Oh Brave and the Bold cartoon, is there nothing you can't do?

[icon_uk]

The latest episode of the Brave and the Bold Cartoon showcases more than just Batman and a partner, it showcases these might heroes... the truly brave, the genuinely bold...





And the outright fanboy geeky



Yup, it's THAT Justice League (as near as they can manage it)... Batman, Aquaman and Martian Manhunter are also on the team as more experienced mentors.

Fire, who has adopted her JL era outfit and Ice, who is... well, naive to the point of dangerous, introduce themselves



Booster is duly smitten, and Skeets helps him out with some mood lighting, and a little wind to ruffle that silky hair...





Yes, they went for the sparkly-teeth bit...

Fire and Ice are not particularly impressed.





Still, boys being boys,  Fire and Ice are shortly, again, the target of their team-mates attentions, and this time are a little... less, patient.











Fire can also assume her fire-form, much to J'onn's distress...



Let's just say that there are some of the personalities in this team, as one might surmise don't get on... EVER... Guy and Booster come to blows almost instantly, as Booster has snagged Hal's old room (Skeets confirms that Booster called "Firstsies") which Guy wanted as it has the GL symbol on the door.

The fight intensifies, leaving only Fire, ice and Beetle looking on aghast, Batman clearly wishing he was on another case, and Martian Manhunter floats above, until tragedy strikes...



Yes, J'onn has his SERIOUS cookie fixation here (of course)... and when he sees innocent chocolate chip cookies being tramped underfoot, well, it's more than an even a noble Martian can cope with...



In the midst of the resulting chaos, an alert comes in to the satellite, forces from Apokalips ("Home of the Parthenon", comments Ice confidently) are Boom-tubing in all over the planet.... and only the League can help... J'onn gives a rather impressively rousing speech to bring the team together... Seriously, it's rather magnificent...



The newly united League cheer as they answer the rallying cry....

Next scene is this...



"That SO did not go the way I was expecting", comments Jaime...

And what has happened to Boosters costume I hear you ask?

Well it's a shame to waste something so shiny and pretty, and it does make a cool standard... for the BAD GUYS...


I won't spoil the rest of the episode, but there's a nifty battle royale at the end...

And apropos of very little, I found these sketchcards over on comicartfans and thought they were fun... art by Kevin Maguire, colours by Joe Rubinstein...



And for legality, the cover of Booster Gold #32, where he's doing every EXCEPT the teeth sparkle....

Comments

[thokstar]

I'm torn on Ice. On one hand the accent felt off, and the Greek thing doesn't work with her (that joke almost feels like it was meant for a Rocket Red; I wonder if they swapped in Aquaman for Rocket Red during the writing project. Of course, this version of Aquaman fits in wonderfully with the JLI.)

On the other hand, she does come off as roughly as competent as the rest of the JLI, and this is her first speaking role in an animated series ever.

[icon_uk]

Her accent sounded vaguely Icelandish, which seemed fair enough, though I agree I wasn't sure her about her being THAT well, I don't want to say "dumb blonde" I really don't, but...

[crinos]

She seemed more like a cloudcuckoolander to me. Kind of like Zangief from the Street fighter move.

*Image of Darkseid's warship coming straight at the Watchtower appears on a monitor.*

Ice: Quickly, someone change the channel!

Fire:.....

[thokstar]

Ice is tricky to write; she should look naive compared to Fire/Guy, while in reality being more stable and balanced than both of them.

My problem with the Greek thing is that it's out of character for Ice to have a racist view of any nationality (and she is being racist, even if it's played for laughs in an "There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch," sort of way.)

[retro_nouveau]

I didn't see her as dumb or naive, just completely unfamiliar with Western Civilization. Personally, the uncertain ingenue gets a straight shot into my heart, especially Tora and early Sue Storm, a little bit less for Mary Marvel, Meggan, and Doug Ramsey.

For the Scandinavians vs. the Greeks thing, I thought it was pretty obviously about religion: Odin and Zeus (and I'd throw in Ra as the third power block) have been competing for thousands of years. Love that stuff.

I acknowledge fully that these opinions are very strange and likely only my own.

[jarodrussell]

Odin and Zeus

I thought she was touchy about Financial WMD'S.

[arbre_rieur]

I haven't watched the episode, but from reading icon_uk's recap, my impression is that the joke is that Ice is getting "Apokalips" mixed up with "Acropolis." Because they sound similar.

[lostfairy]

That was definitely my impression. Ice was too "blonde" to know any better. (the episode drives this home by having the soundtrack come to a distinct pause at her comments, highlighting her cluelessness)

It was definitely not a racist comment, whatsoever.

[retro_nouveau]

I can see it. I'm still thinking that it was more due to innocence than ignorance.

[icon_uk]

Yes, that's absolutely it.

[sianmink]

I think for Ice they just went,

"Make her talk weird like Bjork."

And really it almost worked.