Wow this collection is fantastic. World: The art is great, there are a lot of different artists which normally irks me with the different Nightmare Batmen it allows for more creativity and different tone. I love the world building, normally as I said it is filler for me but these characters (and this is a character collection) are interesting and where they end up is the core of the world. The worlds they are from are fascinating. Story: Normally in an event, the tie in books are fairly meh and

I received this from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.Wow, this was much better than the main Metal volume. Very cool take on the Dark Knights' origins, and how they were called to attack the Multiverse. My favorites were The Drowned (Batwoman from an underwater Gotham City) and The Devastator (part Batman, all Doomsday). I sure would like to see more of these in the future!

The Dark Knights are born! This metal-foil dustcover hardcover TPB features: “Batman: The Red Death” #1, “Batman: The Murder Machine” #1, “Batman: Dawnbreaker” #1, “Batman: The Drowned” #1, “Batman: The Merciless” #1, “Batman: The Devastator” #1, “The Batman Who Laughs” #1 & “Batman Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt” #1. THE ROAD TO HELL… What surprised me more about this origin stories for the “Dark Knights of the Dark Multiverse” was that since they were coming from a parallel dimension zone

This volume collects all the one shot origin stories for each of the nightmare Batmen who are part of the Dark Nights: Metal event (except Barbatos himself). It also ends with The Wild Hunt, the one story that features the return of the great Grant Morrison, to unveil the intention of these Batmen, and to multiply your questions with key events surrounding Bobo T. Chimpanzee; sounds crazy already, right?The only real central thread to this volume is the structure of each story as each origin sto...

"You see...a Batman who laughs, is a Batman who always wins." This book compiles all of the one-shot storylines that detail the origins of the seven Nightmare Batmen from the Dark Multiverse, and is essential reading for the Dark Nights: Metal event. These stories become a fascinating look at the variety of ways that Bruce Wayne can be corrupted, wherein each universe, he becomes a twisted amalgamation of Batman and another member of the Justice League, after succumbing to fear, anger

Great omnibus. Loved every page of it. Well, most of it anyway.

Huh. Color me suprised. This was actually GOOD! Compelling and interesting, and way better than the ACTUAL "Metal" mini-series.

[Read as single issues]The breakout stars of Dark Nights: Metal, the Nightmare Batmen, get their own origin story one-shots, all collected here. Plus, the Justice League battles across the Multiverse in the Wild Hunt one-shot!Like most anthologies, this one's a little hit or miss, but it's much more consistent than you'd expect despite every issue having a different creative team. Red Death, Dawnbreaker, and Batman Who Laughs easily lead the pack, while Devastator and Drowned are probably the we...

“All it takes is one bad day!”That line from the Joker has never been truer. Over the years Batman/Bruce has had a number of “bad days”. Being the hero he is he has always managed to to fight back. However what happens if on one of those days he.Decides the to take the Speed force Is given a Green Lantern ringTakes the power of a “God”Loses his humanity to cold hard logic encased in metalUses a “Doomsday” weaponGains the most evil, sick and twisted sense of humorThese are the variants of the dar...

I've been away from Batman comics for a while. Greater distractions appeared in my life and, besides, I wasn't a huge fan of The Court of Owls storyline. It seemed that every year, a new ancient secret society rose up out of the depths of Gotham City to dwarf the Caped Crusader. Odd as it may seem, such things got boring.Then along came The Batman Who Laughs. He has a striking appearance and a nightmarish aura that was too tantalising to ignore. So I picked up Dark Nights: Metal: Dark Knights Ri...

Oh thank criminey, it’s over! With this fourth and final book, the nightmarishly tedious event Dark Nights: Metal is complete. And speaking of nightmares, here are the origin stories of The Nightmare Batmen. Any of them good? Nope. They add anything to the overall story? Nope. Total waste of time? Yup! And that’s Dark Nights: Metal! I feel like Scott Snyder came up with some arbitrary dark versions of the Justice League with a Batman slant and didn’t think beyond their appearances. Because these...

Only slightly better than the main event, but still an absolute dumpster fire of poorly executed ideas serving some cool-looking art and not much else.

My god, that was some grade z crap.This is part of the Metal crossover in which (I gather) the demon Barbatos leads a legion of evil Batman from parallel worlds against the Justice League. This specific TPB gives us the Dark Knights origins: Batman becomes Flash by stealing the Speed Force so he's fast enough to stop all crime, steals Cyborg's tech to become a Robocop like killing machine, wins Green Lantern's ring by his fearlessness and willpower ... At a couple of panels each, this might have...

The origins of the Nightmare Batmen. They are all pretty cool and the art is great. It is a bit of a stretch in that in each of these Batman is an amalgam with another Justice League member. If you like Elseworlds, then you'll dig these. Also included is the Wild Hunt one-shot which I guess is included because they didn't have anywhere else to put it. It really belongs in the main Metal miniseries as it's really issue 5.5 of the mini.Received a review copy from DC and NetGalley. All thoughts are...

Fun (and VERY dark) origin stories for the evil Batmen. Each story also ties into the main Dark Nights Metal plot as a whole.

I'm a big fan of one-shot elseworld/multiverse stuff so this was right up my alley and for the most part it really delivered.

A tie-in volume far better than the main event, using tne names of heavy-metal songs as titles of single issues was a nice touch, and the stories about the Devastator and the Dawnbreaker Bat-Men were nearly ☆☆☆☆☆ ones for me.The Bat-Man who Laughs one was creepy and grimdark, but he's still too much a Judge Death's bad imitation to fully appreciate it.Change my mind.

I read most of these when they came out but the Wild Hunt came out so much later I didn't get to it. Now to rate them all together? If want a bigger review on each chapter of the Dark Knights can read my single reviews. Basically these are the origin stories of the evil Batman. We get to find out why Bruce from that Dimension went fucking insane and usually became a killer. Then we get the wildhunt to tie it all up. When we see the final battle about to be all done who will win? And who is the c...

I'm pretty sure this collection of issues by various writers and artists is the height of Scott Snyder's Dark Knights: Metal event. Snyder's own main Metal storylines are a hot mess, but when others were given the chance to write short origin stories for each of the evil versions of Batman, they managed to shine a light in the Dark.

Even before I went into these I liked the idea of "what if" scenarios... just not how they played out here- still the concept is super interesting. So what I thought was missing is more detail... that is mostly personal preference but as these short stories intend to give us background to how the Dark Knights came into existence, it wasn't nearly enough.Every single one of our knights deserved a whole volume to themselves to explore the story of how they got to that point, instead here you have