When I, Matt, came to Will in the waning days of pandemic lockdown with the idea to this podcast, legally completely unrelated to Battle of the Atom, a podcast I may or may not have mainlined 300-ish episodes of during the pandemic, I figured we’d goof around for a bit, and maybe get in about…
Doug Moench wrote Batman stories for about a decade over the course of his runs on the character. And while his Bat work is probably best associated with his collaboration with Kelley Jones, generally his best known collaborator is penciller Paul Gulacy, with whom he defined Shang-Chi over at Marvel. That isn’t to say he…
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight was a title like no other at the time, with its rotating creative teams of big name creators. As the series progressed, some of the creative teams featured less well known creators, but the series always tried to do something different, even if some themes came up over and…
We’re comics fans, so we all love a crossover, right? So why shouldn’t that expand to our podcasts? It’s ComicsXF podcast crossover week, so Matt is joined by Battle of the Atom host Adam Reck to talk about three Batman stories from creators whose work are favorites on BotA. John Francis Moore moves out of…
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…
Wow, we’ve made it to 20 episodes! To celebrate, Matt and Will are looking at three stories from three volumes of one of their self-confessed favorite series, the legendary (see what I did there) anthology, Legends of the Dark Knight. Will they gush about the original volume? Will they complain about DC not giving the…
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…
Sometimes it’s hard to judge a story. Sometimes you might need to… flip a coin. Yes, that is a labored wordplay to get to something to tie into this week’s subject, Batman’s (possibly) second greatest foe, former district attorney Harvey Dent, best known as Two-Face. Fortunately, these stories didn’t require any coin tosses for their…
The main plot of “Fear State” wraps up as the Bat family takes the fight to Simon Saint while two Ivys come together and Batman has a final throwdown with Peacekeeper-01 in Batman #117, with a lead story written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton…
Miracle Molly helps Batman discover another facet of Scarecrow’s master plan, Peacekeeper-01 is taken by Scarecrow to set up his endgame and Simon Saint picks a new target in Batman #115, with a lead story written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Bengal and Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles….
There are many ways to describe Batman. Superhero. Martial Artist. Scientist. Adventurer. But for your hosts, Matt & Will, one beats all the rest: Detective. This week, we look at three stories that have a theme of Batman as the Dark Knight Detective. Blades (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #32-34) The Doomsday Book (Detective…
Welcome back to BatChat! In Detective Comics #1,043, Mayor Nakano comes under fire in a story written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Aditya Bidikar. Meanwhile, Deb Donovan and Red Hood’s investigation reaches its end in the backup written by Matthew Rosenberg, drawn by Darick Robertson, colored…
In Batman Secret Files: Clownhunter #1, Clownhunter continues his quest to, well, hunt clowns, only to find he isn’t as prepared as he thinks in a story written by Ed Brisson, drawn by Rosi Kampi, colored by Andrew Dalhouse and lettered by Simon Bowland. A bidding war at an auction house between Bruce Wayne and…
It’s catch-up week here at Bat Chat. With none of the main-continuity Bat titles dropping, we’ll be discussing three out-of-continuity digital first tales: two released physically in the past couple weeks, and one that is still digital for a couple more months. The inaugural arc of the new volume of Legends of the Dark Knight…
It’s catch-up week here at Bat Chat. With none of the main continuity Bat titles dropping, we’ll be discussing three out-of-continuity digital first tales: two released physically in the past couple weeks, and one that is still digital for a couple more months. The annual Gotham Dog Show has two special guest judges this year:…