Bat Books For Beginners 147 - Birds of Prey: Catwoman/Oracle

We cover Birds of Prey: Catwoman/Oracle which is an interesting 2-issue mini-series that tells a story where Barbara Gordon and Catwoman team up in a couple different eras. We talk about Catwoman, Carnivora, and Barbara Gordon.

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Direct link to the episode page: Bat Books For Beginners - Episode 147

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Arc Reactions Podcast will be back on November 6th with our Doctor Strange (film) review.

Bat Books For Beginners will be back on November 15th with Batman: Hush

Bat Books For Beginners - 134 - Batgirl: A Knight Alone

The ongoing Batgirl title continues to move forward as Batgirl trains with Batman to regain her fighting ability. During the course of this story she confronts Lady Shiva and David Cain as well. The story ends with a big change for the character that I will not spoil here.

Dylan and John are back with another Bat Books For Beginners episode. Please visit www.thebatmanuniverse.net and check out all the Batman news, comics reviews, and podcasts they have to offer.

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Be on the look out for a special Arc Reactions episode where we interview Erik Larsen, co-founder of Image Comics at Rose City Comiccon.

Arc Reactions Podcast will be back with a regular episode on October 4th with Batman 66 Meets The Green Hornet

Bat Books For Beginners - 132 - Batgirl: Silent Running

Batgirl finally gets her own title and it's Cassandra Cain under the cowl. John had some very strong opinions on this story. What did John find problematic with this first arc in Batgirl's solo career? Listen to the episode and then let us know your thoughts about the story.

Dylan and John are back with another Bat Books For Beginners episode. Please visit www.thebatmanuniverse.net and check out all the Batman news, comics reviews, and podcasts they have to offer.

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Arc Reactions Podcast will be back on August 2nd with Red Daughter of Krypton

ARP - 08 - Knightfall part 1

DC comics published Knightfall in 1993 in Batman and Detective Comics. This story is one of the most famous Batman stories and we were excited to read and discuss this. In this episode, we talk about the key players (Batman, Bane, Robin, and Azrael) as well as the choices the writers made in telling the story.

Talking points

• Bad things

• Joker teaming up with Cornelius Stirk and Scarecrow (14:00)
• Too many references to 'exhausted' Batman (18:50)
• Where was the Bat-Family? (22:00)

• Good things
• Grounding in reality (26:30)
• Cameos (32:30)
• Porsche crash (33:10)

• General
• Fight differences between Batman issues and Detective issues (35:20)
• Villains used in the story (42:30)
• Robin's role (48:50)
• Bane (1:06:30)
• Azrael (Jean Paul Valley) (1:11:05)

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Our next podcast will be  November 3rd and it will be part 2 of Knightfall.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETIcNYDGMk4&feature=player_embedded
 
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ARP - 04 - Killing Joke and Death in the Family

Dylan and John discuss the Killing Joke by Alan Moore and Death in the Family (Batman 426-429) from 1988-89. These comics were published by DC comics and focus on Batman, Robin, and Barbara Gordon.

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Arc Reactions Podcast - 04 - Killing Joke and Death in the Family.mp3

Follow along with the podcast with our notes:

Talking points
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KJ - Sadistic Joker

KJ - One Bad Day turned this struggling commedian into the Joker
    - Joker trying to create another crazy person by inducing One Bad Day with Jim

KJ - Joker not 'remembering' his origin (Dark Knight has this nod with Ledger)

KJ - originally designed as an Elseworlds story (DC wikia)

KJ - Misogany of leaving Barbara paralized until the New 52. Would DC have left Nightwing in this state had he been the one paralized?

DITF - Politics of the time (Lebanon/Israel conflict, Reganomics, Iran)

DITF - Killing Jason Todd (the vote line)
    - after 427, 50 cents a call, over 10,000 votes. 5343-5271 was the final tally

DITF - Writer acknowledging that the Joker is not dead even though he appeared to be in the crash

DITF - Would Batman have killed Joker if given the chance?

DITF - Is it a believable story? (nuclear missle)

DITF - Does Joker know that Bruce is Batman based on putting the pieces together of Jason's death the same time that he killed Robin?
    -Batman changing in front of Joker in the assembly
   
DITF - Should Jason have stayed dead?

Our next podcast will be a supplemental where we will give a bit of our own history with comics and superheroes as well as discuss some topics that do not fit in directly with a specific story arc. This podcast will be uploaded on August 11th.  In 4 weeks, we will be covering Armor Wars from the Iron Man comic series.

The intro music was composed by longzijun and can be found on youtube here:
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ARP - Episode 02 - Death of the Family (Batman)

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Arc Reactions Podcast - 02 - Death of the Family

In this episode, Dylan and John discuss the most recent Bat family crossover event Death of the Family where the Joker returns in the New 52 after being gone for a year and he wants to break up the Bat Family.

Follow along with these notes and the discussion points:

Timeline
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Joker's thugs kidnap Barbara's mom (Batgirl 13)

Joker gets his face back (Batman 13)
Joker on TV (Batman 13)
Joker meets up with Harley and sends her to ACE factory (Suicide Squad 14)
Joker kidnaps Alfred (Batman 13)
Joker confronts Catwoman at the amusement park (Catwoman 14)
Batman fights Joker at the reservoir/aqueduct (Batman 14)
Harley fights Joker (Suicide Squad 15)
Joker at Skate Rink with Barbara's mom (Batgirl 14)
Bat family in the batcave (Batman 15) ******
Joker kills Jimmy and takes Raya to Kline Industries (Nightwing 15)
Joker has a surprise for Nightwing at Amusement Mile (Nightwing 16)
Joker and Batgirl at church (Batgirl 15-16)
Joker and Robin at the zoo (Batman and Robin 15-16)
Joker kidnaps Red Robin (TT 15)
Joker and Red Hood somewhere (Red Hood 15)
Joker, Red Robin, and Red Hood somewhere (TT 16)
Batman and Joker in Arkham (Batman 16)
Bat family at the dinner (Batman 17)

Topics
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Snyder writing the psychological thriller story.
Simone writing Batgirl's rage and dealing with her paralyzing and the man responsible.
Timeline
Both Robin and Batgirl will break their rules to kill the Joker if given the chance.

The next episode will be released on July 14th. Join us as we review the Phoenix and Dark Phoenix saga.

The intro music was composed by longzijun and can be found on youtube here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETIcNYDGMk4&feature=player_embedded

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