Sean Gordon Murphy - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Wed, 16 Aug 2023 18:32:27 +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 Sean Gordon Murphy - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: A Biblically Accurate Angel (w/ Robert Secundus) https://comicsxf.com/2023/08/17/batchat-with-matt-will-a-biblically-accurate-angel-w-robert-secundus/ Thu, 17 Aug 2023 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=46295 BatChat religion correspondent Robert “Bobby TwoBucks” Secundus is back this week, and he’s brining with him Jean-Paul Valley, the vigilante and sometimes fanatic known as Azrael. We chart the journey of Azrael from the beginning of his ongoing to his most recent mini-series, with a stop off in an alternate world that is… something. We...

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]]> 46295 Al Ghul Storytime, Murphy’s Blight and a Podcast Turned Comic in BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2022/09/30/al-ghul-storytime-murphys-blight-and-a-podcast-turned-comic-in-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43226 Detective Comics #1,064 sees a fable told by mother to son, Bruce Wayne visit a doctor and the League of Assassins make a play. The lead story is written by Ram V, drawn by Rafael Albuquerque, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered by Ariana Maher. In the backup, Jim Gordon confronts the crooked cop who...

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]]> 43226 Zdarsky Channels Morrison and a Not-Terrible White Knight Comic in BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2022/08/05/zdarsky-channels-morrison-and-a-not-terrible-white-knight-comic-in-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 05 Aug 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42378 Failsafe makes its first move against Batman, and the whole Bat family might not be enough to stop it in Batman #126, written by Chip Zdarsky, drawn by Jorge Jimenez, colored by Tomeu Morey and lettered by Clayton Cowles. In the backup, Catwoman’s hunt for the Cobblepot heir reaches a … dead end in a...

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]]> 42378 BatChat Saves the Worst for Last with ‘Tec, Task Force Z and White Knight https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/01/detective-comics-1061/ Fri, 01 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41827 Revelations abound as we learn the secrets tying together the citizen criminals and Riddler’s secret backer in the final issue of this creative team in Detective Comics #1,061, written by Mariko Tamaki and Nadia Shammas, penciled by Ivan Reis, inked by Danny Miki, colored by Brad Anderson and lettered by Ariana Maher. In the backup,...

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]]> 41827 Sean Gordon Murphy Sure Keeps Making Choices in Beyond the White Knight in BatChat (Text) https://comicsxf.com/2022/06/03/sean-gordon-murphy-sure-keeps-making-choices-in-beyond-the-white-knight-in-batchat-text/ Fri, 03 Jun 2022 16:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=41297 Bruce Wayne has escaped prison, and is preparing to take down Derek Powers and find Harley’s missing daughter, while Powers sends Terry McGinnis to take him out in Batman: Beyond the White Knight #3, written and drawn by Sean Murphy, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered by AndWorld Design.  The murderer of Ra’s al Ghul...

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]]> 41297 Joker, Riddler and a real Dick Grayson in This Week’s BatChat (Text Edition) https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/29/joker-riddler-and-a-real-dick-grayson-in-this-weeks-batchat-text-edition/ Fri, 29 Apr 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40396 Jim Gordon gets some answers but leaves some questions open in the penultimate issue of this series, as the final fate of the Clown Prince of Crime remains a mystery in The Joker #14, written by James Tynion IV, penciled by Giuseppe Camuncoli, inked by Cam Smith, colored by Arif Prianto and lettered by Tom...

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]]> 40396 BatChat Goes Beyond the White Knight and into a Shadow War https://comicsxf.com/2022/04/01/batchat-goes-beyond-the-white-knight-and-into-a-shadow-war/ Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=39603 It’s the future of Gotham. Bruce Wayne remains in jail. The GTO is now a fascist Bat-themed police force. And Terry McGinnis works for … Derek Powers? BatChat returns to the Murphyverse for Batman: Beyond the White Knight #1, written and drawn by Sean Murphy, colored by Dave Stewart and lettered by AndWorld Design.  Ra’s...

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]]> 39603 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 Hooray! ‘Tec’s Back and White Knight: Harley Quinn Is over in This Week’s Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2021/03/27/hooray-tecs-back-and-white-knight-harley-quinn-is-over-in-this-weeks-bat-chat/ Sat, 27 Mar 2021 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=23465 Welcome back to Bat Chat with Matt (and Will!). In Detective Comics #1,034, Bruce Wayne meets the neighbors while Batman hunts the remnants of Joker’s gangs, while something more sinister starts beneath the streets of Gotham in a story written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora, colored by Jordie Bellaire and lettered by Aditya...

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]]> 23465 Bruce Wayne vs. Magistrate & Harley Quinn vs. Our Sanity in This Week’s Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2021/02/26/bruce-wayne-vs-magistrate-harley-quinn-vs-our-sanity-in-this-weeks-bat-chat/ Fri, 26 Feb 2021 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=21909 It’s an explosive week in Gotham City (which is a bad pun, since there are a lot of bombs going off, but we’re standing by it). Bruce Wayne faces down Magistrate-1 and Red Hood is on the run in Future State: Dark Detective #4, featuring: “Dark Detective,” written by Mariko Tamaki, drawn by Dan Mora,...

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]]> 21909 Tomasi’s ‘Tec Run Wraps, and for Some Reason We’re Still Covering White Knight Stuff in a between-Holidays Bat Chat https://comicsxf.com/2020/12/28/tomasis-tec-run-wraps-and-for-some-reason-were-still-covering-white-knight-stuff-in-a-between-holidays-bat-chat/ Mon, 28 Dec 2020 17:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=10295 Batman and Robin (?) swing in to save the rest of the Bat family from Hush, a new mayor of Gotham is elected and Bruce says goodbye to Wayne Manor in Detective Comics #1,033 from Peter J. Tomasi, Brad Walker, Andrew Hennesy, Dave McCaig and Rob Leigh. Meanwhile, Harley, Duke Thomas and FBI profiler Hector...

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]]> 11456 A Bonus Bat Chat Catches Up on ‘Detective Comics’ and ‘White Knight Presents Harley Quinn’ https://comicsxf.com/2020/11/27/a-bonus-bat-chat-catches-up-on-detective-comics-and-white-knight-presents-harley-quinn/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=9693 Detective Comics #1,031 Welcome to a special holiday week Bat Chat! The Mirror inserts himself into Gotham’s mayoral race as he continues his anti-vigilante crusade, Damian makes a move to prove he’s smarter than Batman, and a Bat rogue makes his return in “Detective Comics” #1,031 from Peter J. Tomasi, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes and...

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]]> 9693 Why, Will: Let’s Revisit the Good ol’ ‘Man of Steel’ Discourse https://comicsxf.com/2020/08/03/why-will-lets-revisit-the-good-ol-man-of-steel-discourse/ Mon, 03 Aug 2020 19:00:00 +0000 https://www.xavierfiles.com/?p=7362 Remember 2013? When Lance Armstrong copped to being a drug cheat and “Star Trek Into Darkness” beat “The Final Frontier” and “Faith of the Heart” as the worst Star Trek thing ever made? And you could go outside? Those were the days. The Splash The hallmark of a Zack Snyder movie — outside of his...

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