My spanish-speaking skills are, how you say, limited. I went through 3 years of it in High School just like everybody else in California, but, well, something about girls with skirts on, girls with boobs, and girls who weren’t-quite-but-almost looking-back-at-me-when-I-look-at-them makes one put everything else on cruise control and just focus on one thing. The girls. With boobs.

Actually, come to think of it, I guess you could say that I had enough brainsteam left over to focus on one other thing: Batman. I love, and have always loved, the bat-man. So, you can imagine the ironic delight that washed over me when I stumbled onto this gem: Batmania.

Batmania is a site completely and soul-drenchingly dedicated to the Batman TV show starring Adam West and Burt Ward. It’s an amazing trove of photos, facts, and goofy character profiles that , despite it’s being trapped in 2001 (frames only…no direct links without breaking it), is exhaustive in nature and, well, 100% written completely in Spanish. Irony. Tragedy. Holy Sewer Pipe.

Speaking of tragedy, there’s a FULL PAGE—Santo Robin—that catalogs Robin’s dork-ass phrases from the show and, yep, correlates them to the appropriate episode. There’s a catalog page with screencaps (a la the above) of “Las onomatopeyas” which, BANG-ETH!, is fucking awesome.

So, to sum up: if you like Batman, and you speak/read spanish, you are in for a real treat. You can feel the love pulse right off the page. If you like Batman, and you have a Firefox addon that will translate Spanish to English (or whatever else), you’re in for an equally real but slightly less concise treat.

Todos granizo, el hijo del demonio.

- Hateball