Chuck Dixon - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:44:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Chuck Dixon - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Many Murders of Bruce Wayne https://comicsxf.com/2026/08/06/batchat-with-matt-will-the-many-murders-of-bruce-wayne/ Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=57553 These milestone episode numbers are getting surreal. 250 episodes. Yikes. For this anniversary, we’re looking at stories where Bruce Wayne was suspected of murder. Now, if this was the real world, a lazy billionaire would be prime suspect #1 and I wouldn’t be surprised. But we are looking at a fictional world that actually has...

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]]> 57553 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Deadliest Woman in the World (w/ Josh Weil) https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/28/batchat-with-matt-will-the-deadliest-woman-in-the-world-w-josh-weil/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53954 Lady Shiva walks through the world, leaving a trail of bodies behind her. Not a hero, but often not quite a villain, Shiva has developed relationships with many members of the Bat Family: trainer to Tim Drake, rival and sometimes member of the Birds of Prey, mother to Cassandra Cain. Josh Weil joins the show...

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]]> 53954 BatChat With Matt & Will: Wak, Wak Said the Villain https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/24/batchat-with-matt-will-wak-wak-said-the-villain/ Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:00:36 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53517 Somehow, as we near 200 episodes, we still stumble across holes in our coverage. He’s appeared in a lot of stories we’ve covered, but we have never done an episode purely focused on Penguin stories. So this week, we remedy that. We’re reading Penguin’s first appearance, the story that changed him from supervillain to mobster...

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]]> 53517 BatChat With Matt & Will: Joker Behind Bars https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/03/batchat-with-matt-will-joker-behind-bars/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53247 The revolving doors of any prison or mental health facility in Gotham City are running jokes, and rightly so; they can’t keep a D-lister like Ratcatcher locked up, let alone someone like the Joker. But they do keep winding up back in custody, so there has to be story potential there, right? This week’s episode...

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]]> 53247 BatChat With Matt & Will: Spoiler’s Costume Corner (w/ Abigale Heartbalm) https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/08/batchat-with-matt-will-spoilers-costume-corner-w-abigale-heartbalm/ Thu, 08 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52521 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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]]> 52521 BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman and the Last Crusade https://comicsxf.com/2025/04/17/batchat-with-matt-will-batman-and-the-last-crusade/ Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52261 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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]]> 52261 BatChat With Matt & Will: Raining Wildcats and Dogs https://comicsxf.com/2025/03/06/batchat-with-matt-will-raining-wildcats-and-dogs/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51887 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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]]> 51887 BatChat With Matt & Will: Grayson & Friends (w/ Tony Thornley) https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/15/batchat-with-matt-will-grayson-friends-w-tony-thornley/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47951 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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]]> 47951 BatChat With Matt & Will: Bat Hound Turns Into the Batmobile https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/03/batchat-with-matt-will-bat-hound-turns-into-the-batmobile/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43678 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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]]> 43678 BatChat With Matt & Will: It’s Tim Drake Time! https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/29/batchat-with-matt-will-its-tim-drake-time/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43182 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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]]> 43182 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 51: A Hickman Chart On Monkey Rankings (w/ Josh Weil) https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/08/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-51-a-hickman-chart-on-monkey-rankings-w-josh-weil/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42757 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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]]> 42757 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 50: Live & In Person Anniversary Spctacular! https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/01/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-50-live-in-person-anniversary-spctacular/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42675 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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]]> 42675 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 40: The Breaking of the Bat https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/23/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-40-the-breaking-of-the-bat/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41607 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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]]> 41607 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.12: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/09/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-12-the-daring-young-man-on-the-flying-trapeze/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35618 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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