Gorram's Gotham

As kids, we were allowed to watch the Tim Burton Batman movies as often as we liked (age ratings just weren’t a think when the films were recorded off the telly) but it was with Batman The Animated Series that I truly fell in love with Batman. From the iconic opening credits to the overall tone of the show, the stylistic design to the plethora of bad guys, it really was perfection as a show. As an adult, I nabbed it on DVD as soon as I could and have since upgraded to the Blu-ray box set. The more I’ve read and heard about how it was made, the more in awe of it I’ve become.

Overall, it has been a pretty good couple of decades to be a Batfan. The comics have been through some fantastic story arcs and some less than stellar ones as usual. I recently got to rewatch the Nolan trilogy in the cinema again and honestly, you can shove everything Marvel have made up your batcave, *that’s* how to make comic book movies for adults. The Batman was pretty good, especially considering the shadow it sits in, and I’m looking forward to it’s sequel in the next couple of years. TV-wise, we’ve had Gotham (it was fine), and we’ve got Penguin coming soon (looks good). Then Amazon dropped the new animated show Batman: Caped Crusader.

Holy crap, it’s great. Spiritual successor to the Animated Series with Bruce Timm, JJ Abrams and Ed Brubaker producing, there’s so much to lover in it. I sat down to watch one episode and lost the rest of the day to watching all ten. Then I watched them over again within the week. Then I rewatched The Animated Series.

So here we are, the beginning of TerrainFest 2024 and with me utterly obsessed with Batman. No one locally is interested in the Batman the Miniatures Game (not that I blame them, Knight make it very hard to like them as a company) but I own a bunch of the minis and I’d really like to paint and play with them. Pulp Alley is in the lead right now for ruleset but let’s focus on this project for now.

Goal: To have a modular Gotham board with inspiration from the Animated Show.