Batman #10 brings the light of hope back to Gotham
Batman reminds Gotham that, regardless of what Vandal Savage might say, it is still his city in Batman #10 by Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez.

Batman reminds Gotham that, regardless of what Vandal Savage might say, it is still his city in Batman #10 by Matt Fraction and Jorge Jimenez.
Matt and Will cover three arcs tied to the New 52 “Death of the Family” crossover in Batman, Batman & Robin, and Detective Comics.
It’s our annual Pride episode of BatChat. It’s nice to see that we have plenty of stories we can cover about queer, out Bat characters, you know? We’re covering the first of DC’s big Pride anthologies, which features stories including Batwoman, The Question (Renee Montoya), Harley and Ivy and Alan Scott Green Lantern, who might…
With the Bat family turned against him, Batman must work with other allies to make his stand against Hush in Batman #163.
Of all of DC’s obscure characters outside the Bat family, two of Matt’s absolute favorites are the Elongated Man, Ralph Dibny, and his wife, Sue. Inspired by Nick and Nora Charles from Dashiell Hammett’s novel, The Thin Man, Ralph and Sue are a bantering, loving couple who solve mysteries. They are, as the kids at…
When Jacob Kane calls Batman for help, he sends along the one person Batwoman might be closest to: her ex, Renee Montoya, the Question, in Batwoman #3.
There are plenty of legacy characters in the Bat universe; how many Robins are there now? But there are far fewer legacy villains than there are heroes. But before Flashpoint and the New 52 scrambled things, or repositioned them anyway, one of Batman’s solid B-tier villains was replaced. Black Mask, a character introduced in the…
To prevent Vandal Savage and his GCPD from raiding his caches of equipment, Batman and his allies are preparing to destroy them first in Batman #9.
The Scarecrow confronts Batman for the first time. Waylon tries to find help for Bruce. And the Robins close in on Batman in Absolute Batman #20.
Patreon backer John Wickham returns to BatChat to help Matt and Will discuss three Batman stories with art by Liam Sharp, including one WILD Garth Ennis story.
When a writer works on a character for an extended period of time, it’s fascinating to watch how their interpretation of that character evolves. When Patreon backer Josh Weil came to us and wanted to cover the Robins mini-series that won DC’s fan voted Round Robin competition, the natural stories to pair with it were…
Kate Kane lays siege to the Religion of Crime’s headquarters in Greece, driven by her grief at the death of her sister, in DC’s Batwoman #2.
Not long ago, we did an episode entirely dedicated to Batman stories that originated in Japan. Amongst those stories was a collection of creator Jiro Kuwata’s 60s Batman manga, that were adaptations of earlier American Batman stories. This week, we dive into those stories, reading three of them and seeing not just how they rank,…
Batman, Black Canary and Green Arrow do their best to protect the last whistleblower testifying against KlepCorp from dying in Detective Comics #1,108.
Event comics are a weird thing. And those events that slip in and take over the monthly slots of other comics are even weirder. Could you imagine if Law & Order was cancelled for two weeks to be replaced by Anarchy & Chaos? People wouldn’t know what to do with it. But we comics fans…