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Whee! Batman goes Primal Rage this episode (only without the miniature human worshippers and the post apocalyptic world) as he and Bronze Tiger fight three weirdos called Fox (not the cute sexy female fox from Skunk Fu), Shark (who looks kinda like that Shark guy from Superboy) and Vulture (only not the geriatric variety) over some ancient totem that changes martial arts masters into monsters… oh, did I mention Bruce Wayne’s old martial arts sensei is in the start of this one? Yes, though not the one from Batman the Animated Series, it’s a different one.

Today (as these are being submitted) it’s Season Finale day for Star Wars : The Clone Wars. It is now… 7 hours and about under 45 minutes to the showing so there’s plenty of time to write reviews.

In this episode Batman’s old mentor (who taught Bruce Wayne all he knew about the martial arts and nothing he knew about having a sense of humor or a personality) is sent off to a better place… maybe. But before he shuffles off the DC Mortal Coil (like Ted Kord aka the Blue Beetle II in a previous episode) he speaks to Batman in his mind and warns him that he must protect to school from attack (and the mystical totem thing within). Batman goes off and grabs former fellow student Bronze Tiger (he who was far cooler when he was with Suicide Squad way back in the late 20th Century) who turns out to be a hard headed jerk (no surprise). They try to do the job, but since trying is never good enough the trio of bad guys (more former students in the form of a rich guy who wears a Fox mask, another guy in a shark mask and one more in a vulture mask) and their TMNT borrowed shadow ninjas manage to take the totem and transform into Primal Rage like man monsters (a fox that looks more like a werewolf, a vulture man and… say, didn’t that shark guy fight Superboy when he was in Hawaii?!?

The rest of the episode it’s off to Hong Kong where Batman and Bronze Tiger must also transform to fight toe-to-toe with the transformed monster people things… yeah. Lots of punching and some flashbacks into Bruce’s past… good times, people, good times. 5 out of 5.

Next review we’re heading into 7 hours and 30 minutes to Clone Wars Season Finale (because CN has to be hyped about something since, at this very moment, Sci-Fi Channel, aka the channel soon to be called by the rather odd name of SyFy… weirdoes… are holding a huge Battlestar Galactica marathon counting down to the end… HEY! Where’s the Clone Wars marathon, CN! Come on!!)... oh, and it’s the story that we probably didn’t need, but it was OK they did it anyway… because hey, doesn’t DC periodically roll out a Crisis on Infinite Earts slash Zero Hour slash Final Crisis slash whatever to supposedly (allegedly) fix the problem of this two parter… mainly the glut of Alternate Earths and Alternate Batmans? No? You mean Crisis/Zero Hour/Crisis is all just money making gimmicks and you’d have to be a sucker to think DC really wants to fix anything? Yeah… I thought so. Crisis of Alternate Evil Earths next review.

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