JM DeMatteis - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:23:31 +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 JM DeMatteis - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat beats the Imp Killer, returns to ’89 and seeks vengeance for Robin https://comicsxf.com/2024/07/19/batchat-worldsfinest-echoes-robinlives/ Fri, 19 Jul 2024 12:23:27 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49640 The Dynamic Duo and the Man of Steel are entering their final battle with the 6th dimensional Imp Killer, but Batman has been turned into a puppet! Bat-Mite and Mr. Mxyzptlk have to step up and gather some additional help, or things will end poorly. But who will wind up sacrificing themselves to stop this...

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]]> 49640 BatChat With Matt & Will: JLI- Bwah-Hah-Huh? https://comicsxf.com/2024/01/04/batchat-with-matt-will-jli-bwah-hah-huh/ Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47571 The Justice League International era of the mid-to-late 80s was a sea change for the Justice League franchise. While there were still superheroics, the book became grounded in character based humor; the series was basically a workplace sitcom. And early in the run, Batman was a regular member, basically the grouchy boss who couldn’t put...

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]]> 47571 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 28: Breaking Sane https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/31/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-28-breaking-sane/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39399 When you back the podcast at the Jason Todd tier of $10 a month, you get to select a story for Matt & Will to read. As much as they don’t want to read it. And this week? We get our first Jason Todd tier request. Previous guest of the show, co-host of the other...

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]]> 39399 Justice League Infinity #4 Features Darkseid… in Love? https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/07/justice-league-infinity-4-features-darkseid-in-love/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34462 The Multiverse is breaking, and heroes are being randomly scattered across unfamiliar universes. In one world, the Diana we know finds herself in a world destroyed by Darkseid – but how did it come to this? Justice League Infinity #4 is written by J.M. DeMatteis and James Tucker, drawn by Ethan Beavers, colored by Nick...

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]]> 34462 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 3: A Batman By Any Other Name https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/07/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-3-a-batman-by-any-other-name/ Thu, 07 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34382 There are more comics about alternate versions of Batman than of any other hero in the DC Universe, if not all of comics. And so, this week, Matt and Will are going to take a trip through three tales of Dark Knights of different eras and origins. Batman: Gotham by Gaslight Batman: Holy Terror Superman:...

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]]> 34382 Justice League Infinity #3 Is a Multiversal Roller Coaster https://comicsxf.com/2021/09/10/justice-league-infinity-3-is-a-multiversal-roller-coaster/ Fri, 10 Sep 2021 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=33565 Chaos escalates as the Multiverse threatens to tear itself apart, leaving the superheroes of all worlds desperately trying to play catch up. President Superman joins the fight, after being ripped from Earth-D, while on the Prime Earth what’s left of the League works to identify the cause of all this Multiversal madness – and launch...

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]]> 33565 Justice League Infinity #2 Puts Two Supermen in the Spotlight https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/08/justice-league-infinity-2/ Sun, 08 Aug 2021 18:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32514 Amazo’s existential crisis is now one that’s on multiple Earths! As Superman trades places with a Nazi version of himself, the Justice League tries to figure out just what’s going on. Answers lie far across their universe, however – and as Amazo’s mind unravels, the very fabric of reality threatens to do the same! Justice...

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]]> 32514 Justice League Infinity #1 Grants a New Life to a Classic Cartoon https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/10/justice-league-infinity-1-grants-a-new-life-to-a-classic-cartoon/ Sat, 10 Jul 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=30727 The DCAU is given new life, as everyone’s favorite Justice League animated series continues its adventures in an all new comic series. While the League deals with Apokaliptic unrest from Darkseid’s disappearance, in the farthest reaches of the cosmos, something is luring Amazo to itself, taking advantage of his existential fears – but to what...

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