Ah, yes. Another summer, another vacation for Eric—and, most importantly for us, dear reader, another time for me to dick around really hard editorially. Which is a blessing for us both, really, since it means nothing but silly shit hereon out. It’s much needed, too: in case you hadn’t heard, the world is on fire, America is getting dangerously close to the stage of gangrene in which the flesh starts to slough off the skin, and the Supreme Court is about to become a flagrantly ideological body choosing oppressive social conservatism and rampaging capitalism over protecting the people not just most times it convenes, but every time. We might be better off putting the Joker on the court—at least he’d lean left every once in a while just for the sheer fun of it.
Speaking of which, now seems as good a time as any to remind ourselves that things could always be worse—at least in a fictional world—by watching one of Batman: The Animated Series’s most beautifully bonkers episodes, “Trial.” In this one, a handful of the best and baddest in Batman’s rogue’s gallery kidnap the Caped Crusader and put him on a villainous mockery of a trial—kind of like the villainous mockery of a trial that’s sure to occur over reproductive rights should Trump’s appointed judge take to the country’s highest bench.
Anyway, don’t let that get you down! Go watch this episode—B:TAS remains streaming on Lex Luthor Presents™ Amazon Video—and, in the brief moments after watching during which you’re actually thankful that at least it isn’t the Joker being nominated to the Supreme Court, check out our buddy Justin Michael’s interview with voice directing goddess Andrea Romano (who sweet wayward Eric once profiled for us!) on how she cast the voices behind your favorite Batcreeps on the “Trial” episode of Batman: The Animated Podcast. Panic later. Thank me now!
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