Batman just joined the Avengers in Marvel’s comic books

A former villain, who realized that his entire life was just a fabrication by the devil, joined the Avengers this week. The Avengers aren’t new to this… except for maybe the fact that Batman is their new recruit.

Nighthawk, a nocturnal-slash-bird-themed supervillain, is a perennial member of the Squadron Supreme, created in 1969 as the Marvel Comics’ premier supervillain team based entirely on DC Comics’ Justice League. And now he’s an Avenger! You’d think after all these years I’d be bored of all the ways that comic book superhero universes cannibalize each other, but, truly, I am not. Batman is one of the Avengers! Enjoy this funky little plot, Batman!

Is there anything else happening inside our favourite comics’ pages? We’ll tell you. Welcome to Monday Funnies, Polygon’s weekly list of the books that our comics editor enjoyed this past week. It’s part society pages of superhero lives, part reading recommendations, part “look at this cool art.” There may be some spoilers. You may not have enough context. However, there will be many great comics. This is the latest edition.

Nighthawk, in his very Batman-like costume spreads his fingers along the Avengers conference table, saying “If we’re done with the formalities, I’d like to get right to work.” in Avengers #55 (2022).

How much do you care about Squadron Supreme, anyway? What about Knighthawk? Honestly, no. However, I do enjoy a snarky chuckle about Fake Batman joining The Avengers. You bet I do.

Catwoman lounges on a rooftop, framed in the sights of a sniper rifle, explaining over the radio that she’s wearing Black Mask’s stolen skull mask and if his sniper tries to kill her it will shatter in Catwoman #42 (2022).

Act Now This is how you play Catwoman being a hero who is still a world-class thief: She steals Black Mask’s mask right off his face and holds it for ransom, and then you show it off with this absolutely arresting full-page splash. Tini Howard and Nico Leon’s CatwomanThis is becoming one my most trusted favorites.

Deadpool attempts to paratroop onto Krakoa using a Deadpool-branded parachute only to be blown to pieces by a technobiological missile system. “I’m starting to get the feeling I’m really not welcome,” he thinks in a narration box in Wolverine #20 (2022).

Writer Benjamin Percy’s Wolverine and X-Force books have been very serious stories about serious people dealing with serious problems. Which is in part why I’m very much here for an absolutely Looney Tunes story about Deadpool (Ralph Wolf) trying desperately to set foot on Krakoa and join X-Force (eat sheep) as Wolverine (Sam Sheepdog) stops him at every turn.

“Oh shi—” says a blood-covered man holding a giant axe as a horrible snake monster with a shark’s head bites down on to his body with a KROMCH and begins to furiously chomp him going SLORK GRUNCH PLAK CHOMP GLUP SLORRRP etc. in Refrigerator Full of Heads #6 (2022).

A big fan of Basket full of headsI am a big fan of its sequel. A Refrigerator with Heads, has stretched the initial girl-alone-on-a-single-night-of-horror premise to a full Evil Dead/Jaws gonzo horror-action premise. When Chekov’s undead shark head finally came down off the mantelpiece to chomp the villain — who had transformed himself into a horrible snake monster using a magical belt — perfectly in half, I felt eminently satisfied.

But when, just a few pages later, the villain’s upper torso made its traditional shocking reappearance with axe in hand to cleave our heroes, only for writer Rio Youers and artist Tom Fowler to Ensure that you are wearing the correct belt The shark’s head was the first to fall.Transforming the shark’s head intoA huge shark-headed snake monsterThe shake, the shark-snake and the snark? snark?) He was devoured by the villain. — I cackled for a good solid minute. This comic is a blessing for its clarity and Fowler’s amazing drawing.

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