What Show are you currently watching?

I picked up the comic about ten days ago and read it last week. It's easily one of my top comic reads of the year.* Not sure it overtakes Tom Taylor's Nightwing, but it was a phenomenal read.

Have you watched My Adventures With Superman yet? I'm curious about your thoughts on it. (I personally really like it, but I like most Superman adaptations to one degree or another.**)


*Top three are currently: Nightwing, Superman: Girl of Tomorrow, and the DC webcomic Vixen: NYC.
**I grew up with Smallville and DCAU Superman, think Man of Steel is an underrated masterpiece, and have really come to enjoy Superman & Lois. (Also, if they ever decide to de-age Jon Kent, they could split up Old Jon and make him "Jordan" and then have young John be John again. Sort of like a Ben Reilly thing, but with fewer clones.)

 

Rewatching Batman Beyond for the past month or so, and I can say, as far as kid shows go, this one STILL lives up to the hype. The theme-song did NOT need to go as hard as it did, the standalone nature makes it easy to pick up or drop of when needed, and the neo-noir/cyberpunk aesthetic means it doesn't feel as dated as other shows of the same era. (I mean, it's still incredibly dated, but the feeling is still very futuristic even nearly 25 years later.)




Part of me thinks I'm rewatching it because Terry is essentially the DCAU version of Spider-Man, and this year has been GOOD to the Webhead. Another part of me think I'm watching it because I'm trying to figure out who the best people to be Batman besides Bruce Wayne are.* Regardless of the reason, I'm happy I'm rewatching the show, as it's a great tale in the mythos of the Caped Crusader.


*My current list is:
1. Dick Grayson if he's old enough and if there's no one else available. Dick works as a Batman who can do without the angst and brooding of Bruce but keeps his family focus, leadership skills, and exceptional training. The only real problem is that Dick is so good as Nightwing that him becoming Batman really feels like a downgrade at times. There are runs where it works, but more often than not I find it only interesting for a short time. Even then, Dick is the ONLY Robin that works as Batman, either now or in the "look into the future" timelines.

2. Terry McGinnis aka Batman Beyond, because he's the only non-immediate-Bat-Family person to actually pull it off well and he brings his own personality to the character. Again, Terry acts far more like a Peter Parker who is being mentored by Bruce Wayne than Bruce Wayne Jr., but that works. (Partially because Batman and Spider-Man share similar traumas and have similar outlooks on it. They also try out the "solo superhero" thing, but Batman honestly works better with a family or at least a few people to bounce ideas and things off of. ...although some would say the same for Peter too...)

3. Luke Fox. Luke actually hasn't ever been Batman, but he was planned to be one as part of DC's 5G plan before it was retooled into Future State and the role of the new Batman was given to Luke's "remember the new character" older brother Jace. Luke works because he's smart and he's worked with Batman for years but never as a Robin. This lateral move gives us a new Batman that's similar enough to the old one to work while also allowing Dick to keep going as Nightwing.