Marvel and DC Announce First Comic Crossover in 22 Years with Deadpool-Batman Pairing (ew.com) 22
Marvel Entertainment and DC Comics have announced their first crossover event since 2003's JLA/Avengers, featuring 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.
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.
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Does my breath smell like your mom?
Don't get dirty, I mean your moms cookies.
She makes me cookies after we do it.
Desperate Times (Score:4, Insightful)
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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.
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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.
I think at this point just having a superhero movie that was more fun than lecturing was such a giant improvement over the usual that people were excited for it, if they are interested in the genre at all. The in-jokes hit with the crowd that watches all of them. I honestly thought there were even a few good gags in there for non-comic book movie fans. You know there was more than one girl dragged to this thing that had a moment of, "HEY! HE'S TALKIN' TO ME!" when Nicepool popped off, "The Proposal" while h
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Sometimes, they write love letters to the fans.
LK
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Sometimes, they write love letters to the fans.
LK
Agreed. Though, now that Deadpool has been pulled under the Disney umbrella, there's every chance that will be the last love letter we see for a while. I just have this sneaking suspicion that no matter how good intentioned Reynolds is next go-round, the house of mouse won't be able to leave him and his crew alone.
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Yep. Same here, more or less. After witching it, I have watched a large amount of previous MCU movies in order to understand these in jokes. Turned out an almost complete waste of time since these in jokes are not that funny and with the exception of the Loki tv show, which is a cute retrofuturistic take on Asimov's "the end of eternity" the MCU is not really interesting for someone who doesn't care about comic books.
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I don't often get those good belly laughs when watching movies.. but when Chris Evans makes his debut in the movie and disappoints Dead Pool.. I lost it. Completely forgot about the original character.
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That is probably part of the motivation - the inventory of original IP to frack-mine from comics is limited, and Marvel movies have not figured out the formula to *evolve* new IP beyond the derivative (besides "hire James Gunn for a movie" which only worked for so long).
Deadpool is peak derivative / self referential humor - which is not a bad thing if excellently executed, but it needs fresh material and new foils. I'm very optimistic about deadpool vs batman on a marvel movie for the same reasons batman i
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Well, it's likely because comic book distribution is a mess right now. DC pulling out of Diamond complicated matters with comic shops who have to set up new accounts and pay separate shipping and everything else. Costs were higher with DC comics as a result so many comic stores had to raise prices. Maybe not so much in the US, but in Canada many stores raised their prices only on DC comics.
Of course, now we have the problem where Diamond went bankrupt and they haven't gone smoothly. Many publishers terminat
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Okay I read your post, so what I want to know is; is it a mess?
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Remember it's not Marvel any more, it's disney.
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They are probably looking to keep their popular characters in the public's minds. There are no more movies with either character on the horizon.
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Gay wedding.
Do people really still watch superhero movies ? (Score:2)
I can't believe we haven't reached market saturation yet and they ate still being made in numbers. Hopefully we are past the peak, at least.