The Black Casebook
@blackcasebook.bsky.social
Podcast exploring history, politics, philosophy and more through Batman’s greatest stories. https://open.spotify.com/show/0g0eISbWRkv01Xig3bmw5X
Got a Japanese friend look like Akira Yoshida Got a White friend look like Akira Yoshida
Maybe Haley Stevens should’ve talked even more like a character from an old-timey cartoon that has to be prefaced by an “it was a different time” disclaimer
I’m so many episodes behind but can’t wait to get to this
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...
Believe it or not, I actually did edit down the DKR episode. Tangents I had to cut: - James Baldwin visiting John Brown's grave - Lunacharsky and the God-Builders - Moorcock et al. criticizing escapism - Various communist perspectives on the American Revolution - Lots on Hamlet and subjectivity
I appreciate that after people complained about the series finale being too abstract and shoddy, Anno and co. decided to create an active cognitohazard with End of Evangelion
When the discussion moved from the history of Futurism to a breakdown of the first TDKR page, I knew we never left. Everyone should listen to The Black Casebook
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...
Thanks for the kind words about the new episode, everybody. I put myself out there a little more than I’m normally comfortable with on this one, and I’m glad it’s resonating with y’all
Post inspired by The Dark Knight Returns, naturally. A text I engage with in a completely different way from when I first read it as a teenager
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · last mo.One of the best defenses against ennui is the way your relationship with art—even favorite works you think you understand comprehensively—changes as you age and your perspective shifts. A text is completed by its audience; as long as you can change, it can change
It brings me no pleasure to report that this and Bill Skarsgard as Professor X are both excellent castings deadline.com/2026/07/x-me...
New 'X-Men' Movie Casts Samara Weaving As Emma Frost
Samara Weaving is set to play Emma Frost in Marvel Studios' new X-Men movie.
deadline.com
I just listened to this episode and it was incredible (and also a good breakdown of the Batman run that made me stop reading the title for several years)
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · 3w agoWow, sounds like a really fascinating guy! I wish there was an easy way for me to learn more about him and his super badass spy career!
Have you heard the good news? Have you told five of your closest friends? Have you formed a revolutionary cadre to uphold Black Casebook Thought?
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...
It's time to ring the bell again- cheers to the second best podcast out there. (For contractual reasons I can't say it's better than my own, even when it very clearly is.)
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...
Chris Carter has a Neil Gorsuchian reverence for Native American wisdom
Frank Miller is a land of contrasts, and I don't just mean his use of chiaroscuro.
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · 6d agoICYMI: The Black Casebook is back and bigger than ever, baby. We're examining the good, the bad, and the ugly of Frank Miller and The Dark Knight Returns, a document of the '80s that still resonates profoundly with the way life feels in 2026.
ICYMI: The Black Casebook is back and bigger than ever, baby. We're examining the good, the bad, and the ugly of Frank Miller and The Dark Knight Returns, a document of the '80s that still resonates profoundly with the way life feels in 2026.
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...
Also whoever did that intro track is a clearly a genius that everyone should give money to.
Big Congrats to Big Walt for this Big Episode! It's been a long time coming, and I can tell right from the start that it was *well* worth the wait.
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...
The Man Of A Handful Of Voices strikes again this episode
Manscape: Torment@exhaustedweirdo.bsky.social · 6d ago@blackcasebook.bsky.social I love your Stan Lee impression. Please either never do it again or narrate the entirety of Marvel Comics: The Untold Story where you have to do the voices for everyone.
AKA the "Is Batman fascist?" episode
The Black Casebook@blackcasebook.bsky.social · 6d agoNEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...
NEW EPISODE! The Black Casebook returns with a suitably epic analysis of perhaps the single most influential story in Batman's history. Frank Miller and his collaborators called down the lightning to make this book; four decades later, we're still interpreting the thunder. pod.link/1618791941/e...
Casefile #20: The Dark Knight Returns
Listen to Casefile #20: The Dark Knight Returns from The Black Casebook wherever you get your podcasts!
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