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"Let me tell you what I'd wish I'd known When I was young and dreamed of glory You have no control: Who lives Who dies Who tells your story" - "Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story" from Hamilton: An American Musica , lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda  In 2027, Adult Swim is going to present a five-part documentary about Cartoon Network celebrating its 35th anniversary. Wait, no, let me rewrite that properly. That sounded a little too much like a press release. In 2027, Adult Swim, not Cartoon Network, is going to air a five-part special eulogizing Cartoon Network in honor of the channel's 35th anniversary while likely ignoring much of the last decade because nothing happened and everything is fine. Okay, that might be a little too cruel. Still, at the time of this writing, June 2025, news from the Annecy Internation Animation Film Festival in France, the biggest global showcase of film, television, and streaming animation, occurred this week, and one ...

Back in the early 2010s, I started to write a story that took place in the Batman Beyond continuity. Essentially, I wanted to make a tale about how Terry didn't really have a Riddler or Mad Hatter-like villain. Spellbinder was the closest, but he was more of a stalker figure who used tech. So, i wrote a couple of chapters and just stepped away from it.  I wanted to focus more on my own characters and stories and felt I could rewrite parts of this into something involving my own worlds as opposed to playing in DC Comics' playground. Still, it was a fun story and after rereading it, it could work. Kind of funny looking at it in hindsight since the first chapter largely took place in a mall, and we all know malls are an endangered species in 2026 and probably wouldn't be around in the future Gotham. It felt fun, and I rarely look back at older things. Maybe one day, I'll finish the whole story.  Anyway, here's the first (lone) three chapters of Batman Beyond: Curious T...