Daredevil versus Batman!

It's Billy Club vs. Batarang when DD meets the Dark Knight. When you think about it, Daredevil and Batman have a lot in common. Both lost their parents at a young age, both prowl urban jungles, and both strike fear in the hearts of superstitious and cowardly criminals. So why are they at each other's throats? Maybe it's because Batman has chased Two-Face and Mr Hyde into the Big Apple and is soon to learn that he's not in Gotham City anymore. Never miss an episode by subscribing today! bit.ly/2WYvgkt #batman
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[@venomousspiderwookie]

They should turn this into a film. Starring Ben Affleck and Ben Affleck!

[@ItsMichaelReid]

venomousspiderwookie Sounds like an SNL sketch ready to be born

[@WhelmedButReady]

It'll be epic when he wins an Oscar for best lead role-Batman. And Best Supporting Role-DareDevil

[@revilo2099]

They could even get Ben Affleck to direct it.

[@josephm8260]

venomousspiderwookie Affleck V Affleck: Dawn of Affleck

[@SpedeVesku]

"Save... Ben." "WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME?!"

[@Grievousish]

There's a blind joke to be made here somewhere, but I just can't see it.

[@Mojospider2099]

Grievousish you win today

[@jeremykampman3566]

If the big two ever pulled togeather for a daredevil/batman crossover, it needs to be drawn by Greg capullo

[@Ben-yj6qc]

jeremy kampman Now I want to see Capullo’s Daredevil

[@theautisticguitarist7560]

Idk, I'd love to see Chris Samnee's Batman.

[@ItsMichaelReid]

This should be the perfect crossover

[@cmartin4]

It would be if it was written by better people such as Bendis and Maleev

[@antoniorangel9784]

Mind you Batman fought along the Ninja turtles … and they share that chem spill with daredevil

[@luckyafro4991]

"This should be awesome" oh this is going to be a glorious back issues Edit: BENDIS WROTE FOR BATMAN?!

[@comixproviderftw_02]

I'm surprised Frank Miller didn't do this.

[@dariquewarren]

ComiXProvider FTW_02 word! I just spit my drink out lmao rofl I'm imagining Frank writing a really fucked up argument between the brood bros lol

[@jcastrowhite08]

Chichester is Miller's "Allen Smithee"

[@GitShiddy]

I swear while Sal was explaining this I came up with a better Batman/Daredevil crossover in my head & I couldn't write for shit! God damn what a missed opportunity.

[@Murdock_the_Pooch]

What was your idea?

[@mighty_mattman]

Sam Anderson care to share? Or just talking to talk?

[@GitShiddy]

Oh. So same Universe, Bullseye take a job to kill Commissioner Gordon, Joker take umbrage to this because he has plans to fuck with Gordon. So Joker thwarts Bullseyes initial attempt which brings in Batman who assumes it's the Joker doing it. Daredevil hears about the attempt believes it's Bullseye heads for Gotham. Batman & Daredevil punch a bit then there mates, here I'd have a conversation about ideology and quantifying it with how the two deal with faith. They team up to find Bullseye, meanwhile Joker finds Bullseye and they talk a bit then Joker tries to kill Bullseye because 'no one plays with Joker's toys'. But Bullseye can kill Joker easy then classic comics move, Batman & Daredevil show up save Joker from death. They fight Bullseye, then Joker fucks with Daredevil then Daredevil starts wailing on him leading to Joker laughing "He hits harder than you" but the point of the story is who hired Bullseye to kill Gordon. So Bullseye gets caught, Murdock interrogates Bullseye whilst Batman does detective things and Joker is hospitalized in the same hospital as Gordon. The interrogation is full of pathos, Batman finds out it's bigger than they ever thought and off course Joker get's loose and fucks with Gordon in the hospital and Joker tries to tell Gordon why Joker likes to fuck with him. I don't have a who or why because I'm a crap story teller but this story has the bar set real low so...could it all just be a run around by Joker? sure. Kingpin? Why not. Electra teaming up with Talia as a crappy woman scorned plot? Probably not, but that team up would be cool. Like I said the bar is low.

