Batman Under The Red Hood is about the time Batman picked up a sexually transmitted disease from whatever random superwoman he was banging at the time. OK, it’s not but it could have been. So apologies for that image I just gave you. Batman Under The Red Hood is actually and adaptation of the Under The Hood storyline from a few years back. It starts with the death of everyone’s least favourite Robin Jason Todd and continues 5 years later with the arrival of a villain using the Red Hood name who’s planning on controlling all crime in Gotham. I’ll give you until you’ve clicked the link to guess who The Red Hood actually is.

J O K E R Jooooo-ker! J O K E R Joooo-ker!

The origin of Batman is easily one of the most repeated and played out in all of comic book history. In the film world Tim Burton went over the basics and tied the death of Bruce Wayne’s parents to The Joker causing a kind of you created me/I created you dichotomy to the hero/villain relationship. People didn’t like that. Batman Begins is the only feature film to have covered the entire story from start to finish though. Before Batman Begins came about though Warner was working with Darren Aronofsky and Frank Miller in adapting Miller’s comic Batman Year One to the screen. Elements of it exist in Nolan’s film but the eventual collapse of the Year One project goes down as one of the greatest movie projects never made. Fast forward a number of years and good old guardian of all that’s animated in the DC Universe, Bruce Timm, convinced Warner to fund an animated adaptation of the Batman Year One comic. Well, I finally got around to watching it last night. Click the link for my review!

This is the better Year One film. That Jack Black one was a bit rubbish really.