Batman Black & White - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:48:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Batman Black & White - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: How Are We At Story 700? https://comicsxf.com/2026/04/16/batchat-with-matt-will-how-are-we-at-story-700/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56559 When I, Matt, came to Will in the waning days of pandemic lockdown with the idea to this podcast, legally completely unrelated to Battle of the Atom, a podcast I may or may not have mainlined 300-ish episodes of during the pandemic, I figured we’d goof around for a bit, and maybe get in about...

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]]> 56559 BatChat With Matt & Will: A Black & White Episode https://comicsxf.com/2024/12/12/batchat-with-matt-will-a-black-white-episode/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51091 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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]]> 51091 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 42: The Chips Are Down https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/07/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-42-the-chips-are-down/ Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41908 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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]]> 41908 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.9: Will’s Art Picks https://comicsxf.com/2021/11/18/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-9-wills-art-picks/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35305 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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]]> 35305 A Whole Lotta Huntress and Some Decent Black and White Stories in Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/28/a-whole-lotta-huntress-and-some-decent-black-and-white-stories-in-bat-chat/ Fri, 28 May 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=28420 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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]]> 28420 ‘Tec Remains the Best Bat Book, and Black and White Gets Read in Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/30/tec-remains-the-best-bat-book-and-black-and-white-gets-read-in-bat-chat/ Fri, 30 Apr 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=25943 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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]]> 25943 A Mixed Black & White Bag and an Underwhelming Issue of Detective in This Week’s Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2020/12/11/a-mixed-black-white-bag-and-an-underwhelming-issue-of-detective-in-this-weeks-bat-chat/ Fri, 11 Dec 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=9944 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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