Flashback: Detective Comics #871

Our flashback in the Greatest Comics of The 21st Century is Detective Comics #871 from 2011. This first Batman story from Scott Snyder has all that you would expect from a story about the Dark Knight originally from greatestcomics21.com our companion website created to highlight the greatness of the comic media. THE GREATEST COMICS OF THE 21st CENTURY By WALT STILES Batman has always been billed as the world’s greatest detective an unparalleled fighter and a great strategist and the smartest person in the room. So what happens if the…

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Dark Knights: Death Metal Must Read

In 2017 I read a mind-blowing story by comic creators Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo called Dark Nights: Metal. It was massive in scale and involved the multiverse in its entirety and shook up the foundation of the DC Comic Multiverse. The series and Metal crossovers involve Batman discovering a dark multiverse that exists beneath the core DC multiverse. It is revealed that both multiverses are connected through mysterious metals that Batman has encountered over the years. His investigations eventually result in him releasing seven evil versions of himself from…

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Going Beyond the Source Wall With Scott Snyder’s Justice League

Major DC Spoilers: At Chicago and C2E2, Scott Snyder was asked what happens to the DC Comic Universe after the events of his series Dark Nights: Metal. About the Source Wall at the end of Metal, Snyder said: “It’s the whole impetus of No Justice … but I’m just gonna spoil it: the Green Lantern Corps goes out to the wall to be like, ‘What’s on the other side?’ The energies are unquantifiable and toxic so they decide to seal it, but they realize is that they have woken up…

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Scott Snyder Interview About Post-Metal Future and Justice League

SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for DC’s Dark Nights: Metal #6, available now. Just read Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Dark Nights #6: Metal wraps up its six-issue main story arc with some major changes in the multiverse, Snyder has opened the limits to the DC storytelling and will introduce his June-debuting Justice League run and the prelude miniseries Justice League: No Justice he’s writing with collaborators Joshua Williamson and James Tynion. Snyder is in control of some of the biggest stories in the DC Universe — and…

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