Dark Days: The Casting #1

[superboyprime]

"Whenever it’s that level of shocking darkness, I think it gets you in the store. But I also genuinely believe that it’s been a really rough year for everybody, regardless of what political side you’re on. It’s a rough time. People are angry at each other. There’s a lot of divisiveness and terror out there about what’s going to happen, and from all corners. Metal is a story that’s about things that keep me and Greg up. It’s about the ways in which you can find yourself in a story that you didn’t think was possible, and it’s much darker than the one that you thought was inevitable." - Scott Snyder

Comments

[beeyo]

This event is already batshit. I love it. What else do I love? Scott Snyder's insistence on making a black person an important part of the bat family.

[lucean]

This has no right to flow this well. It's nuts on so many levels, but yet works for me so well. I also like that it also does give an explanation for the metahumans for the current continuity as I don't think they refer the original explanation anymore.

[cygnia]

"The TRUE FATHER of Batman!"

Bill Finger? ;)

[arilou_skiff]

Batshit. Hehe.

[doctor_spanky]

I kinda forgot how good Jim Lee is

[dcbanacek]

THREE variant covers? What is this? The Nineties?

[fiddlingfrog]

It feels a lot like an Elseworlds story that was trying to be a Heavy Metal comic without the T&A.

[katefan]

God, I hope so. I had a full head of hair back then and weighed thirty pounds less. Comics were also, what, a buck?

Weird how for all the complaining people do about how Extreme(!) nineties comics were in retrospect they weren't as bad as we thought. :)

[starwolf_oakley]

Some of this seems like a set up to KINGDOM COME. Here's where all the violent heroes get their powers from.

I've speculated that "the Greek Gods are stuck on Mount Olympus" will be used in the SHAZAM and WONDER WOMAN 2 movies. Ares didn't kill the Greek gods, they are just unable to interact with humanity... Unless they use proxies like the Wizard, Teth-Adam and Billy Batson.

[thatnickguy]

That reminds me. Whatever happened to that tease about there being three different Jokers? The thing teased when Batman asked about Joker's real identity?

[jekylls_salvation]

Member when one of the Justice League members was green?

[beeyo]

Dammit, I had a very hilarious joke about Hal wearing greenface before I realized you meant J'onn. Where the hell is J'onn, anyway? All this rebirth stuff and they still haven't brought Martian Manhunter back into the JL fold?

And while we're on the topic of Johns, what is John Stewart doing these days? I miss him, but not enough to read any Green Lantern books

[lieut_kettch]

A sword? Isn't Apollo traditionally an archer like his sister Artemis?