Jim Starlin - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:16:51 +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 Starlin - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: Classic Covers – Perfect for an Audio Medium https://comicsxf.com/2024/03/21/batchat-with-matt-will-classic-covers-perfect-for-an-audio-medium/ Thu, 21 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48332 Comic books are, by their very nature, a blended medium. They are a synthesis of words and pictures, and the best ones exist in a space where the two are speaking the same language. Podcasting is an aural medium, told entirely through words and sounds. That is all to say that it’s not always easy...

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]]> 48332 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: 40 Years of Jason Todd https://comicsxf.com/2023/03/23/batchat-with-matt-will-40-years-of-jason-todd/ Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45096 I have been having a hard time saying that this month marks the 40th anniversary of the first appearance of Jason Todd. It just doesn’t seem like to could be that long ago, but it absolutely is. And so, to celebrate the anniversary of the angriest Robin (well, Damian does give him some competition), we’re...

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]]> 45096 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 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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