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The DCAU Review is a podcast hosted by Cal & Liam, two brothers with a devout love for producer Bruce Timm and Paul Dini's DC Animated Universe, starting with Batman: The Animated Series and proceeding all the way through Justice League Unlimited. For each standard podcast, the hosts provide commentary and evaluate a classic DCAU cartoon by giving a standard score to rank each animated episode. New episodes premiere Saturdays at DCAUReview.com and on your favorite podcast app!
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It's the final Saturday of the month and that means a trip through the multiverse of DC Animation, and the Good Brothers have landed in the fan-favorite world of the Teen Titans as they look at the season one episode "Deep Six" which features the guest starring Aqualad being forced to align with Beast Boy to take down the villainous Trident! Hear t…
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Cal and Liam return with the beginning of the end of their The Zeta Project coverage with the 5th to last double feature , this week with the episodes "Ro's Gift," which sees the return of a group of villains that debuted in Batman Beyond and "Lost and Found" which features the previously unseen origin stories of our lead protagonists. The hosts di…
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When you've reached the end, you can't help but want to look back and that's just what Liam & Cal do this week as they take a second gander on the pod at the Batman Beyond season one episode "Golem." The hosts look back at their original scores and decide with the benefit of hindsight and nearly 8 years of reviews if they were too harsh or too leni…
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The Good Brothers make their long-awaited/long-dreaded return to reviewing The Zeta Project with a double feature of season two episodes "Resume Mission" and "Hunt in the Hub." Without a future Dark Knight to pique interest, the hosts are forced to try and find things to appreciate from the skeletal foundation of decent revenge story from Zeta's ev…
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It's back to the future for the next several weeks as the Good brothers make their return to the DCAU with the penultimate episode of Batman Beyond which features a crossover from The Zeta Project in the episode "Countdown." When Zeta shows up to Gotham, hijinks ensue as the Mad Stan straps a bomb to an oblivious Zeta. The hosts discuss how this pl…
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The Good Brothers wrap up their Elseworld's Finest Month the right way, with a gargantuan team-up between the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel to battle Lex Luthor and an army of DC Comics villains in the DC Animated direct-to-video feature "Superman/Batman: Public Enemies." The hosts chat about the adaptation from the source material from writer J…
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Up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's the DCAU Review and they're here to celebrate Superman Day a day late with a continuance of Elseworld's Finest Month and a look at the Man of Steel's most recent iteration in animation, My Adventures with Superman. The hosts pick up where they left off last May with Part II of "Adventures of a Normal M…
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The hosts are still in a celebratory mood after last week's 350th episode's character spotlight, and have gotten booked their travel through the multiverse once again to visit the Elseworlds of 2004's The Batman cartoon and an appearance of a rogue that was no stranger to the Batman The Animated Series. This week the hosts review Maxie Zeus' one an…
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The Good Brothers are back at home safe and sound after their annual excursion outside of DC Animation for April Fools' Day, and to celebrate their 350th episode of the podcast, the hosts are shining the old DCAU Character Spotlight on one of the Dark Knight's most formidable and recurring opponents, "The Demon's Head" Ra's al Ghul. Joining the hos…
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We may be turning the calendar page, but the Good Brothers are still wearing their leftover St. Patrick's Day green as they take on the 4th annual DCAU Review April Fools' Day special, this time venturing out even further into the far reaches of the animated universes and landing on 2003's iteration of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show and its'…
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After 347 episodes it would be easy to assume there aren't many "firsts" left for the Good Brothers when it comes to the DCAU but leave it to an episode featuring real life NBA stars to help usher in some new infamy! This week, the hosts review "Hoop Squad" which features another of the many celebrity appearances on Static Shock but this time, the …
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The Good Brothers are back once again with another Static Shock review, this week with the season 4 caper that finds Static up against a scarlet speedster (but not THE Scarlet Speedster) in the episode "Now You See Him..." The hosts break down a plot the borrows some similar tech from a Batman The Animated Series episode with a bit of romance and R…
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Cal & Liam continue their stay in Dakota for the month of March with another Static Shock review, this week with a look back at the episode "No Man's an Island," which finds itself tying up some season one and season two story arcs that had been left unresolved. Hear the hosts talk about how the "Previously on..." effectively pulls the rug on one o…
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A new month means the Good Brothers are moving on to another DCAU series, spending the next few weeks in Dakota and Static Shock. This week's episode is the sequel to one of the best Static episodes featuring the African superhero Anansi the Spider, in "Out of Africa." The hosts discuss the difficulties in following up an episode as great as "Stati…
