BraveAndTheBold

Over a lifetime of reading comics, Senior Writer Chris Sims has developed an inexhaustible arsenal of facts and opinions. That's why, each and every week, we turn to you to put his comics culture knowledge to the test as he responds to your reader questions...

Who's the most normal member of Batman's vast supporting cast? Well, even during the most bizarre years of Batman's career -- the age of Bat-Mite and Bat-Hound, the Zebra Batman, King Batman the First, Rip van Batman, and travels to alien worlds and different eras in time -- at least one element of the Batman comic books remained relatively Earthbound: Batman's pal Commissioner James Gordon... R

This year, the Eisners are honoring the legendary Bob Haney with the 2011 Bill Finger Memorial Award for Excellence in Comics Writing, and if you ask me, that's long overdue. In a career that spanned five decades, Haney's contributions to the DC Universe included co-creating the Teen Titans, Metamorpho and Eclipso and a long run as the writer of The Brave and the Bold, working with artists like Ne

When I was out in San Diego for Comic-Con, one of the things I was most looking forward to was the playable verision of "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" for the Wii that was set up at the DC Booth. After all, a video game based on the animated series that's essentially a sequel to the 1966 live-action "Batman," but expanded to the entire DC Universe...

If fans were bummed to learn of the cancellation of "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" on the Cartoon Network following this upcoming season's run, they were extra bummed to discover an apparent cancellation of its DC comic at the end of October...

For a certain percentage of people who were kids in the early '90s, the defining era of video games is a time when the side-scrolling beat-em-up ruled the earth unchallenged, dealing out Final Fights and Golden Axes before the 3D and the rise of the first-person shooter brought them to an untimely end...

This weekend's episode of "Batman: The Brave and The Bold" explains just why Batman's always found Catwoman so attractive: She reminds him of his mother. Maybe that's because she is his mother... kind of. A special flashback episode lets Julie Newmar, one of the actresses who played Catwoman in the 1960s "Batman" TV series, step into the comfortable, expensive shoes of Martha

For a few days after "Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog" stole the show at the Neil Patrick-hosted Emmys back in September, it was all any nerd could do to keep from bursting into song . Now, thanks to Cartoon Network's "Batman: The Brave & the Bold," NPH is back in the villain seat as the diabolical Music Meister in the appropriately titled episode "Mayhem of the Music M