If you have been waiting patiently for a new Static story, your wait is almost over as DC Comics announced that Static and Batman are teaming up in the upcoming Batman/Static: Beyond. That’s right, Terry McGinnis and Virgil Hawkins are teaming… IN THE FUTURE!
In the debut issue, Terry McGinnis patrols the neon-lit streets of Neo-Gotham while Virgil Hawkinspioneers a technological revolution with the launch of the Q-Wave Energy Grid. As Earth prepares to joina powerful interplanetary alliance called the Cooperative, the Justice League Beyond stands ready tousher in a new era of peace. But when a mysterious villain triggers a global blackout, the planet’s futurehangs in the balance. With technology crippled and chaos rising, Static and Batman Beyond must forgean unlikely alliance and take a grounded approach to saving the world before it’s too late.
Batman/Static: Beyond is written by Evan Narcisse with Nikolas Draper-Ivey providing the art.
“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,” said Nikolas Draper-Ivey in a press release. “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 in the same press release from DC Comics. “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 arrives on November 12, 2025.
