Elseworlds - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:00:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Elseworlds - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: A Scumbag Bruce Wayne https://comicsxf.com/2026/01/01/batchat-with-matt-will-a-scumbag-bruce-wayne/ Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55439 It’s the start of a new year again, and so, as we do every year, it’s time to look at some new visions of Batman in a handful of Elseworlds. We’ve got a pulpy adventure of Batman and Superman, the Bat-pirate Leatherwing sailing the seven seas and an issue of the Batman Chronicles anthology with...

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]]> 55439 BatChat With Matt & Will: For Want of a Nail, the Podcast Was Lost https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/02/batchat-with-matt-will-for-want-of-a-nail-the-podcast-was-lost/ Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51262 It’s the New Year’s week, and if you’ve been listening to the podcast, you know what that means: New Year, New Batman. That’s right, it’s three more Elseworlds. We have Nosferatu (which is strangely more an adaptation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari than Nosferatu), The Nail (which is more a Marvel-style What If? than...

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]]> 51262 BatChat With Matt & Will: New Year, New Batman Golden Age Edition https://comicsxf.com/2023/12/28/batchat-with-matt-will-new-year-new-batman-golden-age-edition/ Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47535 It’s the New Year, and so here at BatChat we like to look at different versions of Batman at this time, so we’re going back into Elseworlds territory. But this year, it’s a very specific type of Elseworld: the historical Elseworld, ones transplanting DC heroes and concepts into bygone days. And specifically we’re looking at...

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]]> 47535 BatChat With Matt & Will: Elseworlds of Horror https://comicsxf.com/2023/06/01/batchat-with-matt-will-elseworlds-of-horror/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45597 The beauty of DC’s Elseworlds concept, rather than a more traditional What If? or imaginary story, is the variety it opened up. This wasn’t a simple small recasting of one event, butterfly effect style, but creators imaginations could go wild and choose different times, places, and even twist the most basic concepts of the character...

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