The eighteenth episode of "Taking Flight" takes a look at a three-issue story arc that ran from Detective Comics #647-649 and introduced a new hero in The Batman Universe–The Spoiler, a.k.a. Stephanie Brown.  Come along as I close out Tim Drake's origin and first few adventures as Robin!  

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  Join Don, Dustin, Stella, Tom, Joe, Jon and Ed as they rank all of the Robins from throughout history.  

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After a night of venting his frustration on the criminals in Gotham City, Bruce returns to the cave to find a letter that Damian wrote, declaring his intention to help Batman fight against Leviathan and stating his love and pride for being Bruce’s son.   The best issues say the most with the least amount of dialogue. So it’s with Batman and Robin #18 that the entire story has nary a word or sound effect lettered into the page, leaving with the reader the sense of grief and loss that…

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  Feature: The Bat-Family's Status
  0:00:00 Intro
0:01:58 Movie News
0:11:24 TV News
0:28:05 Merchandise News
0:35:52 Video Game News
0:39:21 General News
0:44:19 Listner Q&A's
0:49:20 Feature
1:27:43 Closing
1:29:11 Outtakes  

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At New York Comic Con, Newsarama talked with Dan Didio about a number of different subjects, but the one that caught our eye was Stephanie Brown in the New 52. Didio specifically talked about why Brown and other popular characters have yet to appear. Here is his explanation.   You know, me and Stephanie, we go way back. The story with Stephanie Brown goes, they came to me as Executive Editor with the "War Games" story, and said we're going to kill Stephanie Brown. I knew Stephanie Brown for…

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  DC held their New 52 panel and both Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo were in attendance. Here are the highlights relating to The Batman Universe.   -Scott Snyder stated that they may or may not be killing Alfred in the Death of the Family. -A question was asked about a fourth wave and was answered with a generic if there are new ideas there will be new books. -A question was asked about Cassandra Cain and Stephanie Brown to which keep reading was the answer…

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  When was the last time we features a TBU Fan Made piece? Too long!   The piece we are featuring today is something that we will hopefully be featuring every time a new episode releases. A little while back, there was an announcement that hit the net that some fans were putting together a quality production of Stephanie Brown's run as Batgirl. The series titled Batgirl: Spoiled promises a full season run with new episodes released regularly.   The cool thing about the project is that there are some of…

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  9/24: Ame-Comi Girls #3 ($0.99) While the team continues to fight off Brainiac, an ancient hidden city of robots may hold the key to Earth’s survival.   All-Star Batman & Robin, The Boy Wonder #2-10 ($1.99 each) Frank Miller & Jim Lee team up in this controversial series that gave a different take on Batman and his world.   Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again #1-3 ($2.99 each) Frank Miller’s 2002 follow up to the iconic The Dark Knight Strikes series from 1986.   9/25: Batman: Arkham Unhinged #44 ($0.99) Karen Traviss takes over the writing…

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  There are times where you have to put your trust in "The Powers That Be" of any continuing interest of yours.   Be it a new front office regime of your favorite professional sports franchise, a new show runner and writing staff for your favorite television program or a new producer taking the reign of a movie franchise. Things have gotten bad, but give them time to turn things around and who knows, a championship run, a stretch of great shows, or the property soaring…

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  On Sunday at Fan Expo in Toronto, DC held DC All Access and among the panelists were Greg Capullo, David Finch and Jason Fabok. The panel was moderated by Dan Didio. There wasn't a ton of information revealed but enough to warrant mentioning it.   -Capullo described the upcoming Death of the Family storyline as sick and twisted, "This is going to be like Joker meets 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre." -Dan Didio asked fans if they were interested in a Red Robin ongoing series and after a resounding applause, stated they were…

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