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Now that The Penguin has wrapped up, it is time to do the important and rigorous work of deciding if it is in fact the best live-action DC Comics show of all time. Which is harder than most people may realize, because there are a lot of them.
While this list, like all lists, is subjective, my bias is toward good TV, not faithful TV — while I may dock some shows for hardly having anything to do with the source material at all, if it’s in the service of a good time, I’ll allow it. The best comic-book shows, however, find a way to do both: hybrid series that operate in the tried-and-true TV genres like…
