Dark Days: The Casting #1 Storytime

>>93813971
Here we go boys...

>>93813971
Calling this event "Metal" just feels so out of place,

Like it belongs in the 90's or something.

>>93814048
It would have better art if it was from the 90s.

>>93814129
Thanks OP!

>>93814075
>A man as old as America.
Uncle Sam?

>>93814101
Of course Ras is there

>>93814075
Oh fuck Oh fuck Oh fuck! This page has me hyped!

>>93814152
>Greek gods are running away from a giant war
Wouldn't be the first time they run away from a giant war would it?

>>93813986
Anyone know if these are getting collected or not?

>>93814167
>T-this is not a Batman-centric event
Sure it isn't, Snyder, sure it isn't

>>93814208
I mean, no shit, why even bother asking this

>>93814211
Even the tie-ins are related to Batman. Not Batman-centric indeed.

>>93814238
It's a series of special one-shots, it's not guaranteed.

>>93814211
I think that just means it's not some Gotham-only thing, but involves the entire DCU. It was obvious Batman was the main character from the first announcements.

>>93814048
I really really really really really really really really fucking hate them connecting every single thing together. The metal Nabu's helm uses? Connected. Aquamans' trident? WW bracelets? The material Batman's car is made? The metal.

Snyder is a fucking hack.

>>93814306
>The material Batman's car is made? The metal.
Seriously? They went that far? The Batmobile is now made from a special metal instead of regular old metal

This whole event in stupid

>>93814334
Anon is making a joke and the fact you didn't recognise that makes it pretty difficult for you to call anything retarded

>>93814334
Nah, he's just rambling about how they might as well do that stuff. They haven't gotten that point yet.

Too bad more of /co/ does not actually buy floppies. So they could prove their disdain by not purchasing this and make a difference in sales which would cause some change at DC.....

Oh well. It will sell well and give everyone more fodder to bitch and whine.

>>93814334
Not the Batmobile. That was a joke but you see my point? Literally any unique metal substance or object you see now is connected to the nth metal. How fucking retarded is that? Maybe the metal created for the GL rings are the same too or the Reach scarabs. That's why Hal is shorting out.


This is as bad as Weisman making all the DC comics intelligent apes (including congorilla) have the same origin story in his cartoon Young Justice.

>>93814398
>>93814355
Well shit I should have known, but you have to forgive me after the reveal that the crowbar that killed Jason is also nth metal I didn't think they could sink any deeper.

>>93814398
To be fair, it does streamline things a bit if all the intelligent gorillas are from Gorilla City. Just saying.

>>93814398
I don't see anything wrong with a unified origin.

>>93814075
For anyone who may not know them all
>Rhyming Demon of Camelot
Etrigan
>A man as old as America
Uncle Sam
>The grove of ancient humanoid plants
Parliament of Trees
>Keepers of Mysteries and Secrets
House of Mystery and House of Secrets, and Cain and Abel within them.
>Sorcerers
Sargon
>Shining Knights
Shining Knight
>Cavemen
Vandal Savage, Anthro and the Miagani/Bat Tribe
>Phantom Strangers
Phantom Stranger

>>93814420
Did this actually happen or is this another joke? Haven't kept up with this shitty event so far.

>>93814455
It's a joke.

>>93814471
Thank god.

>>93814455
Another joke

>>93814295
BRAVO SNYDER
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What did Snyder mean by this?

>>93814455
>haven't kept up
>"shitty"
Oh so youre just hating this blindly because Snyder?

>>93814363
>Challengers of the Unknown
Hnnnng
I could've done without this ALL IS CONNECTED bullshit though

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>The Signal

>>93814152
Diana and her stupid gods

>>93814483
Gotta start the Black Adam push before the movie comes out...

>>93814570
A writer actually making Hal capable???

>>93814549
>metahuman is short for METAL Human

Jesus christ Snyder

>>93814575
That movie might not even get made at this point due to ex-wrestlers wanting to be President.

So the explanation for how the Joker became the Joker again is that he just did

Fucking great

>>93814549
Doea this mean Black Canary also has Nth metal in her blood?

>>93814549
>the metal is what causes superpowers
Okay, seriously Synder. Knock it off. This starting to read like a parody of an event book.

>>93814441
>>93814451
Thats dumb.

like it removes the hidden depths of the DCU.


