Nick Derington - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 03 Aug 2022 19:40:54 +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 Nick Derington - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep. 46: Batman Loves Dinosaurs https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/04/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-46-batman-loves-dinosaurs/ Thu, 04 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=42343 So, Matt spent most of his long drive into work trying to come up with a Batman version of the Green Lantern oath, but he’s not a poet, so instead we’re admitting that here. This week, we’re reading three stories where Batman wields a power ring. One of these books is far and away the...

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]]> 42343 Too Many Plots to Wrap up with One Issue Left in The Next Batman https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/05/too-many-plots-to-wrap-up-with-one-issue-left-in-the-next-batman/ Fri, 05 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=14526 Welcome back to Bat Chat with Matt (and Will!). Batman is on the run from The Magistrate, Duke Thomas makes a speech and the Arkham Knight makes a statement in Future State: The Next Batman #3 with: “The Next Batman,” written by John Ridley, drawn by Laura Braga with breakdowns by Nick Derington, colored by...

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]]> 14526 Fox Family Drama and Some Great Art in Future State: The Next Batman #1 https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/08/fox-family-drama-and-some-great-art-in-future-state-the-next-batman-1/ Fri, 08 Jan 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=12167 Welcome back to Bat Chat with Matt (and Will!). It’s a new year and a whole new Gotham City … of the future. Gotham is now a fascist police state controlled by private security called The Magistrate. Masks are illegal. Batman, whoever he may be, is as much an outlaw as the villains he once...

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]]> 12167 A Real Love Fest: Examining DC Young Animal’s Doom Patrol https://comicsxf.com/2020/07/31/a-real-love-fest-examining-dc-young-animals-doom-patrol/ Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7244 “We’re made up of all the things that happen to us. The good things fill your heart. But the bad things, and what we choose to do with them, really make us who we are,” says Casey Brinke, cosmic EMT, in Doom Patrol #5. “I’ll keep choosing love.”  And then she lights the match that...

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