Andy Kubert - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 07 Dec 2022 23:47:43 +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 Andy Kubert - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: Intercompany Crossovers (w/ Tony Thornley) https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/08/batchat-with-matt-will-intercompany-crossovers-w-tony-thornley/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44134 Fellow ComicsXF writer Tony Thornley joins us this week just in time for the new Batman/Spawn crossover to talk about other times that Batman has met characters from across the comic book omniverse. Batman meets alien hunters, an arachnid themed hero and the hellspawn he’ll be meeting again. Intercompany crossovers are a weird and wild...

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]]> 44134 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 48: Alpha Male Plus https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/18/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-48-alpha-male-plus/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42523 This week, we’re returning to three series/arcs/runs that we have started in previous episodes. See Batman rub testosterone all over himself in the next arc of Grant Morrisons’ Batman. Witness the Scarecrow play mind games in the second arc of “No Man’s Land.” And gaze in wonder as Alfred beats the ever loving hell out...

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]]> 42523 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 31: Goodnight, Batcave https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/21/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-31-goodnight-batcave/ Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40176 This week was supposed to mark the real and true and totally final death of Batman in Justice League #75‘s “Death of the Justice League,” issue, but the vagaries of comic scheduling in a pandemic have forced that issue back a week. But still, that would not have been the first time Batman died, and this...

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]]> 40176 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 22: Three Robins https://comicsxf.com/2022/02/17/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-22-three-robins/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37991 We’ve already had one episode dedicated entirely to the origin of Dick Grayson, the first Robin. Now it’s time to move on to stories featuring the early days of three of the next Robins (no, we’re not taking part in Stephanie Brown erasure; she’ll just get a focus in a Batgirls episode, we promise). See...

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]]> 37991 We Sigh over Fond Memories of Legends of the Dark Knight in Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/21/we-sigh-over-fond-memories-of-legends-of-the-dark-knight-in-bat-chat/ Fri, 21 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=27941 A classic Batman title makes its return as Batman hunts some of his most famous rogues to stop them from getting their hands on a nerve agent being sold by a mysterious new foe in Legends of the Dark Knight #1, written and pencilled by Darick Robertson, inked by Robertson and Richard P. Clark, colored...

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]]> 27941 Bonus Reading: From Joe to Emma, a Brief History of the Kuberts https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/03/bonus-reading-a-brief-history-of-the-kuberts/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=8064 The Kuberts are the first family of comics. Joe Kubert produced comics from 1943, the heart of the Golden Age, until right before his death in 2012. His sons, Andy and Adam, have been two of comics’ best regarded artists for over 20 years. His granddaughter Katie Kubert has edited for both Marvel and DC....

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]]> 8064 WMQ&A Episode 123: Extended cat chat with Emma Kubert https://comicsxf.com/2020/09/01/wmqa-episode-123-extended-cat-chat-with-emma-kubert/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7979 Third-generation comics artist Emma Kubert joins the show to talk about her new Image series "Inkblot," about a mischievous void-space cat that can traverse dimensions and just doesn't listen. Much feline flap-a-gummin' ensues.

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]]> 7979 ‘Superman: Up in the Sky’ & the Fight Against Mental Illness https://comicsxf.com/2020/06/30/superman-up-in-the-sky-the-fight-against-mental-illness/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=6677 Superman: Up in the Sky Writer: Tom King, Artist: Andy Kubert, Inker: Sandra Hope, Colorist: Brad Anderson, Letterer: Clayton Cowles, Publisher: DC Collects “Superman: Up in the Sky” #1-6, originally published in DC’s Walmart Giants Growing up, “Batman: The Animated Series” sent the Bat soaring to the top of the list of heroes I wanted...

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