Dark Nights: Death Metal Omnibus

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The question really becomes whether or not you need the full Grant Morrison Batman run to understand The Return of Bruce Wayne. While I’d recommend it, all you need for the purposes of Metal is the knowledge that Bruce Wayne gets shot through time in Final Crisis , and needs to find a way to return. Justice League’s tie-in to Metal gives updates on nearly every characters standing in the invasion of the Multiverse, and brings our clearest insight into Cyborg’s situation since Batman: The Murder Machine. The Murder Machine is another great “dark” Batman one-shot. The issue spends about 50% of the time during the present day and 50% explaining this Batman’s origin, making it an essential continuation of the Metal story. To defeat them, Batman and the Justice League must undergo an impossible quest to find the mysterious metals capable of repelling the Dark Knights and their master, the fearsome Barbatos.

Evil Dark Knights from the multiverse have risen! Only Batman and the world's greatest superheroes can save the multiverse! Get the entire Dark Nights Metal epic in one heart-pounding collection. Batman has uncovered one of the lost mysteries of the universe ... one that could destroy the very fabric of the DC Universe! He'll wage war against diabolical Dark Knights across the multiverse and come face-to-face with The Batman Who Laughs. These are the dark corners of reality that have never been seen till now! The Dark Multiverse is revealed in all its devastating danger-and the threats it contains are coming for the DC Universe! Can Batman and his allies save the Multiverse from total darkness? This epic omnibus contains the entire Dark Nights: Metal saga"-- Collects:Teen Titans #12, Nightwing #29, Suicide Squad #26, Green Arrow #32, Batman: Lost #1, The Flash #33, Hal Jordan And The Green Lantern Corps #32, Justice League #32-33 and Hawkman: Found #1 Lydon, Pierce (August 15, 2017). "Best Shots Review – Dark Nights: Metal #1 'Asks You To Hold On Tight & Ride The Lightning' ". Newsarama . Retrieved 2017-10-02. Johnson, Jim (October 11, 2017). "Dark Nights: Metal – Superman's Crucial Role, Revealed". CBR . Retrieved 2017-10-13.Collects: The Red Death #1, Batman: The Devastator #1, Batman: The Merciless #1, Batman: The Murder Machine #1, Batman: The Drowned #1, Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1, The Batman Who Laughs #1 and Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1 Dark Days: The Forge #1, Dark Days: The Casting #1, Nightwing (vol. 4) #17, Final Crisis #6–7, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1, Batman (vol. 2) #38–39 and material from Detective Comics #950 Collects Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverse #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal The Last Stories of the DCU #1. Refusing to lose, Barbatos reveals his last resort; using the combined power of the positive energy of his prisoner the Over-Monitor, the Anti-Monitor's brain's negative energy, and the Batman Who Laughs' dark energy, he plans to destroy all of creation and leave nothing but darkness in his wake. An unexpected team-up of Batman and the Joker, however, halts this plan, the Justice League defeats the remaining Dark Knights, and Hawkgirl subdues Barbatos. After the Over-Monitor explains that all living things have trace amounts of Tenth Metal, the League proceed to use this power to pull Earth out of the Dark Multiverse (which unintentionally also results in the Source Wall shattering). After the battle the Over-Monitor chains Barbatos down at the bottom of the Dark Multiverse with Tenth Metal chains, forcing him to watch the World Forge burn bright once more as it creates new worlds. [21] [ full citation needed] Epilogue [ edit ]

