Terry McGinnis, the teenage Batman of Neo-Gotham, and Virgil Hawkins, the Static of Dakota City, will team up in a six-issue DC Elseworlds limited series this fall. Batman/Static: Beyond, by writer Evan Narcisse and artist Nikolas Draper-Ivey, starts with Earth ready to join an interplanetary alliance when suddenly the entire planet goes dark. With a mysterious villain behind the scenes, and the future of Earth in the balance, Terry and Virgil are forced to combine their unique skills to save the world. The first issue will be released on November 12, 2025, with a main cover by Draper-Ivey, open to order variants by Dustin Nguyen and Razzah, and a 1:25 variant by Denys Cowan and Ho Che Anderson. Nguyen’s cover will also be available as a foil variant.

A collected edition of the series is scheduled for August 4, 2026.

“This story is intended to be a commentary on our overreliance on technology and the imminent dangers [of] becoming complacent and too comfortable using AI to substitute our own imagination and human ingenuity,” Draper-Ivey said in a statement accompanying the announcement. “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.”

“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.”

Another Elseworlds series, Immortal Legend Batman, will launch on August 27 (see “DC Announces ‘Superhero Tokusatsu’ Batman Series”).

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