If you still don't get it let me simplify it so a marvelfag can understand...
Iron mans armor? The same metal. Wolverines skeleton? Same metal. Ultron? Same metal. Thor's hammer? Same metal. Spidermans web shooters? Same metal. Flying fantasticar? Same metal. The metal quinjet is made of? Same. Hawkeye's arrows? Same metal. Magneto's helmet? Same metal. Prof X's wheelchair? Same Metal. Cyclops visor? Same metal. Quicksilver
s shoes? Same metal. Quasar bands? Same metal. Emma Frost's bra? Same ass metal.

>>93813971
I have defended Snyder in the past, but this is just bad.

>>93814256
Sorry, did Crazy Quilt turn up somewhere recently?

>>93814622
>that shadowy figure's arm in the second panel

>>93814570
>What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>93814549
>Meta humans is caused by the nth metal
Snyder please

>>93814210
So, it's the Snyder-Joker, alright. What about the dude in the park from Superheavy?

>>93814645
Calling it now: Dark Crisis is gonna be the name of the next "Crisis" event.

>>93814635
They already do that. Everything is either Vibranium or Adamantium, the latter just being a manmade alloy based on Vibranium.

>>93814575
Fuck off, the Marvel/Black Adam family have always been extremely important to the DC magic side. It was only in New52 their prevalence got reduced

I obviously dont know Scotts mind or his intentions with Duke in the end... but right now I wouldn't mind if he went away.

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Here we go boys

>>93814683
Dark Crisis is just a cute nickname for this event itself with the "Dark" Multiverse. They want to avoid events named Crisis though, so we got stuck with "Metal".

>>93814682
That was also Snyder-Joker, look for the throwaway line about him not being himself for all the explanation we're apparently going to get

>>93814715
>Dark Metal
Not a bad name for a event but not the best either

>>93814731
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>93814731
For fuck's sake....

>another piece of shit from DC
WHAT A FUCKING SHOCK?

seriously haven't they done enough damage to be shut down? haven't they lost enough fucking money with all the god awful shit they put out?

>>93814770
You're thinking of Marvel.

>>93814757
Batman :Duke!Duke!Duke!Duke!Duke!Duke!Duke!

>>93814780
what the fuck is that position?

>>93814707
... I'm sorry, am I reading that right?

Did Batman seriously build himself a fucking respawn point?

Please tell me I'm reading that wrong.

>>93814526
huh, almost like snyder is self projecting the haters

>>93813986
>Hudlin
Ew.

>>93814731
Full retard

>>93814663
so dukes now both a knockoff robin/nightwing and a knockoff ray?

>>93813971
Meta and all the devices in the DC universe having a shared origin is shit. There goes everything being unique. It is as bad as everything being made from adamantium or vibranium.

>>93814826
What's with the new trend of spoilering the final pages in storytimes?

What's the point?

>>93814685
I'd read a one shot about the League bylaws

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>>93814826
Oh shit it's the akatsuki

>>93814306
I'm OK with it. It doesn't really hurt any of that stuff. It's pretty much the same as how vibranium is always the go-to in the Marvel U when you want to explain that you have something really strong with physics-defying properties.

I can't say I particularly LIKE giving everything a uniform explanation, but it's harmless at worst, and it does help tie all these disparate mythologies together to some degree.

And if you're gonna have a big, universe-spanning event, it's cool to have it actually touch on the history of the whole universe.

>>93814826
almost two months? wtf

>>93814826
I'd say i'm surprised, but i'm not.
>>93814847
Was wondering if they were gonna do anything for him in one of the books. F.

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>this entire storytime
I told you about the metal, bro

>>93814866
>almost two months
>is only one month away

What did this retard mean by this?

>>93814826
Lmao. I can't say that I'm disappointed because I actually didn't have any expectations to begin with.

>>93814528
eh, I don't hate Snyder. His Batman run and AS Batman were alright, but the bits I have read of this just feel like pure shit to me.

>>93814884
oh ok i was off by two weeks

>>93814731
see it's not Batman-centric

it's Duke-centric


Duke is best character

>>93814826
Still not a Batman event

>>93814826
So, why people were hyped for this? 'Cause this seriously bad.

>>93814923
>Off by two weeks
The book is exactly 5 weeks away, how is 5 weeks off by two of 8?

>>93814826
>THE TRUE FATHER OF BATMAN
The fuck is this?

No, really, what the fuck IS this whole event? Is this Scott Snyder's fanfic from when he was 14? Holy shit.

>>93814960
you seem really mad that I can't do math

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I have no idea what the hell is going wrong
>>93814811
You're not reading it wrong

This is the dumbest fucking shit
Why create an entire event to wank off Batman when DC comics usually does it anyway?

