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BatChat

A Batman ranking podcast, hosted by Matt Lazorwitz and Will Nevin.

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Spoiler’s Costume Corner (w/ Abigale Heartbalm)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin7 hours ago16 hours ago02 mins

We’re back with two of our favorite ladies this week: Patreon backer (and Will’s wife) Abigale Heartbalm and Stephanie Brown. Abigale wanted to read three stories featuring Stephanie, and we wanted to go with something similar as the first time we did a Stephanie episode where we touch on different eras of the character, but…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman Goes Ape

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin1 week ago1 week ago02 mins

People love Batman. People love Apes. So when you combine them, you’re bound yo get some fun comics, right? Well, sometimes. Patreon backer Dan Grote asked us to read some Batman and apes stories, and we read a delightful Golden/Silver Age story, a 90s story that had its fun moments and a story that is…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: The Tales of the Tales of Batman

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 weeks ago2 weeks ago02 mins

This whole episode came about when Matt was looking for something else entirely, and he stumbled across an issue of Batman: Gotham Adventures, the animated series tie-in, written by Ed Brubaker. As he didn’t remember that at all, he decided he had to read it, and since he has minimal time to read for pleasure,…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman and the Last Crusade

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 weeks ago3 weeks ago02 mins

We’re back to the bookshelf Will keeps of random Batman trades he has picked up over the years (a shelf that for Matt is something he just calls his house). We start off as ever with a volume of Batman ’66, follow that up with Batman meets The Da Vinci Code meets Indiana Jones and…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Because No One Demanded It- Deathstroke

Matthew Lazorwitz4 weeks ago4 weeks ago02 mins

There are very few characters in comics that I, Matt, truly dislike. One of them is, sadly, a character with significant ties to the Bat family: Deathstroke the Terminator. A villain turned anti-hero who I don’t feel like ever should have been, I decided it was time to bit the bullet and cover three stories…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: The Forgotten Sidekicks of the 2010s

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

The Bat family has grown considerably over the years. What started out as Batman and Robin now contains what seems to be a dozen or more characters. And recent years have seen many attempts to add characters who would be big hits and draw massive popularity. And while this has created some good characters, none…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: A Tragic Lack of Women Writers

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin1 month ago1 month ago02 mins

Mainstream superhero comics have been a boys’ club since their invention, and while things have gotten better in recent years, it is telling how few Batman comics have women writers, outside the works of Devin Grayson and Mariko Tamaki. For the last week of March, of Women’s History Month, we’re reading three stories by other…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Villain War! (w/ John Wickham)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 months ago2 months ago02 mins

Gotham villains seem to spend so much time fighting each other, it’s a wonder they have any time to fight Batman. Friend of the show and Patreon backer John Wickham returns for three instances of villain on villain violence, with Blackgate Vs. Arkham during the Forever Evil crossover, Hush Vs. Talia in the run up…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Stay Golden (w/ Josh Weil)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 months ago2 months ago02 mins

Friend of the show and Patreon backer Josh Weil is a busy guy these days. Josh is running in a special election as the Democratic nominee to be the new Representative for Florida’s 6th District. But Josh is such a dedicated fan that he took some time off from his busy schedule to join us…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Raining Wildcats and Dogs

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 months ago2 months ago03 mins

I have a soft spot for Wildcat, the Golden Age hero, member of the JSA, and trainer of heroes. And he has a connection to the Bat family, having trained more than one member. So this week we’re reading a perfectly whacky issue of Brave and the Bold as only Bob Haney could write it,…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: From Zero to Freeze

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 months ago2 months ago02 mins

I sit and write this introduction on a February morning where it is in the mid 40s and going up to the low 50s today, but it’s still winter, and so we were thinking about the snow and cold when coming up with episodes, and when you think of cold and Gotham, who else do…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: An Odyssey Into Madness (w/ Matt McThorn)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 months ago1 month ago02 mins

I usually try to put something witty or informative here. But this week, Patreon backer Matt McThorn is back, and he asked us to read Neal Adams’s mad dream, Batman: Odyssey. He didn’t know what he was getting himself or us into, so we have forgiven him, but this one feels like an all-timer. We…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Carrying the Idiot Ball

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 months ago3 months ago02 mins

Lightning can strike twice. But not often. The original Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight series was a collection of classic creators doing amazing stories. DC has tried to recapture that magic multiple times, and that lightning has never quite hit again. Legends of the DC Universe was another attempt to get that magic, but…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: More Paul Dini=More Zatanna

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 months ago3 months ago02 mins

Will wanted to talk about Paul Dini and Alex Ross’s graphic album, Batman: War On Crime, so the logical episode theme was more Paul Dini stories, so this is not Matt 100% forcing more Dini on Will. And while Matt didn’t do it intentionally, well, he did wind up picking a story with Zatanna, because…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: There’s Something Funny About Him

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 months ago3 months ago02 mins

It’s always a good time for us to return to the runs that we’re following in order. This time, things go from bad to worse in No Man’s Land, Dick Grayson investigates Wayne Manor for clues to Bruce Wayne’s whereabouts while Damian has a strange encounter with Oberon Sexton, and the magical war in the…

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