Grant Morrison - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:04:03 +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 Grant Morrison - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Fall of the House of Wayne https://comicsxf.com/2026/03/05/batchat-with-matt-will-the-fall-of-the-house-of-wayne/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56159 BatChat arrives at the final arc of Grant Morrison's Batman Incorporated, as well as the next arcs of "No Man's Land" and "Knightquest: The Crusade."

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]]> 56159 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Angel, The Ivy, The Demon Star https://comicsxf.com/2026/01/15/batchat-with-matt-will-the-angel-the-ivy-the-demon-star/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55574 This week, BatChat is returning to the three runs we’ve been following in order. Well, sorta. Yes, we’re reading the next arc of No Man’s Land and the penultimate arc of Grant Morrison’s epic run. But Injustice has been showing signs of severely diminishing returns the past few volumes, and we had something else we’ve...

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]]> 55574 Morrison’s final farewell to superheroes a slight but fun affair in DC/Marvel’s Batman/Deadpool https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/23/batman-deadpool-1/ Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54979 When an old enemy asks Batman for help, the Dark Knight and the Merc with a Mouth find themselves in an insane and absurd jungle full of cartoon ninjas, bizarre ruins and a giant typewriter. What evil mastermind lurks behind the scenes? Who could possibly be the wicked puppeteer who pulls the strings and makes...

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]]> 54979 BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman is Everywhere (w/ Josh Weil) https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/20/batchat-with-matt-will-batman-is-everywhere-w-josh-weil/ Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54923 For a brief, shining moment just before the New 52 rewrote the DC Universe, Batman was everywhere. You might say to me, “Hey, podcast guy, Batman is everywhere now. And he has been since at least 1989, probably since 1966.” But I’m talking in universe here. Grant Morrison had created Batman Incorporated, where Batman travelled...

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]]> 54923 BatChat With Matt & Will: One of the Oldest Jokes https://comicsxf.com/2025/10/09/batchat-with-matt-will-one-of-the-oldest-jokes/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=54427 We’re back following the three runs we’ve been reading in order for a while now. No Man’s Land reaches its midpoint as the Bat family comes home to Gotham and the identity of the new Batgirl is revealed. Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne face their ultimate challenge as they are trapped between Dr. Hurt and...

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]]> 54427 BatChat With Matt & Will: Time Travel Hypnosis (w/ Dan Grote) https://comicsxf.com/2025/08/21/batchat-with-matt-will-time-travel-hypnosis-w-dan-grote/ Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53881 It’s a very special week on BatChat. We have now recorded 200 episodes. 600 stories. It’s a whole lot. And to celebrate, Matt and Will are together in one room, face to face, along with our first fan, our first Patreon backer, Matt’s bestest pal in the whole world, Dan Grote, to read a milestone...

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]]> 53881 BatChat With Matt & Will: Three Batmans, One Mystery https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/05/batchat-with-matt-will-three-batmans-one-mystery/ Thu, 05 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52943 We’re back to our three runs we’re following in order. In “No Man’s Land,” we meet a new character who will be an important part of the Bat Family moving forward. In the Morrison run, we get some side stories in the run up to The Return of Bruce Wayne. And in Injustice, Renee Montoya...

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]]> 52943 BatChat With Matt & Will: There’s Something Funny About Him https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/30/batchat-with-matt-will-theres-something-funny-about-him/ Thu, 30 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51545 It’s always a good time for us to return to the runs that we’re following in order. This time, things go from bad to worse in No Man’s Land, Dick Grayson investigates Wayne Manor for clues to Bruce Wayne’s whereabouts while Damian has a strange encounter with Oberon Sexton, and the magical war in the...

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]]> 51545 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Proper Pronunciation of Constantine https://comicsxf.com/2024/11/14/batchat-with-matt-will-the-proper-pronunciation-of-constantine/ Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50789 It’s been a while, but we’re returning to the three runs that we’re following in order. In No Man’s Land, we take a break from big story revelations for an anthology month of four of shots. In Grant Morrison’s run, Dick Grayson brings Batman’s corpse to England to a Lazarus Pit and learns something unexpected...

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]]> 50789 BatChat With Matt & Will: THE RE-RANKENING! https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/05/batchat-with-matt-will-the-re-rankening/ Thu, 05 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50047 We’ve talked about it for a while, and here it is. This week, Matt and Will each picked three stories that they felt were too low on the Big Board, and they discussed them again and moved them to spots they felt more appropriate. It’s a lot of the creators we talk about regularly, and...

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]]> 50047 BatChat With Matt & Will: Bat to the Future https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/22/batchat-with-matt-will-bat-to-the-future/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49917 Welcome to the world of tomorrow! Like, way tomorrow. Matt McThorn is back, and we are talking about the 853rd century and Grant Morrison’s first DC crossover, DC One Million. It’s a wild, sci-fi epic, which we all know if completely Will’s jam. But you might be surprised as we talk about the core mini-series,...

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]]> 49917 Xavier Files Entry 122: Cassandra Nova https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/07/xavier-files-122-cassandra-nova/ Tue, 07 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48837 That’s right, readers, we’re bringing back the Xavier Files, and this time, you get to help choose who we add to our Mutant Master Rankings. Support ComicsXF on Patreon at the $10-a-month level or higher, and you can request either a new entry to the Files, or an update of an existing file (as most...

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]]> 48837 BatChat With Matt & Will: Jason Todd – Red Headed Stranger https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/11/batchat-with-matt-will-jason-todd-red-headed-stranger/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48518 It’s been a while, but we’re back reading the three series/runs that we have been following (mostly) in order. In “No Man’s Land,” both Batman and Jim Gordon make some choices that definitely won’t come back to bite them on the butt. In the Morrison run, they investigate ethics in vigilantism and Jason Todd’s hair...