I think thats hurts on a meta level.

>>93814785
Did Marvel put this out? Did Marvel put out Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman? Did Marvel put out Powerless?

>>93815019
don't you mean METAL EVEL?


"Metal Evil" fuck you DC

>batman should have died
>but he didnt
>its all thanks to "the mehtullll"
>batman starts investigating the metal
>*insert "fact" that will make everyone ass mad"
>batman finally has all the pieces together
>looks inside but is cockblocked by some dudes wearing cloaks
>batman doesnt realize he just opened up a portal to some batman world
Did I get this storytime right?

>>93815019
Or a metal level haha

>>93815026
Marvel did put out a lot of shit though.

Itself.

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I liked it.

>>93815049
Completely.

>>93815065
they also put out massively successful movies, tv shows, cartoons, and videogames

which DC doesn't

>>93815077
Same desu

>>93815065
Synder > Marvel.

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I don't think Manhattan approves of any of this

>>93814983
>You're not reading it wrong
Batman built himself a respawn point.

Batman has a machine specifically designed to bring himself back from the dead.

What the fuck.

>>93814990
Oh didn't you hear? According to the magic pixies that haunt the interiors of the editors' skulls, Batman is literally the only property they have that sells at all. So obviously, the guaranteed seller needs to have all of the biggest promotion all the time, because the pixies told them that's how logic works!

Someone storytelling the America books


Need something better to wash this awfulness away

doomsday clock though

can't wait for that

>>93815132
>storytelling
Storytime*

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Thanks OP, looks kinda cool.

So Batman was building a respawn machine, how long do you think he'd have kept it secret from everyone else and used it just for himself?

>>93815124
>Batman has a machine specifically designed to bring himself back from the dead.
Yep and it's powered by the nth metal that now does whatever the plot demands it.

>>93814394
Trigon?

>>93815169
It's not a respawn machine. It transforms you into Batman. Which basically ensures that Gotham will always have a Batman, some guy will step into machine with each passing generation and will get BATMAN'ed.

>>93815153
Yeah it's going to be interesting to see how DC makes that terrible idea even worse

>>93815026
They put out America, Secret Empire, Iron Fist.

>>93815217
The lake of dyonesium brought him back from the dead, the machine turned him back into Batman.

>>93815236
hahahahahahahahahaha

>>93815236
You'd think Batman wouldn't need this considering he has like 100 sidekicks who would all take over for him if he asked

>>93815255
All much better than this

>>93814707
>>93814811
This sounds like Batman built a Miracle Machine.

>>93815132
>>93815243
Funny seeing how Marveldrones are broken.

How the mighty have fallen.

>>93814635
What would it actually change if they made it so some of those were made from titanium and some were made from some other made-up metal that no one would ever reference again?

>>93815111
You kidding? Manhattan is beating off to this as hard as he can. Entire cosmos are being destroyed by the metric fucktons of jizz he's firing out with every stroke.

>>93815169
Oh please. This is the same faggot who built a satellite designed to turn innocent civilians into murder machines against their will, knowledge, or consent, all because he reeee'd out over his co-workers having the utter gall to have their own opinions. Fucking of course he's hoarding a resurrection machine for himself, the self-absorbed prick.

>>93814075
>>93814454
Is Phantom Stranger still Judas?
>>93815220
>Implying they would ever upgrade Trigon to this status

>>93815291
Only if you are retarded.

Now go read high literature like "The Punisher love Nazis", drone.

The writing and the plot were awful. Snyder should never be allowed to touch Batman again

Where is everyone getting this whole "respawn point" shit?

From reading that page, I thought batman built one of those healing tanks that saiyans use to bring themselves back from the brink of death.

>there will always be a batman
So it also doubles as a cryogenic sleeping tank

>>93814965
It's pretty clear they just mean the bat thing/monster?, not an actual biological relation.

Someone should storytime Batman #49, that's when Bruce used the machine and saw all the altUniverse Batmans getting wrecked.
Oh, and finally, that issue make sense now. In the context of that story stories of random Batmans amde no sense at all.

>>93815236
>some guy will step into machine with each passing generation
It's not some "guy", it was meant to be used with clones of Bruce. There was a story taking place in the future (might have been a Future's End tie in) that showed it working.

>>93814443
>Dubbilex
Is this how we get back Superboy?

