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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 14: Have Yourself a Batman Little Christmas

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago2 years ago03 mins

It’s the week of Christmas, and even the Dark Knight has taken time out to celebrate the holidays, but not your friendly podcast hosts. This week, Matt & Will are looking at three Christmas stories in Gotham. Happy holidays to one and all, and we hope your Christmas doesn’t involve the Joker. Trust us in…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 13: Chekhov’s Two-Face

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

Sometimes it’s hard to judge a story. Sometimes you might need to… flip a coin. Yes, that is a labored wordplay to get to something to tie into this week’s subject, Batman’s (possibly) second greatest foe, former district attorney Harvey Dent, best known as Two-Face. Fortunately, these stories didn’t require any coin tosses for their…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.12: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

With DC continuity a mess of Crises, reboots, Rebirths and New 52s, some stories get rewritten and some stories get retold. Batman’s first year has been rewritten numerous times. But his first meeting with Dick Grayson, the first Robin? That one gets retold, and each time it’s tinkered with just a little. This week, Matt…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 11: Don’t Fear the Unicorns and Bunnies

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago03 mins

“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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BatChat with Matt & Will Episode 10: The Most Tolerable Damian Wayne

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

It’s Thanksgiving week here in the States, so Matt & Will are dipping back into all ages stories for three Batman books you can talk about around the dinner table with one and all. Hear about the story that would have introduced a major Bat villain to the classic TV series, the cutest Batfamily in…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.9: Will’s Art Picks

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

Will takes the reins this week, with a little ill advised help from Matt’s knowledge of 90s Batman stories. Will picked three stories that he figured would have art he’d love and, well, two out of three ain’t bad. Six Fingers (Legends of the Dark Knight V.1 #85-88 [Digital]) Chasing Clay (Batman V.1 #550) Batman:…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.8: One Angry Batman

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

Batman may be the world’s greatest detective and martial artist, but he isn’t infallible, as much as some sections of fandom want you to believe. And this week, we look at three stories where Batman loses in very different ways. Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia Superheavy (Batman V.2 #41-50) Cold Days (Batman V.3 #51-53) If you…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.7: The Clown Prince of Carnage

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

He’s Batman’s greatest nemesis. He is as mutable as his foe, appearing sometimes as a whacky criminal clown, sometimes as a terrifying homicidal maniac, and sometimes as an urban terrorist. He is the Joker. And this week, Matt and Will look at three single issue Joker stories in their first villain spotlight episode. The Joker’s…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Ep. 6: Spooky Books- The BatChat Marry/F***/Kill Episode

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

Just in time for Halloween, BatChat takes on three tales of Batman mixing it up with the supernatural. We have vampires, we have immortals, we have werewolves, and we have the scariest thing of all: a new worst story on the list! Listen in to hear what story it is, and hear Matt get so…

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BatChat with Matt & Will Ep.5: Batman is for the Children! (w/ Dan Grote)

Matthew Lazorwitz, Will Nevin and Dan Grote4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

Writer, editor and podcaster Dan Grote, who just happens to be Matt’s co-host on the other podcast he does, WMQ&A, and has been his best friend for nigh-on 30 years, stops by as the first guest on BatChat with Matt & Will. This week, we discuss four stories over three issues, and they’re all stories…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 4: The Dark Knight Detective

Matthew Lazorwitz4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

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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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 3: A Batman By Any Other Name

Matthew Lazorwitz4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

There are more comics about alternate versions of Batman than of any other hero in the DC Universe, if not all of comics. And so, this week, Matt and Will are going to take a trip through three tales of Dark Knights of different eras and origins. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight Batman: Holy Terror Superman:…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 2: Endings

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

BatChat is back for episode 2, and it’s the final episode! OK, no it’s not, but it is focusing on three tales of Batman’s possible final days. The Dark Knight Returns (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4) Some of These Days (Batman Annual V.3 #2) The Last Batman Story-? (Batman V.1 #300) If you’d like,…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.1: Beginnings

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago03 mins

Did you ever listen to ComicsXF Editor-In-Chief Zack Jenkins and his co-host Adam Reck’s podcast, Battle of the Atom, and think, “This is great, but you know what it needs? Batman.” Well, our primary DC Editor Matt Lazorwitz did, and he grabbed his regular writing partner on the site’s weekly Bat-title round-up, Will Nevin, and…

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