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 139 - Joker's Last Laugh

Joker is told he has a terminal disease and this story covers the chaos that ensues from there. We talk about the question of "why don't they just kill the Joker?", the plot elements, and the characters.

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.

Direct link to the episode page: Bat Books For Beginners - Episode 139

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Arc Reactions Podcast will be back on March 6th with our review of Judge Dredd - The Cursed Earth.

Bat Books For Beginners will be back on March 15th with Orpheus Rising.

Bat Books For Beginners - 138 - Robin Secrets Revealed and Birds of Prey The Big Romance

We cover a couple shorter stories in this episode of Bat Books For Beginners on TheBatmanUniverse.net. Batman reveals Robin's identity to Spoiler and Dinah gets involved with R'as Al Ghul and it goes poorly.

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.

Direct link to the episode page: Bat Books For Beginners - Episode 138

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Arc Reactions Podcast will be back on February 7th with our review of Deadpool: Merc With A Mouth.

Bat Books For Beginners will be back on February 16th with Joker's Last Laugh.

Bat Books For Beginners 137 - NIghting: On The Razor's Edge

This story sees Nightwing's rogues gallery shrunk by a new villain that he must face. Also, we see Dick made a full police officer and progress the evolution of the character into his own hero independent of Batman. Join us as we discuss the key elements of this 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.

Direct link to the episode page: Bat Books For Beginners - Episode 136

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Arc Reactions Podcast will be back on December 20th with our review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens and our review of Netflix's Jessica Jones.

Bat Books For Beginners will be back on January 19th with Robin: Secrets Revealed and Birds of Prey: The Big Romance.

Bat Books For Beginners - 136 - Officer Down

Officer Down is a one-month crossover across the bat titles that shows how the people of Gotham react to Jim Gordon being shot and fighting for his life. Join us as we explore each character's reaction to this tragic event.

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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Bat Books For Beginners will be back on December 15th with Nightwing - Razor's Edge.

Arc Reactions Podcast will be back on December 20th with our review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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 - 133 - Nightwing: Big Guns

Nightwing faces off with Dudley Soames who has a fancy new big gun. Dick Grayson is on his probation period as an officer and nearly gets his identity revealed. 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 September 6th with Harlan Ellison's City On The Edge of Forever

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

Bat Books For Beginners - Episode 128 - The Hunt For Oracle

The Hunt For Oracle dives into Nightwing's rogues gallery, more discussion about Barbara Gordon as Oracle, and reflects on the first meeting of Barbara and Black Canary.

Dylan and John are back for their second episode as hosts of Bat Books For Beginners. Please visit www.thebatmanuniverse.net and check out all the Batman news, comics reviews, and podcasts they have to offer.

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Our first Bat Books For Beginners episode is released. Episode 127 - No Man's Land volume 4

The new creative team on Bat Books For Beginners covers No Man's Land volume 4. The explosive conclusion to this year long story arc has a lot of effects on the Bat Family and Batman Universe moving forward.

Dylan and John take over this long running podcast from Jon and Melinda who did a great job on the title. We bring our same style from Arc Reactions Podcast to the Batman Universe. Please visit thebatmanuniverse.net and check out Bat Books For Beginners as well as the other great podcasts and Batman related news they have to offer.

The direct link to the episode page:   Bat Books For Beginners Episode 127

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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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ARP - 08 - Knightfall Part 1.mp3

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


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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