It's time to have a little fun with the Dark Knight. I know what you are thinking; the Dark Knight, as in Batman, as in the Dark Knight from the movies this summer? He's the one.

Cartoon Network's latest animated offering from the DC Universe is Batman: Brave and the Bold and I have to admit it is a lot of fun.

For the animated Batman purest out there I only have one thing to say, get over yourselves. Granted, the animated series was a classic that has been off the air for what seems like forever.

Brave and the Bold will not sully TAS good name.

Brave and the Bold is the ultimate in team ups as each week Bats gets to work with not one, but usually two different DC Comics heroes. Usually in the teaser before the title credits we join Batman and one of said heroes already in progress taking down some evil doer. Then after the titles we get another hero and our main story. There have only been five episodes so far, and again, they have been a lot of fun.

So far we have seen the classic Green Arrow, Blue Beetle, Ice, Guy Gardner, Plastic Man, Demon, Aquaman and Red Tornado with the Outsiders and many more on the docket. The jazzy score gives Batman: Brave and the Bold a classic 60s cartoon feel without the poor animation from that decade.

So if you like good cartoons and want to check out something fresh and fun, go to Cartoon Network on Friday nights for Batman: Brave and the Bold, or download the episode from iTunes on Saturday morning and watch it in your pj's while you are eating some Captain Crunch (the preferable way to watch cartoons).

And now a public service announcement. For every good and fun animated journey into the world of superheroes, there is an equally hard to watch one. The new Wolverine and the X-Men falls into that category. I think the cartoon Gods knew this in advance and is the reason the show first aired in Canada and will broadcast on Niktoons in the States by the end of the month.

I decided to take a peek on youtube as a couple of people uploaded a bunch of the episodes that have aired north of the border. Wow, this one is bad. I actually could not watch an entire episode. The animated is decent, but I have no time for rain in cartoons that show windshiled wipers on and no rain falling. But that's not the hardest part, its the melodrama of the episodes that remind me of the old Fox series from the 1990s which I SO can never watch again (I am still trying to get the funk of the original out of my mind).

Because Wolverine and the X-Men is so bad, I can no longer spend anymore time talking about it ... Peace.