The inaugural episode of our new podcast, BatChat with Matt & Will, a podcast where we take every Batman story ever, read them, and rank them on a big list from best to worst. This week, we look at three different first Batman stories.

Batman: Year One (Batman V.1 # 404-407)
Zero Year (Batman V.2 # 21-27, 29-33)
The Case of the Chemical Syndicate (Detective Comics V.1 # 27)

Episode 1: Beginnings

Writer Brandon Montclare joins the show to talk about his upcoming DuckTales series at Dynamite, and to play some Duck Trivia. Quack.

The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 324: Brandon Montclare talks DuckTales

Killer Croc is a character who has evolved a great deal over his time, and that pun is only half unintended. He has been a mobster, a monster and an anti-hero. This week, for Villains Month, we look at three different interpretations of Croc. In one, he's a barely human monster running from humanity. In another, he's a supervillain on a killing spree. And in the third, he is the mayor of Monstertown in the sewers of Gotham during Joker War.

Swamp Things (Batman V.1 # 521-522)
Batman In Barcelona: Dragon's Knight
Monsters of Men (Detective Comics V.3 # 1026)

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Episode 156: Villains Month- Killer Croc

Michael Walsh joins the show to talk about his Image comics The Sacred Damned, Universal Monsters: Frankenstein, Nullhunter and much more.

The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 325: Michael Walsh talks Frankenstein, Nullhunter and more

Black Mask was Hush before Hush: a villains obsessed not with Batman but with Bruce Wayne, seeking to bring down Bruce for childhood grudges. But over the years he has evolved into a more sadistic figure. As villains month nears its end, we read three stories featuring Roman Sionis: his first appearance, his return in the run up to Knightfall and the story that establishes his modern rivalry with Catwoman.

Losing Face (Batman V.1 # 386-387, Detective Comics V.1 # 553)
Warpaint (Batman V.1 # 484-485)
Relentless (Catwoman V.3 # 12-16)

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Episode 157: Villains Month- Black Mask

Guest of guests Rob Lynch returns for another Halloween as the Three Amigos discuss all things werewolves. This show's got nards!

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And we have reached the end of October, the spookiest of months, and this the end of villains month. And to wrap it up, we're getting one of the spookiest of Batman villains: Man-Bat. Dr. Kirk Langstrom has an origin really out of the pages of Spider-Man, but someone has wound up a fixture in the Batman titles. Also, he has had more mini-series than any other Bat rogue. Go figure. We read his first appearance, a bizarre prestige format mini that feels straight out of 90s Vertigo and another mini that, while featuring some beautiful Man-Bat art, doesn't feature a ton of Man-Bat, alas.

Man or Bat? (Detective Comics V.1 # 400, 402,407)
The Subterraneans (Batman: Man-Bat # 1-3)
Legends of the World's Finest # 1-3

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Episode 158: Villains Month- Man-Bat

Dan reports from New York with guests Zack Quaintance, Tim Seeley, Brad & Lisa Gullickson, Juan Ferreyra, Andy Khouri, Fred Van Lente, Joey Esposito and Sean Von Gorman.



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A fixture in the Bat titles from 1999-2011, and again since Rebirth, Cassandra Cain was the second full time Batgirl. Trained from birth to be a living weapon, Cassandra had to learn not just how to fit in with the Bat family, but how to fit in among normal people. This week, just in time for her new mini-series, we discuss two early stories of Cassandra Cain and the mini-series that tried to rehabilitate the character after editorial missteps left her in a bad way after One Year Later.

Down With the Ship (Batman: Gotham Knights # 2)
Speech & Consequences (Batgirl V.1 # 4-9)
Redemption Road (Batgirl V.2 # 1-6)

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Episode 159: Batgirl Doesn't Talk, But We Do

Writer Alex Segura joins the show to talk about his new novel Alter Ego, the release of The Legendary Lynx in trade, DC's The Question: All Along the Watchtower, his recent Star Wars work, Mad Cave's Dick Tracy and more.

The CXF Interview Podcast Episode 328: Alex Segura talks Alter Ego, The Question, Star Wars and more

It's been a while, but we're returning to the three runs that we're following in order. In No Man's Land, we take a break from big story revelations for an anthology month of four of shots. In Grant Morrison's run, Dick Grayson brings Batman's corpse to England to a Lazarus Pit and learns something unexpected (by everyone but Tim Drake, because he's the best). And in the world of Injustice, John Constantine joins the resistance against Superman, as the moral darkness continues to spread

The Calm Before (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight # 118, Batman: Shadow of the Bat # 86, Batman V.1 # 566, Detective Comics V.1 # 733)
The Blackest Knight (Batman and Robin V.1 # 7-9)
Injustice: Gods Among Us- Year Three Vol. 1 (Injustice: Gods Among Us - Year Three # 1-7)

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Episode 160: The Proper Pronunciation of Constantine

Each week, hosts Matt Lazorwitz and Will Nevin look at three Batman stories, discuss them and put them on a list that will encompass all Batman stories. Some are great, some are not, but we hope you enjoy them all!

Episode 1: Beginnings

BatChat With Matt & Will: A Batman Ranking Podcast

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