Batman & Black Canary

Back in 1980, issue #166 of The Brave and the Bold featured a team up between Batman and Black Canary. At first Batman isn't too keen on Black Canary helping him with a case, leaving her cuffed to the base of a streetlight. How rude.

But the Penguin's goons turn out to be even ruder, knocking Black Canary out cold.

The Black Canary winds up being tied to a chair and gagged, all while barefoot and clad only in her underwear. I always knew the Penguin was a really cool guy.

But it's Batman to the rescue. With Black Canary still helping out however she can.

All's well that ends well. I read this comic when it was originally published, and I even had it for a while as an adult. To say I appreciated BC's BF and underwear bondage back then was putting it mildly.

Gotham By Gaslight

Gotham By Gaslight is a superb Elseworlds tale that has Batman roaming around Gotham City in the 19th century. It's based on the graphic novel by writer Brian Augustyn and artist Mike Mignola--who would go on to create Hellboy.

When they adapted GBG into an animated film, they created this nice BF scene.

Poison Ivy appears here as a dance hall performer, who performs in her bare feet.

GBG does a great job of "re-casting" familiar Batman characters in new roles here, such as Ivy's new career as a dancer.

Unfortunately, Ivy also becomes the first victim of Jack the Ripper, who has arrived in Gotham City and whom Batman squares off against. But Batman teams up with Selena Kyle (better known as Catwoman) in his battle against the Ripper.

Penguin

The HBO mini-series The Penguin was fantastic, showing Colin Farrell's superb take take on the Batman villain and his rise to power within Gotham City.

But another great member of the cast of this show is Cristin Milioti, as Sofia Falcone.

In the fourth episode, Cent'anni, Milioti has a long scene where she walks barefoot through her family home while clad in a yellow dress.

There's a darker reason behind this brisk BF walk: she just killed her entire family, by using poison gas.

She's basically doing a victory walk through the mansion while she gauges how well her plan worked. The Penguin is a great series that serves as a direct sequel to The Batman (2022) movie.

Superman/Batman: Apocalypse

A great big welcome back to the Man of Steel! The James Gunn-directed Superman opens today. I don't know if the new Superman has any scenes for us (I will most likely wait until the new Supes hits video to see it). But there's a Superman story that does have things of interest for us.

The animated DC Universe movie Superman/Batman: Apocalypse reintroduces us to Supergirl (who has a scene in the Gunn Superman, BTW). After being taken in by Superman at the Fortress of Solitude, Supergirl discovers that Krypto (who's also in the Gunn Superman) doesn't really like her that much. But Supergirl likes to go barefoot, so how bad can she be, really?

Much later, Supergirl is captured by Granny Goodness, one of Darkseid's main minions, and is thrown into a dark cell with her hands tied behind her.

She's barefoot, and clad in a skimpy dress. Supergirl was dressed this way because she was abducted by Darkseid's forces while swimming.

Supergirl's got a collar on her neck that prevents her from using her super strength to simply break free of the bonds on her wrists.

Darkseid confronts her in the darkness, forcing Supergirl up against a wall. A very nice BF bondage scene in this animated movie--which is highly recommended, overall.

Happy Batman Day

Happy Batman Day. And this year it's a special one, with Batman being 85 years old, now.

These vidcaps are from an episode of Batman: The Animated Series, a true classic of its kind in many ways.

In Day of the Samurai, a first season episode of Batman: TAS, a young karate student (voiced by Julia Kato) is grabbed by a Ninja.

Having been kidnapped by the ninja from her karate school, she's barefoot throughout her captivity.

She's kept tied, as well.

But not her feet, which she uses to kick her captor at just the right time in order to help Batman.

Back when I had these 'caps on my old web site, I went through the trouble of drawing in a gag for the character when she was being held hostage at the ninja's lair.

I also drew in some bonds for her feet, too. Happy Batman Day to the Dark Knight, may he keep fighting crime for another 85 years.

