DC's current multiverse-redefining event Dark Nights: Death Metal is heading toward its conclusion on Janaury 5, but one week before on December 29, the publisher will revisit the story's predecessor 🍷Dark Nights: Metal in a Tales From the Dark Mul♕tiverse one-shot that imagines a much more tragic ending for the vaunted crossover, which led directly to DC's current status quo.
In the one-shot, the evil Dark Multiverse dragon Barbatos seiz♉es Element X before the DC heroes, who used the mysterious metal to defeat the villain in the original story. In the one-shot, that advantage for Barbatos leads to his victory, sealing the heroes' fate.
"In the event-defining epic Dark Nights: Metal, the Just🐟ice League defeated the vile Barbatos and his Dark Knights to save our universe from sinking into the abyss of the Dark Multiverse🙈. But...what if they failed?" reads DC's official description of Tales From the Dark Multiverse: Dark Nights: Metal.
"What if Barbatos reigned victorious? Enter an alternate timeline where the DCU as you know it has been dragged down into the darkness," it continues. "Witness the Justice League you o🧔nce knew, hideously transformed into dragons who serve at the mercy of evil.
"Duke Thomas, the Last Monitor, will have to seek out Nightwing and the few remaining survivors of the Metal event to assemble the Final Justice League in an attempt to save the Multiverse," it concludes. "Featuring a sto𒈔ry by Metal architect Scott Snyder, rising stars Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing, and art by red-hot artist Karl Mostert, you won't want to miss the biggest, loudest arena rock concert in the history of the DC Universe!"
Here's a gallery of pages from Tales From the Dark Multiverse:☂ 🍎Dark Nights: Metal #1.
"This is the OG original event remastered, reframed, and totally rebuilt as a Dark Multiverse story," co-writer Jackson Lanzing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:tells Newsarama.
"The idea being that for fans of the original Metal, if you wanted to go back and revisit that event and see what might've happened if instead of the heroes pulling together at the 🌸end with the Element X armor to beat back Barbatos, the bat dragon," he continues.&n🦋bsp;
"What if instead, Barbatos was one step ahead? Use that armor to co🦂rrupt the Justice League, turn them into 80-foot-tall dragons of Barbatos' own design, and then use them to conqu♕er the multiverse."
"Our story is once that ওhappenඣed, once the end has come, what does it mean to be a hero? What does it mean to be one of the last people left in that world?"
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I've been Newsarama's resident Marvel Comics expert and general comic book historian since 2011. I've also been the on-site reporter at most major comic conventions such as Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, and C2E2. Outside of comic journalism, I am the artist of many weird pictures, and the guitar🐽ist of many heavy riff🍨s. (They/Them)