[@ToonGal12]

Same here! I have my own idea: Keep Two-Face as the DC villain (and keep the stuff with Dent and Murdock having gone to school together at some point, only write it a bit better of course), but use Kingpin as the Marvel villain. Maybe Kingpin is just trying to further his criminal empire, and he decides to stake a claim in Gotham, and he convinces Two-Face and his gang to be in on it or something. And maybe circumstances arise where Daredevil has to appear in court, meaning that Matt has to basically be in two places at once, so Batman (who knows his identity by that point) dresses up as Daredevil, and that's how the two are forced to debate each other about justice and their methods of crime fighting or something. And if they really had to do that "game of chicken" scene, maybe the Purple Man (or someone) mind controls them to fight each other? Or Batman gets mind controlled, and DD doesn't move when Bats is about to run him over because DD's plan is "I know this guy isn't a killer, so maybe the shock of running me over will snap him out of it." And at the last second, Bats is like, "What the heck am I doing?!" and swerves at the last second, and then later says, "Jeez. You really ARE the Man Without Fear." (I'm just throwing out random ideas at this point.)

[@ctl6985]

Sam Anderson I'd rather see a Daredevil/Nightwing crossover

[@Evyscreations]

"Stub your toe or hit your thumb with a hammer instead of reading this book." A ringing endorsement if I ever heard one!!!

[@EC-ed1zg]

So why did this book not have The League of Assassins taking on The Hand?

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

Because that's a cool idea.

[@JamalUddin-zl2vs]

How about League of Assassins + The Hand vs Batman + Red Hood + Daredevil + Punisher???

[@IvanTheTurrible]

DG Chichester sounds like what Mr. Peanut's real name was before he legally changed it after getting the peanut gig

[@atenakehnaton3965]

I love Daredevil, I actually prefer him over Batman, but Batman has the best rogues gallery hands down and that's what makes him the best overall.

[@puppetchaos]

30:48 - Ben saying weird random things like that are why he's my favorite of the Back Issues crew.

[@LouDawgStudios]

For some reason i pictured batman and daredevil getting to the crime scene at the same time literally shoving each other as they go through doorway lol

[@MrRoccoandhunter]

Btw that Wonder Woman statue at the back is freaking awesome

[@comicpop]

+MrRoccoandhunter Thank you!

[@paige7576]

I need a movie where ben Affleck plays both of them

[@KillerPredator900]

I fucking love this channel

[@joshuanelson6795]

In fairness to D.G. Chichester, he wrote a great story called "Last Rites" from DAREDEVIL vol. 1 #297-300 where Daredevil dismantles The Kingpin's entire criminal empire. It's basically "Born Again" but in reverse.

[@royal9057]

for as bad as the actual crossover was you three made it hilarious like always! love the work you all!!

[@accidentalmadness1708]

"Are you daring me" cheesy cartoon smile

[@xw2542]

6:30 I was expecting him today something like “It’s Batman, but he’s Superman” for speeding bullets, but alas, no reference

[@GuyWithAnAmazingHat]

How is it even possible to hear a heartbeat inside a car with a jet engine, from a distance far enough for you to still have time to think when it is driving at top speed?

[@GuyWithAnAmazingHat]

This is Superman's level of super hearing, yet he couldn't hear Batman's heartbeat when he was stalking Daredevil. Just the usual comic book inconsistency I guess.

[@MugenNiFukuzatsuna]

I partly agree. But remember Daredevil doesn't hear everything all the time. He has to be selective with what he is focusing it on.

[@20DollarGoldPiece]

GuyWithAnAmazingHat Batman was using his plot amour

[@danzigvssartre]

"You're not supposed to crap in your hat" - I had no idea. Thanks ComicPOP!

