Joker - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:13:45 +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 Joker - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: All Ages Thanksgiving 2025 https://comicsxf.com/2025/11/27/batchat-with-matt-will-all-ages-thanksgiving-2025/ Thu, 27 Nov 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=55035 It’s time for our annual tradition here at BatChat, up there with cranberry sauce from a can, stuffing that’s a little too dry and avoiding conversations about politics with your red baseball cap wearing relatives: it’s all ages Thanksgiving. Three stories of Batman for the whole family come in some very different flavors this year:...

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]]> 55035 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Batman of Many Nations https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/31/batchat-with-matt-will-the-batman-of-many-nations/ Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53661 Batman is not just popular here in the USA. As our listeners know, as you are from many countries, people outside America love Batman too. And sometimes we get stories reprinted here in the States that feature Batman that were created in other countries. We’re reading three of those today, one from France, one from...

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]]> 53661 BatChat With Matt & Will: Joker Behind Bars https://comicsxf.com/2025/07/03/batchat-with-matt-will-joker-behind-bars/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53247 The revolving doors of any prison or mental health facility in Gotham City are running jokes, and rightly so; they can’t keep a D-lister like Ratcatcher locked up, let alone someone like the Joker. But they do keep winding up back in custody, so there has to be story potential there, right? This week’s episode...

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]]> 53247 BatChat With Matt & Will: Three Podcasters, Three Jokers (w/ John Wickham) https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/12/batchat-with-matt-will-three-podcasters-three-jokers-w-john-wickham/ Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53017 We’re getting near 200 episodes of this show, and many of those episodes have been experiences where we discover fun, fascinating comics. And then there is this week. Patreon backer and friend (?) of the show John Wickham made his pick for his return, and he decided to pick three stories related to the Joker...

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]]> 53017 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 Joker: Folie a Deux and Deadpool & Wolverine feed an audience screaming for more Funko Pops https://comicsxf.com/2024/10/13/joker-folie-a-deux/ Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:53:36 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50429 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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]]> 50429 Wolverine makes with the stabby-stabby while more Avengers Assemble in our Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2024/09/11/staff-picks-sept11/ Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=50096 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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]]> 50096 BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman Trips Out https://comicsxf.com/2024/08/29/batchat-with-matt-will-batman-trips-out/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49968 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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]]> 49968 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Cop and the Clown https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/23/batchat-with-matt-will-the-cop-and-the-clown/ Thu, 23 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=49028 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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]]> 49028 BatChat With Matt & Will: BatChat: The Movie https://comicsxf.com/2024/05/16/batchat-with-matt-will-batchat-the-movie/ Thu, 16 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48950 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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]]> 48950 Star Wars: The High Republic rises to the top of this week’s Staff Picks https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/08/staff-picks-nov-8/ Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47072 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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]]> 47072 Batman, Joker and two comics that have neither (but rule) in BatChat https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/08/batchat-batman-joker-peacemaker/ Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46521 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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]]> 46521 Batman’s and Joker’s Knight Terrors end in BatChat https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/11/batmans-and-jokers-knight-terrors-end-in-batchat/ Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46242 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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]]> 46242 Joker Gets a Day Job and the Scooby Gang Takes a Cruise in BatChat https://comicsxf.com/2023/07/14/joker-gets-a-day-job-and-the-scooby-gang-takes-a-cruise-in-batchat/ Fri, 14 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46000 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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]]> 46000 Everyone’s Back in Gotham This Week in BatChat https://comicsxf.com/2023/06/09/everyones-back-in-gotham-this-week-in-batchat/ Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45674 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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]]> 45674 BatChat Goes Under the Red Mask as Joker Runs for President https://comicsxf.com/2023/04/07/batchat-goes-under-the-red-mask-as-joker-runs-for-president/ Fri, 07 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45164 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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]]> 45164 BatChat With Matt & Will: For the Love of Laughing Fish https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/16/batchat-with-matt-will-for-the-love-of-laughing-fish/ Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44756 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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]]> 44756 BatChat Isn’t Mad at This Week’s Bat Books, It’s Just Disappointed https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/10/batchat-isnt-mad-at-this-weeks-bat-books-its-just-disappointed/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44708 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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]]> 44708 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Joker’s First Laughs https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/26/batchat-with-matt-will-the-jokers-first-laughs/ Thu, 26 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44600 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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]]> 44600 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 69: Nice https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/12/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-69-nice/ Thu, 12 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44485 So, this is, to quote Will, by far our stupidest episode ever. But it’s episode 69, so Will wanted to go wild with it, and Matt really didn’t want to find a new co-host, so he agreed to this. It’s three Batman stories with panels that have spawned internet memes. Batman/ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

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]]> 44485 Is It an AU, or Is It a Psychic Prison? Either Way, It’s BatChat https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/06/is-it-an-au-or-is-it-a-psychic-prison-either-way-its-batchat/ Fri, 06 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44444 After being blasted by Failsafe, Batman wakes up in a world very different from the Gotham he knows. Batman #131 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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]]> 44444 Batman Goes Space Surfing, and More Joker Stuff, in BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2022/12/09/batman-goes-space-surfing-and-more-joker-stuff-in-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 09 Dec 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44142 It’s the final showdown between Batman and Failsafe in Batman #130, written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup, Batman must confront the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh for the life of the Joker in a story written by Zdarsky, drawn by Leonardo Romero, colored...

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]]> 44142 We’re Playing with a Deck Full of Jokers in BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2022/11/04/were-playing-with-a-deck-full-of-jokers-in-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 04 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43709 Batman makes a last ditch play to stop Failsafe, a battle that takes him from Atlantis to the moon in Batman #129, written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup, the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh fights for control of Batman’s mind during a battle...

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]]> 43709 Failsafe vs. the League, Gotham History and Joker’s Return in BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2022/10/07/failsafe-vs-the-league-gotham-history-and-jokers-return-in-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 07 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43341 As Batman lies beaten by Failsafe, the Justice League comes to his rescue. Or tries to anyway. Batman #128 is written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup, see the origins of the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh in a story written by Zdarsky, drawn...

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]]> 43341 ComicsXF celebrates 30 Years of Batman: The Animated Series! https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/23/comicsxf-celebrates-30-years-of-batman-the-animated-series/ Fri, 23 Sep 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43088 Batman: The Animated Series just turned 30 (soon it’ll be buying a motorcyle and growing a ponytail)! To celebrate, we asked our staff to share their thoughts about their favorite episode of the groundbreaking, fan-favorite series! “Joker’s Favor” by Matt Lazorwitz There’s a particular type of episode of Batman: The Animated Series that I love....

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