by Warner Bros. Animation |
Cast
Deidrich Bader as Batman/ Bat-Ghost James
Arnold Taylor as Green Arrow/ Ratmen Leader
Pat Musick as Medium Michael Rosenbaum as
Deadman/ Triad Boss Greg Ellis as Gentleman
Ghost/ Dr. Canus Mikey Kelley as Kamandi
Jason Marsden as Speedy Thief
Music
Theme Written and Performed by Andy Strumer
Music by Michael McCuisition, Lolita Ritmanis,
Kristopher Carter |
Media
Video
Clip
Review
The Batmobile must have hit 88 miles per hour, because
for some bizarre reason this episode starts off with
Batman in the future running from giant rats - yes, this
takes place in New York. As the remnants of the Statue
of Liberty proves to us. Although nice that next to none
of the future elements are made by the horrid CGI, and
the strange characters are from the comics, but you’re
still left dumbfounded from the incredibly random
scenario. These opening sequences are becoming more like
a miniseries in themselves. Despite being the most
random thing possible, it was an entertaining segment.
The actual episode is less random and every scene
just as good as the other, even with the slurry of
deadly puns. From Green Arrow’s junior sidekick Speedy
filling the atmosphere with various Robinisms, to
Deadman’s dark origin, to Green Arrow’s Batman imitation
that surely made B:TAS fans giggle in delight. Only the
ending leads to some mild disappointment. Another plus
of the episode is that it’s surprisingly dark. Yes, I
know I shouldn’t be assuming this show is going to be
limited in it’s abilities due to being very
kid-oriented, but to feature so much death in an episode
and still keep a light-hearted atmosphere just cannot be
anything but surprising. We not only see a supposedly
dead Batman, as well as his freshly dug grave and
headstone, but Batman is even seduced to “go into the
light” by apparitions of his dead parents. They then go
on to feature a skeleton-zombie army brought back by
Gentleman Ghost.
The episode only tends to
disappoint when they seem to forget to mention details
to other characters, but somehow the characters already
know what they should. Details such as Green Arrow not
knowing Batman’s grave was booby-trapped, but they still
managed to dig into it without incident. Although it’s
rather strange that the booby-trap depended on lasers to
trip the explosive, and then dirt was piled on top of
the casket in a way that would have obviously tripped
the lasers? The only other thing that truly bugged me in
the episode was the introduction of the DC-exclusive
alloy known as Nth metal. It’s nice and all that they
explained how their weapons could prove useful against a
villainous ghoul, but from that point on every one-liner
they uttered during the fight had to mention Nth metal.
Adding insult to injury, all of these lines were pretty
much spoken in a row.
Still, the greatness of the
episode definitely outweighs the handful of obnoxious
bits, especially hearing Green Arrow mimic the great
Kevin Conroy as he imitates Batman in proclaiming that
he is vengeance, he is the night, he is… BATMAN! And
this is a must-see episode.
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