BatChat With Matt & Will: Time Travel Hypnosis (w/ Dan Grote)

Return of Bruce Wayne Banner

It’s a very special week on BatChat. We have now recorded 200 episodes. 600 stories. It’s a whole lot. And to celebrate, Matt and Will are together in one room, face to face, along with our first fan, our first Patreon backer, Matt’s bestest pal in the whole world, Dan Grote, to read a milestone Batman story, Grant Morrison’s The Return of Bruce Wayne, along with two of the stories that inspired it. We’re talking Morrison, so there are some deep dives, and Dan brings his expertise about babies, which Matt and Will are sorely lacking.

Since this is an in person recording, the sound quality is different and a little rough, but stick with it because this is a lot of fun.

  • It Happened in Rome (Batman V.1 #24)
  • Dark Knight, Dark City (Batman V.1 #452-454)
  • Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1-6

This week’s BatChat column focuses on Batman: Dark Patterns #9.

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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.

Dan Grote is the editor and publisher of ComicsXF, having won the site by ritual combat. By day, he’s a newspaper editor, and by night, he’s … also an editor. He co-hosts The ComicsXF Interview Podcast with Matt Lazorwitz. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, two kids and two miniature dachshunds, and his third, fictional son, Peter Paul Winston Wisdom. Follow him @danielpgrote.bsky.social.