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]]> 48518 BatChat With Matt & Will: Weaponized Memories https://comicsxf.com/2024/02/25/batchat-with-matt-will-weaponized-memories/ Sun, 25 Feb 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=48019 Of all of Jack Kirby’s creations at DC, the Fourth World is probably the most well known, the most expansive, and the most ill used by other creators over the years. Some really get the wild cosmic and Shakespearean vibe the King of Comics was putting down. Some don’t and just try to make the...

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]]> 48019 BatChat With Matt & Will: BatChat R.I.P. https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/14/batchat-with-matt-will-batchat-r-i-p/ Thu, 14 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46561 I kind of can’t believe we made it this far, but here it is: episode 100! And for that, we’re hitting one of the last legendary Batman stories we haven’t touched, and one we’ve slowly been building towards for many of these 100 episodes, the culmination of the first act of Grant Morrison’s epic run:...

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]]> 46561 Rereading the Morrison run, Part III: Live, reader, live https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/07/rereading-the-morrison-run-part-iii-live-reader-live/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46507 Click here to read Part I. Click here to read Part II. Sometimes a year’s worth of comic books feels like a day, and sometimes a day feels like a year. Our first two parts of this three-part look back at Grant Morrison’s New X-Men (2001-04) were written and edited before Fall of X (2023)....

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]]> 46507 Rereading the Morrison Run, Part II (of III): There’s a Riot Goin’ On https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/28/morrison-run-part-2/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46391 Click here to read Part One! Welcome back to our three-part look back at the Grant Morrison — and Frank Quitely and John Paul Leon and Phil Jimenez and others — run of New X-Men! From the first arcs — “E Is for Extinction” and its successors, dealing with Cassandra Nova — we’ve seen how...

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]]> 46391 Rereading the Morrison Run, Part I (of III): Nothing Less than Fabulous https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/15/reading-the-morrison-run-part-i-of-iii-nothing-less-than-fabulous/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46267 Modern X-fans — even those who dislike it — agree that the recent era of X-comics, depicting the rise and now fall of the Krakoan nation-state, is a grand, far-reaching change to mutant history. You might say — as several fans and journalists have all but said — that it represents the greatest X-change since...

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]]> 46267 BatChat With Matt & Will: Devil Batman Went Down to Gotham https://comicsxf.com/2023/06/29/batchat-with-matt-will-devil-batman-went-down-to-gotham/ Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45856 We’re back to the three series we’ve been covering arc by arc. This time, Will actually likes a Grant Morrison story in his run on Batman! The Penguin has a rough day in No Man’s Land! And a reasonable number of artists draw an arc of Injustice! It’s a miracle all around! Well, except for...

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]]> 45856 DC Pride Offers One Great Morrison Story, YMMV on Others https://comicsxf.com/2023/06/28/dc-pride-offers-one-great-morrison-story-ymmv-on-others/ Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45848 Three pride specials from both of the Big Two companies, two CXF regulars with a lot to say about them. Welcome to Part 2 of our Pride issue coverage. This time we’re focusing on DC Pride 2023. Check out Part 1 here. Sean: So DC’s Pride special was the obvious winner of Pride 2023, if...

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]]> 45848 BatChat With Matt & Will: Still a Very Uncomfortable Stereotype https://comicsxf.com/2023/06/08/batchat-with-matt-will-still-a-very-uncomfortable-stereotype/ Thu, 08 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45662 They stalk the night. When they have your name, you are as good as dead, so pray that you never draw their attention. They are the League of Assassins. Whether they serve Ra’s al Ghul, his daughter Talia, the Sensei or any other master, the League has been a thorn in the side of Batman...

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]]> 45662 Bat Chat With Matt & Will: The Players On the Other Side https://comicsxf.com/2023/05/25/bat-chat-with-matt-will-the-players-on-the-other-side/ Thu, 25 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45552 Of all superheroes, Batman seems to have spawned more characters that are dark reflections of him than any other. Sure, Superman has Bizarro, and Spider-Man has Venom, but Batman has a legion of the them: Killer Moth, Bane, Hush, Owlman (the Lincoln March one), Wrath, Prometheus. There are enough to fill multiple episodes, so we...

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]]> 45552 BatChat With Matt & Will: Damians of Future Past https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/15/batchat-with-matt-will-damians-of-future-past/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44175 Damian Wayne remains a character who is controversial around these parts; Will can’t stand him, and Matt, well, Damian’s the kid who beat up Tim Drake, so there remains some beef there. But there are all sorts of stories of Damian, and many of them are stories of Damian in possible futures or alternate worlds,...

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]]> 44175 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 48: Alpha Male Plus https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/18/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-48-alpha-male-plus/ Thu, 18 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42523 This week, we’re returning to three series/arcs/runs that we have started in previous episodes. See Batman rub testosterone all over himself in the next arc of Grant Morrisons’ Batman. Witness the Scarecrow play mind games in the second arc of “No Man’s Land.” And gaze in wonder as Alfred beats the ever loving hell out...

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]]> 42523 Philip Blank Wants a Small Story in Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E #1 https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/29/philip-blank-wants-a-small-story-in-agent-of-w-o-r-l-d-e-1/ Wed, 29 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41731 I first read Agent of W.O.R.L.D.E. #1 (along with its second) last year, back when it was called C.H.A.O.S. Agent. At the time, I was finishing up a teaching certificate program with the University of Connecticut (Hartford). Back then, I was working as a student teacher at Eastern Middle School in Riverside, CT. Most days,...

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