While in comics circles the most well known alternate future for Batman is The Dark Knight Returns, in the public consciousness, that title has to be held by Batman Beyond. Three seasons of young Terry McGinnis and crotchety old Bruce Wayne in the DCAU, plus appearances on Justice League Unlimited, left a mark for this…
Vandal Savage sets his anti-Batman crusade in motion, Bruce Wayne does his best as Bat-Dad, the Riddler strikes and a whole lot more happens in Batman #3, written by Matt Fraction, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Will Nevin: A week before it drops, I want to publicly…
If the above player isn’t working, listen to it here. Friend of the show and Patreon backer Matt McThorn is back this week, and he wanted to return to one of his earlier themes, with three more stories featuring Thomas Blake, the Bat rogue known as Catman. We get a ’90s story featuring Catman and…
Three new tales of the Batman of the Absolute Universe are featured in the first ever Absolute annual. Absolute Batman Annual 2025 has story and art by Daniel Warren Johnson, James Harren and Meredith McClaren, colors by Dave Stewart and letters by Clayton Cowles. Matt Lazorwitz: I think we’ve talked about the DC: High Volume…
Welcome to your annual, spooky Halloween week BatChat. We’ve done weeks with vampires, with Man-Bats, with Demons. This year, we’re dipping into stories featuring Matt’s favorite classic monster: the werewolf. Batman fights the beast under a full moon over the city, and maybe even turns into one… This week’s BatChat column focuses on Batman: Dark Patterns #11. Check…
The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 373: Halloween Special 2025 – The State of Horror Friends of the show Rob Lynch and Will Nevin join Dan and Matt to talk about all things horror, from the best movies (Sinners, Weapons) to the best comics (anthologies, anthologies, anthologies). You can listen to…
“Child of Fire” continues. Jim Gordon goes to an unlikely source for help. Batman, still recovering from his wounds, deduces the identity of the Child of Fire and goes to track him down. And the history of Gotham and fire is laid bare. Batman: Dark Patterns #11 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden…
For you out there, it has only been one week since our last episode. But we took a week off recording so we could really pack in the comics. This week, we’re covering the entire, 26 issue run of Batman & Robin Eternal, the weekly series that ran at the end of the New 52…
In a heavily guarded room, five people gather. They are rich, or powerful, or both. They discuss the secrets of the world, and their growing discontent as superhumans are manifesting. And they will form an alliance strangely like one we have seen before, but completely different in a key way. Absolute Evil #1 is written…
Jim Gordon made his first appearance in Detective Comics #27. You know, the same comic that Batman made his first appearance. So, you can imagine the number of stories that Gordon has been featured in. But especially since Frank Miller made “Batman: Year One” as much about Gordon as it is about Batman, that number…
We’re back following the three runs we’ve been reading in order for a while now. No Man’s Land reaches its midpoint as the Bat family comes home to Gotham and the identity of the new Batgirl is revealed. Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne face their ultimate challenge as they are trapped between Dr. Hurt and…
A run-in with an abusive cop leads Robin (Tim Drake) into a really rough night in Batman #2, written by Matt Fraction, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Matt Lazorwitz: It’s a pretty busy week for DC, huh? Prelude to DC K.O., Absolute Evil, new Gotham Academy. Will…
Gotham Academy returns to comic shops this week with a new prequel series, so we’re reading three stories about teens in Gotham. Tim Drake faces a major challenge with his first confrontation with the man who killed the previous Robin, the Joker. Duke Thomas is recruited into the We Are Robin movement in a Gotham…
Time moves ever forward. I can’t believe that Batman Begins is 20 years old this year. As I question my mortality and life choices, this week we read three stories from the Batman Begins trade, including the movie adaptation, a retelling of Batman’s origin by Denny O’Neil and a one off by Greg Rucka. This…
“Child of Fire,” the final arc of the series, begins here. Still recovering from the wounds he received, Batman is unable to stop the crimes of a new villain, the Child of Fire. He has a theory about who it is, but there is something more sinister underneath it, and Batman may have trusted the…