![]() ![]() We’ve got Batman using Element X (the glowy metal from Metron’s chair used to power the miracle machine at the end of Final Crisis) to armor the Justice League. This comic is bonkers, both because of the crazy stuff that happened in it and because of the devil-may-care referencing of Morrison’s DC oeuvre that peppers the whole story. But it feels like a big deal all the same. – Hawkgirl ominously flips over a map of the multiverse to reveal…THE BACK OF THE MAP. I mean, here’s a partial list of things that happen in this story: But at the same time, it’s a celebration of how insane and ridiculous the DCU is. There, they meet up with Wonder Woman, who frees Hawkman with her lasso, and the trinity relights the forge, defeats the gaggle of dark Batman/Justice Leaguer hybrids that Barbatos unleashed on the world, and harnesses the power of the various metals used as macguffins through this story and all of Snyder’s run (Electrum from “The Court of Owls,” Dionesium from “Endgame,” Promethium from “Superheavy,” nth metal from The Casting, and Batmanium from the second issue of the series) to finally defeat Barbatos.īecause of changes to the multiverse from this battle and the relighting of the forge, the new status quo for the DCU is set up: many of the dark Batmen are still out there, Sandman’s library is missing a book and its master, the Darkstars are back, the Flashes are at war, Atlantis is rising, Batman is building a Hall of Justice, and there’s a tear in the Source Wall. ![]() Batman escapes, saves Superman, gets rescued by Sandman, and then the two are returned to the forge of worlds. Batman almost figured it out, but was tricked into following Hawkman into the dark multiverse and captured, used as bait to lure Superman in so his body could be used to fuel the merging of both multiverses. Hawkman figured this out but failed at chasing it down. Barbatos eventually killed the forgemaster and took his place, using the forge of worlds to create dark reflections of the multiverse and get a bunch of cavemen at what would become Gotham to worship him as their Bat-God. The big bang now created the positive matter universe and the anti-matter universe (or Dark Multiverse), but it also created a forge of worlds manned by a forgemaster creating universes out of untamed possibility and feeding nonviable worlds to the dragon Barbatos, who ate them and pooped…stories. The short version: the multiverse got a whole new origin story and was greatly expanded, while some of the wildest plot points of Grant Morrison’s tenure in the main DCU – and his Batman run in particular – were integrated into that foundational mythos. Nor is Hawkman Found (although that helps make sense of Hawkman’s insane continuity and sets up his upcoming solo series). The same goes for the various Dark Batman one-offs: some were excellent, and the Batman Who Laughs issue was dark as hell, but they’re not essential. You can feel free to ignore the crossover issues of ongoing series, though some of them were very good (I’m looking at you, Flash). Available here.ĭark Knights Rising: Wild Hunt – Read this between Metal #5 and #6. That’s collected here.īatman Lost – Read this between Metal #3 and #4. The prologues, along with some other stuff, are collected here.ĭark Knights: Metal – the main story. Here’s what you need to read to get everything out of the story:ĭark Days: The Forge and Dark Days: The Casting – these two are prologues that bridge the gap between Snyder and Capullo’s Batman through All-Star Batman to the main series. ![]() Too much happened in the tie-ins, but there were also tie-ins that were unimportant to the main story.
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