Frank Miller - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:04:12 +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 Frank Miller - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman and the Origins of Christmas https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/25/batchat-with-matt-will-batman-and-the-origins-of-christmas/ Thu, 25 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55393 Happy holidays to all! As is our tradition, and as we aren’t going to run out any time soon, the week of Christmas we read three stories of the holidays in Gotham. One is a little holiday kinda-noir from Bat legends Denny O’Neil and Frank Miller, one is a perplexing animated series style Brave and...

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]]> 55393 BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman Meets Superman for the First Time! Again. (w/ John Wickham) https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/04/batchat-with-matt-will-batman-meets-superman-for-the-first-time-again-w-john-wickham/ Thu, 04 Apr 2024 12:30:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48448 The law of diminishing returns is often true. It’s like that movie with Michael Keaton, Multiplicity (See, already brought it around to Batman!), the more times you tell a story, the more diluted or off it becomes. We have seen this proven wrong a few times: the newest versions of the Monk, the Monster Men,...

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]]> 48448 BatChat With Matt & Will: Intercompany Crossovers (w/ Tony Thornley) https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/08/batchat-with-matt-will-intercompany-crossovers-w-tony-thornley/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44134 Fellow ComicsXF writer Tony Thornley joins us this week just in time for the new Batman/Spawn crossover to talk about other times that Batman has met characters from across the comic book omniverse. Batman meets alien hunters, an arachnid themed hero and the hellspawn he’ll be meeting again. Intercompany crossovers are a weird and wild...

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]]> 44134 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 35: Two Deaths and One Good Day For Jason Todd https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/19/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-35-two-deaths-and-one-good-day-for-jason-todd/ Thu, 19 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40843 Jason Todd is probably the unluckiest Robin (with apologies to Stephanie Brown): seemingly orphaned, lived on the streets, taken in by Batman only to be killed by the Joker only to be resurrected as a homicidal vigilante. But for decades, it was Jason’s death, not his life, that defined him as a character and added...

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]]> 40843 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 2: Endings https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/30/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-2-endings/ Thu, 30 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34189 BatChat is back for episode 2, and it’s the final episode! OK, no it’s not, but it is focusing on three tales of Batman’s possible final days. The Dark Knight Returns (Batman: The Dark Knight Returns #1-4) Some of These Days (Batman Annual V.3 #2) The Last Batman Story-? (Batman V.1 #300) If you’d like,...

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]]> 34189 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.1: Beginnings https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/23/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-1-beginnings/ Thu, 23 Sep 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33956 Did you ever listen to ComicsXF Editor-In-Chief Zack Jenkins and his co-host Adam Reck’s podcast, Battle of the Atom, and think, “This is great, but you know what it needs? Batman.” Well, our primary DC Editor Matt Lazorwitz did, and he grabbed his regular writing partner on the site’s weekly Bat-title round-up, Will Nevin, and...

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