The Comic Literate Podcast

Whether you're a comic book nerd, literature nerd or just weird in general, then the Comic Literate Podcast is just what you need.

Author: Ryan & Jamie

Whether you're a comic book nerd, literature nerd or just weird in general, then the Comic Literate Podcast is just what you need. Join actual, real life friends Ryan and Jamie as they do deep dives in to old and new comic book titles as well as examining their literary influences and effects on the modern culture. New episodes every week until AI learns how to host podcasts.
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Batman 2025- The Beginning Of Matt Fraction's Take On The Dark Knight
Episode 159
Sunday, 1 February, 2026

In this week's episode, Ryan makes Jamie read issues 1-5 of the currently ongoing comic series, Batman. Written by Matt Fraction and art by Jorge Jiménez. They also discuss their rankings of Robins, and Tom King's recent insights into how D.C. editorial affected his own Batman run, and how this relates to superhero comics as a whole. Timecodes00:00 - Intro02:36 - Comic Talk Starts04:40 - General Thoughts10:38 - Ranking the Robins14:29 - Starting with the Arting21:37 - Story (with some spoilers)45:09 - Tom King & D.C. Editorial55:23 - Comments Corner (and end of episode shenanigans)YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_2GA9q40JoBmnbOrkjGuJg Apple Podcasts- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-comic-literate-podcast/id1670647884 Spotify- https://open.spotify.com/show/4hd5lO43gSZyyh5UEmcq2U?si=NOE0uX4iRHWGDwIoCRfndQ Google Podcasts- https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy50cmFuc2lzdG9yLmZtL3RoZS1jb21pYy1saXRlcmF0ZS1wb2RjYXN0Pocket Casts- https://pca.st/r8b1cyg7Comic Stan- https://youtube.com/@comicsstan-q1z?si=F9mxzO-eSmfWphWx