The DCAU Review

The Good Brothers wrap up a month of reviewing The New Batman Adventures with an interview with one of the stars of the series, that being the voice of the new Robin/Tim Drake, Mr. Mathew Valencia! The hosts chat everything from Mathew's start in Hollywood including some of his earliest roles, the process of being cast as the new Boy Wonder, what it was like to be in the recording booth with Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill. and some i...

Cal & Liam are back with more The New Batman Adventures reviews continuing with the return of Arnold "The Ventriloquist" Whesker and Scarface in the episode "Double Talk." The hosts discuss a plot penned by Robert Goodman that sees Arnold struggling, by no fault of his own, to adjust to life without his Mob Boss personality. Along the way Cal & Liam discuss the compassion of Batman that flies in the face...

It may be the kickoff to summer, but the Good Brothers are feeling a chill in the air as Mr. Freeze returns to Gotham post-SubZero to wreak havoc on anyone that has joy in Gotham City in the New Batman Adventures episode "Cold Comfort." The hosts discuss the decision to make Mr. Freeze into a "head in a jar," why Nora Fries may be the shallowest of all of the DCAU love interests, speculation on why the Mr. Freez...

After a bit of a layoff, the Good Brothers are back to where it all started (or at least the continuation of it) with episode 2 of The New Batman Adventures/Batman The Animated Series episode "Sins of the Father" which introduces a new Robin into the fold with Tim Drake and offers the secrets of his past and how he came to be! Hear the hosts break down a fast paced episode, how they feel it compares to the comic-book coun...

It's the final Saturday of the month and that means a trip through the multiverse of DC Animation, and the Good Brothers have landed in the fan-favorite world of the Teen Titans as they look at the season one episode "Deep Six" which features the guest starring Aqualad being forced to align with Beast Boy to take down the villainous Trident! Hear the hosts discuss a story written by one of the Teen Titans' foundin...

Cal and Liam return with the beginning of the end of their The Zeta Project coverage with the 5th to last double feature , this week with the episodes "Ro's Gift," which sees the return of a group of villains that debuted in Batman Beyond and "Lost and Found" which features the previously unseen origin stories of our lead protagonists. The hosts discuss a disappointing return of villains, how the episode was...

When you've reached the end, you can't help but want to look back and that's just what Liam & Cal do this week as they take a second gander on the pod at the Batman Beyond season one episode "Golem." The hosts look back at their original scores and decide with the benefit of hindsight and nearly 8 years of reviews if they were too harsh or too lenient on the episode featuring the alliterative Willie Watt ...

The Good Brothers make their long-awaited/long-dreaded return to reviewing The Zeta Project with a double feature of season two episodes "Resume Mission" and "Hunt in the Hub." Without a future Dark Knight to pique interest, the hosts are forced to try and find things to appreciate from the skeletal foundation of decent revenge story from Zeta's evil synthoid counterpart and a second episode that feels more ...

It's back to the future for the next several weeks as the Good brothers make their return to the DCAU with the penultimate episode of Batman Beyond which features a crossover from The Zeta Project in the episode "Countdown." When Zeta shows up to Gotham, hijinks ensue as the Mad Stan straps a bomb to an oblivious Zeta. The hosts discuss how this plot mirrors an earlier episode of Batman Beyond, expectations for the ep...

The Good Brothers wrap up their Elseworld's Finest Month the right way, with a gargantuan team-up between the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel to battle Lex Luthor and an army of DC Comics villains in the DC Animated direct-to-video feature "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies." The hosts chat about the adaptation from the source material from writer Jeph Loeb and artist Ed McGuinness, necessary departures from the sourc...

Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's the DCAU Review and they're here to celebrate Superman Day a day late with a continuance of Elseworld's Finest Month and a look at the Man of Steel's most recent iteration in animation, My Adventures with Superman. The hosts pick up where they left off last May with Part II of "Adventures of a Normal Man" and discuss a plot the leans heavily on dialogue and world building while separat...

The hosts are still in a celebratory mood after last week's 350th episode's character spotlight, and have gotten booked their travel through the multiverse once again to visit the Elseworlds of 2004's The Batman cartoon and an appearance of a rogue that was no stranger to the Batman The Animated Series. This week the hosts review Maxie Zeus' one and only appearance in an episode that focuses on the stunted working relationship betw...

The Good Brothers are back at home safe and sound after their annual excursion outside of DC Animation for April Fools' Day, and to celebrate their 350th episode of the podcast, the hosts are shining the old DCAU Character Spotlight on one of the Dark Knight's most formidable and recurring opponents, "The Demon's Head" Ra's al Ghul. Joining the hosts to look at Ra's' story arc, voice acting and som...

We may be turning the calendar page, but the Good Brothers are still wearing their leftover St. Patrick's Day green as they take on the 4th annual DCAU Review April Fools' Day special, this time venturing out even further into the far reaches of the animated universes and landing on 2003's iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show and its' pilot episode "Things Change." Hear the hosts break down s...

After 347 episodes it would be easy to assume there aren't many "firsts" left for the Good Brothers when it comes to the DCAU but leave it to an episode featuring real life NBA stars to help usher in some new infamy! This week, the hosts review "Hoop Squad" which features another of the many celebrity appearances on Static Shock but this time, the celebs are also superheroes? Join Liam and Cal on their journey of piecing together j...

The Good Brothers are back once again with another Static Shock review, this week with the season 4 caper that finds Static up against a scarlet speedster (but not THE Scarlet Speedster) in the episode "Now You See Him..."

The hosts break down a plot the borrows some similar tech from a Batman The Animated Series episode with a bit of romance and Revenge of the Nerds thrown in, plus music that homages 80s alt-rock and 90s pop punk ...

Cal & Liam continue their stay in Dakota for the month of March with another Static Shock review, this week with a look back at the episode "No Man's an Island," which finds itself tying up some season one and season two story arcs that had been left unresolved. Hear the hosts talk about how the "Previously on..." effectively pulls the rug on one of the episode's reveals, new powers for Hotstreak and...

A new month means the Good Brothers are moving on to another DCAU series, spending the next few weeks in Dakota and Static Shock. This week's episode is the sequel to one of the best Static episodes featuring the African superhero Anansi the Spider, in "Out of Africa." The hosts discuss the difficulties in following up an episode as great as "Static in Africa" with a sequel, the expanded rogues from African ...

With one final Saturday in February, Liam and Cal are back to wrap up their second look at the series-defining crossover "World's Finest" with the third and final part. The hosts discuss both part three as well as how the episodes work as a whole presentation, why the Lois/Bruce storyline ends up working based solely on the resolution, whether the animation rebounds from last week's disappointment and an amusing visual homage to Ti...