None of his most well known enemies are going to be in the show, no Joker, no Riddler, no Bane. Other than a very young Barbra Gordon (not as Batgirl) none of his well known sidekicks are going to be in it, the show runners have described it as more of a procedural detective show than a super hero show cause god knows there aren't enough there aren't enough procedural detective shows. The animation looks awful, so far there is not one positive thing I can say about this aside from "Hey new Batman show".

I don't see how doing a show with Batman detective style is Schumacher level awful.

@InnerVenom123: its the way they described how they were going to do it. Check out the interview http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/07/16/comic-con-beware-the-batman-will-focus-on-detective-skills-and-leave-out-the-usual-villains-like-joker

@joshmightbe: Probably should have included that in the OP, lol. *goes to read*

@InnerVenom123: I was in rant mode

@joshmightbe: After reading... I still don't see the problem. If you hate the design that's fine, but the ideas they have seem interesting. It's not like Batman's gonna stop fighting entirely, it's just gonna be more focused on the detective side of the story.

i liked the GL series , according to article they want to show the obscure villains which i have no problem with they can save joker, two-face, and riddler for like season 3-4 , ill give it a shot.

I knew it!

You know what else sounds awful? A Batman show set 50 years in the future where Bruce Wayne has retired, all of his old villains are gone, and a teenager in high school becomes the new Batman.

@KingofMadCows:

Hardly awful. A very dystopian view of the future, yes, but I'd disagree with your calling it awful.

@LuigiBat: I was being sarcastic. Batman Beyond's premise about a teenage Batman in high school didn't sound very good either but look at how that turned out.

I'd like to see the show first...Just because their not using certain villains doesn't mean anything. I wanna see how they portray Professor Pyg...Will he have PCP?

a friend told me the same!

but i havent seen it... dont know for sure!

@KingofMadCows said:

@LuigiBat: I was being sarcastic. Batman Beyond's premise about a teenage Batman in high school didn't sound very good either but look at how that turned out.

My bad, sarcasm doesn't always come across that clearly when read on a computer screen.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see what the show is like, sounds awful thus far but who knows what the future holds?

I don't know...I'm actually kind of excited to see where this goes!

It's so lame they're using Katana when there's a perfectly good Cassandra Cain they could use. I dig Katana and I appreciate that she has an extensive past with B-Man reaching back to the original outsiders.

They still should've used Cassandra.

@KingofMadCows said:

You know what else sounds awful? A Batman show set 50 years in the future where Bruce Wayne has retired, all of his old villains are gone, and a teenager in high school becomes the new Batman.

Hardly. That is an awesome set-up. I'm sure most people agree.

This show on the other hand...

why do they have to make up a new sidekick. do they dislike robin that much.

@nickzambuto said:

@KingofMadCows said:

You know what else sounds awful? A Batman show set 50 years in the future where Bruce Wayne has retired, all of his old villains are gone, and a teenager in high school becomes the new Batman.

Hardly. That is an awesome set-up. I'm sure most people agree.

This show on the other hand...

You really think that people thought that a high school teenager being Batman was a good idea before Batman Beyond?

@KingofMadCows said:

@nickzambuto said:

@KingofMadCows said:

You know what else sounds awful? A Batman show set 50 years in the future where Bruce Wayne has retired, all of his old villains are gone, and a teenager in high school becomes the new Batman.

Hardly. That is an awesome set-up. I'm sure most people agree.

This show on the other hand...

You really think that people thought that a high school teenager being Batman was a good idea before Batman Beyond?

A distopian future where Bruce Wayne is old and retired, and a new Batman is forced to prowl the streets of New Gotham as it's new protector with Wayne as his mentor?

Yeah, that sounds pretty sweet.

@nickzambuto said:

@KingofMadCows said:

@nickzambuto said:

@KingofMadCows said:

You know what else sounds awful? A Batman show set 50 years in the future where Bruce Wayne has retired, all of his old villains are gone, and a teenager in high school becomes the new Batman.

Hardly. That is an awesome set-up. I'm sure most people agree.

This show on the other hand...

You really think that people thought that a high school teenager being Batman was a good idea before Batman Beyond?

A distopian future where Bruce Wayne is old and retired, and a new Batman is forced to prowl the streets of New Gotham as it's new protector with Wayne as his mentor?

Yeah, that sounds pretty sweet.

Except it wasn't a dystopian future, and you left out the part about Batman being a teenager in high school.

A selective reading of premise makes Beware the Batman sound cool too if you focus on the part about the show being more about Batman being a detect, you know, like Sherlock Holmes, and a greater emphasis on Alfred's past as an agent of the British Secret Service.

@KingofMadCows said:

@nickzambuto said:

@KingofMadCows said:

@nickzambuto said:

@KingofMadCows said:

You know what else sounds awful? A Batman show set 50 years in the future where Bruce Wayne has retired, all of his old villains are gone, and a teenager in high school becomes the new Batman.

Hardly. That is an awesome set-up. I'm sure most people agree.

This show on the other hand...

You really think that people thought that a high school teenager being Batman was a good idea before Batman Beyond?

A distopian future where Bruce Wayne is old and retired, and a new Batman is forced to prowl the streets of New Gotham as it's new protector with Wayne as his mentor?

Yeah, that sounds pretty sweet.

Except it wasn't a dystopian future, and you left out the part about Batman being a teenager in high school.

A selective reading of premise makes Beware the Batman sound cool too if you focus on the part about the show being more about Batman being a detect, you know, like Sherlock Holmes, and a greater emphasis on Alfred's past as an agent of the British Secret Service.

I don't know, I liked the idea. :p

I think it's pretty cool that they're doing something different, personally. New spins on old characters are always welcome, providing they're well-written. Time will tell on that last bit

@KingofMadCows:

I couldn't agree with you more. I absolutely hated Batman Beyond when they were showing previews. (So of course I watched the movie pilot when it originally aired.)

I loved it....The show respected the source material and was even darker than the original animated series. I can't tell you how happy I was when Terry finally entered the original canon.

Having said that yes this show does sound awful. But Earth one Batman has a gun toting Alfred and it turned out to be really awesome.

Glen Murakami is an executive producer on this show so it shouldn't be that bad. (He also worked on Batman TAS and Batman Beyond)

All things Batman have been pretty good since Batman Begins. The Video games, The comics (Scott Snyder FTW), The movies. I doubt they are going to mess up now...

And Batman is such an important franchise to WB that I think they are going to be VERY careful with the next moves they make. Brave and The Bold was a great show as well. (Though you have to be well versed in the silver age Batman to understand why its awesome.) That show also had James Tucker who worked on past DCU shows. Now we did have "The Batman" but even that got better towards the end when Alan Burnett and Andrea Romano came in to work on the series.

Hey all things considered, it CAN NOT be worst than Ultimate Spider-man....ugh.

I'd be fine with the show if it weren't for the animation. I'm not sure if it's this show, but Batman's head makes him look like a bug! (As in, his head is short and wide and his bat ears are long enough to be antennae).

@ShowMeYouTeeth said:

I think, it was better when The Batman, or Beyond, or 70th cartoons

The Batman got good in the second season.

Beyond was amazing.

Wasn't alive in the 70's can't comment.

I have faith that its going to do be very good. Obviously its focused more on children, but it sounds like it is going to be very entertaining.

It has promise.