It ’s a common prank that Warner Bros. will put Batman in basically anything , be itFortnite , shows fortoddlers , orpodcasts . thwart over and getting into other mediums or other the great unwashed ’s business part of the Dark Knight ’s whole Thing , and one of the most popular crossovers of the bunch was a pair of 1994 one - blastoff — Spawn / Batman from Frank Miller and Spawn creator Todd MacFarlane , and Batman / Spawn : War Devils by Alan Grant , Doug Moench , Chuck Dixon , and Klaus Janson . And since crossover are all the rage these days , the two are derive back together to do it all again .
Batman / Spawn was announced back iin the summertime , but with the record ’s December release drawing nearer , DC ’s put out an animated drone to hype up the one - dig . write by MacFarlane and draw by recurring Batman creative person Greg Capullo , the story kicks off when theCourt of Owlscall on Spawn to do what they ca n’t and finally down Batman . While it does n’t appear to be in the same continuity as those previous crossovers , it probably wo n’t solve out in the Owls ’ favor disregarding .
Spawn himself has been no alien to crossovers , with the most late being his appearance in NetherRealm’sMortal Kombat 11 , after MacFarlane and NetherRealm antecedently assay to get him into anterior game . The Image character also concisely showed up in Ready Player One ’s film adaptation in 2018 , and who can block when Spawn was a guest fiber in Soul Calibur II all the fashion back in 2002 ? mayhap he ’ll show up in Fortnite once his movie in reality gets to calculate like it ’ll see spill .
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Batman / Spawn will let go of on December 13 . If the dawdler has you feel nostalgic , both Spawn / Batman and War Devils will be reprinted in a individual Collected Edition bundle on November 15 .
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