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Watters and Sherman drop the curtain on the masterpiece that is Batman: Dark Patterns

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 10:00:00 +0000

The final issue draws everything together. Batman faces the Child of Fire, and stands prepared to save Gotham from the storm that he has brought. Batman: Dark Patterns #12 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden Sherman, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by Frank Cvetkovic. Will Nevin: And now, the end is near,...

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The Child of Fire revealed in DC’s Batman: Dark Patterns #11

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“Child of Fire” continues. Jim Gordon goes to an unlikely source for help. Batman, still recovering from his wounds, deduces the identity of the Child of Fire and goes to track him down. And the history of Gotham and fire is laid bare. Batman: Dark Patterns #11 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden...

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The end begins with a Child of Fire in Batman: Dark Patterns #10

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:00:00 +0000

“Child of Fire,” the final arc of the series, begins here. Still recovering from the wounds he received, Batman is unable to stop the crimes of a new villain, the Child of Fire. He has a theory about who it is, but there is something more sinister underneath it, and Batman may have trusted the...

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4 stories about Batman and people in Detective Comics #1,100

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Detective Comics #1,100 is a big anniversary issue with a collection of stories from creators past and present from its 85+ year run. “Lost And Found” is written by Tom Taylor, drawn and colored by Mikel Janin and lettered by Wes Abbott.“Your Role In the Community” is written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Amancay Nahuelpan,...

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Batman loses in Dark Patterns #9, and it’s a triumph

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:00:00 +0000

“Pareidolia,” the third arc of the series, wraps up with Batman shot and tied up at the mercy of the man behind the discovery of the body that led Batman to Gotham’s Rookery neighborhood. Can Batman figure out all the secrets and convince his captors to free him before he is killed? Batman: Dark Patterns...

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Bruce gets obsessed in DC’s Batman: Dark Patterns #8

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000

As Batman’s hunt for the killer in Gotham’s Rookery district verges on obsession, he dives deeper in, learning about the past of an erstwhile ally and leaving him open for the killer’s strike. Batman: Dark Patterns #8 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden Sherman, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by Frank Cvetkovic. Matt...

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Enter The Rookery in Batman: Dark Patterns #7

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Batman travels into The Rookery, one of Gotham’s darker neighborhoods, investigating a murder and learning about the history of a familiar name: The Red Hood Gang. Batman: Dark Patterns #7 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden Sherman, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by Frank Cvetkovic. Will Nevin: It’s no “the man is...

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2 arcs in, and Dark Patterns remains the best current Batman book

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 23 May 2025 11:41:16 +0000

Batman learns the details of the origin of the new Ventriloquist, as her plans fall apart and she makes one final, desperate attempt to stop her home from being seized. Batman: Dark Patterns #6 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden Sherman, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by Frank Cvetkovic. Will Nevin: I...

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We are all Scarface in Batman: Dark Patterns #5

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Batman continues to make his way through an apartment building controlled by Scarface, trying to find the mastermind. But there is more here than Batman expected, and there is something waiting as he reaches the top floor, a secret that will change the whole case. Batman: Dark Patterns #5 is written by Dan Watters, drawn...

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The case of the Wound Man is closed in Batman: Dark Patterns #3

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:00:00 +0000

The case of the Wound Man comes to a close. Batman follows his trail to his secret past, as the Wound Man runs afoul of a family noted for its bad intentions. Batman: Dark Patterns #3 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden Sherman, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by Frank Cvetkovic. Will...

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Batman: Dark Patterns #4 starts a new arc that looks to be as strong as the first

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

A new arc begins as Batman must make his way through an apartment complex to save a captured police officer. The apartment complex, though, has something more sinister hiding beneath the surface. Batman: Dark Patterns #4 is written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden Sherman, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by Frank Cvetkovic. Will...

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Absolute Batman looks back, Dark Patterns rips and Batman & Robin put character first

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Step back to Bruce Wayne’s earliest days as Batman, and to a time when Thomas Wayne was still alive, as the background of this new Batman starts to be filled in. Absolute Batman #4 is written by Scott Snyder from a plot by Snyder and Nick Dragotta, drawn by Gabriel Hernandez Walta, colored by Frank...

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The BatChat boys LOVE Batman: Dark Patterns. Other comics are here, too.

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

In the early days of his career, Batman investigates a series of strange, brutal murders that seem designed to make the victims experience the maximum amount of pain. Follow a detective story from the beginning in Batman: Dark Patterns #1, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Hayden Sherman, colored by Triona Farrell and lettered by...

