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BatChat With Matt & Will: Spoiler’s Costume Corner (w/ Abigale Heartbalm)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 weeks ago4 weeks ago02 mins

We’re back with two of our favorite ladies this week: Patreon backer (and Will’s wife) Abigale Heartbalm and Stephanie Brown. Abigale wanted to read three stories featuring Stephanie, and we wanted to go with something similar as the first time we did a Stephanie episode where we touch on different eras of the character, but…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman and the Last Crusade

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 months ago2 months ago02 mins

We’re back to the bookshelf Will keeps of random Batman trades he has picked up over the years (a shelf that for Matt is something he just calls his house). We start off as ever with a volume of Batman ’66, follow that up with Batman meets The Da Vinci Code meets Indiana Jones and…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Raining Wildcats and Dogs

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 months ago3 months ago03 mins

I have a soft spot for Wildcat, the Golden Age hero, member of the JSA, and trainer of heroes. And he has a connection to the Bat family, having trained more than one member. So this week we’re reading a perfectly whacky issue of Brave and the Bold as only Bob Haney could write it,…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Grayson & Friends (w/ Tony Thornley)

Matthew Lazorwitz, Will Nevin and Tony Thornley1 year ago1 year ago02 mins

It’s Valentine’s Day week, and I may or may not have forgotten about that when I was scheduling episodes this year. Fortunately, ComicsXF writer and friend of the show Tony Thornley picked some stories that work pretty well for Valentine’s Day. You see, these are all about love: brotherly love, romantic love, and the love…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Bat Hound Turns Into the Batmobile

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

So, this week, it’s Matt’s birthday recording, and as opposed to Will, who picked stuff based on gut instinct (and who must have had a stomach ache based on what we got), Matt went with three stories from his younger years that he remembers really liking. The results are considerably better. We get some Grant…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: It’s Tim Drake Time!

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

This is the one Matt has been waiting for. To tie in with the first issue of his new ongoing series, we’re looking at three stories from the history of the best Robin, and Matt will brook no argument on this one, Tim Drake. See his origin, his return to Gotham from training, and his…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 51: A Hickman Chart On Monkey Rankings (w/ Josh Weil)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

He’s a billionaire who fights crime with nothing but his wits and his training. He has a family of sidekicks. He is known for having all sorts of emotional baggage and issues. He is… Green Arrow. This week, we sit down with Patreon backer Josh Weil to talk about three stories where Batman meets an…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 50: Live & In Person Anniversary Spctacular!

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago01 mins

Who would have thought we’d have made it to 50 episodes? But we did it! This week, for the first time ever, Matt & Will were in the very same place, Matt’s dining room, where they discussed three stories that wrap up in big number anniversary issues to tie in with this special anniversary. Knightfall…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 40: The Breaking of the Bat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

Jason Todd tier Patreon backer Kyle Still asked us to cover Knightfall, and so we decided to do it (and by decided, I mean that we live up to our word). But Knightfall has a nice clean point where we can divide it. Back in the day, when trades were still a rarity, Knightfall was…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.12: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

With DC continuity a mess of Crises, reboots, Rebirths and New 52s, some stories get rewritten and some stories get retold. Batman’s first year has been rewritten numerous times. But his first meeting with Dick Grayson, the first Robin? That one gets retold, and each time it’s tinkered with just a little. This week, Matt…

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