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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Batman: The Adventures Continue: Season Three #5The Joker has had no shortage of sidekicks and subordinates throughout the years, but his newest henchman has a surprisingly tragic and heroic origin. The recently-released Batman: The Adventures Continue: Season Three #5 reveals the backstory and fate of Straightman, revealing him to be a veteran cruelly manipulated by Hugo Strange. In many ways, Straightman is DC's answer to Captain America - at least, one co-opted by the Joker.

Coming from the creative team of Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, Ty Templeton, Monica Kubina and Josh Reed, the new Batman: The Adventures Continue issue finds the Suicide Squad in Gotham City, on the trail of Joker and Straightman. It turns out that Joker’s new henchman is one Captain Carl Finley, a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who volunteered for a top-secret super soldier program. Previous issues showed how Joker stumbled...

Warning: Spoilers for Batman: The Adventures Continue: Season 3, #5 ahead!The black and red Batman Beyond suit has long been one of Batman's most powerful and dramatic outfits, but until now its history in the Dcau has largely been a mystery. After a particularly twisted tangle with the Joker, however, the origins of Batman's distinctive future attire are finally revealed to have their roots in a failed Waynetech military battle armor. While this origin has been hinted at in previous issues, this latest revelation confirms the suspicions of eagle-eyed readers.

The three-part storyline "Crack-Up!" by Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, Ty Templeton, and Monica Kubina is primarily concerned with a race between Batman and the Suicide Squad to rescue Captain Carl Finley from the Joker, who has renamed him "Straightman" and brainwashed him into acting as his hulking henchman. A third party soon makes a play for Finley as well: a mysterious...

Batman: The Animated Series is one of the greatest cartoons of all time, and now, one of the legendary creators involved in the show is returning to the pages of DC Comics. Original series director Kevin Altieri will be penciling and inking the second issue of Batman: The Adventures Continue Season Three, due out this February.

A continuation of the classic animated series, Batman: The Adventures Continue is the brainchild of B:tas writers Alan Burnett and Paul Dini. Running for fifteen issues across two miniseries/“seasons,” this most recent season will conclude the run. In addition to Burnett and Dini, DC is bringing back Kevin Altieri for a reunion of sorts of the classic cartoon’s creative team. Kevin Altieri recently shared his cover for issue #2 via Instagram, resulting in a piece that perfectly captures the film noir mood that made Batman: The Animated Series so indelible in the hearts and minds of fans everywhere.

Warning: contains spoilers for Batman: The Adventures Continue: Season Three #1!The Suicide Squad will soon be making their return to the DC Animated Universe with a grand debut in the canon of Batman: The Animated Series. After a prior appearance in Justice League Unlimited, the Squad has lain dormant in the Dcau, but now in Batman: The Adventures Continue: Season Three #1, they are making their grand return, recruiting one of Batman’s deadliest villains to the team - but what is Amanda Waller’s agenda this time? Batman: The Adventures Continue is the follow-up to the classic Batman: The Animated Series, which inaugurated the DC Animated Universe.

The issue - written by Alan Burnett and Paul Dini, drawn by Jordan Gibson, colored by Monica Kubina and lettered by Josh Reed - opens with Muscle, Aka Oscar Delgado, being attacked in prison by Killer Croc. It is the third such attack in three days on Delgado.

Batman: The Adventures Continue has been like a warm blanket amidst the cold horror of ::waves at everything::, giving Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, and Ty Templeton the chance to come home to the universe they tended for years and build on ideas and relationships from the old show. And now, a big name from the comics is making his way into animated continuity for the first time.

Chapter nine of Batman: The Adventures Continue is titled “Red Son Rising, Part 1,” and introduces Red Hood to the world of the cartoon. It’s the start of what DC is calling “the home stretch” of Dini, Burnett, Templeton, colorist Monica Kubina, and letterer Josh Reed’s run, and it looks like, from the preview art, Joker is going to force the issue with the Red Hood, who has been hunting him for a while.

Of course, Jason Todd (the Red Hood) and...

Fans of Batman: The Animated Series are in luck, as Kevin Conroy, who voiced the beloved character in the animated DC show, is returning to that universe for a live reading. Back in February, DC Comics announced a new book Batman: The Adventures Continue, which takes place in the same universe as the show. Now, DC has revealed that Conroy will perform a live-reading of the first issue this week on Instagram.

Kevin Conroy is set to conduct a live dramatic reading of Batman: The Adventures Continue #1 this Thursday, April 9, at 10 am Pt on DC's Instagram. The digital-first comic was written by Alan Burnett and Paul Dini, who produced the original show. The book features art by Ty Templeton, color by Monica Kubina and a cover by Dave Johnson. The first issue is available now, so readers can grab a digital copy before Thursday's live-reading, should they so choose.

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