>>93814780
is batman slav squatting

>>93815436
Detective Comics #27

Why are anti-snyderfags so annoying? Morrison got to make Batman his own creator through timetravel shenanigans but when Snyder tries to do another "the true secret origin of batman" story /co/ goes apeshit.

>>93815508
He's also right about Futures End Batman.

>>93815520
Because /co/ mostly likes Morrison and /co/ mostly dislikes Snyder.

>>93814826
Anyone else get the same vibe from this as they did JMS/JRJR Spider-Man? I feel like we're about to get some totem shit, sort of what others have hinted at but not explicitly said and explained.

>>93815327
>You kidding? Manhattan is beating off to this as hard as he can
Only if he had a hand in this, but did he have a hand in this?

>>93814864
>It's pretty much the same as how vibranium is always the go-to in the Marvel U
My problem here is that other items from extremely different origins are getting linked to something exclusive to earth

Making allusions that the lantern ring is made of this metal is like expecting people to accept that Thor's hammer is made out of vibranium.

Goddamn was this shit.

But I'm just gonna keep reading for when Plastic Man appears.

>>93815520
Spencerfags, anon.

As much as the "Everything is related to Nth Metal! Everything!" stuff is... odd... I admit I'm happy that they're putting Hawkman in a major place of relevance again.

Also wasn't this Batman Respawn thing in another Snyder issue? Future's End Batman maybe?

>>93815520
It's easy anon. Morrison could write an interesting story, whereas Snyder couldn't.

>>93815620
Detective Comics #27

>>93815620
It's a big part of Endgame and consequently Superheavy

>>93815620
It was the machine he used to restore his memories after his amnesia episode. It essentially brainwashed him with his old memories since they couldn't be properly restored because the Dionysium had "fixed" his brain.

>>93815617
I'll always love something that's a bunch of crazy weird shit that makes you scratch your head and the Hawks should be at the cenTre of that, ALWAYS.

>>93815669
>>93815666
Oh yeah, that's the one.

>>93814826
this was shit

>>93815520
Snyder's writing has all the subtlety and depth of a firecracker.

He saw Multiversity and decided "Oh I know, I'll just ignore Grant's work and make a BIGGER, DARKER DARK MULTIVERSE" because Snyder's not a very imaginative writer. He just takes shit that's already there and makes it dark and edgy.

That's what batfags like but god do I not want him ushering in big universe changing events.

>>93814731
What the fuck...

>>93815758
Duke is very special OC donut steel.

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>>93814826
BOB KANE?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

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>>93814770
>>93815026

>>93814826
Will this tie back into Bruce's adventure through the Omega Effect? Is he still at the start of his own symbol as a loop?

>>93815885
The mention of the Bat tribe at the start of humanity + the Bat-symbol being from before Gotham has got to be from the Return of Bruce Wayne, no?

>>93815387
Doesn't superman already have one?

>>93815520
And why you assume that people who hated this are Morrison fans? I'm one of people who defended Snyder and I still don't think he's a bad writer, but this was seriously underwhelming and unnecessarily. The guy seriously needs to stop writing Batman.

>>93815795
You mean Bill Finger?

I kinda liked it, but whole event feels unnecessary. I hope they just use this event to get rid of Duke and bring back some old characters (and do new stuff with them)

>>93814826
So this is all leading up to the "Batman Created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger" by-line being changed to "Bill Finger and Bob Kane"?

>>93814454
I take it The Shade went off joining weird cults after his origin and is chilling in Opal.

I'm glad Duke finally gets his time to shine in the spotlight. Not a character who deserves it more.

>>93814333
Hasn't nth metal been a thing forever? What's the big deal?

>>93814464
When did Talia get better? Last I saw she was shot at the end of Batman Inc.

>>93816026
Last we saw of The Shade he was taking Hope off to go bang her after a little teamup with Barry.

>>93816056
Batman and Robin + Robin Son of Batman

I wonder how Snyder is going to make Harper Row a central figure in this.

So is Duke the Miles of DC?

>>93814635
Who would give a shit beside you?

>>93815077
>>93815097
I don't hate it. But I need more issues to see where it is going.

>>93814464
Delicious brown Talia.

>>93816253
Definitely in terms of being interesting.

>>93816244
Harper wanking is more Tynion's deal, Snyder is currently in Duke wanking mode.

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>>93815092
Good god this bait.

>>93814549
This is the explanation for all the upcoming new superhero titles

>Marvel - Lena Dunham
>DC - Micheal Bay
I'd even settle for a Spielberg at this point.

