Jim Aparo - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 05 Mar 2025 02:33:00 +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 Jim Aparo - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: Raining Wildcats and Dogs https://comicsxf.com/2025/03/06/batchat-with-matt-will-raining-wildcats-and-dogs/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51887 I have a soft spot for Wildcat, the Golden Age hero, member of the JSA, and trainer of heroes. And he has a connection to the Bat family, having trained more than one member. So this week we’re reading a perfectly whacky issue of Brave and the Bold as only Bob Haney could write it,...

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]]> 51887 BatChat With Matt & Will: Rowing the Amazon in a Cadillac https://comicsxf.com/2024/01/25/batchat-with-matt-will-rowing-the-amazon-in-a-cadillac/ Thu, 25 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47768 Ah, my sweet summer children, let me tell you of a time called the early 90s. It was a time of hope. It was a time of questionable fashion. And it was a time when there were only three monthly Batman family titles, and one of them very rarely interacted with the others. This week,...

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]]> 47768 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Melty Eye https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/07/batchat-with-matt-will-the-melty-eye/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46497 We’ve done episodes before that look at three versions of one story. But of there’s one story that has seemingly been retold more than any other, it’s the first Batman story, “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.” This week, we’re reading four versions of that story over three issues, plus some other stories in an...

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]]> 46497 BatChat With Matt & Will: For the Love of Laughing Fish https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/16/batchat-with-matt-will-for-the-love-of-laughing-fish/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44756 Hey look, it’s Valentine’s week! And since Grant Morrison once called Batman a, “hairy chested love god,” who are we to argue? That means it’s time for three tales of the Dark Knight and romance! Strange Apparitions (Detective Comics V.1 #471-476) The Return of Scarface (Batman V.1 #475-476, Detective Comics V.1 #642) Perchance… (JLA #90)...

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]]> 44756 BatChat With Matt & Will: It’s Tim Drake Time! https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/29/batchat-with-matt-will-its-tim-drake-time/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43182 This is the one Matt has been waiting for. To tie in with the first issue of his new ongoing series, we’re looking at three stories from the history of the best Robin, and Matt will brook no argument on this one, Tim Drake. See his origin, his return to Gotham from training, and his...

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]]> 43182 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 50: Live & In Person Anniversary Spctacular! https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/01/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-50-live-in-person-anniversary-spctacular/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42675 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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]]> 42675 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.45: This is an Anti-Discourse Comic (w/ Rob Secundus) https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/28/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-45-this-is-an-anti-discourse-comic-w-rob-secundus/ Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42241 Batman has a complicated relationship with religion. He is a rationalist living in a world with real angels and demons. So what happens when Batman intersects with religion? Well, we don’t really answer that specific question. But we do have three stories where Batman confronts people and creatures with specific religious ties. And we’re joined...

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]]> 42241 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 40: The Breaking of the Bat https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/23/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-40-the-breaking-of-the-bat/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41607 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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]]> 41607 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 Ep. 32: Is There a Single Likeable Character In This Book? https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/28/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-32-is-there-a-single-likeable-character-in-this-book/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40355 As The Batman is now streaming on HBO Max, Matt and Will thought it was time to look at one of the stories that served as a prime inspiration for this year’s blockbuster Bat movie- Batman: Earth One. And to go with it? Two other stories of Batman’s origins and early years. Batman: Earth One...

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