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Entertainment Weekly announced Marvel and DC are doing another team-up between at least two characters from different universes after 2 decades, and perhaps unsurprisingly, the whole goal is to pair Deadpool with Batman, in two ways, and at least 2 pretentious writers:

EW can exclusively reveal that Marvel's Merc with a Mouth and DC's Dark Knight will collide this year, crossing swords and batarangs across a new publishing event. On the Marvel side, Zeb Wells, the Spider-Man comics scribe who recently worked on the big-screen spectacular Deadpool & Wolverine, pens a Deadpool/Batman one-shot with art and cover design by veteran artist Greg Capullo, who most recently worked on Wolverine: Revenge.

The story, kicking off this Sep. 17, tells how Wade Wilson is hired for a job in Gotham City that puts him in the crosshairs of the World's Greatest Detective. Accompanying the main one-shot will be a lineup of "backup adventures" that features "exciting Marvel and DC character match-ups," according to an official description. However, details on what that entails, including the creative teams, will be shared at a later date.

"After writing Amazing Spider-Man for 60 issues, I told Marvel I needed a break," Wells tells EW in a statement via email. "Marvel told me I could do that or I could write a comic starring Deadpool and Batman with the best Batman artist of our generation. I no longer needed a break. In Batman we've found someone who has even less time for Deadpool's antics than Wolverine, but a city-wide threat from the Joker makes strange bedfellows (literally, if Deadpool had his way). It's been a blast letting Deadpool loose in Gotham City and watching what happens." [...]

DC brings together comparable creative heavyweights to tackle their respective one-shot. Batman/Deadpool, launching later this November, hails from writer Grant Morrison, whose comics (including All-Star Superman and Batman and Son) now serve as inspiration for the James Gunn and Peter Safran-led DC movie-verse, and artist Dan Mora, who, similar to Capullo, has an immense list of credits to his name. (Details on DC's story and the accompanying "backup adventures" will be announced at a later date.) [...]

Buckley adds, "It just felt like a fun combo. I'll be quite frank. It was nothing more complicated than that. Like, Deadpool hanging out with Batman. There's a lot of levity to be had in there, a lot of fun. And it would also be a little bit uber violent at the same time.... Our big thing is we want to do something that is a lot of fun, showcase comics, generate excitement, and bring new readers or lapsed readers back into the industry."

So they're bringing in some overrated writers who did nothing to improve the ailing image of the industry years before, and possibly another problem is that Batman is surely the character who's been the most noticably featured in these cross-company projects, including with Spawn, Predator and even Danger Girl. Why, even Deadpool was surely no accident as a choice for pairing Batman with at this point. Superman may have been teamed with Spider-Man years before, and even Gen13 in the 90s (I know Wildstorm creations are now owned by DC, but even so...), but compared to the Masked Manhunter, too few were written up co-starring the Man of Steel.

And now, it's simply too late for such team-ups to matter anyway, so what are they trying to prove here? The PC mindsets they go by have drained all the fun out of such stories years ago, and if these specials are ultra violent, seriously, there's not much "fun" to be had in that kind of emphasis.

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