If you need (as I wrote above) 7 PHDs in DC-ology to understand Batman Lost, well, you’ll need a full 52 to understand “The Wild Hunt.” Arrant, Chris (October 4, 2017). "Hawkman Found and Demon: Hell on Earth #1 Delayed A Week Each". Newsarama . Retrieved 2017-10-05. The first two issues of Metal are darn near perfect love letters to the DC Universe, touching on everything from Mongul to the creation of the DC Multiverse! These are the dark corners of reality that have never been seen till now! The Dark Multiverse is revealed in all its devastating danger--and the threats it contains are coming for the DC Universe! Can Batman and his allies save the Multiverse from total darkness?

The Metal tie-ins continue to be extremely tight and relevant to the overall understanding of the event, with Justice League #33 capping the “Bats out of Hell” crossover. The New Age of DC Heroes: Debuting new characters and stories related to the repercussions of Dark Nights: Metal. To defeat them, Batman and the Justice League must undergo an impossible quest to find the mysterious metals capable of repelling the Dark Knights and their master, the fearsome Barbatos.

An evil force as old as time has emerged from the nightmare realm known as the Dark Multiverse. But it’s not just any nightmares that have spilled out of this void. Speaking of Morrison, Metal is a giant love letter to the living legend. A full familiarity with the DC Comics of Grant Morrison is always recommended, but for the purposes of Metal, his time writing Batman and his cosmic mapping of the DC multiverse in Multiversity are the most relevant.

Nightwing’s entrance into the Gotham Resistance connects the dots between the prelude Nightwing #17 issue and the Metal saga.

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Dark Days: The Forge #1, Dark Days: The Casting #1, Nightwing (vol. 4) #17, Final Crisis #6–7, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1, Batman (vol. 2) #38–39 and material from Detective Comics #950 Reading The Return of Bruce Wayne has seriously augmented my understanding of Metal in many enjoyable ways. It is highly recommended reading for Metal heads. Evil Dark Knights from the multiverse have risen! Only Batman and the world's greatest superheroes can save the multiverse! Get the entire Dark Nights Metal epic in one heart-pounding collection. Batman has uncovered one of the lost mysteries of the universe…one that could destroy the very fabric of the DC Universe! He'll wage war against diabolical Dark Knights across the multiverse and come face-to-face with The Batman Who Laughs. These are the dark corners of reality that have never been seen till now! The Dark Multiverse is revealed in all its devastating danger—and the threats it contains are coming for the DC Universe! Can Batman and his allies save the Multiverse from total darkness? This epic omnibus contains the entire Dark Nights: Metalsaga Shiach, Kieran (August 16, 2017). "Review: Dark Nights: Metal #1 is a Reminder of Why We Love Superheroes". CBR . Retrieved 2017-10-02.

Teen Titans (vol. 6) #12, Nightwing (vol. 4) #29, Suicide Squad (vol. 5) #26, Green Arrow (vol. 6) #32, The Flash (vol. 5) #33, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #32, Justice League (vol. 3) #32–33, Batman: Lost #1, Hawkman: Found #1 Detective Comics is not a direct Metal tie-in, and is for absolute die-hards only. You can read Metal without Detective! That said, Detective begins teasing out Batman’s quest, and the mysteries of DC Metal prior to “The Forge.” Superman flies to the Fortress of Solitude where he encounters the dark versions of Batman for the first time as they introduce themselves as the Dark Knights. They all come from the Dark Multiverse — temporary negative realities created by the fears of people from their respective counterpart positive universes — and were recruited by Barbatos with the promise of preventing the end of their worlds. The Batman Who Laughs from Earth-22, who lost his sanity due to his world's Joker, gathered the six other Dark Multiverse Batmen after they each alter themselves to gain superhuman abilities. The Dark Knights' membership includes the speedster fusion of Flash and Batman called The Red Death, a female amphibious Batman (Bryce Wayne) called The Drowned, a corrupted, teenaged Green Lantern Batman named The Dawnbreaker, a cyborg Batman named The Murder Machine, a Batman known as The Merciless who wears the helmet of Ares and the Doomsday-infected Batman called The Devastator. Superman is overwhelmed as he is spirited away from danger by the Flash and Doctor Fate. [18]The following month, DC announced Batman: Lost written by Scott Snyder with art by Olivier Coipel and Bengal. Snyder states, "the single issue story will strand Batman alone in the Dark Multiverse, where he will face his greatest fears." [7] Year of the Villain: In March 2019, Scott Snyder announced a new event campaign titled Year of the Villain, which features the repercussions of Dark Nights: Metal from the supervillains' perspective.

The series' sequel, " Dark Nights: Death Metal" by Snyder and Capullo, was announced for May 2020. [12] "Dark Nights: Metal" and "Death Metal" have collectively been dubbed " Metal Wars" by reviewers. [13] Synopsis [ edit ] Prelude [ edit ] The entire saga? The one that Dan DiDio originally wanted they to call Dark Crisis? Well that would consist of… The story involves Batman discovering a Dark Multiverse that exists beneath the core DC multiverse. It is revealed that both multiverses are connected through mysterious metals that Batman has encountered over the years. His investigations eventually result in him releasing seven evil versions of himself from the Dark Multiverse, led by the dark god known as Barbatos, who plans to unleash darkness across every Earth. The Murder Machine is another great “dark” Batman one-shot. The issue spends about 50% of the time during the present day and 50% explaining this Batman’s origin, making it an essential continuation of the Metal story.

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Devastator feels like a one-shot with real consequences, as the Doomsday Virus Batman invades Metropolis and anyone still placing their hope in Superman. It’s an extremely strong issue and one that has me wondering how the DCU will recover. At the 2017 Comic-Con International, an additional tie-in one-shot was announced called Hawkman Found written by Jeff Lemire with art by Bryan Hitch and Kevin Nowlan. As the title implies, it focused on the connection between Hawkman and the events of "Dark Nights: Metal" and it is positioned as a sequel to Batman Lost. Lemire revealed that it "re-positions one of DC’s oldest, most iconic and most confusing characters ahead of a possible new ongoing in the new year." [8] Justice League #32–33 by Robert Venditti, Joshua Williamson, Liam Sharp, Tyler Kirkham, Mikel Janin, Adam Brown, Arif Prianto, Jeromy Cox Dark Nights: Metal #1–6, Batman: Lost #1, Dark Nights: Metal Director's Cut #1, Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1, Dark Days: The Forge #1, Dark Days: The Casting #1, Batman: The Red Death #1, Batman: The Devastator #1, Batman: The Merciless #1, Batman: The Murder Machine #1, Batman: The Drowned #1, Batman: The Dawnbreaker #1, The Batman Who Laughs #1, Teen Titans (vol. 6) #12, Nightwing (vol. 4) #29, Suicide Squad (vol. 5) #26, Green Arrow (vol. 6) #32, The Flash (vol. 5) #33, Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #32, Justice League (vol. 3) #32–33, Hawkman: Found #1