Superman & Batman meet Nicolas Cage in new WORLD'S FINEST cover

Superman and Batman are about to group up with somebody you by no means anticipated: actor Nicolas Cage. Rolling Stone reviews that Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #19, set to ship in September, will sport a variant cover by artist Dan Mora in which the darkish knight and the person of metal meet the Oscar-winning actor, who has adopted his personal superhero persona and joined the duo in the Batcave.

The go well with worn by Nicolas Cage on the cover is an amalgamation of Superman and Batman’s, although the person of metal’s costume is clearly the primary inspiration for the look.

Cage’s look on the cover is a enjoyable nod to some points of the actor’s life. For one, Cage is a well known Superman fan, having named his son ‘Kal-El’ and having been the proprietor of a replica of Action Comics #1 for numerous years earlier than promoting his copy for over $2 million. Cage was additionally set to play Superman on the large display in the Tim Burton-directed Superman Lives, a undertaking that sat in growth hell for years earlier than finally being scrapped. Still photographs and take a look at footage of a long-haired Cage in numerous Superman fits have been floating across the web for many years, and interviews with Burton and Kevin Smith, who wrote an unused screenplay for the movie, have solely stoked fan curiosity in what might need been.

The variant cover for the sequence is the newest by Mora to characteristic Batman and Superman assembly a star. The first concern of the title noticed the 2 group with comic Jerry Seinfeld in a supercharged model of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, whereas a variant cover to World’s Finest #10 had Superman, Batman, and different members of their respective households singing Christmas-themed karaoke with Paul McCartney.