What Is Batman? Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #124 Debates the Character, the Legacy, and the New Film

In light of the recent release of Matt Reeves’ film The Bat­man, we con­sid­er the strange alter­na­tion of dark­ness and camp that is Bat­man. Is he even a super hero? What’s with his rogues’ gallery? What’s with DC’s anti-world-build­ing?

Your Pret­ty Much Pop host Mark Lin­sen­may­er is joined by phi­los­o­phy prof/NY Times enter­tain­ment writer Lawrence Ware, improv comedian/educator Antho­ny LeBlanc, and Mar­ket­ing Over Cof­fee host John J. Wall, all of whom are deeply immersed in the comics, and we touch on oth­er recent shows in the Bat­man uni­verse.

Some rel­e­vant arti­cles include:

• “Bat­man Actors Ranked from Worst to Best” from Den of Geek
• “All the Bat­man Movies, Ranked” by Eliana Doc­ter­man
• “The Best Order to Watch All the Bat­man Movies” in by Austen Goslin
• “The Top 27 Best Bat­man Comics and Graph­ic Nov­els” from IGN
• “5 Things ‘The Bat­man’ Got Right And 3 Things It Got Wrong” by Haley Petersen

Fol­low us @law_writes, @anthonyleblanc, @johnjwall, and @MarkLinsenmayer.

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