[@guymeganmadeekbrown2991]

It seems that the worse the comic is the better the back issues episode is. Great episode very funny

[@waqashussain3120]

Loved this episode and I know Sal hates this but if I may, I would love to see more: 1. Marvel: 80s and Early 90's X-Men, Classic Spider-Man(80s, and early 2000s, J Michael Straczynski, and Marvel Knights), Marvel Knights, More Ultimate Universe stuff: Ultimates 1 Vol 2 as well as Ultimates 2, Ultimate X-Men(Sometimes it was great sometimes it was shit) and Ultimate Fantastic Four(really dug this series) 2. DC: Geoff Johns' Justice League, Hawk-World, more Rebirth books, Teen Titans/Titans(Judas Contact did pretty well...), Birds of Prey(Dixon and Simone are both great runs), Bludhaven 90's and 2000's Nightwing(New 52/Rebirth Nightwing sucks hard), Shazam?(the movie looks promising), Legion of Superheroes(One day they will be great again), More Geoff Johns Green Lantern, Mark Waid and Geoff Johns Flash, Brad Meltzer JLA(its kinda cool)

[@karsoncompton2340]

Metal ZEO what’s wrong with new 52 nightwing I kinda understand rebirth

[@waqashussain3120]

he's written as a complete pussy, with CW esq writing, both New 52 and Rebirth, he's written as DC's Spider-Man, which he is NOT

[@matiasleon9657]

Ultimate avengers vs nee Ultimates was amazing. SPOILER ALERT, I would love to see their faces when Sal tells them that Thor overkills Stark's brother. Man, that was an amazing ending 😂

[@brianadkins3880]

Them reviewing the POWER OF SHAZAM! series would be fun!

[@mttylerdurden9]

how do we still not have a Ninja turtles/Daredevil crossover?HOW!?!?!?!

[@liverusrock6789]

Cuz Marvel doesn't do Crossovers now... because they're idiots

[@antoniorangel9784]

The 2019 Batman and tmnt could’ve been the way to cross everything over

[@michaelreed6375]

Was so sure this would be a Thor book this week. Back Issues makes sure you’re constantly wrong about stuff they have complete control over lol. Great episode

[@TevyaSmolka]

Oh boy this is going to be so much fun

[@deltaprime3509]

Tevya Smolka I wish that more people would do videos about the character the shadow

[@TevyaSmolka]

DeltaPrime350 you and me both man because the shadow is such a underrated character

[@deltaprime3509]

Tevya Smolka underrated now back durning 1930’s to 1950’s he was one of the dominated superheroes of that time period to the point where if he wasn’t around there would be no Batman.

[@TevyaSmolka]

yup that's entirely true

[@CosmicNerdStudios]

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ONE FOR SO LONG AND I FORGOT TO TURN OFF CAPS LOCK OK BYE!

[@benhramiak8781]

Someone draw the bear cookie man. That bits hilarious

[@chriswait9679]

Now that Elongated Man is on Flash...maybe it's time for 52?

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! YES!

[@dirklittle]

It's Batman but it's really Superman! Yeah Speeding Bullets!

[@Insane-Howl-Cowl]

I'd love to see a Batman/Moon Knight crossover. Or a Daredevil/TMNT crossover.

[@antoniorangel9784]

Yeah! Cuz Batman already fought the ninja turtles.. and tmnt and daredevil share the chemical spill

[@Hamblinjordan97]

The pre-story breakdown is always the best!

[@JoshuaOfGrandRapids]

Imma draw you DG Chichester as a lemur, in a sparkling top hat, surfing on an oatmeal cream pie to "I like to move it"

[@mlgibson88]

Whaaat...? Loved how over this Tiffany is...lol. And Ben as always is awesome. 'And you're Batman!'

[@mlgibson88]

#Hellblazer

[@WhelmedButReady]

Do Batman: Endgame. Also, Sal you've helped me re-fall in love with comics just through binging Back Issues. And now I also hate tie-ins just as much as you after seeing the Shadowland rant

[@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache]

I will commend this story for teaming up Two-Face and Mr. Hyde. These two characters display the duality of man, how we have both a dark side and a light side. It's kind of brilliant. Like putting on socks with sandals. I now have the freedom given by sandals, but also the comfort of socks warming my feet, and now my feet won't get dirty, and oh god this was a terrible mistake that shouldn't have come into this Earth.

[@brianadkins3880]

Love Tiffany's comment/joke about the name D.G. Chichester at the beginning. Btw,I have this book. lol Somewhere.

