I forgot a scripted Batman drama…..

By Bryan Young on February 27, 2008 in Comics News Television

When I wrote our innagural post about how great Batman could be on television, I overlooked one of the single coolest angles the series of Bat-family titles has ever taken:

Slam Bradley and Catwoman.

Darwyn Cooke (a master storyteller in comics) established a relationship and a story with these two that made Catwoman not only relevant again, but he made her title a must-read… This is essentially a noir film version of Beauty and the Beast. The great thing about their dichotomy though, is that you’re never quite sure who the Beast is.

Batman wouldn’t even need to find his way into this book and we’d have a great detective series with Slam in the lead and Selina doing her best to clean up the East End.This comes with a caveat, though. It could easily be turned into garbage, you’d have to strike that same period, noirish tone that the comic has, otherwise you’ll get this “Birds of Prey” style.

Long story short, this would be great television.