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Batman: The Adventures Continue: Season Three #3
Batman: The Adventures Continue (2020-) #3: Season Three
The Joker’s right-hand man, Straightman, isn’t quite feeling himself lately. He keeps experiencing moments…flashbacks…of a life he doesn’t remember. After a recent run-in with the Clown Prince and his stoic enforcer, Batman starts to unravel the man’s past, but it lands him smack dab in the crosshairs of Amanda Waller and Task Force X!
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25 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 14, 2023
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Alan Burnett
122 books12 followersAlan Burnett is an American television writer-producer particularly associated with Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera Productions, DC Comics and Walt Disney television animation. He has had a hand in virtually every DC animated project since the waning years of the Super Friends. Burnett's contributions for Disney were largely a part of the 1990s Disney Afternoon, where he was attached to the Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears and various projects set in the Scrooge McDuck universe. Because of his primary focus on televised animation, he has occasionally been involved in film projects related to a parent television program. He is a graduate of the University of Florida and has an MFA in film production from the University of Southern California.
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April 22, 2023
First of all, I have this trope that I really like that's kind of hard to find (especially in a longer format, most the time it's just used as a one-time gag), where an extraordinary character is put into extremely ordinary situations (or is at lease implied or seen doing normal things). I got this a couple of times in this issue (one of which being Joker in his dressing gown lmao), so I loved that. I also love the arc that's building here for Straightman--an interesting character, in my opinion. Can't wait to get to the next issue!
March 20, 2023
This is more of the Dini-Burnett animated series nostalgia I remember. Complex villains having complex real world reactions that make you go: is this for kids? And then you realize they won't notice and it's fine.
Looking at Straightman or whatever Joker's new stooge is called, (Carl), and his PTSD and war flashbacks and then the supersoldier thing..... the Suicide Squad being involved... I missed this empathetic take that yes, they're doing wrong, and they should face consequences, but not everyone starts out making bad choices.
(Think Babydoll, or I forget her name but the Calendar villain, or various others) and it's a good lesson in pretty much any story. Do they want to do the things they're doing because they lack a moral compass or has life landed them here? And the lack of a moral compass can be very interesting for sure, but it can also be interesting to watch someone just end up in a bad place and see if there's a chance at redemption or help. And that's what made BTAS so good in the first place was you were rooting for Bruce to help those people get out of that cycle. He almost had a few of them saved and then the plot would force the villain back into crime, but it was the cycle of hope and wanting to do better that made the characters interesting and I'm seeing glimpses of that in this that I'm hoping we'll see explored in this last season.
Looking at Straightman or whatever Joker's new stooge is called, (Carl), and his PTSD and war flashbacks and then the supersoldier thing..... the Suicide Squad being involved... I missed this empathetic take that yes, they're doing wrong, and they should face consequences, but not everyone starts out making bad choices.
(Think Babydoll, or I forget her name but the Calendar villain, or various others) and it's a good lesson in pretty much any story. Do they want to do the things they're doing because they lack a moral compass or has life landed them here? And the lack of a moral compass can be very interesting for sure, but it can also be interesting to watch someone just end up in a bad place and see if there's a chance at redemption or help. And that's what made BTAS so good in the first place was you were rooting for Bruce to help those people get out of that cycle. He almost had a few of them saved and then the plot would force the villain back into crime, but it was the cycle of hope and wanting to do better that made the characters interesting and I'm seeing glimpses of that in this that I'm hoping we'll see explored in this last season.
April 28, 2023
After last issue's blip (it was only "OK" 😉) this is a splendid return to form for the series. Both writing and art are top notch. Evoking BTAS but more mature in its storytelling. This brings in the Suicide Squad and starts delving into the backstory of new Joker henchman "Straightman" I'm excited to see where this goes....
March 15, 2023
Incredible issue
So Carl is Straightman real name and a veteran.
Curse you Hugo Strange!
Good luck Batman against his superior coming for him.
So Carl is Straightman real name and a veteran.
Curse you Hugo Strange!
Good luck Batman against his superior coming for him.
May 13, 2023
As much as I love the variant cover I bought, the story wasn't strong. It'll be a story arc so part 2 is incoming.
October 19, 2023
A comic focused on Straightman. I enjoy these ones that give more attention to obscure characters.
November 30, 2024
Kinda surprised Ventriloquist wasn't in this one, considering Joker's routine.
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