DC DIGRESSION: Dark Nights - Death Metal is a raucous college-town bar band playing covers

By Zack Quaintance — The musical metaphors are too easy with DC Comics’ big summer event, Dark Nights: Death Metal. You can call it an encore to the first event — Dark Nights: Metal — a simple echo of ideas, inflated to new volume to give the audience more of the things they’ve cheered all along. Or, perhaps you can call it a sophomore album, a tricky followup to an earlier success that needs to check similar boxes while also going in new, stimulating directions.

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DC DIGRESSION: A week of alternate worlds

By Zack Quaintance — This week, the big story for new DC Comics releases was a tale of two Batman comics (excuse the cliched lead construction). The first was the flagship title: Batman #93, written by James Tynion IV and illustrated by Guillem March. Being the flagship title, this is essentially the Batman comic of record, the one that pushes forward the narrative of the Caped Crusader within accepted DC Universe continuity.

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