[@Jhakson]

Yes!! I love these wonderful, fundumbdiculous books :D

[@fredrikgranstrom6743]

this is a no-brainer team up

[@theresamonroe1651]

I'm so on board for this thanks crew !!!

[@joshpecker4352]

I saw comic pop I click

[@alexandrumarin8981]

That ending SUUUUCKED

[@kingpacman_9118]

Should make a TMNT/Daredevil crossover

[@antoniorangel9784]

I hate how it’s not a crossover when they share the same chem spill thing

[@kingpacman_9118]

@@antoniorangel9784 What's funny is TMNT was a parody to Daredevil but it became a legendary comic that it is today

[@antoniorangel9784]

@@kingpacman_9118 not the biggest tmnt fan but that old arcade game was legit , lots of good memories

[@heabs8850]

So much potential for a great crossover but they dropped the ball hard. At least it made for a fun episode of Back Issues lol.

[@adammillan8332]

You guys have to do a drawing of your description of D.G. Chichester. On another note, I hope there's gonna be a "tangents" episode on this because it looked like a lot was edited out.

[@JudgeDredd35]

Great back issues! I Do think crossovers have gotten a bit better recently, I read the first two issues of Wonder Woman/ Conan and that was actually pretty decent!

[@landonny]

HOW DO THEY MESS THIS ONE UP.

[@venomousspiderwookie]

They just didn't care.

[@rodney2x48]

Nice. I hope you guys do the X-Men and Teen Titans crossover some day. That one's a pretty cool crossover.

[@antoniorangel9784]

Or watchmen

[@aidanhedges9231]

So bad, and yet so good.

[@saketiswara]

This was a short video :( I like the longer backisuses they're nice to listen to in a car

[@jcastrowhite08]

What?! You mean in a superhero crossover they fight each other first in a misunderstanding and then team up? Color me SHOCKED!!

[@comicpop]

+J. White Yeah man.

[@alexandrumarin8981]

I have vague memories of seeing this stuff around 2007-2009. Scott McDaniel has a memorable style

[@thread6971]

I always found it funny how daredevil should be called batman, since he uses sonar hearing and echolocation as his greatest ability, like a bat. Batman should be called Daredevil cause he's just a normal ass guy who dresses up and does stunts all over the city, striking fear into criminals, like a devil.

[@TommyBaysMusic]

This is a criminally underviewed video.... this is crossover gold and Daredevil is blind as a bat......man...... lol

[@Hamblinjordan97]

Look forward to this show all week!

[@Marcus-xk9im]

Forgot it Wednesday until I saw back issues in my subscription box!

[@sithapprentic03]

wait how did two face knock over a desk at an internet cafe. in all my time I have never been to an internet cafe that doesn't have tables bolted down to the floors

[@macklinbutcher1865]

At some point, it would be cool if you did Marvel's 2013 'Infinity' event. Or Annihilation. (The one with Annihilus, not Ultron. Can't remember exactly.) Those two are some of my personnal favorites from Marvel.

[@hulktopf5031]

That book has one of the coolest comic panels ever though: batman throws four batarang at daredevil. He caught them in a way where the b-rangs represent devil horns. Sounds cheesy but damn it looks awesome.

[@dekaritheprofessor2631]

I love that The writers angered Sal so much that he said "Bitch" on air😆❤👍🏾

[@tyranus159]

They should of had Frank Miller do this crossover. It could have absolutely amazing or absurd

[@Beliasa01]

After this I now know why I have never heard of Chichester 😪

[@TommyBaysMusic]

Criminally underviewed episode

[@danielrush9917]

OH SHIT!!! TWO DAREDEVIL BOOKS IN A MONTH! I FUCKIN LOVE IT!!!

[@danielrush9917]

Well that comment was premature... meh, I'd still read it.

[@greenechri]

You should do an episode where you try to hash the which are the bottom 5 comics from Back Issues

[@Raidanzoup]

I remember reading a probe sent to fly by Pluto was using the CPU of the original Playstation, so maybe the villains were thinking of, like, daisy-chaining the boards for computing power or whatever? lol.