At the 2017 Comic-Con International, an additional tie-in one-shot was announced called Hawkman Found written by Jeff Lemire with art by Bryan Hitch and Kevin Nowlan. As the title implies, it focused on the connection between Hawkman and the events of "Dark Nights: Metal" and it is positioned as a sequel to Batman Lost. Lemire revealed that it "re-positions one of DC’s oldest, most iconic and most confusing characters ahead of a possible new ongoing in the new year." [8] Dark Nights: Death Metal – Multiverse’s End | to end in Dark Nights: Death Metal – Rise of the New God. The following month, DC announced Batman: Lost written by Scott Snyder with art by Olivier Coipel and Bengal. Snyder states, "the single issue story will strand Batman alone in the Dark Multiverse, where he will face his greatest fears." [7] Collects Dark Nights: Death Metal Infinite Hour Exxxtreme! #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal Robin King #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal Rise of the New God #1, Dark Nights: Death Metal The Multiverse Who Laughs #1, and Dark Nights: Death Metal The Secret Origin #1.Peter Milligan, Kieron Dwyer, and Jim Aparo’s work on “Dark Knight, Dark City” has been directly referenced in the tie-in issue Batman Lost , and will help explain the early 90’s origins of Metal’s big bad. This story is included primarily for Batman obsessives and completists! While not essential reading to understand what’s going on, there are many references to Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Batman run in the preludes. Bleeding Cool has collected some of the scenes that were referenced from their run here. WARNING: There may be spoilers so it’s up to you if you want to be spoiled. The Metal tie-ins continue to be extremely tight and relevant to the overall understanding of the event, with Justice League #33 capping the “Bats out of Hell” crossover.

I genuinely enjoyed and appreciated the reveals of Batman Lost significantly more given the fact that I had read the opening story arc of Johns’ Hawkman only days before. Just reading synopsis of Convergence/Rebirth is kind of making my head spin, so I’d like to avoid having to get into all of that, just to bridge into Metal, if I can. But, at the same time, I don’t want to be missing anything of importance that would make my reading of Metal less enjoyable.Batman has uncovered one of the lost mysteries of the universe...one that could destroy the very fabric of the DC Universe! He’ll wage war against diabolical Dark Knights across the multiverse and come face-to-face with The Batman Who Laughs. Polo, Susana (August 16, 2017). "Batman: Metal #1 confirms a classic character is still very much a part of the DC Universe". Polygon. Vox Media . Retrieved 20 March 2018. Year of the Villain: In March 2019, Scott Snyder announced a new event campaign titled Year of the Villain, which features the repercussions of Dark Nights: Metal from the supervillains' perspective. Justice League by Scott Snyder– Most importantly, the last storyline (Justice League #27-39), aka the “ Justice/Doom War” storyline. Batman has uncovered one of the lost mysteries of the universe...one that could destroy the very fabric of the DC Universe! He'll wage war against diabolical Dark Knights across the multiverse and come face-to-face with The Batman Who Laughs.

My least favorite of the Dark Knights one-shots to date, but still highly relevant to the overall narrative. The conclusion of Dawnbreaker clearly connects to Green Arrow #32, bringing the series together and setting up the Justice League’s tie-ins to come. In this new solo series, the first in many years, Hawkman is on a mission to discover the purpose of his many reincarnations. This epic omnibus contains the entire Dark Nights: Metal saga, including Dark Nights: Metal #1-6, tie-in stories from Dark Days: The Forge #1, Dark Days: The Casting #1, Batman: The Red Death #1, Batman: The Devastator #1, Batman: The Merciless #1, Batman: The Murder Machine #1, Batman: The Drowned #1, Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1, Dark Nights: The Batman Who Laughs #1, Batman: Lost #1, Hawkman: Found #1, Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1, Nightwing #29, The Flash #33, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #32, Green Arrow #32, Suicide Squad #26, Teen Titans #12, and Justice League #32-33. Year of the Villain: Hell Arisen– Spinning out of the “Justice/Doom War” in Justice League and the epic “Infected” arc from Batman/Superman, DC’s two top villains face off in a battle royal.Breaking Ultimate Universe News at New York Comic Con! Children of the Vault! | CBH Live! October 20, 2023 Dark Days: The Forge #1 and Dark Days: The Casting #1 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Jim Lee, Scott Williams, Andy Kubert, Klaus Janson, John Romita Jr., Danny Miki, Alex Sinclair, Jeremiah Skipper The first two issues of Metal are darn near perfect love letters to the DC Universe, touching on everything from Mongul to the creation of the DC Multiverse! Justice League #32–33 by Robert Venditti, Joshua Williamson, Liam Sharp, Tyler Kirkham, Mikel Janin, Adam Brown, Arif Prianto, Jeromy Cox a b Rogers, Vaneta (May 22, 2017). "In Metal, Snyder Creating 'Dark Multiverse' Beyond Morrison's Multiversity". Newsarama . Retrieved 2017-10-02.