4. Young Justice

We’ll cover it right away as it turns out!

Young Justice is absolutely fantastic. It's structured, paced, and paid off like a great comic book series and oh my god, that character development! Young Justice followed, well, Young Justice, a team of superhero sidekicks including Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, and Superboy, among a bunch of others. And as a gigantic Wally West fan, I was incredibly overjoyed with his appearance in the show. Like, pitch perfect Wally, right there. And his relationship with Artemis? SO ADORABLE.

Also, the show's original premise, of basically sending teenagers on deniable ops, is kinda super cool. When picking a show about a teen superhero team, Young Justice is my favorite, bar none.

I was talking with someone about the show and she mentioned that it was part of the reason she got interested in comics. And she's not the only person who's told me that. That's incredible. Any media piece that can bring in new readers is one I have immense respect for.

3. Batman: The Brave and the Bold

Batman: the Brave and the Bold is the Batman show we needed to exist in the late 2000s. After the intense seriousness and pitch black darkness of the Nolan films, it was time for the pendulum to swing back in the other direction.

And with that swing, we got the Brave and the Bold, a show that’s a hardcore love letter to seventies and early eighties DC comics. The series follows Batman as he teams up with the various heroes of the DCU to face off against new and different threats.

The Brave and the Bold gave us the greatest adaptation of Aquaman of all time. It also knocked characters like the Doom Patrol and Bat-Mite out of the park. The Brave and the Bold loves comic books more than most people do.

Also, "Mayhem of the Music Meister" is one of my favorite episodes of any animated series ever.