It’s Thanksgiving week here in the States, so Matt & Will are dipping back into all ages stories for three Batman books you can talk about around the dinner table with one and all. Hear about the story that would have introduced a major Bat villain to the classic TV series, the cutest Batfamily in…
WWEâs signature Thanksgiving week event — as Michael Cole was good enough to tell us repeatedly — is over and done, and in many ways, thatâs about the best you can say for it; now, we can get back to regular feuds over personal issues and championships, and maybe — Lord willinâ and the creek…
He rants about how âcomedy is dyingâ because apparently you canât say offensive horseshit under the guise of making bigots laugh (Who knew?!) without people taking note. Things donât get better from there in Snelson #2-4, written by Paul Constant, drawn by Fred Harper, colored by Lee Loughridge and lettered by Rob Steen for AHOY…
The main plot of âFear Stateâ wraps up as the Bat family takes the fight to Simon Saint while two Ivys come together and Batman has a final throwdown with Peacekeeper-01 in Batman #117, with a lead story written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton…
Will takes the reins this week, with a little ill advised help from Matt’s knowledge of 90s Batman stories. Will picked three stories that he figured would have art he’d love and, well, two out of three ain’t bad. Six Fingers (Legends of the Dark Knight V.1 #85-88 [Digital]) Chasing Clay (Batman V.1 #550) Batman:…
He was a drunk, a misogynist, a bully and an all-around, all-time asshole â the assholeâs asshole. But someone killed that bastard Trigger Keaton, and in the final issue of The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton, we finally find out who done it. But does that even matter? Wasnât it really the door fucking we…
The truth of The Network and their deep connections to Gotham and the Joker begin to be revealed, as Jim Gordon once again comes face to face with Joker in The Joker #9, written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Stefano Raffaele, colored by Romulo Fajardo Jr. and lettered by Tom Napolitano. Some new ghost…
Batman may be the world’s greatest detective and martial artist, but he isn’t infallible, as much as some sections of fandom want you to believe. And this week, we look at three stories where Batman loses in very different ways. Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia Superheavy (Batman V.2 #41-50) Cold Days (Batman V.3 #51-53) If you…
Jimmy Leighton is a small-time second-floor hood in Boston until he breaks into the wrong Cambridge basement, fiddles with most definitely the wrong quantum computer and wakes up in Chicago with a brand new life and a swollen bank account. But then that pain flares in his head, and heâs taken to Afghanistan. Or a…
All the threads are coming together. Gotham is in danger from Scarecrow, the Magistrate and Queen Ivy, and itâs up to Batman and his allies to save the city in Batman #116, featuring a lead story written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. And…
He’s Batman’s greatest nemesis. He is as mutable as his foe, appearing sometimes as a whacky criminal clown, sometimes as a terrifying homicidal maniac, and sometimes as an urban terrorist. He is the Joker. And this week, Matt and Will look at three single issue Joker stories in their first villain spotlight episode. The Joker’s…
Are you brave enough to climb down the twisting, gnarled trunk of your family tree? And honest enough to accept whatever you find? Discover those internal truths and more in Ice Cream Man #26, written by W. Maxwell Prince, drawn by Martin Morazzo, colored by Chris OâHalloran and lettered by Good Old Neon. Will Nevin:…
Welcome back to BatChat! In Detective Comics #1,044, Batman must save Mayor Nakano from the children of Vile while another Bat family member steps in to fight (the seized) City Hall in a story written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. In the backup, a…
Just in time for Halloween, BatChat takes on three tales of Batman mixing it up with the supernatural. We have vampires, we have immortals, we have werewolves, and we have the scariest thing of all: a new worst story on the list! Listen in to hear what story it is, and hear Matt get so…
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