Batman Adventures - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:14:44 +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 Batman Adventures - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: Date Night (w/ Josh Weil) https://comicsxf.com/2026/02/12/batchat-with-matt-will-date-night-w-josh-weil/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55927 Love is in the air. It’s nearly Valentine’s Day, and for the past couple of his appearances, Patreon backer and friend of the show Josh Weil has mentioned that he’s been considering selecting one of the few truly whimsical and just plane fun stories Tom King has written: “Date Night,” where Batman an Catwoman go...

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]]> 55927 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: Gordon’s Mirror https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/03/batchat-with-matt-will-gordons-mirror/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46179 Commissioner James Gordon has existed literally as long as Batman has, having appeared in Detective Comics #27, the first appearance of Batman. Over the years, he has changed and evolved as many comic characters have. Originally mostly a deskbound civil servant who was just here to turn on the Bat Signal, Gordon has become an important...

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]]> 46179 BatChat With Matt & Will: BatChat Goes to School (w/ Abigale Heartbalm) https://comicsxf.com/2023/05/04/batchat-with-matt-will-batchat-goes-to-school-w-abigale-heartbalm/ Thu, 04 May 2023 12:55:57 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45377 Wouldn’t it be great to go to school in Gotham City? Well, it probably wouldn’t be scarier than anywhere else. This week, Mrs. Abigale Heartbalm, Esq. stops by, and we talk Gotham Academy and two other school centric Batman related stories. We talk about how Gotham Academy successfully brings manga tropes to Gotham, question how...

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]]> 45377 BatChat With Matt & Will: A Christmas Tangent https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/22/batchat-with-matt-will-a-christmas-tangent/ Thu, 22 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44311 OK, so if you’ve listened to this podcast, you know that your intrepid hosts love a good tangent. This week, well, the tangents take over for a while. You get your standard moments of Star Trek (what are the actually good episodes of TOS), but you also get ten minutes on the oeuvre of a...

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]]> 44311 BatChat With Matt & Will: Lex Luthor Goes Full Leprechaun https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/24/batchat-with-matt-will-lex-luthor-goes-full-leprechaun/ Thu, 24 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43985 It’s Thanksgiving, and we here at BatChat are the giving types. So we want to give you something you can share with your whole family to drown out the talk of politics and sportsball of various sorts this American turkey day. So we are once again digging into all ages Batman stories. This episode we...

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]]> 43985 BatChat With Matt & Will: My Scottish Accent Broke Will https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/17/batchat-with-matt-will-my-scottish-accent-broke-will/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43885 He’s muddy. He’s powerful. He’s… a lot of different people, actually. Because there have been many villains named Clayface, and this episode we look at three stories featuring different permutations of that particular rogue. Also, a brief tribute to the mate, great Kevin Conroy. The Mud Pack (Detective Comics V.1 #604-607) The Great Joker/Clayface Feud...

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]]> 43885 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 39: The Never-Ending War Game (w/ Josh Weil) https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/16/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-39-the-never-ending-war-game-w-josh-weil/ Thu, 16 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41485 Dick Grayson-tier Patreon backer Josh Weil is back this week, and he brings with him a heck of a story. War Games was the early 00s crossover where a huge gang war breaks out in Gotham, and so, we get a 25 park crossover! That’s the longest single story we’ve covered in here. Can we...

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