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>>93815092
>they also put out massively successful movies, tv shows, cartoons, and videogames
/tv/ really has infected /co/

>>93815220
Despero

Snyder uses DARK DAYS: THE CASTING to entirely reshape his take on the DC Universe.

>>93815520

Because Morrison isn't writing it now, it's just the usual hating current shit to hate it. Not a huge fan of Synder's Batman myself, don't like his way of writing always makes the characters feel flat to me, but the guy gets alot of undue flack.

>>93815520
This issue was absolute shit and should render even the most deluded "Rebirth isn't the bastard stepchild of a dumpster fire because Geoff Johns told me so" morons stupefied by how terribly it is portraying the DCU.

>>93814549

Well, Rebirth was fun.

I'll be seeing you guys around next reboot.

>>93814802
Is that going to be fucking Brother Blood?
His helmet fucking looks like his old goofy costume and bats drink blood it guess?

>>93814333
Barbatos?

Is this, dare I say, Batman: The Event?

>>93816466
It really, really wasn't. It was New 52.0.

>>93814030
JRJR gets a lot of shit but I love his Joker and Hal

>>93815520
Because I'd rather read a story by someone who may have eaten too many mushrooms than someone who may have eaten too many crayons.

>>93816451
I know, right? It should have more Nazis and character assassination.

Snydercanon is almost contained in its own micro cosmo of canon, doubt this will mean much in the long run.

>>93815885
>>93815912
I thought they might do it, but now it seems like the bat tribe here will be just tied to this Bat demon from the other dimension.

>>93816524
Company wars don't help your argument friendo.

>>93816451
But this doesn't have the rebirth label.

>>93814826

I've noticed that Scott Snyder has this trend in his writing.

He wants to leave a huge mark, but he's always forcing it too hard.

Every story arc he's trying to redefine some portion of the mythos in his own mold. He wants SO BADLY to leave a permanent, defining fixture in Batman's history.

>>93816544
What, you don't like Nazis and character assassination? Are you retarded or something?

>>93814685
>where is muh clownfu
For fuck's sake, Batman

>>93816559
My bad I guess DC isn't a complete shit show right now.

So, the 9th metal is now intertwined with:
>Ra's and the League of Shadows
>Batman, Joker and Duke
>Atlantis and Themiscira
>Psycho Pirate
>Greek goods
>SHAZAM
>Green Lanterns
I'm surprised they haven't tossed Kryptonian shit there, too.

>>93816574
No I'm a super genius with excellent taste who masturbates to Duke Thomas 24/7.

>>93816599
Also metahumans in general.

test

>>93814881
Seriously. I've loved the shit out of Rebirth, but this and The Forge just seem to be vindicating my apprehension about giving Snyder a universal event before Doomsday Clock.

>>93814295
Love that you're posting, but this page was hot garbage.

>>93816599
>I'm surprised they haven't tossed Kryptonian shit there
Just wait for when they reveal that Supes has a Super METAL™ form during the climax of the event.

>>93814847
>was

You still are.

F

>>93816608
You should be masturbating to America Chavez, Carol Danvers, Nazis and character assassination to be a real genius, genius.

>>93816631
Keep pretending like this isn't exactly on par with the level of quality we've come to expect this decade with DC and that Geoff Johns will save us all once again instead of continuing to pile dirt on top of the once greatest universe in comics.

>>93816599
>>93816653
Krypton blew up because they used all their nth metal

>That one guy reeeeeeeing about Geoff when this is all Snyder
Laughing my ass off, did he fuck your sister or something?

>>93816672
The truest genius sign of genius genius is engaging in genius company wars.

>>93816731
He is ALWAYS blaming Johns for everything.

>>93816731
Both are DC's "golden boys" that have steered the ship directly into one of the circles of hell.

>>93814549
>rebirth will fix everything guys

Well, party's over.

>>93815026
A mediocre film, a good film and a tv show nobody saw?

>>93816751
But you like or don't like Nazis and character assassination, friendo? You have been avoiding the question.

>>93814167
Batbutt

>>93816758
Yeah Johns has nothing to do with anything except for writing one shitty 80 page advertisement a year ago.

>>93815266
Dionesium is an Nth Metal extract, Joker said so.

>>93814645
>dark crisis

Yeah, that seems right.

>>93816814
I've been reading DC my whole life and only hear about current trends in Marvel through retards spamming company wars.

>>93816834
He also fucked your mom pretty good, based on his hatred for him.

Did Johns write Civil War II, too?

