Batman: The Animated Series

Batman finds himself in another stinker as he slides into a battle against Clay Face. What he doesn't know is Clay Face is an actor who has been betrayed by a company who donated face cream that perfected his face to any face, such as Bruce Wayne. He impersonates Bruce Wayne and freaks out Bruce's good friend Lucious Fox. Story wise this episode hit a good point into what we see from actors and actresses around the world. A dire addiction they can't get over and end up dying in the process. This really hits home to me and i think this episode it selfs deserves a good pat on the back to recognition to those who deal with addiction in any form of entertainment.



Well besides, that stepping stone, this episode was almost lack of action towards Batman. Besides a couple weak action scenes this episode was deprived of what Batman makes the money off of. However, instead of a good action performance you get a good dramatic performace by Clay Face himself.



Overall, this episode doesn't really deserve a hard 9 but something a little lower. Good episode with some flaws.

This episode is part 1 of 2 all about how Clayface came to be. It starts with Luscious Fox meeting Bruce Wayne in an alley to get papers for indicting Daggett. It turns out to be a setup and Luscious just manages to get away with his life. Meanwhile actor Matt Hagen is trying to recover from some sort of accident that happened to him in the past. He has some sort of face cream which he gets from Daggett that makes his face soft so he can mold it. By the end of the episode Bruce Wayne is caught by police in Fox's hospital room and Daggetts men use the face cream against Hagen in a way that will scar him forever. The second part of this episode is looking like its gonna be a zinger.

This episode is the introduction of Clayface and the build up to the superior second part. While lesser than part 2 this episode certianly still had its moments. It has an exellent starting where the audience starts to think that Bruce Wayne has stolen from Lucius Fox, we then see Batman and know that this cannot truly be Wayne. We get to see Matt Haygon's origin into Clayface ,It builds up to what is probably the best Batman interigation scene ever. With Batman hanging Raymond Bell over the city from the Batplane. The episode then ends on a terrific cliffhanger with Bruce Wayne being sent to prison for his supposed attack on Lucius Fox. You won't be able to wait for the conclusion.