6 Reasons Why Dark Nights: Metal #1 Rocks

3. It Doesn't Involve A Beloved Character Going Bad

Batman Dark Nights Metal Scott Snyder Greg Capullo
DC Comics

The story is not another story about what if such and such and so and so broke bad.

Instead of going the Marvel route and writing a 'Dark Crisis' of what if Batman went wrong, we get a stadium concert of an event that aims big and aims to surprise, and still have the emotional heart of the beloved characters intact.

Batman doesn't break bad - instead we're going to see his nightmares, the things that make Batman scared about himself and about what the Bat could be.

So no, thankfully, no one in Metal becomes a fascist with dreams of becoming a totalitarian in an effort to 'do the right thing' and everyone gets to be themselves. And that is awesome.

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Joe is a comic book writer out of South Wales, writing LGBTQ+ superhero series The Pride and also co-writing Welsh horror comedy series, Stiffs. He's also a comics reporter and reviewer who works with Bleeding Cool and now WhatCulture too. So he makes comics and talks about comics, but there's more to him too. Somewhere.