âFear Stateâ has begun, and the Bat family is caught on the back foot. As is Simon Saint and his Magistrate. Itâs looking pretty good for Scarecrow in Batman #112, with a lead story written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. And in the…
Itâs all been leading to this. DCâs new Batman event starts in Batman: Fear State Alpha. Numerous threads from across the Batman line start to come together, with many villains making their move and the heroes caught on the back foot. The issue is written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Riccardo Federici, colored by…
Lie in the grass, next to the mausoleum where the creepy, crawly things will slither over your bones as you decay into the dry dust of timelessness. But before that, before youâre just a line in a review or on a tombstone, youâve got to hit the ground in the overstuffed anniversary Ice Cream Man…
In Detective Comics #1,042, Batman and Huntress conclude their battle with The Jury in the feature, while in the backup, Deb Donovan and Red Hood continue their investigation into missing supervillain corpses as the oddest couple in Gotham. The feature was written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Viktor Bogdanovic, inked by Daniel Henriques and Bogdanovic,…
Charlie Davis: Hey so. Some magic happened last night. I donât know what’s gonna happen at SummerSlam. But itâs gonna have nothing on The First Dance. Forrest Hollingsworth: Look in my eyes, what do you see? An uneven week of wrestl-ing. Will Nevin: Looks like I picked a good week to start with the wrestling…
In Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter #1, Clownhunter continues his quest to, well, hunt clowns, only to find he isnât as prepared as he thinks in a story written by Ed Brisson, drawn by Rosi Kampi, colored by Andrew Dalhouse and lettered by Simon Bowland. A bidding war at an auction house between Bruce Wayne and…
Department of Truth agents Turner, Harrison and [insert Field Ranger Darlaâs last name here] trek into the woods to kill a Bigfoot and stop one man from spreading his views of the world. What they find is something bigger than any cryptid imaginable in Department of Truth #11, written by James Tynion IV, illustrated by…
You canât keep Batman down. Everywhere you look, there he is! In Detective Comics #1,041, Batman deals with the repercussions of his war with Mr. Worth as The Jury makes its moves against Batman and Bruce Wayne. And in the backup, reporter Deb Donovan gets a tip that leads her down a morbid trail. The…
What if we excavated a tired, white â90s comedian and sent him on tour with some fresher voices only for him to melt down on stage and lean into the âcancel cultureâ brain rot infecting entirely too many people? Meet Melville Snelson. He sucks, on stage and off it, in AHOY Comicsâ Snelson: Comedy is…
Itâs the Magistrate vs. the Unsanity Collective, and the Scarecrow makes his play in Batman #111, with a lead story written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. Two-Face faces the GCPD in interrogation and his story includes some new twists and new characters. The…
A child is in danger. The narrative shifts. Whatâs real and whatâs not in Parasomnia #1, written by Cullen Bunn, drawn and colored by Andrea Mutti for Dark Horse Comics. Just as Vanessa was getting out of a relationship that went south on account of cheating, a fucktruck full of monsters shows up. Great. Beyond…
The weatherâs great, the woods are quiet and the home theater has whatever blockbuster youâd care to see. But the worldâs on fire and all your friends at home are dead. Still, try to relax in The Nice House on the Lake #2, written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Alvaro Martinez Bueno, colored by…
Welcome back to Bat Chat! In Detective Comics #1,040, Bruce Wayne turns himself in to the GCPD after the events of the previous arc while Mr. Worth and Penguin plot their revenge as written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. In the backup to the…
Itâs catch-up week here at Bat Chat. With none of the main-continuity Bat titles dropping, weâll be discussing three out-of-continuity digital first tales: two released physically in the past couple weeks, and one that is still digital for a couple more months. The inaugural arc of the new volume of Legends of the Dark Knight…
Itâs another busy Bat week, with a full slate of titles! In Detective Comics #1,039, many answers about Hue Vile come to light in both the main and backup stories, with the feature written by Mariko Tamaki; penciled by Viktor Bogdanovic; inked by Daniel Henriques, Norm Rapmund and Bogdanovic; colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered…