Dark Nights: Metal: The Deluxe Edition Review

Finished reading Dark Nights: Metal: The Deluxe Edition, creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo working together once again to bring one of DC's biggest events as Batman finds himself in the middle of a threat for a twist multiverse. The book opens with the Justice League fighting for their life within a coliseum under the control of Mongul. When the team gets back to Earth Batman is informed by Alfred that a mountain has appeared in the middle of Gotham and as the League investigate they are met by a group of named the Blackhawks as their leader Kendra Saunders takes the League to Blackhawk Island. Once on the island Kendra catches the heroes up on current events and the significance of the sudden appearance of the mountain as it becomes known that Batman is the key to an oncoming invasion that the mountain is a precursor to. With this knowledge Batman escapes the island and uses different signal emitters along with the Batfamily disguising themselves as Batman to help Bruce evade the entire superheroes of the DC universe. However when Superman and Wonder Woman finally catch up with Batman they soon discover that all of them have walked into a trap set up by the Court of Owls and some worshippers of Barbatos as Batman is used as the key to the doorway between Earth and the Dark Multiverse as Barbatos and a group of twisted Batmen come through and being to twist the Earth into a living nightmare. Overall this was an amazing book as writer Scott Snyder crafts an incredibly intriguing and story that opens straight into the action giving a nice amount of focus onto the the Justice League and the way the work together before Batman goes off on his own when it becomes clear that he is a key piece to the plan of the books antagonist. The book also does a great job in blending together the great character moments with each of the characters interact with one another especially within the smaller groups of heroes as the book has some great dialogue is used within the action scenes. The art throughout the book is amazing as artist Greg Capullo brings the nightmare versions of Batman to life extremely with how the designs of the villains work within the chaos sweeping through the DC Universe that leads to some breathtaking moments from the action sequences. While the more dialogue heavy moments also has an amazing amount of detail to the characters interactions that are elevated by the rest of the art team. 9/10.