BatChat With Matt & Will: A Batman Ranking Podcast

Fellow ComicsXF writer Tony Thornley joins us this week just in time for the new Batman/Spawn crossover to talk about other times that Batman has met characters from across the comic book omniverse. Batman meets alien hunters, an arachnid themed hero and the hellspawn he'll be meeting again. Intercompany crossovers are a weird and wild beast, and these stories are no different.

Batman Vs. Predator (Batman Vs. Predator V.1 # 1-3)

Spider-Man/Batman

Spawn/Batman

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Welcome to teen hero comics of the 90s. It's a very very mixed bag. For all the charm that some have, some... don't. Friend of the show and Patreon backer Josh Weil really wanted to talk about Impulse #50, so we found some other stories of teen heroes in the 90s and Batman, specifically the teen heroes of Young Justice. This gave Will his first non-Star Trek exposure to two time GLAAD award winning writer Peter Allen David and another go around with Joe Kelly. And he was not too happy about it. But a good time was had by all in the talking, and that's what really counts

Young Justice: Origins (Young Justice V.1 # 1-6)

First Fool's (Impulse # 50)

Silent, But Deadly (Superboy V.4 # 85)

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It's Thanksgiving, and we here at BatChat are the giving types. So we want to give you something you can share with your whole family to drown out the talk of politics and sportsball of various sorts this American turkey day. So we are once again digging into all ages Batman stories. This episode we see team ups with Superman, Scooby-Doo and (kinda sorta) Encyclopedia Brown!

Batman's Mystery Casebook OGN

Super Friends (Batman Adventures V.1 # 25)

Who's Scared? (Scooby-Doo Team-Up # 2 [Digital Chapters 3-4])

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He's muddy. He's powerful. He's... a lot of different people, actually. Because there have been many villains named Clayface, and this episode we look at three stories featuring different permutations of that particular rogue. Also, a brief tribute to the mate, great Kevin Conroy.

The Mud Pack (Detective Comics V.1 # 604-607)

The Great Joker/Clayface Feud (Batman V.1 # 159)

Larceny, My Sweet (Batman Adventures V.1 # 8)

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It's another Patreon request, as Abigale Heartbalm returns. She wanted to talk about the original Venom story, and after we realized she meant the Legends of the Dark Knight arc about the super steroid and not a DC/Marvel crossover we didn't remember, it was decided that this week's theme would be Batman and drugs.

Venom (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #16-20)

Leaves of Grass (Batman: Shadow of the Bat #56-58)

Flying Hi (Detective Comics V.1 #561)

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So, this week, it's Matt's birthday recording, and as opposed to Will, who picked stuff based on gut instinct (and who must have had a stomach ache based on what we got), Matt went with three stories from his younger years that he remembers really liking. The results are considerably better. We get some Grant and Breyfogle, John Ostrander writing a comic within a comic, and rare Brian Stelfreeze interiors.

The Nobody (Batman: Shadow of the Bat # 13)

Dark Genesis (Detective Comics V.1 # 622-624)

Fool's Errand (Detective Comics V.1 # 726)

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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 spooky and gorgeous, but can they top the previous stories by these creators who made such a stamp on the history of Batman?

Choices/Fear (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special # 1)

Madness (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special # 2)

Ghosts (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special # 3)

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We recorded this episode mere days before the Will's birthday, and so it was up to Will to pick the stories. So he satisfied his curiosity about the story where Scarecrow kills his dean, adds in some more Moench and Jones and closes a narrative loop for the podcast. The results for the Big Board are... Well, my mom always said if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Fortunately this episode doesn't follow that maxim, or it would have been a very short episode.

Scarecrow- The Master of Fear (Batman V.1 Annual # 19)

Unseen (Batman: Unseen # 1-5)

Batman Vs. the Undead (Batman Confidential # 44-48)

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In another moment that makes Matt feel like he's not so slowly turning to dust, "Hush," the Jeph Loeb/Jim Lee neo-classic, is turning twenty years old this week. Or is it a classic? That is what Matt and Will are looking at this week, with three stories starring the Batman villain most likely to make you want to punch him in his arrogant jerk mouth, the Riddler.

Hush (Batman V.1 # 608-619)

Remarkable Ruse of the Riddler (Batman V.1 #171)

E. Nigma, Consulting Detective (Detective Comics V.1 #822)

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Ed Brubaker is one of the best crime writers in comics, and before going over and writing some of the best comics on the market for Image, he did runs on various Batman and Batman family titles. This week, we're reading three stories from three different runs on those titles.

Fearless (Batman V.1 # 582-583)

Made of Wood (Detective Comics V.1 # 784-786)

Soft Targets (Gotham Central # 12-15)

CW: Suicide, Realistic gun violence

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