Legends of the Dark Knight - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:48:12 +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 Legends of the Dark Knight - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: How Are We At Story 700? https://comicsxf.com/2026/04/16/batchat-with-matt-will-how-are-we-at-story-700/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=56559 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...

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]]> 56559 BatChat With Matt & Will: Seven Assassins and a Predator https://comicsxf.com/2025/06/26/batchat-with-matt-will-seven-assassins-and-a-predator/ Thu, 26 Jun 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=53173 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...

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]]> 53173 BatChat With Matt & Will: Batman Vs. Charles E. Cheese (w/ Josh Weil) https://comicsxf.com/2025/05/29/batchat-with-matt-will-batman-vs-charles-e-cheese-w-josh-weil/ Thu, 29 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=52875 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...

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]]> 52875 BatChat With Matt & Will: X Marks the Bat (w/ Adam Reck) https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/16/batchat-with-matt-will-x-marks-the-bat-w-adam-reck/ Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47140 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...

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]]> 47140 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 28: Breaking Sane https://comicsxf.com/2022/03/31/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-28-breaking-sane/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39399 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...

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]]> 39399 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 20: Legends of Legends of the Dark Knight https://comicsxf.com/2022/02/03/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-20-legends-of-legends-of-the-dark-knight/ Thu, 03 Feb 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37773 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...

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]]> 37773 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 Episode 13: Chekhov’s Two-Face https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/16/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-13-chekhovs-two-face/ Thu, 16 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35906 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...

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]]> 35906 No More Tynion on Batman, No More Secret Files, No More Legends in BatChat https://comicsxf.com/2021/11/19/no-more-tynion-on-batman-no-more-secret-files-no-more-legends-in-batchat/ Fri, 19 Nov 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35338 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...

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]]> 35338 Wild Art Swings, a Peek at Peacekeeper-01 and More in BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/22/wild-art-swings-a-peek-at-peacekeeper-01-and-more-in-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34770 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....

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]]> 34770 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 4: The Dark Knight Detective https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/14/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-4-the-dark-knight-detective/ Thu, 14 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34570 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...

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]]> 34570 Nakano’s Hosed and Calendar Man Remembers His Telepathy in BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2021/10/01/nakanos-hosed-and-calendar-man-remembers-his-telepathy-in-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=34223 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...

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]]> 34223 Time Travel! Penguin! Huntress! And More in This Week’s Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/20/time-travel-penguin-huntress-and-more-in-this-weeks-bat-chat/ Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32918 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...

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]]> 32918 Legends’ First Arc Ends and We Dive Deeper into Joker’s Puzzlebox in Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2021/07/23/legends-first-arc-ends-and-we-dive-deeper-into-jokers-puzzlebox-in-bat-chat/ Fri, 23 Jul 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=31690 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...

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]]> 31690 Bat Chat Catches Up with Scooby-Doo, Legends and Joker’s Puzzlebox https://comicsxf.com/2021/06/18/bat-chat-catches-up-with-scooby-doo-legends-and-jokers-puzzlebox/ Fri, 18 Jun 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=29782 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:...

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]]> 29782 We Sigh over Fond Memories of Legends of the Dark Knight in Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2021/05/21/we-sigh-over-fond-memories-of-legends-of-the-dark-knight-in-bat-chat/ Fri, 21 May 2021 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=27941 A classic Batman title makes its return as Batman hunts some of his most famous rogues to stop them from getting their hands on a nerve agent being sold by a mysterious new foe in Legends of the Dark Knight #1, written and pencilled by Darick Robertson, inked by Robertson and Richard P. Clark, colored...

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]]> 27941 The X Spot: Turncoat Bond Slinks His Way to the Top (Again) https://comicsxf.com/2021/04/08/the-x-spot-turncoat-bond-slinks-his-way-to-the-top-again/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 20:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=24592 Would you like to know a lot of the things I hate, like state legislators, Peacock and steak fries? READ ON, FRIENDO.   The Bottom (at the Top) 10. Tribute: Rush Limbaugh. Writers: Don Smith and Michael Frizell, Artist: J.B. Fernandes, Colorist: Simon Wright, Letterer: Wilson Ramos Jr., Publisher: Tidalwave Productions The central thesis of this...

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]]> 24592 The X Spot: Shadow Doctor Leads a Tight Grouping of Solid Books https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/23/the-x-spot-shadow-doctor-leads-a-tight-grouping-of-solid-books/ Tue, 23 Feb 2021 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=21620 In his concurring opinion in 1989’s Texas v. Johnson, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote, “And so great is our commitment to the process that, except in the rare case, we do not pause to express distaste for the result, perhaps for fear of undermining a valued principle that dictates the decision. This is one...

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