Dark Nights: Metal - 8 Reasons To Be Excited About The Batman Crossover

8. The Batman Dream Team Is Behind It

Few creative teams can claim to have nailed Batman quite to the same extent as Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo during their critically acclaimed run.

DC's New 52 initiative didn't quite pan out for too many reasons to list, but at least it brought us 50 issues of the writer-artist duo's stellar Batman series.

From the Court of Owls to Death of the Family, Snyder and Capullo have delivered some of the boldest and most refreshing Bat arcs of the modern era, and Dark Nights: Metal could be their most important project to date.

The team began plotting Metal way back in 2011, during the Court of Owls plotline, and have dropped teasers for it into several of the arcs which followed.

Here's what Snyder had to say about the storyline on DC's blog...

“I’ve been planning Metal for as long as I’ve been writing Batman, but this is bigger than Batman. Greg and I started dropping clues during Court of Owls, we continued through our Joker stories and we placed our biggest hints in the run that culminated with Batman #50. And now we’re back to tell a story that breaks everything apart. This will be the definitive project of our careers. Metal takes us in an entirely new direction. Greg and I will dig beneath the surface of all the stories we’ve told to find a place of terror and twisted nightmares.”

We're sure he meant to say knightmares at the end there, but even so, few creators know Batman like Snyder and Capullo, and this sounds like their most ambitious Bat project to date.