Batman: The Brave and the Bold (TV Series) Time Out for Vengeance! (2011) User Reviews

Creeper Crawls AWAY

[osbornj-00213 · 1/10 · 19 July 2020]

TWO MINUTES' pre-title token "teaser" of The Creeper has been--and CERTAIN to remain--his ONLY speaking appearance in the DCAU after he as Jack Ryder had ROBBED Summer Gleeson of reporting role in the second, second-RATE, Batman show, 1997-1999. He was a comics CATASTROPHE of the 1960's lasted six issues. Although he was REJECTED for the first, classic show in 1992-1995, after repeated rewrites couldn't produce suitable script he was put into the second one, 1997-1999, because DC was, incredulously introducing a NEW Creeper comics and awfully using show to help it at the sad sacrifice of Summer. Both show and comics debuted SAME month (September, 1997). Ryder COULDN'T handle reporting, dismal, drear, dull DUD, and by the time he became Creeper, next-to-LAST episode (November, 1998), the new comics HAD FAILED. The episode was ranked by critics at just 14th of show's 24 episodes, panned as lame disguised Freakazoid episode. Ironically, here, he was the the next-to-LAST character to be introduced in this series with just a half-dozen episodes over THREE seasons to go while the likes of B'wana Beast, Metal Men, Kadami, and Doom Patrol WERE STARRING WITH BATMAN. THIS time, TOO late, he actually WAS the original conception of the character, NOT faux Freakazoid. After this he had only a dozen seconds of unbilled walk-ons on Justice League.