DARK NIGHTS: DEATH METAL MULTIVERSE'S END #1

[superfangirl1]

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[jlbarnett]

I hate how meta this all is

[lordultimus]

I am glad SOMEBODY noticed the weirdness of Earth-3 being evil in spite of the Dark Multiverse supposed to be where all the evil universes go.

(There better be a token good Dark Multiverse Earth. And nu52 Superman doesn't really count, he's just one guy.)

[jlbarnett]

the Dark Multiverse is where things go wrong to result in evil, Earth-3 is just where things are naturally that

[dan_ingram]

Am I the only one tired of character dialogue being 80% meta?

[jlbarnett]

you are not

[tcampbell1000]

Would that be 80% of METAL? Ay? Ayyyy?

But no, you are definitely not.

A little meta as a treat can be fine, but stories should be about more than just themselves. Back to the Future is a story about male friendships across three generations, coming to see your parents were once your age, and goofy time travel; Back to the Future Part II starts out promising even bigger time-travel thrills but becomes more and more concerned with mimicking the beats from the previous movie. It doesn't actually have much to say except "That movie we made a few years ago was pretty great, wasn't it?"

A whole lotta Big Two comics are Back to the Future Part II, and this might be one of the Back to the Future Part II-est.

(The weird part for me is that the story spent a fair amount of time on Captain Carrot, a literal comic-book writer-artist turned superhero, and barely connected him to the meta elements at all, which is sort of like spotlighting Aquaman in your story about ocean pollution but confining him to a subplot set at the DMV.)

Kyle

[book_of_daniel]

Someone remembered Kyle. He's about to die again, isn't he?

[silverhammerman]

I quite liked this issue. It's aggressively meta, but Death Metal as an event is incredibly meta and at least this feels a little more savvy about it than anything I've seen of the main series. The premise of this book does very much boil down to "Death Metal is dumb" and as a salty hater I can really respect that.

I liked seeing Justice Incarnate show up again without not getting entirely jobbed out or thematically undercut, unlike the last time we saw Red Racer. Captain Carrot was fun, Owlman was great, and I thought the whole book looked phenomenal.