>>93814101
So the Wizard is/was still kicking about at this point

>>93816492
looks like it, the forever pit, etc etc

>>93816872
No he wrote the flagship title of the New 52. We all know how that turned out.

>>93816843
And by extension, the Lazarus Pits are too. I wouldn't be surprised if Venom also ends up being Nth too.

>>93816904
In one of the best-selling titles for 5 years straight? What a monster.

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>>93813971
What happened to the Healed Joker from Superheavy? Did he just go crazy again, leading to bruce trapping him in the basement?

>>93816935
See
>>93814256

>>93816931
If you were in it except for anything but the bottom line of your favorite corporation this would be absolutely meaningless.

>>93816931
>In one of the best-selling titles for 5 years straight? What a monster
Synder.

>>93814840
>new trend
Dude, how long have you been here?

>>93814549
Kill me.

>>93816973
It hasn't been going on for long, certainly wasn't happening with this frequency a year ago.

Why the sudden pick up that every storytime is doing it?

>>93814690
>It was okay when everyone that had superpowers in the DC universe had a metagene.
>It was also okay when it was reveled that the Celestials created the mutants.
But this isn't for some reason.

>>93817080
Snyder (and for some reason Johns) hate boner is too strong.

>>93817145
Yep.

Keep the same story, but write "Nick Spencer" on the cover instead of Snyder, and people here would be shouting "BASED!"

>>93817080
>>93817145
Metagene has never been responsible for all superhuman powers in the DCU but I wouldn't expect anything less from current DC fanboys.

>you, a dummy: People with super powers are called metahumans in the DC Universe because meta is a Greek prefix that means "beyond"
>Snyder, an intellectual: People with super powers are called metahumans in the DC Universe because THEY LITERALLY HAVE METAL IN THEIR BLOOD STREAM AND THE DOCTOR WHO FOUND OUT ABOUT IT ONLY HAD FOUR CHARACTERS TO USE FOR SOME REASON ISN'T THAT AWESOME

Superman has solar panels in his bloodstream made out of Nth metal.

>>93817298
Speed force is now derived from Jay Garrick's metal helmet.

Metal is genetic now.

>>93814731
Duke is the key to all of this

>>93817194
>Metagene has never been responsible for all superhuman
Except invasion literally says it was, just not for those who are from space

>>93814685
>I NEEDED HIM.

remember when Batman and the Joker weren't openly, mutually homoerotic?

>>93817328
Steel is now the most powerful entity in the DCU.

Snyder wants so desperately to be Grant Morrison, but his imagination is fucking dull. Magic, lovecraftian metal from the Dark Multiverse? That's your big secret thing? Fucking weak. His street-level stories were always the best. This shit is lame.

>>93817374
Source on that. Try Wikipedia.

>>93817420
they literally explain that those who are not magic based or are aliens have their powers from the metagene

>>93817455
So none of the big seven. Surprising considering it's a cornerstone of the DCU.

>>93814757
Wait a minute.

What about the Comedian's button?

>>93817493
Not nth metal and that's Johns's story. So is three Jokers, hence why we only get a nod to that.

>>93817493
Guess what the pin is made of. Yep, METAL.

If the event is about Metal, why is it about Batman instead of being about Cyborg and Will Magnus?

>>93814965
Barbatos is the true final boss of DC, bigger and badder than Darkseid and the Anti-Monitor put together!

>>93813986
It's sad that most of these will be terrible

>>93817579
>Barbatos
Grant Morrisons Barbatos?

>>93817562
But anon, Batman is the only DC character who sells. Literally the only one. It has to be all about Batman, or it won't sell. The pixies told me so.

>>93815520
Morrison didn't make his Batman story into THE BIGGEST THREAT EVER FROM THE DAWN OF TIME THAT EVERY SINGLE THING IS CONNECTED TO AND OVERSHADOWS EVERYTHING!

which shows surprising reserve since that's usually right up Morrison's alley.

Batman can do things no other peak humans can. Maybe we should start a mystery as to how a man can master all styles of combat while simultaneously being an engineer, scientist, detective, peak physical specimen etc which ends in a war between Apokolips and New Genesis with Monitors thrown in for good measure. This is how absurd the whole thing comes across, and then Joker knows things because why not and there are secret societies like in pretty much everything Snyder and Tynion write. Random objects of great power are introduced willy nilly and then forgotten about in the next 5 minutes. Where exactly did Bruce get Diana's bracelets and Arthur's trident? are there copies of these? suddenly Duke Thomas can see across universes...ok and the tuning fork remains forgotten, Hal is working for Guardians (who're dead). More importantly we finally find out why the Court of Owls exist 5 years after their story was told and in a different book altogether while the issue where Bruce regains his memories suddenly makes sense now which is a slap in the face of all those reviewers and fans who gave it high praise because it is the detractors who stand vindicated as that issue never made a lick of sense back when it was published.

