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Summary: Super Team Up
Review: When the folks behind Batman and Superman Animated Series decided to put the two heroes together for new weekly adventures, the end result, was yet another winner. The program had that now famous Paul Dini and Alan Burnett look and feel, present in the other shows that came before it. To comemorate the start of The Batman Superman Adventures, the series pilot episode was adapted for the comic book format.Based on a story by Dini and Burnett, the adaptation benefits from the fact that Dini himself wrote the 64 page book. It is a fun read that follows the action of the episode quite well. Leaving out very little of the overall story. The adventure sets up the first time these two titans meet, as well as their alter egos. It's interesting to see Bruce Wayne seeking a relationship with Lois Lane and how Clark Kent reacts to it. The heroes don't really like the way the other operates when catching the bad guys either. They must find a way to work together when their arch enemies, The Joker and Lex Luthor hatch a devious plan against them--throw Harley Quinn into the mix and you've got trouble indeed. The artwork from Joe Staton and Terry Beatty tries, somewhat successfully, to match the unique animation style of the show. While overall this works for the book, certain sequences, come across as too outrageous even for the comic book format. That aside, the book makes a fine companion to the first episode, of a very solid series. Like the current incararnation of the Justice Leauge on cables' Cartoon Network is as much for adults as kids
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Summary: Fun
Review: Worthwhile use of the "World's Finest" title for this first animated meeting between the Bat and the Big Blue Cheese. (For many years, "World's FInest"'s lead story every month was a Batman/Superman team-up, in an era when hero's team-ups were not common) Excellent adaptation of the original; however, not a slavish one -- plays the rivalry between Batman/Bruce and Superman/Clark for Lois Lane's affections a little more broadly (the visual differences between the animated and the comic versions of the scene in which Clark calls at Lois's apartment and Bruce is already there are Significant). Harley Quinn's running feud with Luthor's bodyguard/chauffeur, Mercy, is one of the high points. While it doesn't bring much new, it's a good counterpoint to the film it adapts in giving alternate, slightly more "adult" views on some things -- if you have one, you really need the other.
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Summary: Fun
Review: Worthwhile use of the "World's Finest" title for this first animated meeting between the Bat and the Big Blue Cheese. (For many years, "World's FInest"'s lead story every month was a Batman/Superman team-up, in an era when hero's team-ups were not common) Excellent adaptation of the original; however, not a slavish one -- plays the rivalry between Batman/Bruce and Superman/Clark for Lois Lane's affections a little more broadly (the visual differences between the animated and the comic versions of the scene in which Clark calls at Lois's apartment and Bruce is already there are Significant). Harley Quinn's running feud with Luthor's bodyguard/chauffeur, Mercy, is one of the high points. While it doesn't bring much new, it's a good counterpoint to the film it adapts in giving alternate, slightly more "adult" views on some things -- if you have one, you really need the other.
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