Dark Nights: Death Metal #6

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[lordultimus]

So if all DC characters remember all their history, does this mean Harley remembers she's a child murderer?

[donnblake]

So the machine to make everyone remember all of history, and make all stories become one... is a chainsaw arm?

[icon_uk]

No, the machine, from the looks of it, is an extension of her Lasso of Truth, which she's merged with the molten metal throughout the world.

Where the chainsaw came from is anyone's guess unless they've read the issue.

[donnblake]

Ah, it's the chainsaw replacing the arm that had the lasso wrapped around it that threw me, I think.

[agent8]

is the chainsaw replacing her arm or is she just holding it? Hard to tell from the angle.

[icon_uk]

I think I can see her fingers around the hilt, so I'm guessing "holding it"

[donnblake]

Yeah, the coloring made me think that it was replacing a chunk of her arm, but looking again I think that's just the lighting.

[donnblake]

On the other hand, can we take a moment to consider the symbolism of Diana of all people wielding a chainsaw? A tool whose only purpose is to sever and divide? Hard to get much further from the lasso.

[viridian5]

The Evil Dead crossover I never expected.

[scorntx]

... I can't recall the last event that was simultaneously so insecure and yet up its own arse.
(But it's probably Secret Empire.)

"Everything should MATTER."
Mattering wasn't the freaking point. It was that DC kept rebooting everything and their attempts to untangle everything just made their continuity more ridiculously convoluted, and their attempt to fix this is... yet more convoluted nonsense, so all you're left with is less continuity and more some bizarre soup.
(That and the pointless grimdarkness and the over-adherence to believing the Silver Age was the bestest time ever... okay, it wasn't just one thing.)

If it wasn't for stopping the plot every few minutes to go "it should MATTER. Comics should be FUN and MATTER." this'd be a perfectly average nonsense story about an annoyingly overpowered evil Batman and the astoundingly generic Perpetua (who might as well be wallpaper for all the effect she's actually had in this story).

But it does. So it isn't.
Maybe next time they could try skipping talking about having fun and just try having fun.


And an army of hillbillies.
Because that's exactly who you want when you're facing the end of all existence - shotgun totin' rednecks.

[lordultimus]

Whenever DC says "everything happened, everything matters", all I hear is "everything happened, nothing matters".

[viridian5]

"Everything happened, everything can bring profit."