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BatChat With Matt & Will: A Black & White Episode

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin1 year ago1 year ago01 mins

Last week was three random books from Will’s collection. This week is three stories that Matt has wanted to cover that don’t easily fit in with any themes he has come up with yet. We read some more black and white stories, the sequel to a highly ranked sorry by a late, great writer and…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 42: The Chips Are Down

Matthew Lazorwitz3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

This week starts a new era in the ongoing Batman series, as new writer Chip Zdarsky takes over, making him the first writer to write both the Batman and Daredevil ongoings at the same time. And since both Matt & Will are fans of Zdarsky’s other crime work, well, what better time to look at…

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

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago01 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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A Whole Lotta Huntress and Some Decent Black and White Stories in Bat Chat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin5 years ago5 years ago010 mins

Welcome back to Bat Chat with Matt (and Will!). In Detective Comics #1,035, Batman and Huntress collide as their cases intersect and the mystery of the murders in Fort Graves deepens, as written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Aditya Bidikar.  And in a Huntress backup story,…

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‘Tec Remains the Best Bat Book, and Black and White Gets Read in Bat Chat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin5 years ago5 years ago012 mins

Welcome back to Bat Chat with Matt (and Will!). In Detective Comics #1,035, the mystery of what is happening in Bruce Wayne’s new neighborhood of Fort Graves deepens, as death and mourning couple with corruption in a story written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. …

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A Mixed Black & White Bag and an Underwhelming Issue of Detective in This Week’s Bat Chat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin5 years ago5 years ago011 mins

Will Nevin: One week, I think we’ll hit on a book that we both like, that we can both praise and feel good about. This ain’t that week.   Matt Lazorwitz: This is a very … meh week. “Detective” was inoffensive water treading, and “Black and White” was hit or miss, as most anthologies are. Detective…

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