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Kamandi!

With the demise of Bruce Timm's DC animated serials, I gave up any hope of seeing a motion take on Jack Kirby's Fifth World survivor Kamandi. What were the chances of any subsequent team being as infatuated with the lesser known DC ensemble? I needn't have worried. Guest star extravaganza Batman: The Brave and the Bold to the rescue!

Batman: The Brave and the Bold

New Batman animated TV series! The Brave and the Bold is Cartoon Network's latest kiddy bat-offering. Vaguely based on a long running DC team-up comic series, although (unlike the comic) recognition factor demands triple A hero Batman is a front-and-centre mainstay. Thankfully not attempting a tot rated Dark Knight piece (unlike the truly bizarre Batman 2009 annual clogging up stocking filler shelves in Waterstones), season opener features a Dick Sprang cub scout master Batman putting junior hero Blue Beetle through his paces. Blue Beetle must learn to rise above bat-worship bumbling and make full use of his Guyver armour! This is accomplished by rescuing blob people and socking it to Mike Sekowsky and Gardner Fox's slave ship dick Kanjar Ro. Brave and Bold further embellishes Batman's long standing animated representation of studied, feet-thinking perfection, by adding some sarky vet wit to the mix. It's a snappy twenty minutes of gee-whizzery, ably directed by Transformers: Animated and Teen Titans alumni Ben Jones. The best bit though is the opening credits sequence; if quick-cut promises are kept, we can expect an avalanche of minor DC heroes - some even too obscure for JLU. Step forward Jack Kirby's animal apocalypse survivor KAMANDI!

Dear Mr Jones, if you can work OMAC in, you've got yourself a guaranteed DVD boxset sale. You have. You have. You have.