"Almost Got 'im!" begins with a poker game. Since all we see at first are just hands playing cards and moving chips around a board, it looks like a regular game of poker--until we realize that the players of this particular game are none other than Two-Face, The Penguin, Killer Croc, and The Joker. It's a boys' night out for these super villains, at least until Poison Ivy shows up and takes a chair. After Ivy calmly takes a few insults from Two-Face ("We used to date," she explains to Joker and Penguin), the conversation moves on to their least favorite subject: Batman. All of the super villains have a favorite Batman story to share, the theme of which is how they almost got him. Poison Ivy starts off with how she almost got the Batman one Halloween night in a poisoned pumpkin patch, but Batman's deft use of the Batmobile spoiled her plans. Two-Face relates how he once had Batman tied to a giant penny, yet just when he's about to flip the massive penny into the air via a forklift, he sees Batman cutting himself free using Two-Face's very own coin! (Batman fans will recognize the giant penny as a Batcave staple from the comics. Two-Face even mentions that the police let Batman keep it afterwards).

Killer Croc tells a lame story about how he tried to kill Batman by throwing a rock at him. When the other villains stare at him in disgust, he awkwardly adds, "It was a big rock…" The Penguin tells of his encounter with the Dark Knight in an aviary; where he strikes out at the Batman using various dangerous and exotic birds. However, the Batman uses his ingenuity to outwit both the Penguin and his fine-feathered friends. But leave it to the Joker to have the best Batman story. Joker and Harley Quinn take over a late night talk show in Gotham City (in a segment that's a wry homage to the Johnny Carson Show) with a very special guest: Batman in the hot seat, literally. The Caped Crusader is strapped into an electric chair where the voltage increases the more the audience laughs--and Joker insures that they WILL laugh, since he's pumped the studio full with his laughing gas. Although Batman managed to escape with the help of none other than Catwoman, Joker's story is still not quite done. Even while he plays cards with his fellow psychos, the next stage of his master plot against Batman is already in effect. "There's more than one way to get someone," he gleefully says.

"Almost Got 'im!" is a thoroughly enjoyable story that features just about all the major characters in the Batman cast. They are used in a very effective and funny manner, while completely avoiding being cheesy. And it offers a fascinating and humorous look at these super villains on their down time. At the end of the day, they are just like everybody else in how they bitch and moan about the injustice in life--although their idea of what makes an injustice may be vastly different than that of the average person.