BatChat With Matt & Will: Better With Nihilists

We’ve read a lot of great comics for this podcast. Tonight? We are not doing that. Tonight we are reading three stories that were on the document of possible episode topics marked as “Three Stories that Matt Remembers Hating.” And Matt’s taste apparently has not changed much since he first read these, because this is, far and away, the lowest-ranked episode on average of any we have done. See the complete destruction of a beloved Batman cast member, read the story Matt has dubbed “The Bad Lebowski,” and see if you can appreciate a book where Batman is an honest-to-goodness abusive parent to Robin.
Content warning: Will got so angry a couple times in this episode, there was nothing Matt could do to make his volume within the normal register of the show. Listeners using headphones have been warned.

War Crimes (Batman Allies Secret Files 2005, Batman Villains Secret Files 2005, Detective Comics V.1 #809-810, Batman V.1 #643-644)
Darker Than Death (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #207-211)
Robin & Batman #1-3

And hey, did you miss the past couple episodes because of the issues here in the site? Well, here are the links:

Episode 124: Ice Fetishizaton with three origins of Mr. Freeze

Episode 125: Inside Under the Red Hood with three stories featuring Jason Todd, including “Under the Red Hood”

In this week’s BatChat column, we read Batman #145, Detective Comics #1,082 and The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #2.

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Matthew Lazorwitz

Matt Lazorwitz read his first comic at the age of five. It was Who's Who in the DC Universe #2, featuring characters whose names begin with B, which explains so much about his Batman obsession. He writes about comics he loves, and co-hosts the creator interview podcast WMQ&A with Dan Grote.