Wayne Manor Memoirs

This week, Joe and Kendall discuss the second part of their Kevin Conroy trilogy: this time, covering the man behind the voice of Batman for almost three decades. Kevin Conroy helped redefine the character for a new generation and his presence is still felt today in the animated movies, video games, and consciousness of pop culture. From his fraught childhood beginnings, to finding his "voice" on stage, to the role that would define his career, join us as we cover everything you'll need to know about the man who IS Batman.

Infinite Origins: All about Kevin Conroy

Continuity Crisis: Roles as Batman; DC, but not Batman; Not DC at all; and Awards

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Hello Bat-Fanatics and welcome to our first video game review! This time Joe and Kendall cover the award winning, game changing, record winning, Batman: Arkham Asylum. This is new territory Bat-Fanatics, so we tackle a few new things in this episode. Relive your childhood as Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, and Arleen Sorkin reprise their Batman: The Animated Series roles. Experience all of the best aspects of Batman: the detective, the combatant, and the predator. Pummelling henchmen with batarangs never felt so rewarding. So, strap on those headphones and we revisit the Batman game that changed the game, the birth of the Arkham series, Batman: Arkham Asylum. Also, did you know this had a comic book tie in?! Good luck findinging it… Also, I guess... spoilers? But it's been out for 10 years now. Seriously, how have you not played this?

Infinite Origins: Batman: Arkham Asylum

Plot Pandemonium: Batman: Arkham Asylum

Inside the Panel: Batman: Arkham Asylum: Return to Arkham

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Welcome back Bat-Fanatics to this long delayed, but definitely worthwhile episode! Joe is in Virginia! Kendall has a Stanley Cup winning team! We're back in business!

As a parting gift to Joe, Kendall agreed to watch Batman:The Movie for the very FIRST TIME. That's right Bat-Fanatics, Joe got to experience all of Kendall's reactions first hand! Adam West (Batman) and Burt Ward (Robin) star against a quartet of villains played by Frank Gorshin (The Riddler), Cesar Romaro (The Joker), Lee Meriwether (Catwoman), and Burgess Meredith (Penguin). Have you ever wondered "What sits in a tree, weighs six ounces, and is very dangerous?" or how an egg and applesauce represent the United World Organization's Security Council? We have the answers! So, dehydrate your henchmen, pack your shark-repellent bat-spray, and prime your aquatic animals to explode as we delve into the original Batman movie!

Plot Pandemonium - Batman: The Movie

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Chris (from the Hey, Do You Remember…? podcast) and Joe get together during a January blizzard in Chicago to discuss the slew of unmade Batman films that existed between Batman & Robin and Batman Begins. A 3rd Joel Schumacher film? Check. Frank Miller's own script for Batman: Year One? Check. Get ready for a wild ride, Bat-Fanatics!

This episode was originally released as a HDYR: Off the Clock Patreon exclusive, so a special thank you to Chris and the HDYR crew for sharing the episode with us. If you haven't given Hey, Do You Remember…? a listen, go do it! Now! Thanks Chris!

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This week, Joe and Kendall plumb the seedy, vaguely pasta smelling underbelly of Carmine "The Roman" Falcone's Gotham City. For as influential as both Joe and Kendall believed Carmine to be, they were surprised to find they could count the number of times he's appeared in the Batmythos on one hand. So let's get the freaks out of Gotham as we follow the rise, fall, and return (possibly negating the fall entirely) of the original crime boss of Gotham City, Bat-Fanatics!

Infinite Origins: Batman #405 - 408 (Batman: Year One), The Long Halloween

Continuity Crisis: Batman: Eternal

Outside the Panel: Batman Begins, Gotham, Batman: The Telltale Series

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Brace yourselves Bat-Fanatics, never before have we laughed so much during a recording… too bad Joe jacked the sound quality…

Kendall and Joe visit the post-apocalypse in Jack "the King" Kirby's longest running DC comic, "Kamandi: the Last Boy on Earth." Roman Tigers? Check. Ape Town, USA? Check. Captured shirtless blond kid? Check. Seriously this comic is nuts, but in all the best ways. So protect your supplies from the Rats, herd your humans, and set your cyclo-heart to fission as we examine life after the Great Disaster.

Infinite Origins: Kamandi: the Last Boy on Earth #1 - 6

Outside the Panel: Batman: The Brave and the Bold

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Joe and Kendall welcome Kristen (of the Sunnydale Stacks) as they tackle the Batgirl soft reboot known as "The Batgirl of Burnside". Babs gets a new practical purple (!!!) costume to kick baddie butt in the trendy Gotham burb of Burnside! Watch her start with hero-ing back at square one , build a super heroic social media presence, and go brain-to-brain with a villain you'll never expect. The redesign is a lot of fun and we're excited that we were able to share our enjoyment with Kristen. Secure your data Bat-Fanatics, we're about to fight crime Millennial style!

Plot Pandemonium: Batgirl: Batgirl of Burnside (Batgirl vol 4 #35-40)

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With what one might called "electric" excitement for the new SHAZAM! movie, Joe and Kendall decided to look at the complex history of one of their favorite characters: Captain Marvel. From his humble beginnings at Fawcett Comics, to the decade of litigation, to new beginnings at DC, to even newer beginnings at DC, and finally even newer newer beginnings at DC, find out everything you need to know about Captain Marvel aka Shazam! before (or after) you see the movie.

Infinite Origins: Whiz Comics vol 1 #2, Marvel Family vol 1 #1, Shazam!: The New Beginning

Continuity Crisis: Justice League #7-11, 0, 14-16 and 18-21

Extras: Captain Marvel Adventures #1 - 150 (1941), Shazam!: The Original Captain Marvel #1 - 35 (1973), Legends 1-6 (1986), Justice League vol. 1 1 - 6 (1987), War of the Gods (1991), Power of Shazam! 1-4 mini (1994), Power of Shazam! 1 - 49 (1995), Kingdom Come (1996) 1 - 4, Shazam! Power of Hope (2000), JSA vol 1 #26 - 78 (2001), Superman/Shazam: First Thunder 1 - 4 (2005), Day of Vengeance 1 - 6 (2005), Trials of Shazam! 1- 12 (2006), Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil 1 - 4 (2007), Billy Batson and the Magic of Shazam! 1 - 21 (2008) - all age stories, The Multiversity: Thunderworld #1 (2015), Convergence: Shazam! 1 - 2 (2015)

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Hot on the heels of Hey Do You Remember…?'s coverage of the 1994 movie "The Mask," Joe & Kendall cover that one time The Mask crossed paths with Batman. Oh you didn't know that happened? Great! That's what we're here for! Find out what happens when the Joker takes possession of the mythical Mask and becomes a (somewhat more) maniacal villain with limitless powers in the last Mask story ever written! Sound too good to be true? It might be. So, put on your yellow zoot suit, paint your head green, and prepare to live out all your cartoon fantasies in this bombastic episode of Wayne Manor Memoirs

Plot Pandemonium: Joker/Mask 1-4

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Straying from their formula of focusing (almost) exclusively on the more obscure aspects of the Batmythos, Joe and Kendall jump headlong into the beloved The Long Halloween by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. If you had ever hoped for a proper Year One follow up, Bat-Fanatics, this is it! Be sure to pack a windbreaker because Joe and Kendall race the Flash through the plot as they make their way back to the Batcave. Why the Batcave, you ask? Because they'll need the finest Batmicroscope to complete their (far too) in-depth analysis! Pull out your copy of The Long Halloween and listen to the results . . . you won't want to miss it!

Plot Pandemonium: Batman: The Long Halloween

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