WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 275: The Batman who tentacles with Christian Ward Christian Ward joins the show to talk about his new DC Black Label series Batman: City of Madness. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible and at ComicsXF.com, where…
James Robinson might be best known for writing the 90s classic, Starman, but he’s written a bunch of Batman too. And this week, Josh Weil stops by to talk about three of Robinson’s stories. We have a Pulp Heroes annual, and two tales of Two-Face. There are some unfortunate sexy corpses, questionable editing and the…
Batman and Robin are back together! Bruce and Damian Wayne are living under the same roof and doing their best to act like a fairly normal father and son. But as the animal villains of Gotham revolt, the Dynamic Duo face a mysterious new threat. Batman and Robin #1 is written by Joshua Williamson, drawn…
I kind of can’t believe we made it this far, but here it is: episode 100! And for that, we’re hitting one of the last legendary Batman stories we haven’t touched, and one we’ve slowly been building towards for many of these 100 episodes, the culmination of the first act of Grant Morrison’s epic run:…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Matt’s pick: Batman and Robin #1: Father and son. Bruce and Damian. Batman and Robin. A lot has happened to the Dynamic Duo recently, but now they’re back together and ready to fight crime in…
The Gotham War is in full swing, and Batman is giving no quarter. The Bat family is siding against him, Catwoman is doing her best to maintain her word on protecting her crew and new players are moving into place. Batman #137 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey…
We’ve done episodes before that look at three versions of one story. But of there’s one story that has seemingly been retold more than any other, it’s the first Batman story, “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.” This week, we’re reading four versions of that story over three issues, plus some other stories in an…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaan’s pick: Birds of Prey #1: Dinah Lance is one of the DCU’s most elite fighters, and combined with her sonic scream, she’s a fearsome foe in any scenario, but sometimes even the Black Canary…
After months of exhaustion, Batman collapses and awakens weeks later to find Gotham changed. Crime is down, and the city is quiet. But the reason is not what he would like it to be: Catwoman has organized the city’s small-time crooks and is enforcing rules. As he and the family meet with Selina, lines are…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Armaan’s pick: Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant #1: Fresh from being killed off in an issue of Amazing Spider-Man and having her identity rewritten to make her a mutant in line with what could have…
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)….
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Realm of X #1: After the Hellfire Gala, Magik, Mirage, Marrow, Dust and Typhoid Mary find themselves stranded in Vanaheim. Y’know, the Thor place? The locals seem to believe they hold the key…
What happened when the heroes who would some day be the World’s Finest met for the first time? Find out in this new version of the first meeting of Batman and Superman in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #18, written by Mark Waid, drawn by Travis Moore, colored by Tamra Bonvillain and lettered by Steve Wands. Trapped in…
BatChat religion correspondent Robert “Bobby TwoBucks” Secundus is back this week, and he’s brining with him Jean-Paul Valley, the vigilante and sometimes fanatic known as Azrael. We chart the journey of Azrael from the beginning of his ongoing to his most recent mini-series, with a stop off in an alternate world that is… something. We…
Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New DC books come out Tuesdays, everything else Wednesdays. Tony’s pick: Uncanny Avengers #1: Innocent people and world leaders are dead after simultaneous attacks on the U.S. and Krakoan governments, and that means one thing: It’s time for a new iteration of Steve Rogers’…