Marv Wolfman - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 18 Apr 2024 23:23:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/comicsxf.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/cropped-orange-favicon-2.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Marv Wolfman - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 Betrayal, Bat-Mite and a Birthday Dick in BatChat https://comicsxf.com/2024/04/19/batchat-androbin-worldsfinest-nightwing/ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://comicsxf.com/?p=48645 While Damian and Flatline confront her sister, who it turns out has decided to go into the family business of crime, Batman teams up with Shush to put an end to Man-Bat’s reign of terror. But there is more than one betrayal before this issue is out. Batman & Robin #8 is written by Joshua...

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]]> 48645 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Melty Eye https://comicsxf.com/2023/09/07/batchat-with-matt-will-the-melty-eye/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46497 We’ve done episodes before that look at three versions of one story. But of there’s one story that has seemingly been retold more than any other, it’s the first Batman story, “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.” This week, we’re reading four versions of that story over three issues, plus some other stories in an...

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]]> 46497 BatChat With Matt And Will: Batman Across the Globe https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/10/batchat-with-matt-and-will-batman-across-the-globe/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46224 While Gotham City is an integral part of the Batman mythos, Batman is an international hero, and there are plenty of stories that take Batman out of the grim confines of his home city and out into a wider world. This week, we read three such stories: one a tour of the great cities of...

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]]> 46224 BatChat With Matt & Will: It’s Tim Drake Time! https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/29/batchat-with-matt-will-its-tim-drake-time/ Thu, 29 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43182 This is the one Matt has been waiting for. To tie in with the first issue of his new ongoing series, we’re looking at three stories from the history of the best Robin, and Matt will brook no argument on this one, Tim Drake. See his origin, his return to Gotham from training, and his...

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]]> 43182 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep.12: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze https://comicsxf.com/2021/12/09/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-12-the-daring-young-man-on-the-flying-trapeze/ Thu, 09 Dec 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=35618 With DC continuity a mess of Crises, reboots, Rebirths and New 52s, some stories get rewritten and some stories get retold. Batman’s first year has been rewritten numerous times. But his first meeting with Dick Grayson, the first Robin? That one gets retold, and each time it’s tinkered with just a little. This week, Matt...

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