You can’t 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 ‘90s comedian and sent him on tour with some fresher voices only for him to melt down on stage and lean into the “cancel culture” brain rot infecting entirely too many people? Meet Melville Snelson. He sucks, on stage and off it, in AHOY Comics’ Snelson: Comedy is…
It’s 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. What’s real and what’s 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 weather’s great, the woods are quiet and the home theater has whatever blockbuster you’d care to see. But the world’s 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…
It’s catch-up week here at Bat Chat. With none of the main-continuity Bat titles dropping, we’ll 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…
It’s 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…
Haha — our favorite anthology series about clowns — ends with a story that began in our other favorite anthology series, Ice Cream Man, and it’s produced by the same creative team: written by W. Maxwell Prince, drawn by Martin Morazzo, colored by Chris O’Halloran and lettered by Good Old Neon. Content warning: This review…
Someone murdered Trigger Keaton, the world’s most famous TV action hero. But to be fair, everyone kinda hated him. Now the plot thickens, the sidekick numbers increase and the stuntman war escalates. Get ready for action in The Six Sidekicks of Trigger Keaton #2, written by Kyle Starks and drawn by Chris Schweizer with color…
It’s time to go hunting in Department of Truth #10 by writer James Tynion IV, artist Martin Simmonds, letterer Aditya Bidikar, designer Dylan Todd and editor Steve Foxe. Will Nevin: Forrest, let’s start with something that’s weird to me: How come I didn’t understand the series’ references to date regarding tulpas, considering that’s the central…
Welcome back to Bat Chat! This week, Batman faces off with Peacekeeper-01 while the Unsanity Collective prepares for war and the true extent of how far Simons Saint will go to ensure order in Gotham is revealed in Batman #110 with a lead story written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by…
How can there be both too many comics and still not nearly enough? The idea of finding something new to read can seem daunting. If you’re looking to jump into a new book, the staff of ComicsXF can point you in the direction of some of our favorite recent releases and currently ongoing titles. Looking…
Welcome to a special fifth week BatChat. For those not deeply entrenched in comics distribution, when there are five Wednesdays in a month, shipping can get … weird. So this week there are no comics with Batman as a lead! What are we to do? Well, to start, we’ll look at last week’s digital release…
Hey. You. Yeah, you. Wanna become an expert in Supreme Court K-12 public school student speech jurisprudence? It’s fun and cool, and any ol’ idiot can write a dissertation on it. Better yet, until last week, it only required a working knowledge of four cases: Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969): The…