aaron_bourque (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} aaron_bourque) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} scans_daily, |
I just can't quite work out his name, Nighthound seems too... obvious
Nightwoof. I'd go with "Nighthowl" but woof keeps the initials the same, and howl is reserved for if Watchmen ever gets an Earth-C/C- analogue.
Also:
Paul Dini has written "Chill of the Night!," the episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold that was touched upon at Comic-Con International last weekend.
Voices in the episode include Adam West as Thomas Wayne, Julie Newar as Martha Wayne, Kevin Conroy as the Phantom Stranger and Mark Hamill as The Spectre.
Diedrich Bader, who provides the voice of Batman, said that Batman gets "a sense of closure" and that recording the episode actually made him cry
. . . There was an issue of DCAU tie-in Batman Adventures (or New Batman adventures, or Gotham Adventures . . . .) with the Phantom Stranger that showed Batman, in "It's A Wonderful Life" style, what it would've been like if his parents weren't murdered. It was intriguing and tragic. However, earlier and better was "To Kill A Legend!" from the late 70s, one of the greatest Batman stories EVER TOLD, where Batman is sent by the Stranger to an alternate Earth approx. 20~ish years behind Earth-1's timeline, where the night of the Wayne murder is fast approaching. Bats and Robin do some investigating (where they learn that Bruce was an utter BRAT when he was a kid, and that there is apparently absolutely no heroic fiction of any kind--but there is detective fiction, hmm--and no Atlantis, no Krypton, seemingly no chance for any other heroes at all, so if they prevent the Wayne murder, they may be depriving this world of it's only potential hero!) Bruce makes his decision and saves the Waynes, and goes home, and Robin is left to wonder if it may have been better to let this world have a Batman . . . . and the epilogue shows that the little bratty Brucey of this world was so moved by the mysterious stranger saving his family, that he's still inspired to become Batman!
This "Chill of the Night!" has some stiff competition.
Unless they're more than riffing on "To Kill A Legend!" They've already established multiple alternate Earths . . . .