Gotham

This is from Gotham, AKA the Batman show without Batman.

In the first episode of the second season, titled 'Damned If You Do...', Barbra Kean (Erin Richards) is getting her toenails done while in Arkham Asylum.

Barbra is Jim Gordon's wife, who turned out to be crazier than a shit house rat, which is why she wound up in Arkham.

While she's in the Big House, Babs is getting her toe nails done by one of the other prisoners.

But just as things are going swimmingly, one of the other inmates gasses everybody to sleep.

When they wake up, they're all tied to handtrucks--including Babs--where they get the big 'I'm your new boss' speech by the new supervillain. The bondage scene is nice, but the episode is worth seeking out just for the fact that Babs goes barefoot through most of it.

Batman Returns

Cristi Conaway stars as Gotham City's Ice Princess, who gets abducted by the Penguin.

When Batman spots her, bound and gagged on a chair through a window, he dashes to the rescue.

While she's not BF, it's still a nice bondage scene, if somewhat brief.

Batman's rescue is stopped cold by Catwoman, and this winds up being one of the best fights between them in this film.

And, Batman Returns takes place around Christmas time, so if you're looking for something to watch this Holiday weekend, might I suggest this?

The Flash

The first trailer for The Flash dropped during the Superbowl, and the movie looks like it might be very good. I have high hopes for it, based on this trailer.

It also stars Sasha Calle as a new version of Supergirl. And I like what I see so far. And she even goes barefoot.

She's broken out of a Cadmus facility, where she had been kept a barefoot prisoner. She's BF throughout this scene in the trailer. They show Calle in her Supergirl outfit later on, and she looks great. I can't wait to see her (along with Michael Keaton as Batman once more) in action.

As much as I enjoy the Marvel films, I was always far more of a DC Comics fan. I'm sorry to say that Black Adam was something of a disappointment for me (although I loved their take on Doctor Fate), and I'm hoping The Flash will be the next truly great DC movie that's in the same league as Superman ('78), The Dark Knight, Man of Steel, and The Batman ('22).

And the less said about the lead actor, the better. If you're uncomfortable about seeing this film because of him, that's fine. I understand perfectly. But consider that hundreds, if not thousands of people have worked their butts off on this movie--both cast and crew--and it would be a shame for all of their hard work to be ignored because of the actions of a single scumbag. Watch the trailer below and make up your own mind:

Batgirl & Catwoman

I came across this on the interweb and found it to be cute. And what Batgirl says is true. This type of gag may look nice, but it's not very effective.

The Batman Hand Gagging

I had already written a review of The Batman, the latest Caped Crusader flick that turned out to be a solid entry in the cinematic saga of the Dark Knight.

But I just wanted to share these vidcaps that I made of the hand-gagging scene in The Batman. It happens when Batman and Catwoman first meet (with both of them in costume) when he catches her breaking into a safe in an office after hours.

After briefly fighting, Batman hand-gags Catwoman when someone with a flashlight enters the room. There's no bondage scenes in this movie, so this is basically it. And it's pretty nice. They're officially making a sequel, so here's hoping there's something more next time.

The Batman

I managed to finally see The Batman (on HBO-Max), and really enjoyed it very much. I wasn't sure if I really needed another cinematic incarnation of the Dark Knight, but director Matt Reeves does such an outstanding job at presenting this story, making it so gripping and enthralling to watch, that its three hour running time flew by for me like...well, a bat. Robert Pattinson is superb as both a young Bruce Wayne and his darker incarnation. And the new Batsuit is also very well done, looking both impressive and practical at the same time.

I also thought Zoë Kravitz was very good as Catwoman (despite the film never actually calling her by that name). And Colin Farrell's performance as the Penguin was simply mind-blowing. While Batman does hand-gag Catwoman at one point about halfway through the film, there's really nothing of interest in The Batman for fans of BF bondage. But speaking strictly as a major Bat-fan, I really loved this take on The Batman, and eagerly look forward to the sequel.