Dark Nights: Metal #2

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Well... This is interesting

[berani00]

So we have the Court of Owls (Or is it Parliament?) back, more talk about this weird metal that binds a lot of DC's artifacts together now called Batmanium or something if it's not the only kind, this anti-Justice League with knight Batman, Flash Batman, Cyborg Batman, Doomsday Batman, that massive thing looming over all of them and a leather demon Batman WITH THREE VAMPIRE ROBINS!? I-I can't even! This Dark Multiverse must be some screwed up place to be in!

[captainbellman]

The Mouth of Sauron just can't stop getting work, huh.

[cygnia]

...baby Darkseid...?

[beeyo]

It's hard for me to believe that Snyder and Capullo have been planning this from day one, but that just makes it more impressive that they found a way to tie together most of their entire run, not to mention the bits and pieces from other stories.

Bra-fucking-vo

[informationgeek]

This f**king bonkers.... I LOVE it!

[locuatico]

Okay. The Court of Owls being the goddamn Illuminaties is too much for me.
I found them more interesting as a bunch of rich families trying to keep control over Gotham and that (through comicbok science) had an army of zombies to do so. I could even accept that they FOUND this metal and used it but did not know WHAT it was.
This is a generic "oh, everything is going EXACTLY as plan. EVERYTHING was as planned". that's not endearing. it doesn't make them feel more powerful.

[thenicochan]

Leather Daddy Batman and his Robins are... a sight, to be sure.

[icon_uk]

So the Court of Owls starts out as a Gotham based elitist super-nasty Hellfire Club which is more or less taken out.

Then the Talon spinoff series has them as a worldwide thing, which is more or less taken down.

Then the recent Nightwing series has them as the Parliament of Owls, back in full charge of a global organisation (and wearing black masks instead of white)

Now they're back in Gotham... and I STILL don't care!

Persistent little buggers if nothing else.

Oh, and the original Robin costume (albeit with black instead of yellow capes) are back in continuity? Kinda?

[thezmage]

I still can't tell if "what if the entire Justice League was both evil and Batman" is a fund dumb idea or just a dumb one

[jmacq1]

It really is compelling in a bugnuts crazy yet coherent sort of way. And (le gasp) it's not about heroes fighting other heroes.

[jmacq1]

Fun. Definitely fun. But the devil will be in the details (how the story goes from here forward).

[lucean]

I was thinking exactly the same thing. I actually appreciate that Snyder is trying to tidy the Court of Owls thing up as it was getting a bit out of hand.

[lucean]

I am so on board with this that it is ridicilous.

[goattoucher]

Batmanium.

Batmanium.

...

:stand up, turns, and walks off into the darkness:

[scorntx]

During Geoff Johns' last story on Justice League, Darkseid was killed and then thanks to his daughter Grail, he was reborn in the baby of Superwoman of Earth-3.

[walkingthroughforest]

This is insane and amazing. I am so on board for this.

[shadowpsykie]

well, yeah, but why are they calling Bruce that?

[scorntx]

They're not. The Owl is talking to the baby Darkseid he's holding, which he took from Batman.

[lordultimus]

It's like every thirteen year old boy's dream comic.

[shakalooloo]

You cannot kill what does not live!

[jaxjyls]

Series still leans more towards more dumb than fun for me

[dr_archeville]

According to this, Mouth of Sauron/Leather Batman with three chained Robins is The Batman Who Laughs, and is a blend of Batman and Joker.

(Which makes a nice reference to Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 novel adapted into a popular film in 1928 starring Conrad Veidt, whose performance as Gwynplaine is cited by students of comic book history as a key influence on the character design of The Joker.)

Evil!Flash-Batman is The Red Death.

Evil!Cyborg-Batman is The Murder Machine.

Don't know who the rest are.

[lizard_of_aus]

Well, if it's any comfort, I hardly suspect that they got the reward they hoped for when they let Barbatos through.

"Hear me, Bendy! Arise from the darkness! Arise and claim my offering! [...] No! My lord! Stay back! I am your prophet! I am your- AAAHHH!!"

[penguinzero]

I'm in the same boat. The last scene with all the so-edgy-I-just-cut-myself Batmen didn't impress me, just made my eyes roll. I'm sure it's to some people's taste, but it's really not to mine.

Re: Well... This is interesting

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Oh, those are vampire Robins? I thought they were Joker-ized, a la "JJ" from Batman Beyond.