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BatChat With Matt & Will: Villains Month- Black Mask

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin7 months ago7 months ago02 mins

Black Mask was Hush before Hush: a villains obsessed not with Batman but with Bruce Wayne, seeking to bring down Bruce for childhood grudges. But over the years he has evolved into a more sadistic figure. As villains month nears its end, we read three stories featuring Roman Sionis: his first appearance, his return in…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Villains Month- Killer Croc

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin7 months ago7 months ago02 mins

Killer Croc is a character who has evolved a great deal over his time, and that pun is only half unintended. He has been a mobster, a monster and an anti-hero. This week, for Villains Month, we look at three different interpretations of Croc. In one, he’s a barely human monster running from humanity. In…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Subtle As a Bag of Hammers

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin11 months ago11 months ago02 mins

Batman works outside the law pretty much all the time. And while he often runs afoul of civic authorities in Gotham City, it’s surprising how rarely he winds up in the crosshairs of the feds (well, we’re just starting Absolute Power in the main line, but again, exception that proves the rule). But it has…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: He Ate My Sheep-Snakes!

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

It’s time to say goodbye to the old year and ring in the new one with three new takes on Batman in this year’s Elseworlds episode! Now granted, one of these Batmans is pretty familiar and one is an old Batman, but one is certainly very different. And hey, it’s tradition, so there we go….

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Super Skunk in Gotham (w/ Abigale Heartbalm)

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

It’s another Patreon request, as Abigale Heartbalm returns. She wanted to talk about the original Venom story, and after we realized she meant the Legends of the Dark Knight arc about the super steroid and not a DC/Marvel crossover we didn’t remember, it was decided that this week’s theme would be Batman and drugs. Venom…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: He’s Naked. And Greased?

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

We recorded this episode mere days before the Will’s birthday, and so it was up to Will to pick the stories. So he satisfied his curiosity about the story where Scarecrow kills his dean, adds in some more Moench and Jones and closes a narrative loop for the podcast. The results for the Big Board…

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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. 34: 100 Stories Down…

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

Hey look at that! They said it couldn’t be done, but we have actually gotten up to 100 stories on the big board! To celebrate, Matt & Will just… picked stuff they wanted to talk about. So this week we finish the Vampire Batman trilogy, we go back to the world of The Long Halloween…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 19: So It’s Come to This, a BatChat Sequels Show

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago02 mins

It only took us 19 episodes to swing back to ground we’ve already tread; it’s not like there are 80 years of completely unrelated Batman stories to talk about. But this is our podcast, and we’ll do what we like (unless you back us on Patreon, and then we’ll do what you want). Anyway, this…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 11: Don’t Fear the Unicorns and Bunnies

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin3 years ago3 years ago03 mins

“Fear State” wraps up in the monthly Bat comics this week, so Matt and Will are reading three stories that feature the mastermind behind the most recent Batman crossover: Jonathan Crane, the Scarecrow. See him be whimsical, see him be pathetic, see him be epic. And find out which three of these stories features the…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.9: Will’s Art Picks

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

Will takes the reins this week, with a little ill advised help from Matt’s knowledge of 90s Batman stories. Will picked three stories that he figured would have art he’d love and, well, two out of three ain’t bad. Six Fingers (Legends of the Dark Knight V.1 #85-88 [Digital]) Chasing Clay (Batman V.1 #550) Batman:…

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BatChat With Matt & Will Ep. 6: Spooky Books- The BatChat Marry/F***/Kill Episode

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin4 years ago4 years ago02 mins

Just in time for Halloween, BatChat takes on three tales of Batman mixing it up with the supernatural. We have vampires, we have immortals, we have werewolves, and we have the scariest thing of all: a new worst story on the list! Listen in to hear what story it is, and hear Matt get so…

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