DCAU Reviews

We open to a garish utopian image, vegetation spurting up outside a high-tech lab facility. As we move into STAR Labs, we find that Emil H...

When one thinks of strong female characters in the DCAU, the list only really extends to Lois Lane, Harley Quinn, and possibly Hawkgirl of t...

The Mad Hatter makes for such a sinisterly self-assured crime lord that it is some shock that he had his roots as an awkward, submissive, sy...

Catwoman’s transformation from morally troubled kleptomaniac with a wildlife activist slant to a full-fledged femme fatale with nary a moral...

Batman as a character has survived hundreds of different incarnations spanning several decades. Some fans appreciate the character and the...

Revenge narratives are the meat and potatoes of superhero cartoons, and Mean Seasons is yet another tale of a self-appointed victim out to ...

For all of their virtues, Apokalips…Now! and Little Girl Lost seem to have put a near-permanent end to the Metropolis of A Little Piece of...

Little Girl Lost opens with Superman in a mode of alienation scouting through a cavity of space in the hopes of finding some remnant of his...

Superman: the Animated Series has never been particularly complex as character drama; its complexity stems instead from its interweaving of...

In Warrior Queen , Hilary Bader retreads a lot of the same ground already covered by Paul Dini in his exemplary The Main Man , an intergalac...

Over the Edge is in some ways the DCAU’s most horrific nightmare, because even as a dream it permanently taints how we perceive our heroes ...

After the contemporary flair of Torch Song , The Ultimate Thrill launches us back into the impossible-to-pigeonhole period nebula of B:TAS ...

An oft-disparaged episode, Torch Song emulates S:TAS ’s Target with less success, abandoning its camp overtones and spending more time ral...

Outsiders and misfits are impelled to cling together, even if the basis for the affiliation is little more than the surface trait of being d...

Growing Pains assumes the gravitas of a feature-length film through its economical storytelling that subsumes temporally condensed, but emo...