John Ostrander - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:23:00 +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 John Ostrander - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: Happy Birthday, John Ostrander https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/18/batchat-with-matt-will-happy-birthday-john-ostrander/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48626 This week, one of the defining writers of DC Comics in the 80s and early 90s will turn 75 years old. John Ostrander has a storied career over more than 40 years. He created an indy hit with his creator owned mercenary, Grimjack, and wrote some of the best received Star Wars comics ever. His...

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]]> 48626 BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman the Jobber (w/ John Wickham) https://comicsxf.com/2024/01/11/batchat-with-matt-will-batman-the-jobber-w-john-wickham/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47661 Last week, we talked about the Justice League International. This week, Dick Grayson Tier Patreon backer John Wickham joins us to talk about the other late 80s DC team that spun out of the Legends event, the Suicide Squad. And while the Justice League was mostly comedy, the Squad is not. We read three very...

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]]> 47661 BatChat With Matt & Will: From Batgirl to Oracle https://comicsxf.com/2023/04/20/batchat-with-matt-will-from-batgirl-to-oracle/ Thu, 20 Apr 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45259 From her first appearance, Barbara Gordon was a dynamic and exciting addition to the Batman family. Brilliant, tough and strong willed, Barbara has faced more adversity than most superheroes, dealing with trauma and coming out stronger for it. This episode, we read three stories that trace her evolution from the dominoed dare doll, Batgirl, to...

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]]> 45259 BatChat With Matt & Will: Bat Hound Turns Into the Batmobile https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/03/batchat-with-matt-will-bat-hound-turns-into-the-batmobile/ Thu, 03 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43678 So, this week, it’s Matt’s birthday recording, and as opposed to Will, who picked stuff based on gut instinct (and who must have had a stomach ache based on what we got), Matt went with three stories from his younger years that he remembers really liking. The results are considerably better. We get some Grant...

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]]> 43678 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 Get spurred to read these 4 great comics Westerns https://comicsxf.com/2020/07/30/get-spurred-to-read-these-4-great-comics-westerns/ Thu, 30 Jul 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7283 High noon in a desert town. Two men face off, hands on the butts of their holstered revolvers. [Grote’s note: Heh heh, butts.] A blur of motion, a crack of gunfire, and one (or both) falls. This scene is a hallmark of the American Western, a genre that was popular in comics throughout the 1950s...

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