In the latest Return to Gotham, IllusiveKen remembers Kevin Conroy, the man who turned BatmanTheAnimatedSeries into a beloved phenomenon:
a few years ago. It’s crucial to understanding why people still remember the show with such admiration: The voices signaled to kids who tuned in after school pretty much immediately that this was something more serious and more carefully crafted than most of the Reagan-era schlock we’d grown up on.
Conroy, trained at Juilliard, and with precisely zero animation voiceover credits to his name, was brought in. Relating the experience to an interviewer, he said he told the creative leads that he only knew the character from the ‘60s Adam West TV series—series co-creator Bruce Timm was apparently the first to tell Conroy about the character’s tragic backstory and conflicted duality.
“I Am The Night” opens with Batman in a slump. He is doubtful that his actions result in any good. The war against crime is endless, and has made him weary. On his annual pilgrimage to the spot in Crime Alley that began his journey, he runs afoul of a crime in progress: A young hustler is about to get kneecapped by a pair of enforcers. He thrashes them and gets Green sent off to social services, but in the process is late for a police raid.
That’s the place he was in, he writes, when he got the call to voice a character with a dual identity, driven by pain. And so with no traditional background in voiceover and no long years of comic book fandom, he became the night.
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