Tim Sale - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com The comics criticism you crave Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:36:04 +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 Tim Sale - COMICSXF https://comicsxf.com 32 32 107498702 BatChat With Matt & Will: The Big Spooky Board https://comicsxf.com/2022/10/27/batchat-with-matt-will-the-big-spooky-board/ Thu, 27 Oct 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=43581 Batman and Halloween: two great tastes that taste great together. This week, we’re going back to a creative team that we have read a lot of work by, Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale, for their first collaborations on Batman, and the last we have to cover, the Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Specials. They’re...

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]]> 43581 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 44: A Master Craftsman https://comicsxf.com/2022/07/21/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-44-a-master-craftsman/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=42121 One of the artists most represented on the big board, and probably, if we arrogated based on number of stories and story placement (and that would be higher if Matt got his way with “Blades”), one of the favorite artists we have, comics lost a major talent with the passing of Tim Sale last month....

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]]> 42121 BatChat With Matt & Will Ep. 34: 100 Stories Down… https://comicsxf.com/2022/05/12/batchat-with-matt-will-ep-34-100-stories-down/ Thu, 12 May 2022 13:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=40664 Hey look at that! They said it couldn’t be done, but we have actually gotten up to 100 stories on the big board! To celebrate, Matt & Will just… picked stuff they wanted to talk about. So this week we finish the Vampire Batman trilogy, we go back to the world of The Long Halloween...

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]]> 40664 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 19: So It’s Come to This, a BatChat Sequels Show https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/27/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-19-so-its-come-to-this-a-batchat-sequels-show/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37677 It only took us 19 episodes to swing back to ground we’ve already tread; it’s not like there are 80 years of completely unrelated Batman stories to talk about. But this is our podcast, and we’ll do what we like (unless you back us on Patreon, and then we’ll do what you want). Anyway, this...

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]]> 37677 BatChat With Matt & Will Episode 16: A Serious Podcast On Serious Earth https://comicsxf.com/2022/01/06/batchat-with-matt-will-episode-16-a-serious-podcast-on-serious-earth/ Thu, 06 Jan 2022 14:00:00 +0000 https://www.comicsxf.com/?p=37173 It is a mad house. It is the home to terror, both supernatural and all too irrational. Arkham Asylum is one of the most recognizable locales in Gotham City, if not the entire DC Universe. This week, as “Shadows of the Bat,” the tale of the new Arkham Tower, begins in Detective Comics, Matt &...

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]]> 37173 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 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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