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BatChat With Matt & Will: It Only FELT Eternal

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

It’s over! We have made it through the entirety of our giant sized, three part 75th episode, which means we have reached the end of the 52 issues of Batman Eternal. We discuss the ending, which Will admits to misremembering, how the preview issue of Batman fit in, and how the series worked as a…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: What’s With All the Bandages?

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

We’re back with the second part pf our 75th episode and the second chapter of Batman Eternal. And this one is… not as exciting. There’s a whole lot of Hush this time. Like, a whole lot. Plus the supernatural stuff takes over a lot, and most of the cool crime stuff is forgotten. As is…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Penguin in a Onesie

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

So, Will has been asking for it since about episode 3, and this week, it begins. For our 75th episode, we are covering the year long, weekly series Batman Eternal. But because it’s so long, this isn’t a normal episode. The series was collected in three trades, so we’re covering it as three stories in…

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Clayface, Nightwing and the GCPD Take Over BatChat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago024 mins

Danny Ortega’s one-man war on the GCPD continues as Renee Montoya is given an offer in GCPD: The Blue Wall #5, written by John Ridley, drawn by Stefano Raffaele, colored by Brad Anderson and lettered by Ariana Maher. Basil Karlo went to Hollywood to reinvent himself. But when you’re a shapeshifting clay monster, it’s hard…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Remembering Kevin Conroy

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

So, because of a combination of vacations and heavy workload, editing a proper BatChat did not happen this week. Instead, we’re taking an episode of our Patreon exclusive content from behind the pay wall. Tune in to hear a tribute to the man who defined Batman for a generation: Kevin Conroy. And if you like…

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Jace Fox’s Run Ends While The Adventures Continue in BatChat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago024 mins

A motorcycle gang called the Ratpack made up of rat men is terrorizing the home of Kathy Kane, the original Batwoman. The Scooby Gang teams up with her niece, the original Bat-Girl, and the new Batwoman to find out what happened to her and who is behind the Ratpack in The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: For the Love of Laughing Fish

Matthew Lazorwitz2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

Hey look, it’s Valentine’s week! And since Grant Morrison once called Batman a, “hairy chested love god,” who are we to argue? That means it’s time for three tales of the Dark Knight and romance! Strange Apparitions (Detective Comics V.1 #471-476) The Return of Scarface (Batman V.1 #475-476, Detective Comics V.1 #642) Perchance… (JLA #90)…

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BatChat Isn’t Mad at This Week’s Bat Books, It’s Just Disappointed

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago023 mins

After being blasted by Failsafe, Batman wakes up in a world very different from the Gotham he knows. Batman #132 is written by Chip Zdarsky, penciled by Mike Hawthorne, inked by Adriano Di Benedetto, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup, Tim Drake is sure that Batman is alive and…

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BatChat With Matt And Will: Hugo Strange’s Monsters

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

Hugo Strange is one of Batman’s first recurring nemeses. And when Strange appears, he often brings with him his Monster Men, evil science experiments that Strange uses for his twisted plans. This week, in another thrice told tale, we see three versions of Batman confronting Strange and his creatures. The Giants of Hugo Strange (Batman…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Snyder’s Nightmares

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

Of the many writers who have written tales of the Dark Knight over the past 15 years, few if any have left their mark as much as Scott Snyder. Creator of the Court of Owls, with an impressive 52 issue run on Batman proper, not counting many other series and mini-series, Snyder explores the fears…

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A Solid Art Week and a Tom Taylor Tearjerker in BatChat (Text Edition)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago020 mins

Harvey Dent and Two-Face duel once more, and this time what is hanging in the balance is only the life or death of Batman. The lead story is written by Ram V, drawn by Ivan Reis and Rafael Albuquerque, inked by Danny Miki, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered by Ariana Maher. In the backup,…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: The Joker’s First Laughs

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

A sinister laugh over the airwaves. A threat. And death with a rictus grin. Those are aspects that each version of Batman’s first encounter with his greatest foe, the Joker, have in common. But as with many tales from the Golden Age of comics, this is a story that he been told and retold numerous…

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A Sidekick Snaps, Bane Wrassles and a Cop … Also Snaps … in BatChat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago021 mins

Kid Thunder has been freed from the Joker and the Key, but the torture has caused him to begin to lose his grip on his rage. Now Superman must make a fateful decision in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #11, written by Mark Waid, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Tamra Bonvillain and lettered by Steve Wands….

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BatChat With Matt & Will: BatChat Meets Batman ’66 Meets…

Matthew Lazorwitz2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

Batman, as I think this show has proven, is a character who exists, and works, in an infinite number of permutations. And of all of those, one of the most famous is that of the campy Batman ’66. But does that Batman work with other characters from other franchises, or is his bright world a…

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A Day at the Beach as Urban Legends Ends in BatChat (Text Edition)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago020 mins

Ghosts and a medium lead to robberies. Not exactly unusual for a Scooby-Doo story. But there’s some more to this issue than meets the eye in The Batman & Scooby-Doo Mysteries #4, written by Amanda Deibert, drawn by Scott Jeralds, colored by Carrie Strachan and lettered by Saida Temofonte. The truth about Jace’s mother has…

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