Snyder and Tynion fired every thing they could but at the end of the day this story simply boils down to, evil Batmen vs JL and that's all there is to it.

>>93814295
MORE JOKER WANK

fuck off snyder

he's a fucking green lantern. this is worse than wally jobbing to slade in identity crisis

>>93817689
I mean, you could say the same thing about Captain America.

>>93815995
>So this is all leading up to the "Batman Created by Bob Kane with Bill Finger" by-line being changed to "Bill Finger and Bob Kane"?

the event is literally called "Metal" after all.

>>93817333
>You're either born Metal
>Or you die Metal

Everyone's crying about all metahumans being linked to Nth metal but I didn't get that impression at all, it just sounded like some people have superpowers due to Nth metal

>>93814757
Even Batman can't control the ring, but duke can, without a training. Duke is THE ONE.

>>93817701
It was already explained that Hal's ring was freaking the fuck out inside that portion of the cave, he's essentially unarmed.

>>93816599
How much do you want to bet that the metal is kriptonite in its purest form?

>>93816599
>I'm surprised they haven't tossed Kryptonian shit there, too.

where do you think Kryptonite came from?

>>93817761
In fact given what Joker says about Batman "collecting" them or whatever I feel like it implies it's probably The Outsiders specifically

>>93816804
It's just a stupid event. There have always been stupid events. There always will be stupid events.

>>93816653
How do you type the TM?

>>93817649
This is the first Batman centric event that I've seen as far as I know so your line of arguing is pretty retarded

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>>93814549
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>>93817518
It showed up in Batman's cave and reacted to the Psycho-Pirate's mask, though.

See, this is why this story is so dumb. "EVERYTHING METAL is CONNECTED well except for this one thing that just showed up at exactly the same place and time and is also metal and reacted with it but that's just a coincidence, seriously."

>Snyder: I'm gonna have my own multiversity and it'll be dark, have metal flapjacks and everyone's batman

>>93817889
that reaction is probably because Psycho Pirate's mask has interdimensional properties tho, I don't think it's gonna have anything to do with Nth metal

>>93817617
Like many things Morrison draws from, Barbatos is older than that.

This has got to be about Barbatos unless there is some other ancient bat demon with ties to Gotham and the Wayne family line out there.

>>93817761
Yet Snyder made such a huge deal over the fact that they're flagged as "meta"

>>93814826
So a group of evil Batmen from the multiverse are coming?

>>93817764
Batman not being able to control the ring is the bullshit part.

>>93817783
>>93817786
THE METAL!

IT'S IN THE POSTS!

>>93815236
inb4 Joker uses the machine or a bunch of villains get in the machine.

>>93817822
Joker's Last Laugh or whatever that was.

>>93817952
They're already spoiled in solicits, it's evil combinations of Batman + some other JL member. Oh and there's a Batman + Doomsday one.

>>93817901
>"You've heard about Hypercrisis, now get ready for Metalcrisis" or Hypermetal, pick one

>>93817947
I still didn't see it as saying "literally every superpower comes from Nth metal"
Especially since it was regulated to one hospital in Gotham

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>>93818017
>it's evil combinations of Batman + some other JL member.

One of them has Wonder Woman's symbol on her(?) chest.

Another one of them has Naruto's glowing whisker marks.

Iron Man is there too, maybe?

>>93818016
Was that a proper event? I thought it was just a storyline as opposed to a big thing

>>93817689
>Diana's bracelets
You know what's especially galling about that? I mean aside from the obvious logistical failing of SHE'S FUCKING WEARING THEM, HOW ARE THEY IN THE CAVE?

We actually know where they come from, so you can't just bullshit a retconned origin for them out of nowhere. They were forged from the remains of the Aegis itself after it was broken by the spear during the Titanomachy. They were specifically designed to be used by the champion of the Amazons, and are unique, no other Amazon has ones like them. This was established back in the Perez run as an explanation for why they're indestructible.

So, what, you're telling me the Aegis was made of Nth Metal? I guess that explains the shockwave thing in the movie! Cause, to be fair, Nth Metal is on the same of level of "fuck you, I can do whatever" as the Starheart. ... Which is probably also made out of Nth Metal now.

