This anniversary issue of the Superman/Batman Team-Up series, despite featuring Weird Al on the cover, doesn’t actually feature Weird Al in either of its stories. The cool variant cover does make a nice double act with its Bizarro: Year None #1 counterpart though, right?

So what we have here are two stories which, obscure character cameos aside, are incredibly newbie friendly, and dig into the contrasts between both the two title characters, and (in the second story) their protégés too.

First up is Dream Team, which takes the comic’s main duo on a jaunt through a villain’s nightmarish environment in order to cure the world’s population of insomnia.

Then we have Sturm and Drang, which teams Robin and Jimmy Olsen against Batgirl and Supergirl, as they race to prove themselves the better teen team in the hunt for an ancient artifact.

Both stories are really fun, and it seems a bit unfair to call them ‘basic’, because the comic as a whole seems designed to be picked up even by casual fans, and really gets to the heart of what makes each character’s approach to justice and heroism different.

Plus the art, especially in Dream Team, is flat out gorgeous. Dan Mora (who also drew those Weird/Totally Normal Al Yankovic covers) really excels himself here, with some stunning renditions of the Dark Knight and the Last Son of Krypton. The surreal jaunt through a dream world is a perfect excuse to really go wild with the art, and Mora goes to town with it.

Though less showy, just by nature of the subject matter, Sturm and Drang’s art (by Adrián Gutiérrez) is fantastic too.

This feels like the kind of old-school, one-off issue that comics used to be like, before they all became six part stories which can’t easily be picked up in the midst of a storyline, written for the expected trade paperback collection.

Though longer term, more regular fans might be disappointed with how lightweight this is, I had a blast reading Batman/Superman: World’s Finest #50, and it’s yet another example of how well DC seem to be handling their biggest characters right now.

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