Batman (of Batman Beyond) is teaming up with Static (of Static Shock) for a new six-issue miniseries from DC Comics titled, appropriately, Batman/Static: Beyond. Launching in November, the series will be written by Evan Narcisse with art by Nikolas-Draper-Ivey, and will fall under DC’s Elseworlds imprint.
“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 via press release, “and the most exciting part of this new project has been exploring how different Terry and Virgil are from each other.”
Added Draper-Ivey, “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. 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.”
In the series, Terry McGinnis (the Batman of the future-set Neo-Gotham) is wrestling with the emergence of the Q-Wave Energy Grid, a new tech pioneered by Virgil Hawkins. Meanwhile, Earth is about to join the interplanetary alliance known as the Cooperative, with the Justice League Beyond brokering the deal… Until a mysterious villain causes a global blackout. So it’s up to Static and Batman to save the world.
“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,” continued 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.”
Batman/Static: Beyond #1 will feature a main cover by Draper-Ivey, alongside variants by Dustin Nguyen, Rahzzah, and Denys Cowan and Ho Che Anderson. The six-issue series will debut on November 12, 2025, and get collected in a trade edition scheduled for August 4, 2026.
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