The Batman Adventures/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • The entirety of The Batman Adventures #16:
    • Life in the world of comic book publishing:

"But I just draw! I can't write!"
"Write?! It's a comic book!"

      • Note that most, if not all, of the people in the office were actual people who worked there, the above quote coming from the editor, who was in fact the editor at the time, Scott Peterson, who has used several of those pictures of him as profile pictures and such. Including right now. [1]
    • Mistah J, disguised as an ice cream vendor in the dead of winter, has this exchange with a kid he's about to kidnap:

Joker: Ice cream! Bomb pops! Hey, kid! How about some ice cream?
Kid: Ice cream? But it's freezing out here.
Joker: Well then, how about a violent abduction instead?
(Joker's goons grab the kid and stuff him into the ice cream cart headfirst)
Joker: Ah, what the heck. Take both, my treat. It's the season of giving, after all.

  • Gotham Adventures #26: Batman's found himself caring for a baby that's wanted by villains, and can't risk leaving him alone, and so goes out to fight crime anyway, with the baby under his arm. A bunch of crooks aren't impressed... at first.

Batman: You know who I am. You know what I can do. But I am holding a small child here. And if you make me do anything that could possibly endanger this baby... You will be very, very sorry. *pause* Forever.

    • And the thugs immediately surrender their weapons. The moment is broken, though, when they have to tell him he's holding the baby wrong!
  1. second panel, bottom left, background; and third panel, left, yelling