DC / Marvel: Batman / Deadpool

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Mark Brooks Variant

(Go here to see the other variants I picked up)

Release:	Nov 19, 2025
Cover:	Jan 2026

Creators

Writer	Grant Morrison, Mariko Tamaki, James Tynion IV, G. Willow Wilson, Tom Taylor, Scott Snyder, Joshua Williamson
Artist	Amanda Conner, Bruno Redondo, Dan Mora, Hayden Sherman
Cover Artist	Mark Brooks
Penciller	Denys Cowan
Inker	Klaus Janson
Colorist	Alejandro Sánchez, Mike Spicer, Francesco Segala, Tamra Bonvillain, Adriano Lucas
Letterer	Frank Cvetkovic, Steve Wands, Wes Abbott, Dave Sharpe, Todd Klein
Editor	Andrew Marino, Marie Javins
Editor in Chief	Marie Javins

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While I was annoyed, I wasn’t surprised that the first DC/Marvel crossover in years would focus on Batman. DC does, after all, tend to forget that they have other characters, and in fairness, they do so with good reason. Who makes them more money than Batman does?

The Deadpool part was a bit more surprising, but the Merc with a Mouth is popular and has been a bit of a cash cow for them, at least in other media. I would have expected Wolverine – there is a bit of a crossover with him in this, kind of – or Spider-Man, though the latter has been held in reserve for a crossover with Superman next year to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first crossover, which was also the first ever DC/Marvel crossover.

Regardless, I definitely didn’t expect to get two crossovers in one year, within months of each other.

This one, from Grant Morrison and Dan Mora, isn’t a sequel to the last one. At least, not exactly. Deadpool thinks it is, but Batman has no memory of their previous encounter.

Being both a Deadpool story and a story written by Morrison, the story is, of course, extremely meta. It’s more than meta. It’s meta meta.

It features a Morrison villain who has encountered Deadpool on the silver screen, and the return of a great gag from John Ostrander’s run on Suicide Squad that explored the consequences of Morrison writing themself into the story back in their Animal Man days.

There are also some fun bits like Batman making the obvious comparison of Wade Wilson AKA Deadpool to Slade Wilson AKA Deathstroke, and an appearance by Dark Claw, the Batman/Wolverine mash-up from the Amalgam Age of Comics.

In the JLA/Avengers crossover, the avatars of their respective universes – the male Eternity for Marvel and the female Kismet for DC – were depicted as locked in a kiss to represent the comingling of multiverses. That idea is revisited here, though the intensity of the kiss is ramped up considerably. I particularly enjoyed the bit at the end when we see the anthropomorphic abstract concepts experiencing a moment of post-nut clarity.

I liked Batman/Deadpool more than Deadpool/Batman, but where most people will land depends on whether they prefer a more “out there” meta story or a more straightforward action story.

The rest of the book is rounded out by a John Constantine/Dr. Strange crossover that compares and contrasts the darker corners of the DC and Marvel Universes, contending that DC’s tends to be seedier than Marvel’s.

Tom Taylor gets to bring his friends from different social circles together in a Nightwing and Wolverine – Laura Kinney – story.

The Harley Quinn and Hulk story is slight but goofy, and it was nice to see some Amanda Conner art.

The book closes out with a team-up between Static and Ms. Marvel from G. Willow Wilson and Denys Cowan, which continues a theme I liked in this crossover of creators getting the chance to revisit old friends, which seems fitting for this new wave of intercompany crossovers.

As a reminder, I’ve been forced to take this entire week off from my day job, and as a result of not having enough PTO to cover it and the nearly two weeks I’ll be forced to take off at the end of the year, I’m going to end up missing out on a full day’s wages.

Because I’ve got the time and need the traffic and the – theoretical – revenue it can generate, I’m posting something new every day this week. Tomorrow will be the Pull List, of course, but I’ll have something else for you on Thursday. I won’t tell you what, but I will say that I’m going to stick with the crossover theme.

Anyway, while you’re here, click around and check out some of the other stuff I’ve posted.

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