>>93818072
https://www.polygon.com/comics/2017/6/16/15819114/dark-night-knight-metal-evil-batman

>>93818072
Yeah WW Batman is one of them, don't recognize the logo of the one with the whiskers, maybe that's just a badly drawn Batflash logo. Batquaman is also there and Batborg is probably the iron man guy.

>>93818074
It was a huge crossover with tie-ins in most/all books and a six issue core storyline. Not sure if that's big enough to be an "event", though.

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Joker%27s_Last_Laugh

>>93818141
Fair enough, I never read it and hadn't realised it was that big

>>93818078
Are those actually there? They might just be constructs made by Duke. The dagger is the important part.

>>93818072
>One of them has Wonder Woman's symbol on her(?) chest.
It'd actually be kinda neat if the WW one was a really buff chick. The Merciless is 2 SWOLE 2 CONTROL.

>>93817176
No they wouldn't. Secret Empire's regarded as a joke, and rightfully
What exactly does Spencer even have to do with Scott Snyder?

>>93814727

I think it's pretty obvious Snyder originally intended for Duke to be black lives matter Robin, but that didn't catch on with people so he decided to add in all this meta stuff. If he really was supposed to be some sort of lightbringer I think it would have been hinted at in his costume.

>>93818223
ehhh idk, I never saw Snyder make a big deal out of the fact Duke is black

>>93818217
>No they wouldn't. Secret Empire's regarded as a joke, and rightfully
Have you ever see a Secret Empire thread?

It is basically endless comments saying "BASED BASED BASED BASED" for every page, including Frank Castle working with Nazi villains.

>>93813971
>You lived to see an evil Batman event
I never thought this day would come.

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>>93816522
I like the cut of your jib.

>>93818223
Pairing up Damian with Jon as supersons was probably the thing that ensured that Duke would never ever be Robin for a long time since Snyder would need to wait for Jon to be retconned and/or killed before Damian was in a position to lose the Robin title.

>>93818032
Considerring everything else he's linked nth metal to >>93816599 I doubt he's stopping there. No brakes on the Snyder train.

What's stronger than a JL? A JL where everyone is Batman.

>>93818275
There have been so many Robins now that becoming one is the opposite of special, though.

>>93818348
That's not funny.

>>93818379
It's Snyder's creative process of designing the dark knights.

>>93817595
Yeah, the only one I see being good is the Giffen/DiDio one, the rest all sound pretty bad, especially the New Gods one.
Shame Evanier, despite being buddies with Kirby, can't write his characters for shit.

I mean this gets so grand and conspiratorial it brings Talia in, name-drops Leviathan and that now that she's not crazy-evil-possessed-by-the-dark-spirit-cosmic anymore, she's not in that murder-game anymore. Leviathan connects back to Spyral connects back to Pyg and Doctor Hurt. Time to get all the crazy Morrison run flow-charts back out? Sure, why not.

So what's the over/under on the quality of those tie-ins?

Considering the premise and what we've now learned, I'm thinking the safe bet is to lowball it, hard.

>>93814526
Wouldn't the Joker... uh, want to see what happens if the machine activates? He's pure chaos after all

>>93815092
>tv shows, cartoons, and videogames
LMFAO good one cuck

>>93818642
The Joker already knows what will happen and it's not funny. Batman is the one who wants to activate it despite absolutely everything telling him it's a very very bad idea.

>>93815077
>>93815097
Tards.

>>93814811
People not reading comics
It was a thing for a fucking year, anon

I hope war of Jokes vs Riddles shows gangsta-joker who died due to bruce not saving him or some shit and endgame-joker dies in this, so we're left with KJoker.

That was so hammy. Can Snyder stop writing comics now please.

>>93818682
>93818682
"Quick, people with different tastes. Call them retarded!"

>>93816780
More like out of hell. DC was a floundering wreck during New 52 and DCYou.

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>>93814780
>those legs

>>93817194
Except it was retard. But I don't expect a MCUck to actually read a comic.

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>>93814295

GL jobs again.

>>93814811
c'mon, man. That machine is nothing new.
It had been around for like 5 years and it already appeared 3 times in Snyder's Batman run.

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>>93814650
Yeah, in Endgame, the end of Snyder's run on the main book.

>>93814731
What?

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>>93816356
thanks

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>>93814826

>Every JL member gets an evil Batman version.