Somebody Else's Nimrod

"Oh, is that why you can't get any dates?"

One thing I really appreciate about the Batman/Superman/Justice League animated universe is the way the shows can occasionally surprise you with a deft touch of adult wit. If you had told me before watching this weekend's Batman that you could work a Dark Knight Returns pastiche into a cartoon rated Y7, I wouldn't have believed you. The Superfriends pastiche--lovingly rendered with the appropriate style of animation, soundtrack, dialogue, everything--was less astonishing, but purely hilarious.

Sometimes I find myself hoping that poor abused Chloe will say "Screw you guys!" and choose to grow up into the live-action version of that universe's spunky sassy ever-so-slightly-loopy female villains. She'd have more fun.