#me realising i have consumed a lotta batman-branded content

[britcision]

Honestly, as someone who created a searchable summary of every chapter of Dungeon Meshi within 2 weeks of starting it, I am actually the poster child for overconsumption of canon 😅

So when I say DC has too much, is all contradictory, and worrying about it will only suck the fun out of it, it is very much a professional opinion

Look for the characters who interest you, and people who talk about those characters passionately; I got a good grasp on Duke from a really wonderful tumblr poster with actual comic panels cited, and they mentioned every run they loved

Personal recommendation from me, because I shouldn’t tell others to do things I won’t do: Batman: the Brave and the Bold. Specifically the Music Meister ep, it’s the only one I watched all the way through but it’s just… perfect

The plot is literally Batman being the straight man for a musical episode that would make Ember proud, asking the other characters to please stop singing and take this seriously

(They do not in fact do this)

(Batman does of course sing precisely once, because even as the straight man he can lean in)

It’s fun, silly, and lampoons all of the dark and gritty Batman tropes from the live action movies in the best cartoon fashion

Also, the animated Batman: Assault On Arkham movie from 2014 if you liked the Suicide Squad because it’s got Harley, Deadshot, and Killer Frost and King Shark are just OTP now I make the rules

It’s weird that “hey, maybe read or watch some DC content” seems oddly controversial in DPxDC fandom

Presumably you enjoy the characters since you keep using them, you’ll probably like one of the comics tv shows or movies(especially the animated movies)

we don’t HAVE to treat the entirety of DC canon like it’s Phantom Planet