DC Studios Showcase Official Podcast | The Escape Pod Podcast Celebrates Batman Day | HBO Max
Batman Day gets the full nerd treatment on this episode of DC Studios Showcase: The Official Podcast. Frankey and Coy sit down with the Escape Pod Podcast’s Alex Azor and Andrew Parker, then Wil Wheaton and Tommy Walker from the Stuart Fails to Save the Universe podcast, for a deep dive into Batman, the Robins, Gotham City, iconic Super-Villains, and the DC episode of Stuart Fails to Save the Universe.
Episode Breakdown
✅ Is Batman actually ethical for recruiting child sidekicks? Frankey and Coy put the Robin question on trial
✅ Alex and Andrew reveal their favorite Robins, from Dick Grayson and Jason Todd to Tim Drake and Carrie Kelley
✅ Batman vs. Spider-Man’s rogues gallery: the debate gets heated over The Dark Knight’s greatest Super-Villains
✅ Wil Wheaton and Tommy Walker talk Batman, physical media, comic book fandom, and their Golden Age DC Universe
✅ Tommy reveals what it was like to become one of the many versions of Gary and get iced by Mr. Freeze in Stuart Fails to Save the Universe
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YouTube Chapters:
0:00 — Intro: It’s Batman Day
3:02 — Is Batman ethical for recruiting child sidekicks?
6:42 — The Robins debate gets serious
7:06 — Escape Pod Podcast joins Frankey and Coy
15:15 — Who’s the best Robin?
23:19 — Batman vs. Spider-Man’s rogues gallery
24:32 — Favorite Batman villains
27:14 — Bane, Catwoman and Batman’s most complicated villains
30:12 — Wil Wheaton and Tommy Walker join the show
34:12 — What’s on your deep-space thumb drive?
42:22 — Are Batman’s villains reflections of his psyche?
43:28 — Why Batman connects with every generation
46:43 — Stuart Fails to Save the Universe and the DC episode
47:30 — Mr. Freeze and Gary’s multiverse deaths
48:48 — Gotham is New Jersey?!
53:16 — Wil Wheaton and Tommy Walker sign off
55:57 — Outro
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