Review: Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two

Pastors also need a break from heavy theological reading!  So here’s a Batman comic book review!   

Paul Dini and Alan Burnett.  Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Two. Burbank, CA: DC Comics, June 14, 2022. 208 pp.

5 out of 5

Purchase: Amazon

Do you like the Batman Animated Series from the 90s?  If so this comic might be for you!  Earlier this year I read and reviewed Batman: The Adventures Continue Season One.   I enjoyed it a lot and I felt it was one of the better works published by DC Comics these days since sometimes new materials seems to be filler, too much backstory, it was too dark, the story was lame or the creative team was advancing socially divisive agenda.  I just want good story telling and both this one and the earlier volume delivered.  Plus this echoed the artwork and characters of Batman the animated series as a kid and I got nostalgic joy reading both books.  This trade paperback edition that collects the second year’s issues (season 2 issues 1 through 7).  They even had one of the screen writers from the Animated Series as one of the writers for this “Batman: The Adventures Continue” series.

The first story is titled “Court Fight” and is told in two issues.  I was surprised that the Court of Owls villains made it into this series as the Court of Owls was one of the epic new villains in our century.  Basically these are secret Owl-masked council of Gotham’s powerful elite and founding families whose secret of Gotham spanned many generations.  They have also powerful supernatural assassins called Talons who are the walking dead if you will.  This was a great story and exciting to see this version of Batman tackle on this problem.  The next story is a one issue story titled “The Hunter and the Hunted” and it involve Batgirl going after an organized crime villain.  Next is also a one issue story called “The Muscle” about a hired hitman that Batman has to take on.  The next story is “Mayor Mayhem” about a corrupt former Mayor running for Gotham but somehow seems to have the ability charm everyone and this mystery is later revealed of how he was able to do it and Batman and his family has to take him on and stop the plot.  This is a three part story.  The last story is a short one called “Window shopping” and is a Christmas/winter snow day sentimental story Robin doing Christmas shopping and encountering Mr. Freeze but things aren’t what they seem. 

I really enjoyed this volume.  I have given up the last few years of reading any new Batman comics put out by DC Comics because I felt they have been going all kinds of weird direction with Batman.  But this one is good; DC Comics should really work on good stories without making comics so dark or a romantic novel or social justice partisan agenda. This work shows that the old ways worked.

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