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With one final Saturday in February, Liam and Cal are back to wrap up their second look at the series-defining crossover "World's Finest" with the third and final part. The hosts discuss both part three as well as how the episodes work as a whole presentation, why the Lois/Bruce storyline ends up working based solely on the resolution, whether the …
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The Good Brothers are continuing to revisit the crossover that kicked off the DCAU with a look at the second part of The Batman/Superman Movie aka "World's Finest, Part 2." The hosts proceed through the second installment of this episode and discuss how breaking up a three-act story into three smaller parts dilutes some of the story telling, as wel…
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Another Anthology, Another Jo story! We discuss the GL story from Rise of the Power Company #1, before discussing the new FF and Jurassic trailers, there's What Has Mark Seen and have you heard of lampshading? I bet you have and didn't know it! Be sure to email us your thoughts or call/text us on our voice-mail at 708-LANTERN.…
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Liam and Cal are back to their regular format this week taking a closer look at one of the defining and most memorable events in DCAU history with a re-review of Part I of "World's Finest." The Good Brothers look back at the kickoff to the DC Animated Universe and dive deeper than they did nearly 7 years and 323 episodes prior and discuss the thema…
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Cal & Liam are kicking off a new month with a return to a format they first introduced last year where they recap a pair of DCAU characters and pit them against one another in a simulated contest to see who they believe would come out on top in their second edition of Meta-Brawl. This edition features the "Main Man" Lobo in a battle against John He…
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Cal & Liam take a brief detour with this bonus episode while continuing the Justice League Unlimited reviews for the month of January, wrapping up with a review of issue 38 of the tie-in comic which serves as a bit of a follow-up to last week's review. The hosts discuss a comedic love-triangle between Giganta, Flash and Linda Park written by Matt W…
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Cal & Liam are once again back with another season three Justice League Unlimited review, this week tackling the Flash-centered episode "Flash and Substance." The hosts talk a bit about the 85th Anniversary of the Flash character in 2025, how this episode acts as a love letter to the Scarlet Speedster and his DCAU persona, why this episode has a me…
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Liam and Cal are back at it again with their first review of 2025 and a return to Justice League Unlimited for the month of January. This week they continue on in Season Three of JLU with the episode "To Another Shore." On this episode, the hosts discuss the unique "embargo" that helped shape this episode into one that would alter the course of the…
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We interrupt the Toilet Bowl to bring you a special look at 2024 with the Good Brothers! The hosts are looking back at the year that was with a fun recap of all things DCAU and DCAU Review. The hosts talk about some of the milestones achieved by the podcast in 2024, the top-rated episode, their biggest disparity in scoring for one episode, and a hi…
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The Good Brothers are taking their annual Christmas vacation to recharge for 2025, but in the meantime they're bringing you one last bonus episode for 2024 with a review of the Matt Reeves' Batman universe tie-in show, The Penguin. The hosts give their bird's eye (re)view of the 8-episode season, discussing Colin Ferrell's Oz Cobb character along w…
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the Good Brothers! This week on the pod is not only perfect to celebrate the season, but kicks off the podcast's long-awaited foray intoThe New Batman Adventures with the adaptation of the Bruce Timm/Paul Dini classic "Holiday Knights." The hosts discuss how the adaptation differs from the source material, Th…
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Depending on your current location the weather outside may or may not be frightful, but a new episode of the DCAU Review is always delightful. This week the Good Brothers are discussing the second full-length feature film of the original Batman: The Animated Series run with the chilling title "Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero." The hosts discuss a bit …
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Cal & Liam return from their holiday with the exciting conclusion of the Batman Beyond season 3 episode "Curse of The Kobra. " The hosts due their very best to make chicken salad with an episode that offers plenty of unintentional laughs, missed opportunities and quite a few memorable one liners. The hosts talk the anatomy of Dino-Men, including ho…
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The Good Brothers are taking the week off to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, but as is tradition they're bringing you a special Black Friday Bonus episode to kick off the 2024 holiday season. This year the hosts are sending their wishlist of toys to the folks at Mondo, whom Cal has dubbed responsible for creating the best Batman The Animated Se…
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We put the latest issue of Green Lantern in perspective before discussing new McFarlane news, a Chad rant, sales and a post credit, extra sized What Has Mark seen, featuring Wicked and Cobra Kai! Be sure to email us your thoughts or call/text us on our voice-mail at 708-LANTERN.By Mark Marble and Chad Bokelman
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