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May 28, 2025
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BatChat With Matt & Will: The World’s Vilest Team!

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin5 months ago5 months ago02 mins

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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Joker: Folie a Deux and Deadpool & Wolverine feed an audience screaming for more Funko Pops

Rob Secundus8 months ago8 months ago021 mins

This is a review of the movie Joker: Folie a Deux. As, in order to be considered for certain review aggregators, I have to give it a numerical score, I award Joker: Folie a Deux 0 out of 3 possible Jokers. Frank Cifaldi, host of the Insert Credit podcast, recently offered the following anecdote from…

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Wolverine makes with the stabby-stabby while more Avengers Assemble in our Staff Picks

Dan Grote9 months ago9 months ago07 mins

Each week, ComicsXF staff offer their recommendations for what to read. New comics come out Wednesdays. See your local comic shop for more info. And if you own a local comic shop and would like to sponsor the CXF weekly Staff Picks, email contact@comicsxf.com. Jake’s pick: Wolverine #1: There’s a killer in the woods, and…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman Trips Out

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin9 months ago9 months ago02 mins

It’s a celebration over here as we hit episode 150! We started out with a theme of anniversary issues, ones that were numbers leading up to 150, so a 50, a 100 and a 150. And we did do that. But somehow, we wound up with a second theme: stories where Batman trips balls. Sometimes…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: The Cop and the Clown

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin1 year ago1 year ago02 mins

The Joker has wreaked unspeakable trauma on Batman over the years of their rivalry. But there is one man who he has possibly hurt as much, if not more: Jim Gordon. The Joker and Gordon’s relationship goes back as far and Joker and Batman’s, and Joker has often focused on Gordon. This week, we look…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: BatChat: The Movie

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin1 year ago1 year ago02 mins

For those of you out there who back the BatChat Patreon, you have heard Matt & will talk about all manner of Batman media: movies, episodes of animated series and live action TV, narrative podcasts. And this week, we’re taking that energy, but swapping it around so we can talk about the comic adaptations of…

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Star Wars: The High Republic rises to the top of this week’s Staff Picks

Dan Grote2 years ago2 years ago06 mins

Tony’s pick: Star Wars: The High Republic #1: A year after the destruction of Starlight Beacon, Marchion Ro and the Nihil stand victorious. The once mighty Jedi are outclassed, and the Republic is on its knees. On the edges of the galactic frontier, Jedi Master Keeve Trennis leads a desperate assault against an invading force….

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Batman, Joker and two comics that have neither (but rule) in BatChat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago023 mins

The Gotham War is in full swing, and Batman is giving no quarter. The Bat family is siding against him, Catwoman is doing her best to maintain her word on protecting her crew and new players are moving into place. Batman #137 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey…

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Batman’s and Joker’s Knight Terrors end in BatChat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago022 mins

Deep in his own dreamscape, Batman travels to find what will allow him to free himself and fight Insomnia. But what waits for him behind that fearsome and locked door? Knight Terrors: Batman #2 is written by Joshua Williamson, drawn by Guillem March, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Troy Peteri. Batman is dead,…

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Joker Gets a Day Job and the Scooby Gang Takes a Cruise in BatChat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago019 mins

The S.S. Silver St. Cloud is setting out for its maiden voyage to test a new navigational system developed by WayneTech. Bruce Wayne has invited Mystery Inc. to join him on the cruise and to help solve the mysteries he has set up. But when real pirates show up, it’s up to Batman, Scooby-Doo and…

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Everyone’s Back in Gotham This Week in BatChat

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago021 mins

Batman is back in his own Gotham, but things have changed. And so has he. Is he really ready to step right into the role again, even after everything that has happened? Batman #136 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Belen Ortega, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup,…

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BatChat Goes Under the Red Mask as Joker Runs for President

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago022 mins

Batman comes mask to mask with Red Mask, the man behind this alternate Gotham, and learns the full extent of his plan in Batman #134, written by Chip Zdarsky, penciled by Mike Hawthorne, inked by Adriano Di Benedetto, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup, Tim Drake makes a quick…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: For the Love of Laughing Fish

Matthew Lazorwitz2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

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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BatChat Isn’t Mad at This Week’s Bat Books, It’s Just Disappointed

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago023 mins

After being blasted by Failsafe, Batman wakes up in a world very different from the Gotham he knows. Batman #132 is written by Chip Zdarsky, penciled by Mike Hawthorne, inked by Adriano Di Benedetto, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup, Tim Drake is sure that Batman is alive and…

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BatChat With Matt & Will: The Joker’s First Laughs

Matthew Lazorwitz and Will Nevin2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

A sinister laugh over the airwaves. A threat. And death with a rictus grin. Those are aspects that each version of Batman’s first encounter with his greatest foe, the Joker, have in common. But as with many tales from the Golden Age of comics, this is a story that he been told and retold numerous…

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