Bat Force Radio

Lee Bermejo returns to discuss this week's Batman: Dear Detecive. The 56 page Black Label Prestige Plus size book, collecting his masterful Detective Comics variant cover run, in their proper narrative order, alongside a mysterious letter written to The Dark Knight. As always, we touch on some other topics as well. Honestly, we recorded this episode a couple weeks ago and we couldn't tell you what...

Clay McCormack returns for a spoiler-filled chat about the new Batman White Knight Presents: Red Hood. The 2 issue mini that he created along-side Sean Murphy, Simone Di Meo, and Dave Stewart. Clay shares thoughts on creating a version of Jason Todd that is unique to the White Knight Universe, while remaining faithful to the version of the character we all know; as well as introducing the new char...

This week we're joined by Ram V, the new author of Detective Comics, plus books like The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Blue In Green, These Savage Shores, Swamp Thing, Venom, Catwoman, etc. We talk about his Gothic Opera in Gotham, his supervillain origin story, yelling at Rocky fans, food, writing Aquaman into a deep sea horror story, his dogs, the story behind his name, and lots more.

New Batman author Chip Zdarksy returns for a spoiler-filled chat about his new run on Batman, beginning with this week's issue 125, including the identity of Failsafe, Tim Drake, Penguin, Alfred, and more; as well as his work on Batman: The Knight, Daredevil, Public Domain, writing for TV, the movie he helped pitch to Marvel, and lots more. Absolutely read Batman 125 BEFORE listening to this episo...

We finally return to comic reviews to discuss Mattson Tomlin, Andrea Sorrentino, Jordie Bellaire, and Steve Wands' 3 issue mini-series Batman: The Imposter (plus variant covers by Lee Bermejo). Go pick up a copy or, if you already have it, read along and tell us all the things that we got wrong.

This week we sit down to discuss the art and influence of Neal Adams from our own perspectives from interactions with him and collecting of his work, as well as being joined via voice messages by Jock, Lee Bermejo, Jason Fabok, Paul Pope, and Doug Mahnke, who offered their thoughts and perspectives as influential comic artists inspired and affected by the art and artist's rights efforts of Mr Adam...

Author / Illustrator Clay McCormack joins us to talk about his origin story in comics, his WW1 / Viking epic Bloody Hel, writing the upcoming 2 issue Red Hood story as part of Batman Beyond The White Knight from Sean Murphy (with whom he also co-hosts the BatAss podcast covering Batman The Animated Series and Batman Beyond), as well as collecting, movies, video games, drawing knees, general nerder...

Paul Goodenough and Sarah Lord of Rewriting Extinction join us to discuss "The Most Important Comic Book On Earth - Stories To Save The World" a global collaboration for planetary change, bringing together a diverse team of 300 leading environmentalists, artists, authors, actors, filmmakers, musicians, and more to present over 120 stories to save the world. A team that includes names like Ricky Ge...

One of our favourites, Clay Mann, returns to talk about the upcoming conclusion to his Batman Catwoman series and his thoughts on the story, as well as The Batman movie, stalking Robert Pattinson at an afterparty, Jim Lee, artist's block, promotion of current comic books, his future, an upcoming Phantasm collectible, and lots more.

As Batman Beyond The White Knight #1 hits shelves, here is the SPOILER portion of our chat with creator Sean Murphy, that began with the spoiler-free portion in episode #282 (check that one out first, if you missed it). In this episode, we go deep into spoilers for not only issue 1 and the big cliffhanger final page, but also preview some of what is coming in issue #2 and beyond, as well as the 2...

Along with special guest ReevzFX, we're joined by "The Ballet Bat" Carl Newman to talk about his experience filming the 1989 Batman movie as a body and movement double for Michael Keaton, chosen to add grace and athleticism to the Batman, working with Tim Burton, Jack Nicholson, et al. You'll be shocked to find out how many of the iconic shots and scenes from the film are not actually Michael Keat...

Sean Murphy returns in advance of the start of the next chapter of the White Knight Universe: Batman Beyond The White Knight. We take a mostly spoiler-free walk through what is coming in the new series, as Terry McGinnis arrives in the Murphy-verse and Bruce's new look in a new Gotham, as well as getting into Sean's thoughts on The Batman, what made him worry he would have to walk away from DC Com...

We reconvene after second (or fourth) viewings of Matt Reeves' The Batman to go deeper into this new world and get some first thoughts from some of the guys who missed the previous episode. Join us for some new catches and new viewpoints. Yeah, we'll probably be back to this topic again, very soon.

After attending early screenings of The Batman, we gather to discuss our thoughts on everything from the story, performances, score, comics inspirations, theatre swag, to comparisons to previous Bat films. We stay spoiler free for the first 15 to 20 minutes. If you have yet to see The Batman, jump out before the spoilers and come back after you have.

Russall Beattie joins us to talk about the writing and photographing of the Giant Panda King production Gotham 1919 - 1939, from finding his voice for The Bat mythos via character aesthetic and story, to real-world historical accuracy to create a Gotham City like you have never seen or read before.

We chat about some of the current theories about The Batman, Year One influences on the story, new collectibles like the Jada Toys Batmobile, SnyderCut conspiracies, trolling, Grandpa Batman being the number one Battinson fan on earth, and some other fun stuff.

We have a quick chat about the well-intentioned Little Caesars / The Batman promotional pizza, the well-executed new promo poster for the movie, and hype levels as the release date nears.

We finally get around to talking about some of the recent news and rumors revolving around the DCEU shakeups with the tale of two Batmen (Keaton and Affleck) in the upcoming Flash movie. Oh, plus there's Pattinson. So three Batmen. Also the reveal of the Batgirl movie costume and it's Burnside comic roots, Henry Cavill's apparent exit from the Superman role, The Rock with Black Adam, etc. And we s...

As is tradition, we all hang out and talk about our favorite comics, writers, artists, etc of 2021, what we're looking forward to in 2022. And some people are definitely quite drunk. Merry Christmas

Joshua Williamson returns to talk about his new run on Batman, changing the pace following James Tynion's run, the mystery character who shows up in 118 and what's to come, as well as his new and continuing work on Justice League Incarnate, Robin, Deathstroke Inc, and how they all play into the major events that will be happening to the DCU in 2022 and beyond. We avoid most spoilers, but discuss s...

This week we are joined by Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner, the creators of the Image Comics horror series Stray Dogs. We discuss the genesis of the story, the horror movie poster variant covers, fan response, the upcoming follow-up Dogs Days, My Little Pony, convention appearances, and lots more.

Just in time for Halloween, we sit down to discuss our thoughts on the story changes, animation style, voice cast, etc on the two part animated adaption of Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Batman: The Long Halloween.

Chris Shehan joins us to talk about the launch of House Of Slaughter, the new James Tynion series from Boom! Studios spinning out of Something Is Killing The Children, his own origin story as an artist, The Autumnal, Star Wars tears, diverse voices creating diverse characters and stories in comics, and lots more.

The legend Kelley Jones returns for our fourth Halloween episode together. Kelley shares stories about Bernie Wrightson, and we talk about Frankenstein, artists, learning to draw comics in film courses, Sandman, The Batman trailer, and lots more.

We get into our thoughts, theories, and Easter Eggs on the new trailers and footage shown at this year's DC Fandome event, including The Batman, Flash, Black Adam, Aquaman, as well as what went down at NYCC's post-pandemic return.