Dark Nights: Death Metal
The Darkest Knight
2021
The Darkest Knight is the first volume of supplementary material to accompany the main Dark Nights: Death Metal storyline, which I read last month.
We start off with origin stories for a bunch of the evil Batmen from last time - Batman Who Laughs, B-Rex, Batmobeast, the giant evil Gotham City mecha, etc.
Then we see longer versions of some plot points that were handled very quickly in the main story. I think I mentioned there was a convoluted plan to save the day? It had three main parts. Each one gets an issue-long story instead of just being declared successful in a single panel.
Wonder Woman, Superman, and original Batman would sneak and fight their way into the evil Bat Castle to travel to alternate Earths where three previous DC Crises were still ongoing, to rerout the flow of 'crisis energy' away from the bad guys.
Simultaneously, the Green Lantern Corp and some sort of multiversal Justice League would travel to the last few evil Earths left in the collapsing multiverse, and knock out the antennae towers being used to receive and collect crisis energy.
Also simultaneously, all the Flashes were on the run from the super-powerful Batman Who Laughs (whose brain was transplanted into the body of Dr Batmanhattan after Wonder Woman killed him with an Invisible Chainsaw, and who has renamed himself The Darkest Knight), so that when the other two missions succeeded Kid Flash would be able to become the new receiver for all the rerouted crisis energy, and channel it to restart the multiverse.
I did warn you it was complicated!
The next volume, I think, is going to expand on Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman's difficult adventures on the Crisis worlds.
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