Interview with Alan Burnett

[KeatonisBatman]

Hey all, I recently interviewed Alan Burnett, and he had some interesting insight into BTAS as well as Mask of the Phantasm. Hope you enjoy it   

https://brandonkeaton.substack.com/p/up-to-bat-with-alan-burnett

[The Joker]

Great interview! Thank you for sharing.

That's interesting that Mr. Burnett is fine with the notion of who the Joker was, but wanting to keep how he became the Joker something of a mystery. Judging from BTAS/TNBA, it came across like the transformation must have been pretty similar to how Bill Finger envisioned it (especially considering the TNBA "Beware the Creeper" episode), but that was pretty late into the series, and perhaps Alan just simply disregards it?

[KeatonisBatman]

Glad you enjoyed it. Alan is a lovely man who laughed a lot. Kinda comes across like your best mate's dad 

[The Laughing Fish]

I bet Alan Burnett would be in a rude shock if he realised that B89-hating creep Gunn wants to discard every that came before except for his Peacemaker/Suicide Squad characters. Too bad, I would've much prefer Burnett and Paul Dini's screenplay for Batman Beyond come to life.

It was nice of him to acknowledge that underrated The Eye of the Beholder comic. I remember reading that comic sharing strong similarities with the two-part Two-Face BTAS episode, but I'm surprised it was a coincidence.

After watching how Morbius couldn't bite people and had to use plasma powers with his hands in Spider-Man TAS, I'm not all surprised the Nocturna character couldn't appear in BTAS.

[KeatonisBatman]

After watching how Morbius couldn't bite people and had to use plasma powers with his hands in Spider-Man TAS, I'm not all surprised the Nocturna character couldn't appear in BTAS.

The Nocturna thing was a fun revelation for me... I had no idea who she even was!