Gotham Academy - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:18:17 +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 Gotham Academy - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: Youth of Gotham Unite https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/02/batchat-with-matt-will-youth-of-gotham-unite/ Thu, 02 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54332 Gotham Academy returns to comic shops this week with a new prequel series, so we’re reading three stories about teens in Gotham. Tim Drake faces a major challenge with his first confrontation with the man who killed the previous Robin, the Joker. Duke Thomas is recruited into the We Are Robin movement in a Gotham...

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]]> 54332 Class is back in session: DC’s Gotham Academy returns this October https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/15/gotham-academy-first-year/ Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:15:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53385 We live in the age of reboots. Is there a TV series from the ’80s and ’90s that does not have some new version on a streaming service or even a network (I’m not taking shots here, just stating facts. I’m an old, and have been enjoying the Matlock reboot starring Kathy Bates). But as...

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]]> 53385 BatChat With Matt & Will: A Tragic Lack of Women Writers https://comicsxf.com/2025/03/27/batchat-with-matt-will-a-tragic-lack-of-women-writers/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52082 Mainstream superhero comics have been a boys’ club since their invention, and while things have gotten better in recent years, it is telling how few Batman comics have women writers, outside the works of Devin Grayson and Mariko Tamaki. For the last week of March, of Women’s History Month, we’re reading three stories by other...

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]]> 52082 BatChat With Matt & Will: BatChat Goes to School (w/ Abigale Heartbalm) https://comicsxf.com/2023/05/04/batchat-with-matt-will-batchat-goes-to-school-w-abigale-heartbalm/ Thu, 04 May 2023 12:55:57 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45377 Wouldn’t it be great to go to school in Gotham City? Well, it probably wouldn’t be scarier than anywhere else. This week, Mrs. Abigale Heartbalm, Esq. stops by, and we talk Gotham Academy and two other school centric Batman related stories. We talk about how Gotham Academy successfully brings manga tropes to Gotham, question how...

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