Dark Nights: Death Metal - Legends of the Dark Knights #1

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Comments

[dan_ingram]

Hmm, I know its meant as satire or parody of Batman, but Garth Ennis' little story really is the perfect metaphor for a good chunk of his career and writing.

[thanekos]

" That Manhattan Batman was becoming something more, but then I, the effective combination of two popular corporate properties, lobotomized him and hollowed him out. Now, I'm wearing him as a costume, so that I can destroy a varied universe until there's nothing left but what I think. "

Modern DC's handling of Alan Moore co-creations inadvertently outlining the limitations of work-for-hire produced in long running shared universes will never not be the funniest thing.

[shakalooloo]

Batman Who Laughs seems incredibly lucid throughout his monolgue there.

[magicrubbish]

What Baby Groot does ?? He groots.

What Baby Bruce does ?? He broods.

[silverhammerman]

Kind of surprised to see the conceit of "The Dark Knights are manifestations of Batman's fears" being brought up again, given how thoroughly Death Metal has drifted from that. This issue has a story with B-Rex, the Batman who is a robot T-Rex, that doesn't represent something deep about the character.

Speaking of the B-Rex story though, it's nice to see something from Marguerite Bennett. Is it just me or has she been absent from Big Two books for some time now? It looks like she's still doing licensed stuff, but mostly for smaller publishers. Be nice if she hadn't only gotten the book because the original writer exited in a hail storm of controversy, but that's comics.

[super_fly]

We can pack it in now. Sorry but it's all downhill after Batman, King Of The Dinosaurs.

[janegray]

This is dumb.

[jaxjyls]

I now understand Alan Moore

[beoweasel]

It's like the writer stumbled across Tammy and the T-Rex and thought, "Okay, but what if did it with Batman?"

https://youtu.be/EZeOrwiugsM