Dark Nights: Death Metal -DC Event Gets Bigger and Crazier
DC's Dark Nights: Death Metal event has added to its all star lineup of talent with even more all stars!
We knew Dark Nights: Death Metal, the big DC megaevent from Scott Snyder, Greg Capullo, Jonathan Glapion and FCO Plascencia, was reworked when it got delayed. DC just announced how much it was reworked.
The main series has been expanded from six to seven issues, with a skip month planned for September. However, to help fill us up for that break, we get two supplemental comics: Dark Nights: Death Metal Guidebook #1 on August 11th, and Dark Nights: Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights #1 on August 25th.
Death Metal is the follow up to Lex Luthor in a Martian Manhunter suit to see who would be Perpetua’s chief general.
Guidebook and Legends of the Dark Knights are anthologies that include some bonkers talent. Guidebook will have short stories from Snyder, James Tynion IV (Justice League at the end of issue #39, when they itted defeat at the hands of Perpetua and disappeared through a mysterious door to regroup.
The second book, Legends of the Dark Knights, has stories from Snyder, Tynion, Williamson, Peter Tomasi (Batman & Robin), Joelle Jones (Catwoman), Daniel Warren Johnson (Wonder Woman: Dead Earth), Warren Ellis (!! The Batman’s Grave), Garth Ennis (!!! Preacher), and others. Legends looks at the backstories of some of the various Dark Multiverse Batmen brought to Earth Prime to help the Batman Who Laughs rule. This will include Warren Ellis’ origin story for B-Rex, the T-Rex Batman seen in the preview pages of Death Metal #1.
The covers for both books are very good – Yasmine Putri draws the cover for Guidebook, a stunning image showing Wonder Woman in her set up as ruler of Hell, and new designs for Wasteland ruler Harley Quinn, and pirate captain Aquaman, while Tony Daniel puts in a very Capullo-esque cover for Legends of the Dark Knights with glimpses of B-Rex, a sentient Batmobile, and several Man-Bats (Men-Bat?).
For more on Dark Nights: Death Metal, including more from our conversation with Scott Snyder, and periodic reminders that Warren Ellis is writing a two page origin story for a sentient robot dinosaur Batman (!!!), stick with Den of Geek!
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