Episode 98 - A Tale of Two Moench Tales
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
Release Date: 02/13/2026
The Road to Episode 100 Part 2 - Bat-Flashack - Episode 1 - The "Untold" Legend of the Batman
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
The road to Episode 100 continues by going ALL the way back to the very first episode of the show! Presented just as it was when it came out, without any cuts to make the guys look better! Way back in 2017, Andy and Mike started The Overlooked Dark Knight with a mandate of talking about Batman comics that hardly anyone talks about. They promptly side stepped that mandate by starting things with an exploration of Batman's history. The Untold Legend of the Batman was a three-issue mini-series written by Len Wein with art (initially) by John Byrne and then (eventually) Jim Aparo. The point of...
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The Road to Episode 100 Part 1 - Bat-Flashack - That Time Andy and Mike Talked About Batman #400
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
Episode 100 of The Overlooked Dark Knight three weeks away! To celebrate this milestone, Andy and Mike thought it might be fun to re-present some older audio that is, sadly, no longer available. It seemed like a fun idea that kills two birds with one stone. Older conversations that can't be found anywhere else can find a new home and you get some extra content. It's a win-win. For everyone. For this first Bat Flashback Mike dusted off an episode of Bailey's Batman Podcast that was originally released in October of 2012. This episode was the first time Andy and Mike got together to talk...
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Episode 99 - Venom - More Than A Very Special Episode
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This time out Andy and Mike go back to the Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight well to talk about a story that came out in 1991 and was very much a done and one tale that later turned out to be one of the building blocks of the Knightfall Saga. (To be fair, they've talked about Legends of the Dark Knight stories before, but that doesn't stop Mike from giving you a history of the title.) Venom was a story that ran from Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #16 to issue #20. Written by Denny O'Neil with art by the unlikely trio of Russell Braun, Trevor Von Eden, and Jose Luis Garcia Lopez,...
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Episode 98 - A Tale of Two Moench Tales
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
Andy and Mike are back and this time they are looking at stories from two different decades but written by the same writer. Doug Moench had two distinct runs on Batman. In the eighties he followed Gerry Conway on Dark Knight writing duties and continued the "Triangle Era before the Triangle Era and without triangles" storytelling style by working on both Batman and Detective Comics. He left the book after Batman #400, but came back to the Batman title in the early nineties just before Knightfall. He would stay on that title until No Mans Land and is one of the rare Bat writers to leave the...
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Episode 97 - One of These Stories Has a Very "Now" Feeling
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Andy and Mike are back with more Elseworlds fun with stories that take place in the 1930's and the late 1800's! And boy was it a mixed bag. First up is Batman: Dark Allegiances, written and drawn by Howard Chaykin. This story, the one set in the 1930's, has a self-made Bruce Wayne fighting against corrupt politicians and a racist secret society with a dash of fascism thrown in for good measure. For a story set in the early part of the 20th century and published a little over three decades ago there is a really "now" feeling to it that Andy and Mike make a meal of. They also talk...
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Episode 96 - The Bride (Eventually) and The Birth of the Demon
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
This time out Andy and Mike continue and finish their look at The Demon Trilogy by talking about The Bride of the Demon and The Birth of the Demon. Though, when you really think about it, it's not a trilogy in the traditional sense. It's kind of like saying that RoboCop 1 through 3 is a trilogy. It's three films (or graphic novels in the case) but it's not one big story by any stretch of the imagination. Not that they compare these two stories to the second and third RoboCop films. At all. Anyway, the guys start with The Bride of the Demon, but much like Andy's assessment of Batman Begins...
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Bat Flashback - Episode 35 - Son of the Demon
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As some of you know, this feed is the second one that Andy and Mike used to put out episodes of The Overlooked Dark Knight. The first one has sadly been lost to the ages, but Mike still has the audio files and this feed has plenty of room for the old stuff. Next week, Episode 96 comes out and during that episode Andy and Mike discuss Batman: Bride of the Demon and Batman: Birth of the Demon. They talked about the first part of what DC now calls a trilogy, Batman: Son of the Demon and Mike thought it would be a good idea to repost the episode here. Anyway, after answering a listener question...
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Episode 95 - Spotlight On... Greg Rucka
The Overlooked Dark Knight: The New Adventures
The final episode of The Overlooked Dark Knight...for 2025, at any rate. This time out Andy and Mike finish up their two part look at Batman in the early 2000's by shining the Bat Signal on Greg Rucka. Rucka began writing Batman in the late 90s during No Man's Land and then had a several year run on Detective Comics. The guys talk about how they were introduced to Rucka as a writer and gush about his novelization of No Man's Land, which is Mike's preferred way to experience that story. Instead of looking at three issues of his Detective run (like they did in the Brubaker spotlight) Mike chose...
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CHRISTMAS 2025 - BATMAN RETURNS COMMENTARY - BBP REPLAY
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Back in 2012, Andy was nice enough to agree to join Mike on his show Bailey's Batman Podcast to do a commentary for Batman Returns. Recently, the episodes of BBP that were available are no longer available for various reasons that all involve money, but Mike thought it might be fun to take the commetnary out of storage and put it here. And thus you get to hear a 13 year old commentary, unedited and just as it was when it was released. Mike hasn't listened to this in quite some time, so he doesn't remember if he or Andy said something that in the decade and change since it came out has become...
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Episode 94 - Spotlight On... Ed Brubaker
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Andy and Mike are back and once again sticking to their mandate of talking about overlooked Batman stories. This time out they present the first part of a two part look at Bat books from the early 2000s that definitely fit that description. Before he revamped Captain America and brought Bucky back from the dead, writer Ed Brubaker worked on Batman. Andy picked out three issues for the guys to talk about and that's exactly what they did because a podcast where the hosts don't say anything would be rather boring. First up is Batman #584, which is a Blair Witch Project inspired tale where two...
info_outlineAndy and Mike are back and this time they are looking at stories from two different decades but written by the same writer. Doug Moench had two distinct runs on Batman. In the eighties he followed Gerry Conway on Dark Knight writing duties and continued the "Triangle Era before the Triangle Era and without triangles" storytelling style by working on both Batman and Detective Comics. He left the book after Batman #400, but came back to the Batman title in the early nineties just before Knightfall. He would stay on that title until No Mans Land and is one of the rare Bat writers to leave the character and then return.
First up on the docket is Batman #367 and Detective Comics #534, which has a pre-Crisis and even pre-Robin Jason Todd dressed in a fancy costume helping the Batman as he battles Poison Ivy. It's a standard Ivy plot for the time, but this doesn't stop these issues from being entertaining. The guys talk about how skimpy Poison Ivy's outfit is, the very seventies television/Hammer Horror feel to the story, the subplots, and the differences between Don Newton and Gene Colan's art.
Then they jump forward to 1995 and talk about Batman #525, which was an Underworld Unleased crossover issue. Not that you would be able to tell that as it has nearly nothing to do with the larger event going on. The story focuses on Mister Freeze and his Underworld Unleashed upgrade, but the bulk of the commentary is about Kelly Jones's art. Mike was not the biggest fan of Kelly's style back in 1995, but that has changed in a big way over the past three decades.
It may not seem like it, but Andy and Mike do like feedback even if they are crap at getting to it. The most direct way to do this is to email them, which you can do by directing your thoughts to overlookeddarkknight@gmail.com. You can also leave a comment over on their Facebook page. You can also leave a comment at the new web home of the show, The Bailey Planet.
Next Time: Andy and Mike jump back to the early nineties and talk about Venom. Not the Spider-Man villain, but a storyline fromBatman: Legends of the Dark Knight that would later become important to the Knightfall storyline.