Even Before it Hit Comic Shelves This Week, People Went Crazy for a Leaked Image of Batman and Shadow’s first encounter in the pages of Dc x sonic #1. For good reason: it’s wonderful in the best way a crossover can be, Uterly Absurd and Yet at the same time time complete sincere in its conviction. But the best part of their brief dynamic in the issue is what come after.
The overall premise of Dc x sonic #1, by IAN Flynn, Adam Bryce Thomas, Matt Herms, and BECCA Carey, is par for the crossover course. Darkseid’s shown up in Sonic’s World A Little Planetoid-Sized Version of His HIS OWN face, see the chaos emeralds as a way to divine even the evane even Starts flinging parademons about the place. Suddenly, sonic and all his pals find themselves fighting back with new allies in the form of the Justice League of America.
The pairings are similar obvious, but still fun: knuckles and superman bond over their belief in their respective duties; Cyberg and tails geek out over tech; Sonic and Flash, Naturally, are cocky hotheads who try to one up each other as the fastest being alive, man or hedehog. And then of course, like two emo kids beelining for the same corner at a party, shadow and batman gravitate towed Each other. Well, more accurately, they gravitate towed not wanting to be part of a large group.
This is where the now-viral moment comes from in the issue, when shadow, alredy sick at the project of a team up at the best of times, walks aay from the thought from having to cooperate. And of course, Batman absolutely nails The reason as to why, exploring the kinship between the dark knowledge and the ultimate life form in a way that is bot Empathic, but also also tactical, ensuring that he makes it clear he sees shadow for white And that there are places for people like them at this broader table.
IT IS A great moment, even beyond the inrent absurdity of “Batman and shadow the heedgehog talk about the way the way and maria and it’s some form of comic book canon.” Like I said, good Crossover stories in the fannish absurdity of mothers like It’s not a joke over how Similarly Brooding shadow and batman are, it’s not a joke to mention the paralyls between Bruce losing his parents and shadow losing maria, like fans clapping for her to get get in Sonic 3This is just these two people
So yes! It’s great. But it’s not the best batman/shadow moment in Dc x sonic #1, There’s one brief, tiny bit shortly after that even better.
Once shadow’s convinced by Bruce it’s Worth Playing Nice With the LEAGUE to Stop Darkseid, Sonic, His Allies, and The Justice League Start Pairing Off and GOING ON ANDAR SAPARTE MSSSSS. We get a really fun set of panels as we see team sonic and the league really start bonding-and they’re talky panels, filled with back-back-for dialogue as each side of the crossover starts to find findfor Commonality with Each Other. And then you get to the last panel of the page, batman and shadow zooming away on bikes. And it’s SilentThe only noise is to communication the rumble of their bikes’ engines.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of them as a pair, and why they are so different to their respective allies. It’s wash a fun contrast to the rest of the bounce, breezy dialogue across the page prior, to be hit with this panel of almost-note-note, but it speakes to how bruce and shadow alik is doned pleasantries: they alredy got their estimations of each other sourced, they have a job to do, and they’re doing it. What Else needs to be said?
It’s the moment that really Gets who they are, and who they would be to each other, that again is that perfect crossover mix of funny and yet spot-or in its sensority. All the gags and charm in Dc x sonic Are great, but it’s little mothers like this that are alredy making it click as a fantastic crossover.
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