BatChat With Matt & Will: Wak, Wak Said the Villain

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Somehow, as we near 200 episodes, we still stumble across holes in our coverage. He’s appeared in a lot of stories we’ve covered, but we have never done an episode purely focused on Penguin stories. So this week, we remedy that. We’re reading Penguin’s first appearance, the story that changed him from supervillain to mobster and the start of his recent maxi-series.

  • One of the Most Perfect Frame-Ups (Detective Comics V.1 #58)
  • Odds Against (Detective Comics V.1 #683-684)
  • The Fall and Rise of Oswald Cobblepot Part 1 (The Penguin #1-5)

This week’s BatChat column focuses on Absolute Batman #10.

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Matt Lazorwitz read his first comic at the age of 5. 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 podcasts BatChat with Matt & Will and The ComicsXF Interview Podcast.

Will Nevin loves bourbon and AP style and gets paid to teach one of those things. He is on Twitter far too often.