Absolute Batman #18 will tear your heart out
Poison Ivy tries to win Batman over to her way of thinking, and Martha Wayne has a fateful meeting with the Court of Owls, in Absolute Batman #18.
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BatChat With Matt & Will: Some Bones About It
The DC Universe has a lot of strange looking characters. King Shark is a bipedal shark man. G’Nort is a walking, talking dog alien. Animal-Vegetable Mineral Man is… well, look him up. Dude looks weird as all hell. But amongst the more macabre looking characters is super villain turned superhero turned super spy Mr. Bones,…
Batman #7 visits Patient Ten and learns a secret
There is a man in Room Ten in Arkham Tower. He floats in a tank. And he has reached out to talk to an old friend. Batman confronts the Joker again in Batman #7.
BatChat With Matt & Will: The Fall of the House of Wayne
BatChat arrives at the final arc of Grant Morrison’s Batman Incorporated, as well as the next arcs of “No Man’s Land” and “Knightquest: The Crusade.”
The Bat-Man: Second Knight #3 gives Bruce a happy ending
The Bat-Man and Superman must put aside their differences as they face down the Scarecrow and The Hood in The Bat-Man: Second Knight #3.
BatChat With Matt & Will: Shadow of the Cat (w/ Sam Hopper)
Catwoman has been around for over 80 years, and like all good Bat villains, she has changed with the times. But it’s amazing how much of the character has been there through the ages. Patreon backer and friend of the show Sam Hopper joins us to look at the evolution of Catwoman, what has stayed…
Absolute Batman #17 lets Poison Ivy loose on Gotham
Batman must climb his way to the top of the Heart Building to face his newest foe: a more monstrous incarnation of Poison Ivy, in Absolute Batman #17.
BatChat With Matt & Will: Riddle Me This, Will (w/ John Wickham)
We’ve read plenty of his stories, and if you are a long time listener to the podcast, I’m sure you realize that Tom King is a writer who has some serious variety of placements on the big board. He has multiple stories in the top 10, plus a number of stories lingering near the bottom….
Batman & Robin #30 sunsets series, shows Damian a new future
Can Batman & Robin stop the Quiet Man, as Robin struggles with the legacy of Batman and what the mission to save Gotham really means to him?
BatChat With Matt & Will: Date Night (w/ Josh Weil)
Love is in the air. It’s nearly Valentine’s Day, and for the past couple of his appearances, Patreon backer and friend of the show Josh Weil has mentioned that he’s been considering selecting one of the few truly whimsical and just plane fun stories Tom King has written: “Date Night,” where Batman an Catwoman go…
Batman #6 has a lot going on at the moment
The threads that have slowly been appearing start to tighten in Batman #6. Dr. Zeller’s secret is revealed. And a member of the Bat family says goodbye.
BatChat With Matt & Will: Batmanga!
Superheroes were an American invention, at least the modern conception of them. But they have spread across the world and taken on many forms. We’ve done an episode about Batman stories across the world before, but this weeks we’re focusing specifically on Batman stories from Japan. We’re reading the first collection of stories that spun…
When Bruce met Diana: Absolute Wonder Woman #15 and Absolute Batman #16
Hell comes to Gotham as Team BatChat covers the two-part crossover between DC’s Absolute Wonder Woman and Absolute Batman.
BatChat With Matt & Will: One Hell(boy) of an Episode (w/ Matt McThorn)
This week, BatChat is once more joined by Patreon backer and friend of the show Matt McThorn. This time, Matt wanted to talk about times Batman and his allies and enemies crossed over with properties from Dark Horse Comics. So we have Batman meeting Hellboy (and Starman, but that’s less of a jump), The Joker…
BatChat With Matt & Will: 666- The Story of the Beast
We read three stories an episode. So with that math, episode 222 means we are ranking story 666, which is certainly a portentous number. It’s a number that screams horror. And it’s not like we haven’t covered plenty of Batman horror on this show. But as we get to that number here, we figured there’s…