Dark Nights: Death Metal Omnibus

by Scott Snyder, Joshua Williamson, Greg Capullo (Illustrator)

Get ready for the earth-shattering encore!

When the Earth is enveloped by the Dark Multiverse, the Justice League is at the mercy of the Batman Who Laughs. Humanity struggles to survive in a hellish landscape twisted beyond recognition, while Batman, Wonder Woman, and Superman have all been separated and fight to survive. Unleash the beast and let the head banging begin!

The Death Metal Omnibus is packed full of the Death Metal stories you love! Collecting Dark Death Metal #1-7, Dark Death Metal Guidebook #1, Dark Death Metal Infinite Hour Exxxtreme! #1, Dark Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights #1, Dark Death Metal Multiverse's End #1, Dark Death Metal Rise of the New God #1, Dark Death Metal Robin King #1, Dark Death Metal The Last 52: War of the Multiverses #1, Dark Death Metal The Multiverse Who Laughs #1, Dark Death Metal The Secret Origin #1, Dark Death Metal Trinity Crisis #1 , and Justice League #53-57!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Batman

968 pages, Hardcover

Published February 20, 2024

About the author

Scott Snyder is the Eisner and Harvey Award winning writer on DC Comics Batman, Swamp Thing, and his original series for Vertigo, American Vampire. He is also the author of the short story collection, Voodoo Heart, published by the Dial Press in 2006. The paperback version was published in the summer of 2007.

Reviews

[Matthew Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wild and ridiculous fun in a serious, high-stakes story following up the original Metal story. It’s been a few years since this story came out and it’s always been on my radar, but I was waiting for the omnibus to come out to read all together. Almost from the beginning I was brought back into this Metal world and I was enjoying every panel. Throwing elements from Watchmen into a story really boosts a book for me just out of sheer fanboy-ish excitement and love for that story. Along with that, there is so much cleverness utilized when it comes to altering slightly so many characters and aspects of the DC Universe and putting them in this story. I really enjoyed the deeper dives into some of the less popular DC characters through some of the one-shots in this one. Overall, a pretty solid, metal read.

[Langston Lardi · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun ride from start to end, this really feels like an amalgamation of all the crisis events that have ever happened all culminated in a final major, all out war, event. (Though we already have had another crisis event so scratch that thought out). This book feels like if DC had an endgame this would be it, just an all out war on a cosmic scale with everyone fighting to survive, and I mean everyone. Love the inclusion of lesser known character and the one shots spread throughout add depth to the story and backstory that flesh out our heroes and even villains. This story feels like it’s takes everything that started with Rebirth way back when and gives it a solid book end (even though in the comic space we know nothing ever truly ends). I can see how others would find it easy to get confused and definitely wouldn’t recommend it to newer comic readers, heck even I had some moments, but overall I found it a very interesting read and a nice bookend to all of rebirth for myself. Now to go read some simple low scale stories for myself for a bit.

[Davide Pappalardo · Rating 2 out of 5]

A DC crisis event in disguise that ended Snyder’s reign not with a bang, but a whimper. Shallow, quite boring, and full of bad characterizations, it tries to prove its legitimacy by citing previous events and aping Morrison’s nonlinear narration style and concepts. The problem is that it only gets confusing and void of the Scottish author’s highbrow ventures, stretching too long without a real reason. The good aspects? The gorgeous art from people like Capullo, Hitch, Russo, and others, an end to Superboy Prime’s story (we can only hope) and especially the end of the overhyped, ill-conceived, stupid concept called The Batman Who Laughs (may everyone forget about him forever). Of course it was meant to put an end to DC’s constant reboots, but as of now we already have had another crisis event, so we know better.

[Adrian Sandoval · Rating 3 out of 5]

No creo que sea el mejor evento de DC pero si uno que vale la pena leer, y que en definitiva se beneficia de estar en formato Omnibus porque permite tener contexto de mucho de lo que se proyecta en este encuentro de la Liga de la Justicia con Perpetua y el Multiverso Oscuro.

Uno que merece la pena leerlo mas de una vez.

[Zachary Blake · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a ton of fun! I really enjoyed the issues during the “calm before the storm” moments of the last few issues of death metal which contained plenty of character moments. The secret origin of super boy prime stood out for me.