DC’s Latest Team-Up Title is Perfect – Especially for Milestone Fans

The latest DC Comics team-up book is bringing back more than one Milestone Icon.

A preview of the new DC comic Batman/Static: Beyond #1 (from Evan Narcisse, Nikolas Draper-Ivey, Wil Quintana, and Wes Abbott) shows Static taking the lead as the DC Universe enters a new phase. Earth has been considered for inclusion in The Cooperative, a massive intergalactic alliance. However, joining isn’t automatic. Static, along with other powerful heroes, must demonstrate why Earth deserves a place among them, and another of Milestone’s iconic heroes is fighting alongside him.

Batman/Static: Beyond#1

  • Written by EVAN NARCISSE
  • Art by NIKOLAS DRAPER-IVEY
  • Colors by WIL QUINTANA
  • Letters by WES ABBOTT
  • Main cover art by NIKOLAS DRAPER-IVEY
  • Variant covers by DUSTIN NGUYEN; RAHZZAH; and DENYS COWAN & HO CHE ANDERSON

Icon, also known as Arnus or Augustus Freeman, first appeared in 1993 in the premiere issue of his self-titled comic, created by the late Dwayne McDuffie and artist M.D. Bright. He’s an almost immortal alien whose spaceship crashed in the American South in the mid-1800s. To fit in, he took the form of a Black man and spent centuries pretending to be the descendant of the person he originally resembled. Eventually, he became a modern-day superhero, fighting crime alongside his partner, Raquel Ervin, who goes by the name Rocket.

Fans have been eager to see Terry McGinnis – the Batman of Batman Beyond – team up again with Virgil Hawkins, known as Static, ever since their first encounter in Nikolas Draper-Ivey’s “Static Beyond” story within the 2023 Milestone 30th Anniversary Special. The writer shared that he particularly enjoyed the chemistry he established between Static and Batman in that initial team-up and that a key focus of this new project is exploring the differences between Terry and Virgil.

In a future not too far away, Terry McGinnis is the new Batman, protecting the city of Neo-Gotham as Batman Beyond. Meanwhile, in Dakota City, Virgil Hawkins, known as Static, is launching a groundbreaking energy system called the Q-Wave Energy Grid. Alongside the Justice League Beyond, these heroes are preparing Earth to join a powerful alliance of planets called the Cooperative. Just when everything seems perfect, a new villain appears, threatening to destroy it all. Now, the unlikely team of Static and Batman Beyond must join forces to save the world.

Batman/Static: Beyond #1 goes on sale November 12 from DC Comics.

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2025-11-11 17:08