DC is presenting a futuristic team-up between Terry McGinnis, the cyberpunk Batman of Neo-Gotham, and Virgil Hawkins, the electrically powered Static of Dakota City in Batman/Static: Beyond. The popular DC animation and comic stars come together in a six-issue limited series by writer Evan Narcisse (Rise of the Black Panther) and artist Nikolas Draper-Ivey (Static: Shadows of Dakota). Published under the DC Elseworlds imprint, it will debut in the fall of 2025.

Batman Beyond and Static teamed up for the first time in the Milestone 30th Anniversary Special. The Batman/Static: Beyond series starts with Terry patrolling Neo-Gotham and Vigil overseeing the launch of the revolutionary Q-Wave Energy Grid. The Earth is set to join the Cooperative, an interplanetary alliance, when a mysterious figure creates a global blackout. With the entire world in danger without technology, Static and Batman Beyond team-up to save the world from darkness and chaos.

“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,” Draper-Ivey said. “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,” Narcisse said. “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 features a main cover by Draper-Ivey, and variants by Dustin Nguyen (regular cardstock and foil variant), Rahzzah, and a 1:25 incentive variant by Denys Cowan and Ho Che Anderson.

The first issue arrives on November 12, and DC has already announced that the six-issue collected edition will be out on August 4, 2026.