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.

A Batman ranking podcast, hosted by Matt Lazorwitz and Will Nevin.
Fellow ComicsXF staffer Tony Thornley joins us again to talk about some Batman intercompany crossovers with Deadpool, Spawn and the TMNT.
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!…
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…
Sam Hopper returns as Matt and Will rank three stories showing the evolution of Harley Quinn as separate from the Joker.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Matt and Will cover three arcs tied to the New 52 “Death of the Family” crossover in Batman, Batman & Robin, and Detective Comics.
It’s our annual Pride episode of BatChat. It’s nice to see that we have plenty of stories we can cover about queer, out Bat characters, you know? We’re covering the first of DC’s big Pride anthologies, which features stories including Batwoman, The Question (Renee Montoya), Harley and Ivy and Alan Scott Green Lantern, who might…
Of all of DC’s obscure characters outside the Bat family, two of Matt’s absolute favorites are the Elongated Man, Ralph Dibny, and his wife, Sue. Inspired by Nick and Nora Charles from Dashiell Hammett’s novel, The Thin Man, Ralph and Sue are a bantering, loving couple who solve mysteries. They are, as the kids at…