Marvel and DC Announce First Comic Crossover in 22 Years with Deadpool-Batman Pairing (ew.com)
(Tuesday May 27, 2025 @05:20PM (msmash)
from the breaking-the-fourth-wall dept.)
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- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/05/27/1737246/marvel-and-dc-announce-first-comic-crossover-in-22-years-with-deadpool-batman-pairing
- Source link: https://ew.com/marvel-dc-crossover-2025-deadpool-batman-first-look-exclusive-11741707
Marvel Entertainment and DC Comics have announced their first crossover event since 2003's JLA/Avengers, featuring [1]Deadpool and Batman in dual one-shot publications launching later this year. Deadpool/Batman one-shot launches September 17 and follows Wade Wilson hired for a Gotham City job that puts him against Batman.
DC's Batman/Deadpool counterpart launches in November. Both publications will include additional "backup adventures" featuring other character matchups, though creative teams for those remain unannounced. The crossover required extensive coordination between the companies' editorial schedules, which typically plan two to three years in advance.
[1] https://ew.com/marvel-dc-crossover-2025-deadpool-batman-first-look-exclusive-11741707
DC's Batman/Deadpool counterpart launches in November. Both publications will include additional "backup adventures" featuring other character matchups, though creative teams for those remain unannounced. The crossover required extensive coordination between the companies' editorial schedules, which typically plan two to three years in advance.
[1] https://ew.com/marvel-dc-crossover-2025-deadpool-batman-first-look-exclusive-11741707
Here's a thought . . . (Score:1)
by KrispiCritter ( 1992638 )
How about a Deadpool/Green Lantern crossover?
Desperate Times (Score:3)
Sales must be down again for both companies. Marvel and DC only do crossovers as way to goose revenue when sales are slumping. We saw this in the 70s and later in the 90s when both companies' sales were collapsing. I wonder what else they have planned?
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> Sales must be down again for both companies. Marvel and DC only do crossovers as way to goose revenue when sales are slumping. We saw this in the 70s and later in the 90s when both companies' sales were collapsing. I wonder what else they have planned?
Probably depends on the desperation level. I would expect to see Infinite Crisis on Infinite Earths in Infinite Universes in Infinite Multiverses start playing out if the desperation gets deep enough. Pretty soon you won't be able to tell which parody universe is invading which parody universe in which comic universe. Until they blow it all up and start all over again, thinking that destroying continuity is the best way to gain a new audience.
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Probably true.
However, a deadpool/batman mashup sounds amazing. Especially if it makes it to a movie.
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I'm not a comic book fan but enjoyed the first two Deadpool movies. The last movie was 95% in jokes for things I have never read or watched. How it holds a 7.5 on IMDB I'll never know.
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All superhero movies are overrated on IMDB.