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.

Direct link to the episode page:  Bat Books For Beginners - Episode 128

Please leave us some feedback on the episode page and we will incorporate it into our next episode.

ARP - 09 - Knightfall part 2

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
• Malevolent Maniaxe (17:15)
• Filler issues (20:20)
• Bat-vehicle designs (22:15)
• exotic car art (24:50)

• Good Things
•  Clayface story (27:01)
• Batman attracts insane criminals (30:10)
• Abbatoir's Death (36:19)

• Neutral points
•  Corrosive Man (44:10)
• Dr. Kinsolving (51:15)
• Tim Drake (56:33)

If you would like to download the MP3, right click and Save As:

ARP - 09 - Knightfall part 2.mp3

Our next podcast will be  November 17th and it will be part 3 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
 
We look forward to hearing from you.

Contact us with any feedback or suggestions you may have and subscribe to us on your favorite platform:

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)

If you would like to download the MP3, right click and Save As:

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
 
We look forward to hearing from you.

Contact us with any feedback or suggestions you may have and subscribe to us on your favorite platform: