Matt Wagner - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:36:02 +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 Matt Wagner - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 WMQ&A Episode 280: Dracula, motherf***ers with Matt Wagner & Kelley Jones https://comicsxf.com/2023/10/31/wmqa-280-matt-wagner-kelley-jones/ Tue, 31 Oct 2023 12:30:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=47004 WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast · WMQ&A Episode 280: Dracula, motherf***ers with Matt Wagner & Kelley Jones Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones join the show to talk about their Kickstarter campaign for Dracula Vol. 1: The Impaler. You can listen to WMQ&A: The ComicsXF Interview Podcast on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible and...

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]]> 47004 BatChat With Matt & Will: Trinity https://comicsxf.com/2023/07/27/batchat-with-matt-will-trinity/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46071 Welcome to the first episode of our new Oppenheimer podcast. This first episode investigates how director Christopher Nolan’s film deals with the Trinity Nuclear Test. What? It’s still a Batman podcast? It’s about Batman meeting Superman and Wonder Woman, the other members of DC’s trinity? OK, I guess that’s cool too. Be sure to check...

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]]> 46071 Bat Chat With Matt & Will: The Players On the Other Side https://comicsxf.com/2023/05/25/bat-chat-with-matt-will-the-players-on-the-other-side/ Thu, 25 May 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=45552 Of all superheroes, Batman seems to have spawned more characters that are dark reflections of him than any other. Sure, Superman has Bizarro, and Spider-Man has Venom, but Batman has a legion of the them: Killer Moth, Bane, Hush, Owlman (the Lincoln March one), Wrath, Prometheus. There are enough to fill multiple episodes, so we...

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]]> 45552 BatChat With Matt And Will: Hugo Strange’s Monsters https://comicsxf.com/2023/02/09/batchat-with-matt-and-will-hugo-stranges-monsters/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44705 Hugo Strange is one of Batman’s first recurring nemeses. And when Strange appears, he often brings with him his Monster Men, evil science experiments that Strange uses for his twisted plans. This week, in another thrice told tale, we see three versions of Batman confronting Strange and his creatures. The Giants of Hugo Strange (Batman...

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]]> 44705 BatChat With Matt & Will: Three Monks Walk Into a Batman Story https://comicsxf.com/2023/01/05/batchat-with-matt-will-three-monks-walk-into-a-batman-story/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=44418 One of the earliest foes that Batman ever faced was the vampire known as The Monk who, at the end of his first storyline, Batman killed. With a gun. It was the Golden Age. But death has never kept a comic book character down, and with alternate Earths and reboot, The Monk has returned in...

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]]> 44418 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 A Week of Short Stories Gives Many Visions of Superman https://comicsxf.com/2021/08/21/a-week-of-short-stories-gives-many-visions-of-superman/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=32938 Yeah, you knew this was coming. This week, on Superman & The Authority #2, it’s an assemble-the-team montage of sorts, as Superman and Manchester Black bring their world’s best, brightest and most dangerously effective team together in their efforts to make the world a better place. Written by Grant Morrison, drawn by Mikel Janín, Fico...

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