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Nope, that team up in the first minute or so of the episode so isn’t the entire episode team up… but The Atom will appear in a full episode soon or so I heard. Nope, it’s time now for a even harder to bear Aquaman… sheesh, no wonder his comics keep getting canceled!!

If you tune in at the start and notice Batman getting himself out of a tight mystical situation with a little help from The Atom? Well… don’t get too attached to that, he won’t be on the whole episode.

Finally back to new episodes after the Thanksgiving holiday with no new Batman : Brave and Bold in sight, we are treated to Batman reporting for duty under the sea as he has detected undersea tremors near the city of Atlantis (home to Aquaman)... yeah, remember Aquaman from the last Superman Animated Series and Justice League? The bitter cranky Aquaman? Yeah… well forget about that because this ain’t him. Still with two hands (more than enough to do things I can’t repeat in this review) he is now abit egotisical as he can’t seem to stop listening to his own adventures as they are transcribed by some news person of Atlantis (or just somebody who likes to follow Aquaman around with a scroll and underwater writing quill). Anyway problems come with the arrival of the Batman as it seems some of the creatures in Aquaman’s kingdom are being controlled by sinister devices… devices controlled by… BLACK MANTA (echo echo echo)... OK, who didn’t see that coming. It seems Black Manta is “employed” by one of the long long line of distant or not so distant relations of Aquaman vying for his throne. Uptight brother or half brother, irritated cousin or uncle, warped third distant relation half removed, the guy Aquaman used to bully in Aquatic High School… those people. In this case it’s brother material only Aquaman seems to have his self important I’m so guilty because mommy hugged me more than you guilt trip on because he’s going to welcome bro home with open arms (so what if he stole a nuclear submarine once… hmm… wait, didn’t that happen in Justice League? So… why does Aquaman have two hands again if this series is Post Justice League?!?).

As it turns out the brother is evil… but not so since a quick betrayal by Black Manta is more than enough to get the brothers to settle their differences to save Atlantis from Black Manta’s new tremor machine (he smashes Atlantis then scours the ruins for junk he can sell on EBay), and the episode ends with an undersea smackdown between the forces of the sea and Black Manta’s army of black scuba diving henchmen. And while I am not sure if Aquaman really learned something out of this episode maybe he’ll just stop reciting his many great adventures from those bygone golden era animations of Aquaman and Aqualad. Dude, if we want to know about those we’d be watching Boomerang!

Anyway what the hell happened with Aquaman’s character! If it wasn’t bad enough they made him mucho bitter during the Superman Animated Series and Justice League, now they went and made him—what, an egomonger (let me tell you more about how awesome I am) and a… I have no idea what to say about his rather lacking sense of judgment about his bro, mostly because it turns out all his belief in him really paid off as he helps Aquaman fight off Black Manta’s forces with Batman and every large aquatic creature in the vicinity… OK, maybe they really didn’t need his help but he helped anyway, so doesn’t that count for anything?

Still gets a five but I was tilting towards a four because of Aquaman. Not as bad as that JarJar episode last week on Clone Wars but still… darn, Aquaman.

Now when are they finally going to pull out a female co-star?!? Come on already!! Surprise me, Brave and Bold!!

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