Alan Davis - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:52:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Alan Davis - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: For Want of a Nail, the Podcast Was Lost https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/02/batchat-with-matt-will-for-want-of-a-nail-the-podcast-was-lost/ Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51262 It’s the New Year’s week, and if you’ve been listening to the podcast, you know what that means: New Year, New Batman. That’s right, it’s three more Elseworlds. We have Nosferatu (which is strangely more an adaptation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari than Nosferatu), The Nail (which is more a Marvel-style What If? than...

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]]> 51262 Marvel turns 85, and no one’s asking it not to run for president again https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/02/marvel-85th-anniversary-special/ Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49996 What’s it like to visit a Marvel museum? In space? With Deadpool and Wolverine?* Is it all nostalgia-bait, or will our heroes find something more? Discover the answer in Marvel’s 85th Anniversary Special, written and drawn by Ryan North, Joshua Cassara, Iman Vellani, Sabir Pirzada, Stephen Byrne, Alan Davis, Priest, Carlo Pagulayan, Jason Paz, Yuji...

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]]> 49996 BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman With a Gun? https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/24/batchat-with-matt-will-batman-with-a-gun/ Thu, 24 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46331 Joker is Batman’s most dedicated foe. Ra’s al Ghul is the deadliest. The Penny Plunderer is the most ridiculous (that’s up for debate, but he’s my pick). But no criminal is more integral to the Batman mythos than Joe Chill, the man who killed the Waynes (except in Batman ’89, but the point still stands)....

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]]> 46331 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Darkest Episode of ’66 Ever https://comicsxf.com/2023/07/20/batchat-with-matt-will-the-darkest-episode-of-66-ever/ Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46014 It’s taken three episodes, but we’ve finally covered every story in the original Batman #1. That means this week, we’re covering the first appearance of Catwoman, and so we’re also covering a couple other Catwoman stories, one a story that’s place in continuity is weird even by DC Comics standards, and one that started off...

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]]> 46014 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep. 32: Is There a Single Likeable Character In This Book? https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/28/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-32-is-there-a-single-likeable-character-in-this-book/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40355 As The Batman is now streaming on HBO Max, Matt and Will thought it was time to look at one of the stories that served as a prime inspiration for this year’s blockbuster Bat movie- Batman: Earth One. And to go with it? Two other stories of Batman’s origins and early years. Batman: Earth One...

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]]> 40355 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 11: Don’t Fear the Unicorns and Bunnies https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/02/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-11-dont-fear-the-unicorns-and-bunnies/ Thu, 02 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35546 “Fear State” wraps up in the monthly Bat comics this week, so Matt and Will are reading three stories that feature the mastermind behind the most recent Batman crossover: Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow. See him be whimsical, see him be pathetic, see him be epic. And find out which three of these stories features the...

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]]> 35546 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 4: The Dark Knight Detective https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/14/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-4-the-dark-knight-detective/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34570 There are many ways to describe Batman. Superhero. Martial Artist. Scientist. Adventurer. But for your hosts, Matt & Will, one beats all the rest: Detective. This week, we look at three stories that have a theme of Batman as the Dark Knight Detective. Blades (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #32-34) The Doomsday Book (Detective...

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