Bad Seeds spreads its branches to more Bat-books
Team BatChat continues its coverage of the Batman: Bad Seeds event with Detective Comics, Batwoman, Catwoman and Nightwing.
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BatChat With Matt & Will: AzBats is Ebenezer Scrooge
Hey, sometimes you go with an easy one. Coming up with episode themes isn’t an easy thing, so these episodes where we continue on in runs we’ve been reading in order allow me to turn off my brain for a week. We’re back in Batman Chronicles, with three more shorts set in No Man’s Land,…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Shadow of the Cat (w/ Sam Hopper)
Catwoman has been around for over 80 years, and like all good Bat villains, she has changed with the times. But it’s amazing how much of the character has been there through the ages. Patreon backer and friend of the show Sam Hopper joins us to look at the evolution of Catwoman, what has stayed…
Imps gone wild, First Knight wraps and Catwoman’s on her last life in BatChat
The heroes of the DC Universe are falling before enemies empowered by their 5th Dimensional Mite counterparts while Batman and Superman are trapped in the 2nd Dimension. While Bat-Mite helps Batman and Superman, Mr. Mxyzptlk goes to the one man who might be able to save the world: Jimmy Olsen. Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #27 is…
BatChat plays catch-up with First Knight, Dylan Dog and Catwoman
Gotham is getting stranger. Not only is there a Bat-Man, but now seeming undead Monster Men are rampaging and killing political movers and shakers. Bruce Wayne is in a strange new world, and he has some hard decisions to make if he wants to save his city. The Bat-Man: First Knight #2 is written by…
Gordon goes Joker hunting, Darkseid is, but so is Amanda Waller in BatChat
Jim Gordon is trapped in Gotham Central as the Red Hood Gang makes an audacious play. But also in Central is a factor no one expected: the Joker, who has decided to show his old gang, and its new boss, exactly what he can do. “Joker: Year One” concludes in Batman #144, written by Chip…
BatChat With Matt & Will: On the Trail of Darwyn Cooke
There are those creators you just come back to, whose work never ceases to amaze. Darwyn Cooke is one of those creators. Passing on too young, Cooke still left an impressive body of work, a lot of which was Batman or Batman adjacent. We’re returning to his work this week with two intertwined tales of…
BatChat With Matt & Will: The Wedding That Didn’t Happen (w/Abigale Heartbalm)
At 120 episodes, we’ve covered a lot of Batman comics. A lot. But I think few have been more contentious, both in the fandom and on this podcast, as the ones this week. Because this week we’re talking about the Tom King run, the creator with possibly the biggest gaps in his work on The…
Magog, Catwoman and Godzilla in this week’s BatChat
Two sets of the World’s Finest heroes must confront Gog and Magog to stop the ancient god and his servant from leading the heroes of Earth-22 into a war on Apokolips they cannot win in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #22, written by Mark Waid, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Tamra Bonvillain and lettered by Steve…
World’s Finest, Off-World and Catwoman in BatChat
Trapped on a parallel Earth, surrounded by heroes who believe they are imposters, Batman and Superman are confronted by Gog and his chief disciple, Thunderman. But they are about to learn the secret of Gog and what his plan is, and it is darker than they could have expected in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #22, written…
Return to Kingdom Come, Gotham War and Nightwing’s butt jokes in BatChat
The quest for the lost Kid Thunder has brought Superman and Batman to Earth-22, the world of Kingdom Come. But a glimpse into that world’s future has the heroes on their back feet and wondering what they can do in Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #20, written by Mark Waid, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Tamra…
BatChat With Matt & Will: Is Penguin a Good Trump Analogue? (w/ John Wickham)
Batman is a creature of shadow who usually eschews the light. But even the Dark Knight can be touched by that darkest of human endeavors that lives in the brightest of spotlights: politics. Dick Grayson Tier Patreon backer John Wickham joins us to talk about a very of its moment story of Catwoman getting involved…
Batman and Catwoman go to war (plus Gordon’s Knight Terrors, Riddler) in BatChat
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…
Ms. Marvel returns to lead this week’s Staff Picks
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…
When Bruce met Clark, and two more Knight Terrors end, in BatChat
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…