The Batman of the future and Static team up in the new Batman/Static: Beyond six-issue limited series.
The DC Elseworlds title is written by Evan Narcisse with art by Nikolas Draper-Ivey.
Terry McGinnis and Virgil Hawkins patrol the streets of Neo-Gotham and Dakota, as Earth prepares to join a powerful interplanetary alliance called the Cooperative. The plan goes awry when the Justice League Beyond are taken out of the equation by a mysterious villain’s global blackout, forcing Static and Batman Beyond to forge an unlikely alliance.
“I loved the dynamic Nik set up between Static and Batman in the Milestone 30th Anniversary Special where these characters first teamed up with each other,” said Narcisse, “and the most exciting part of this new project has been exploring how different Terry and Virgil are from each other.”
“Static is a former teen hero who grew up to take on even more responsibility for his city and the larger world, while Terry is still figuring out how to do those things in his own way,” added Narcisse. “Terry’s still a high school student but he’s also got the weight of the Batman mantle and the expectations that come with it as key parts of his life now. As an adult member of the Justice League, Virgil’s at a different part of his journey. But he’s driven by an adolescence where systemic injustice changed what it meant to live in his hometown of Dakota. Their approaches to making the world a safer, more just place are extremely different. That difference energizes the big question they have to deal with: can they learn to work together during a critical moment when everything they’ve taken for granted has fallen apart? The whole creative team is going to try and answer that question in Batman/Static: Beyond with a story where deep emotions collide against the backdrop of an uncertain future.”
“This story is intended to be a commentary on our overreliance on technology and the imminent dangers becoming complacent and too comfortable using AI to substitute our own imagination and human ingenuity,” continued Draper-Ivey. “We now use our watches to find our phones, we use our phones to connect to everything else. We don’t rely on our own memories. We rely on technology to remember for us. That deeply concerns me. I worry that we are getting to a point where if all these things were to be suddenly taken away from us in an instant—at the rate we’re going now, humanity will be at a huge disadvantage.”
Batman/Static: Beyond #1 will feature a main cover by Draper-Ivey, and a number of variant cardstock covers by Dustin Nguyen, Rahzzah, and a 1:25 incentive variant by Denys Cowan and Ho Che Anderson. Nguyen’s cover will also be released as a foil variant.
Check out the covers by Draper-Ivey, Rahzzah, and Denys Cowan and Ho Che Anderson and a two-page preview below and look for the first issue in your local comic shop on November 12.
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