Brace yourself for this one, if you don’t know what it’s about. Rated a hard-R, this isn’t the Harley Quinn of Bruce Timm’s immaculate 90s series. Now in its second season, Harley Quinn finds its titular anti-hero (Kaley Cuoco) on a quest to be inducted into the Legion of Doom, following her most recent split from The Joker. She assembles a ragtag crew composed of Clayface (Alan Tudyk), King Shark (Ron Funches), Dr. Psycho (Tony Hale), her bestie Poison Ivy (Lake Bell), and even their aging, half robot landlord, voiced by Jason Alexander. The show is raunchy, bloody, expletive-laden, and will make you laugh out loud at a cartoon about comic book villains in a way you might have thought you never would.

Written by Tom King, the first part of the nine-issue series hit shelves in September 2018. It was far from the first Crisis DC’s heroes have faced. Crisis on Infinite Earths. Final Crisis. Identity Crisis. (All of those are on DC Universe, by the way.) But Heroes in Crisis was unlike those that came before. In it, the heroes have Sanctuary, a place that is just that—an undisclosed location where they can go to heal from their wounds, both physical and psychological. When Sanctuary is attacked, the heroes have to find out who did it, who killed their friends and learned their deepest, darkest secrets in the process.

Robin, Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven, and others are all grown up in this gritty, graphic, violent live-action take on the Titans. When Dick Grayson, a grizzled detective who has long since stepped out from under Bruce Wayne’s shadow, meets Rachel Roth, a young woman struggling with a dark power, the two find themselves on a path that leads to a global threat. Along the way, they meet other unique individuals, and soon form an unlikely team. This isn’t your Teen Titans; these are Titans with baggage and attitude.

Can’t wait for Wonder Woman 1984? Let Wonder Woman: Bloodlines tide you over. The animated feature, exclusive to DC Universe, casts Rosario Dawson as the eponymous hero fighting to rescue a troubled young girl from the clutches of a dastardly organization known as Villainy, Inc.

Okay, I've already mentioned it a few times so far, but Batman: The Animated Series is the crowning achievement of superhero cartoons. It simply doesn't get any better than this. Kevin Conroy's voice remains the definitive Batman voice for those who grew up watching the show, even two and a half decades later. Mark Hamill's Joker is bar none. Uniquely drawn on black paper, the show oozed tone and grit and mise en scene. It set an unattainable threshold for generations of cartoons to come, and I would argue, has yet to be bested.