Jock - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:36:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Jock - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 The end of Bane and the beginning of Joker in DC’s Absolute Batman #14 and #15 https://comicsxf.com/2025/12/12/the-end-of-bane-and-the-beginning-of-joker-in-dcs-absolute-batman-14-and-15/ Fri, 12 Dec 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55246 In this corner, we have Gotham’s new Dark Knight, the Batman! And in this corner, we have the man who wants to break him, Bane! Only one is coming out of this fight on two legs. Absolute Batman #14 is written by Scott Snyder, drawn by Nick Dragotta, colored by Frank Martin and lettered by...

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]]> 55246 BatChat With Matt & Will: The World’s Vilest Team! https://comicsxf.com/2025/01/09/batchat-with-matt-will-the-worlds-vilest-team/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=51333 Batman has teamed up with pretty much every hero in the DC Universe because he’s, well, Batman. He’s also teamed up with many a villain. We’ve read stories where he worked with Lex Luthor, Ra’s al Ghul and Bane. But Patreon backer Ross Holmes very specifically wanted us to read a story where he teams...

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]]> 51333 BatChat With Matt & Will: Gordon’s Mirror https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/03/batchat-with-matt-will-gordons-mirror/ Thu, 03 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46179 Commissioner James Gordon has existed literally as long as Batman has, having appeared in Detective Comics #27, the first appearance of Batman. Over the years, he has changed and evolved as many comic characters have. Originally mostly a deskbound civil servant who was just here to turn on the Bat Signal, Gordon has become an important...

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]]> 46179 The Ram V era of ‘Tec Begins as One Dark Knight Ends in BatChat https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/29/the-ram-v-era-of-tec-begins-as-one-dark-knight-ends-in-batchat/ Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42268 A new creative team takes over in Detective Comics #1,062 as “Gotham Nocturne” begins. Batman encounters a new supernatural threat and begins to feel something happening to him, and something dark rising. The lead story is written by Ram V, drawn by Rafael Albuquerque, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered by Ariana Maher. In the...

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]]> 42268 BatChat Goes Beyond the White Knight and into a Shadow War https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/01/batchat-goes-beyond-the-white-knight-and-into-a-shadow-war/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39603 It’s the future of Gotham. Bruce Wayne remains in jail. The GTO is now a fascist Bat-themed police force. And Terry McGinnis works for … Derek Powers? BatChat returns to the Murphyverse for Batman: Beyond the White Knight #1, written and drawn by Sean Murphy, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered by AndWorld Design.  Ra’s...

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]]> 39603 Find out What Comic Broke Matt in This Week’s BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/24/find-out-what-comic-broke-matt-in-this-weeks-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 24 Dec 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=36584 Looks like we oopsed up and called it too early before, but this time it’s really the last issue of the new volume of Legends of the Dark Knight. This issue features two shorts:  “The Ghost and the Knight,” written by Che Grayson, drawn by Belen Ortega, colored by Alejandro Sanchez and lettered by Aditya...

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]]> 36584 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.8: One Angry Batman https://comicsxf.com/2021/11/11/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-8-one-angry-batman/ Thu, 11 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35203 Batman may be the world’s greatest detective and martial artist, but he isn’t infallible, as much as some sections of fandom want you to believe. And this week, we look at three stories where Batman loses in very different ways. Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia Superheavy (Batman V.2 #41-50) Cold Days (Batman V.3 #51-53) If you...

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