BatChat With Matt & Will: The Love of a Faceless Man
Matt and Will cover three arcs tied to the New 52 “Death of the Family” crossover in Batman, Batman & Robin, and Detective Comics.
BatChat
A Batman ranking podcast, hosted by Matt Lazorwitz and Will Nevin.
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BatChat With Matt & Will: BatChat Pride 2026
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…
BatChat With Matt & Will: That Story Is a Stretch
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…
BatChat with Matt & Will: The Man Behind the Black Mask (w/ Sam Hopper)
There are plenty of legacy characters in the Bat universe; how many Robins are there now? But there are far fewer legacy villains than there are heroes. But before Flashpoint and the New 52 scrambled things, or repositioned them anyway, one of Batman’s solid B-tier villains was replaced. Black Mask, a character introduced in the…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Some Sharp Art (w/ John Wickham)
Patreon backer John Wickham returns to BatChat to help Matt and Will discuss three Batman stories with art by Liam Sharp, including one WILD Garth Ennis story.
BatChat With Matt & Will: Seeley’s Nightwing Team-Ups (w/ Josh Weil)
When a writer works on a character for an extended period of time, it’s fascinating to watch how their interpretation of that character evolves. When Patreon backer Josh Weil came to us and wanted to cover the Robins mini-series that won DC’s fan voted Round Robin competition, the natural stories to pair with it were…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Batmanga Begins
Not long ago, we did an episode entirely dedicated to Batman stories that originated in Japan. Amongst those stories was a collection of creator Jiro Kuwata’s 60s Batman manga, that were adaptations of earlier American Batman stories. This week, we dive into those stories, reading three of them and seeing not just how they rank,…
BatChat With Matt & Will: The State of the Future(w/ Matt McThorn)
Event comics are a weird thing. And those events that slip in and take over the monthly slots of other comics are even weirder. Could you imagine if Law & Order was cancelled for two weeks to be replaced by Anarchy & Chaos? People wouldn’t know what to do with it. But we comics fans…
BatChat With Matt & Will: How Are We At Story 700?
When I, Matt, came to Will in the waning days of pandemic lockdown with the idea to this podcast, legally completely unrelated to Battle of the Atom, a podcast I may or may not have mainlined 300-ish episodes of during the pandemic, I figured we’d goof around for a bit, and maybe get in about…
BatChat With Matt & Will: From the 5th Dimension
Bat-Mite is a silly character. He is this hopeless fanboy who just doesn’t get what a pain in the tuchus he is. But he’s not the only mite in the DC Universe, and the others aren’t quite as benevolent, if hopelessly backwards. The most notable imp (sorry, Bat-Mite) is Mr. Mxyzptlk, Superman’s nemesis who is…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Return to Will’s Bookshelf
BatChat returns to Will’s bookshelf for three randos, one of which is an oddly well-timed tribute to Sam Kieth, and another is more Batman ’66.
BatChat With Matt & Will: A Mother & Daughter Reunion (w/ Abigale Heartbalm)
Abigale Heartbalm joins BatChat to talk about three stories featuring Cassandra Cain and her mother, Lady Shiva.
BatChat With Matt & Will: That is the Question
When she was created for Batman: The Animated Series, I can’t imagine the series creators realized what a life Renee Montoya would have in the comics. Technically appearing in comics before B:TAS premiered because of the much longer lead time for animation, Montoya has gone from beat cop to detective to vigilante to police commissioner…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Some Bones About It
The DC Universe has a lot of strange looking characters. King Shark is a bipedal shark man. G’Nort is a walking, talking dog alien. Animal-Vegetable Mineral Man is… well, look him up. Dude looks weird as all hell. But amongst the more macabre looking characters is super villain turned superhero turned super spy Mr. Bones,…
BatChat With Matt & Will: The Fall of the House of Wayne
BatChat arrives at the final arc of Grant Morrison’s Batman Incorporated, as well as the next arcs of “No Man’s Land” and “Knightquest: The Crusade.”