Dark Nights: Metal

Dark Nights: Metal by Scott Snyder
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this story. As much as I did not enjoy the Road to Metal graphic novel as apart from the Forge and Casting the majority of that was back issues of story lines I did not particularly enjoy in the first place so re reading them was not much fun however here I see how threads of them have been used to create this masterpiece.

No question Batman is my favorite superhero. Despite standing in the shadow of overpowered superbeings like Superman and Wonder Woman, most obviously, he is usually the one who come up with the strategy of the final blow for the win. I was glad that was the case in this graphic novel straight from the start.

However:

"Explore too far and you just become the villain of your own story."

Here Batman's greatest attribute mix with the darker sides of his personality, his single mindedness and un-trusting personality, are what the big bad guys have been counting on all along. What if he was not destined to be the hero at the end but the cause of final destruction. Also the nightmare versions of him, who have conquered worlds.

However again I was also glad to see another side of Batman's personality that is overlooked most of the time. This is Hope.

If I had one complaint about this book it is I wish it was longer. It did feel a bit rushed at the end, I would have been happy with another couple of issues and the finally fights made longer and in more detail, but you can have everything. Always a good sign when a comic/book leaves you being for more.

A huge story that features heroes from the DC universe I wish it was longer to give more of the other characters more feature time, or more detailed action panels. However the art work is good and fits the story perfectly the story itself is awesome, and leaves big possibilities to come from this. There is a full page of the cover of each issue at the start of all six chapters, then a cover gallery at the end featuring the variant covers. All in all awesome more please.

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