I have spent the last couple of evenings catching up with Kim Possible and The Batman (Season 4 of both oddly enough).

Kim Possible continues to entertain of course, by playing with the various hero and action clichés along with some of the high school ones.

The episodes which particularly stuck out were Mathter and Fervent, which contains a nice riff on the crazy Adam West Batman series, and a supervillain with a maths obsession. Complete with number based throwing weapons (including π!), henchmen called co-efficients, terrible maths puns and referring to killing people as 'subtracting them'. The episode also contains actuaries.

The other episode that sticks out was of course Stop Team Go, good Shego, a return of scarily competent Evil Ron, the discomfort factor for Ron of having Kim and Sheila being good friends, and Mr Barkin and Miss Go dating, hilarious.

There overall quality has of course been good, but the chronology of the episodes has been rather confused since they have been playing them completely out of order. So you will have one episode where Kim is trying to get a new look, and they decide to go consult those fashion people that they captures last episode, then in the next episode, they need to stop people who are stealing fashion designs.

Now, The Batman, Season 4, introduction of Robin and Harlequin, what more can you ask for? A future episode, set in both 2027 and sometime after the year 3000.

Full of comic book references and archeologists which have their own pet theories that are slightly off.

Also been enjoying this series, the art style did take a little getting used to when I first started, but seeing Bats at the start of this career, slightly less confident, picking up Batgirl (quite reluctantly at first) and later Robin and developing his reputation.

I prefer the animated series to the Batman comics I have read mainly due to 2 factors:
1) Lighter, the comic books seem to be much darker and at times blood really flies
2) Single continuity, no conflicting writing stretching back decades. If they reinterpret/chagne a character for the series, you have no real worry about a writer coming back later and retconning it out of existence.

Tags: cartoons, tv shows
Current Music: The Signal, Season 3, Show 14, August 2nd 2007 - Les Howard and Kari Haley