[@princednice0703]

Hey guys love everything you guys do. I know how much you guys like DC Rebirth, do you think you will ever cover Batman/The Flash "The Button" story? I would love to see you guys cover this great story, have a good day.

[@mr.master2017]

Chip Zdarsky should write a Batman/Daredevil crossover

[@haasztamas]

oh boy, here we go again. i saw that post on twitter, don't think i didn't! I AM IN FOR SHITTING ON THIS BOOK, I AM SO IN, I FUCKING DESPISE THIS COMIC! OMG THE MISSED OPPORTUNITIES, JESUS!

[@camerond4689]

Frickin sweet

[@jonfedien8637]

I've been waiting for this

[@oldkingcole4354]

I would love if they did a World War II captain America justice society crossover

[@pageturner99]

I bet they fight, get along and then fight someone else (like a bad guy or upcomming evil).... it's gonna be great... Ps: love the show

[@ledzepp25]

That last image of Daredevil is fucking baffling

[@toyotatacoma1616]

It looks like they’re about to get into a fistfight at the gala. I imagine that Alfred and foggy had to pull them off of each other.

[@samchafin4623]

Maybe the book should have been about Daredevil explaining to Batman why every time he strings a crook up for the police to find, all the evidence around them is inadmissible.

[@antgto]

I'm totally with Ben about Hackers Angelina Jolie.

[@zaroc91]

Daredevil x Nightwing would be cool.

[@timcarder2170]

Hackers Angelina vs Back Issues Tiffany. Tiff wins, hands down. But that's 'my' opinion. I could be wrong. (i'm NOT, but i could be)

[@vguyver2]

Honestly thought this would have been a good one as a kid.It even had Two Face as the villain. I was thinking the plot would be: Two-Face is committing crimes that pulls in both Batman and Daredevil. Batman can compare Daredevil to Harvey Dent if he had become a vigilante, reminding himself of how he misses and respected Dent. Now he'd hunting Dent, and Daredevil is grappling with the fact that the man he is hunting, was someone who helped solidify his view of Justice, a person he feels had the roles been reversed, would he himself of become this monster? Aww well. It was a kids pipe dream anyways...

[@yohsephcassidy7324]

yea it iz

[@ellrick]

When Sal shits on your favorite Nightwing artist :(

[@alexandrumarin8981]

There's some interesting context for this story if you read Chichester's Wikipedia beforehand

[@darrenfromwales7978]

Good morning comic pop community. Hope you are safe and well. Sorry to hear avout events earlier this week. Hope nobody was effected

[@blasphemous9693]

Gimme a new ultimate spiderman Sal!! i need it!!

[@MrRoccoandhunter]

Sal why don't you do Superman Earth One Volume 2. It's a pretty good story

[@JoshMunroe]

The best villain for this crossover would've been Crazy Quilt

[@daraghokane4236]

Ten eyed man vs daredvil

[@ItsOver9000Productions]

So when is the next Marvel/DC crossover? Seriously. They need to get their crap together.

[@ShawnWeeded510]

This comic is trash. Loved the video though but Imma steer clear of this book.

[@maymay5600]

when was this a crossover? is this the dc vs marvel crossover, they did this part? lol

[@coryfountain4638]

Daredevil is cool right now. I like the souls run

[@SpioraidNaHabhainn]

how about a Back Issues of JLA Obsidian Age

[@1337snake888]

Slow down with the Chichester slander, his Daredevil run wasn't all that bad.

[@comicpop]

Correct! It was worse!

[@FatSnorlax]

Hell yeah! This should be awesome right? Right?

[@Southguy42]

Ben afflect played both

[@ABenAbides]

You can count on the ComicPop Team to make a terrible comic hilarious with their commentary haha.

[@richardgrayson5727]

Superior ironman on back issues??

[@Sicod79]

Dardevil laughs at this being the worst crossover ever....and at fear gas.

[@cmmosher8035]

It sounds like we found the inspiration for Zack Snyder's Batman.

[@leonardfabian8942]

Um sorry but I'm not a fan of Star Trek sorry never watched any of the shows or movie, I Know I know but I like your Show. 👍