BatChat With Matt & Will: Weird @$$ Joker Stories
Over 85-plus years, the Joker has been in some WEIRD stories. Like the one where he retires from crime. And the one that got him on Fox News.
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BatChat With Matt & Will: AzBats is Ebenezer Scrooge
Hey, sometimes you go with an easy one. Coming up with episode themes isn’t an easy thing, so these episodes where we continue on in runs we’ve been reading in order allow me to turn off my brain for a week. We’re back in Batman Chronicles, with three more shorts set in No Man’s Land,…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Roll Tide!
Gotham City is in New Jersey, so most of the stories that we cover take place in Matt’s beloved home state. Not many stories take place in Will’s home state of Alabama. As a matter of fact, we could really only find one. So we’re doing that story, as well as two stories from creators…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Across the Multiverse (w/ Tony Thornley)
Fellow ComicsXF staffer Tony Thornley joins us again to talk about some Batman intercompany crossovers with Deadpool, Spawn and the TMNT.
BatChat With Matt & Will: Obsessed Archers and Faceless Vigilantes
Patreon backer Jordan Jennings requested that we read the recent Batman/Green Arrow/Question team-up mini-series, Arcadia, so that makes for an easy theme, right? That mini, plus a story where a Bat characters meets Green Arrow, and one where a Bat character meets Question. Simple. But boy, could we not have gotten three more different stories!…
BatChat With Matt & Will: In Blackest Knight
The release of new DC media properties makes for some easy episode theme selection! This week, we’re tying in to the new HBO Max series from BatChat favorite Tom King, Lanterns, with three stories of Batman teaming up with Green Lanterns. It’s surprising how , with all these GLs, there aren’t more of them who…
BatChat With Matt & Will: A Woman Righteously Scorned (w/ Sam Hopper)
Sam Hopper returns as Matt and Will rank three stories showing the evolution of Harley Quinn as separate from the Joker.
BatChat With Matt & Will: The Many Murders of Bruce Wayne
These milestone episode numbers are getting surreal. 250 episodes. Yikes. For this anniversary, we’re looking at stories where Bruce Wayne was suspected of murder. Now, if this was the real world, a lazy billionaire would be prime suspect #1 and I wouldn’t be surprised. But we are looking at a fictional world that actually has…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Oh, Joy. It’s Lobo (w/ John Wickham)
If you’ve listened to this show for any amount of time, you have probably heard Matt talk about his least favorite major DC characters: Deathstroke and Lobo. Deathstroke has a lot of cross over with Batman over the years, being he is one of Nightwing’s most significant rogues, and various creators have drawn parallels between…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Robin Redeemed (w/ Josh Weil)
Some writers just get a lot of work. Joshua Williamson is one of those guys who has written in a lot of corners of the DC Universe. He had a long run on Flash, wrote the Dark Crisis event, is the current writer on Superman, and is soon taking over Legion of Super-Heroes. He also…
BatChat With Matt & Will: The House of al Ghul (w/ Matt McThorn
Ra’s al Ghul and the members of his family are important figures in the Bat mythos, whether they are related just to Ra’s or to Batman himself. This week, Matt McThorn is back to talk about some stories involving the House of al Ghul. We start with Greg Rucka’s tale of a post No Man’s…
BatChat With Matt & Will: The Mean Streets of Gotham
Welcome to the streets of Gotham. While Batman is a “street level” character, he still is usually fighting with killer clowns, obnoxious geniuses and crocodile men. So who handles all the day to day crime? Well, the Gotham City Police Department of course. And while it is a legendarily corrupt force, there are still cops…
BatChat With Matt & Will: A No Man’s Land EC Comic
We’re back to the runs that we’re covering in order, with a twist. We’ve reached the next chapter of “Knightquest: The Crusade,” where AzBats fights a super assassin with psychological conditioning, and “No Man’s Land,” where we see what the Justice League is doing to help Gotham. But with the Morrison run done, we’re filling…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Supergirl Comes to Gotham
So, as I (Matt) work my way through my 365 movies in 365 days project, last week I watched the Supergirl movie from the 80s. What a weird, wild movie. I bet some of you didn’t even know that this week’s Supergirl movie isn’t even the first one. Well, it’s not, and as good as…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Remembering Gerry Conway
A few weeks ago, comics lost one of the legends of the late Silver and Bronze Age. While Gerry Conway is probably best known for his work on Spider-Man at Marvel, where he killed Gwen Stacy and creating the Punisher, and to a somewhat lesser extent creating Firestorm at DC, Conway had a solid run…