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The Six Fingers #1 shows us how the other half kills

Dan Grote — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 17:00:00 +0000

The year is 2873, and the East & Peninsula Power Factory has had another toxic spill – and Johannes Vale is having a rough time of it. He’s got a lot of things to answer for. Where are his plans for his grad school thesis? Where did this blood-stained handkerchief come from? And, most importantly,...

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Batman and Catwoman go to war (plus Gordon’s Knight Terrors, Riddler) in BatChat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000

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...

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BatChat With Matt & Will: A Biblically Accurate Angel (w/ Robert Secundus)

Matthew Lazorwitz, Will Nevin and Rob Secundus — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000

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...

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Gordon’s Nightmare, Gotham’s Future and Audio’s End in BatChat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Jim Gordon is in for a weird night. A group calling itself the Good People of Gotham have summoned beings from the 5th Dimension and unleashed a horror on Gotham on top of whatever madness Insomnia is wreaking. And one of these cultists is now using the armor Gordon wore during his brief tenure as...

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WMQ&A Episode 256: The Seasons Have Teeth, and So Does Dan Watters

Dan Grote and Matthew Lazorwitz — Tue, 09 May 2023 12:30:00 +0000

Dan Grote · WMQ&A Episode 256: The Seasons Have Teeth, and So Does Dan Watters Writer Dan Watters returns to talk about his new Humanoids graphic novel The Incal: The Dying Star, BOOM’s The Seasons Have Teeth, Marvel’s Loki, DC’s Knight Terrors: Detective Comics and more. You can listen to WMQ&A on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud,...

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Two Shades of Harley, Ivy, Tim and Azrael in a Not-So-BatChat Roundup

Armaan Babu and Matthew Lazorwitz — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Gotham City has its own gravity. Sooner or later, everyone is drawn back to it. Sometimes, though, when the protagonistic eye of the Batman is not on them, they get to live lives of their own … and that’s when Not-So-BatChat drops in. This week, we look at Tim Drake’s new solo series as he...

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A Final Farewell (or Two) in Home Sick Pilots #15

Dan Grote and Forrest Hollingsworth — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Everything ends. In fire. In truth. In a lot of house-punching, in the final issue of Home Sick Pilots, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Caspar Wijngaard, lettered by Aditya Bidikar and designed by Tom Muller. Dan Grote: Those motherfuckers got us! They Sixth Sensed us! They last-episode-of-Lost-ed us! They. Are. GhoOoOoOoOosts! Forrest, let’s just...

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Something Something Ghosts of America in Home Sick Pilots #14

Dan Grote and Forrest Hollingsworth — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:00:00 +0000

A haunted battle rages across the West Coast, watched by the whole world … including the world’s ghosts. Let’s hope they don’t get any bright ideas. Or really stupid ones. We’re almost at the end in Home Sick Pilots #14, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Caspar Wijngaard, lettered by Aditya Bidikar and designed by...

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Rage Against the Toilet Machine in Image’s Home Sick Pilots #13

Dan Grote and Forrest Hollingsworth — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Hell on Earth will rise if the final ghost cannot be quieted, which is rather a lot for the Pilots to be managing as a band that struggles with three-chord songs. And yet they persevere in Home Sick Pilots #13, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Caspar Wijngaard, lettered by Aditya Bidikar and designed by...

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You’ve Seen the Movie, Spoiled It Online, Now Read the Comics in BatChat (Text Edition)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 14:00:00 +0000

Batman, Lex Luthor, Abyss and Batman Inc. collide in the conclusion of the “Abyss” storyline in Batman #121, written by Joshua Williamson, drawn by Jorge Molina and Mikel Janin, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup feature, Maps Mizoguchi solves the mystery of her missing classmate in a story written,...

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Go Back to Where It All Began in Home Sick Pilots #12

Dan Grote and Forrest Hollingsworth — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 16:00:00 +0000

The history of the ghosts is laid bare as Rip and Buzz’s hunt for the final missing ghost of the Old James House takes them deep into the past sins of America in Home Sick Pilots #12, written by Dan Watters, drawn by Caspar Wijngaard, lettered by Aditya Bidikar and designed by Tom Muller for...

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Gaze into the Abyss with Psycho-Pirate and the Rest of This Week’s BatChat (Text Edition)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000

The mystery of Abyss and his connection to Batman Incorporated begins to unravel as Batman leads a jailbreak in Batman #120, written by Joshua Williamson, drawn by Jorge Molina and Mikel Janin, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup feature, Maps Mizoguchi learns what is taking children and Batman faces...

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