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Dark Days: The Road to Metal Paperback – January 8, 2019

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Here comes the Dark Multiverse, now in paperback! For years, Batman has been tracking a mystery. He's quietly been pulling a thread, conducting research in secret laboratories across the globe and stowing evidence deep in the Batcave, hidden even from his closest allies. Now, in an epic story spanning generations, the heroes and villains of the DC Universe--including Green Lantern, The Joker, Wonder Woman and more--will all find out what secrets he's discovered. Secrets that could threaten the very existence of the Multiverse!

The unforgettable team of Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV, Jim Lee, John Romita Jr. and Andy Kubert combine forces to set the stage for the epic Dark Nights: Metal. Leading directly into this blockbuster event, Dark Days: The Road to Metal collects Dark Days: The Forge #1 and Dark Days: The Casting #1, as well as classic DC stories that built the foundations of Metal, including Final Crisis #6-7, Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1, Batman #38-39, Nightwing #17 and more!

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January 8, 2019
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6.6 x 0.48 x 10.16 inches
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140128762X
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“It’s impossible not to be excited for Metal after this.” —IGN

“A multiversal superhero epic… A strong foundation for the upcoming miniseries.” —A.V. Club

“Each prelude issue to DC’s new mega event is crazier than the one that came before… All kinds of crazy.” —Nerdist

“If you’re going to do an explosive saga, then you better pack your biggest guns. Guns don’t get much bigger than Snyder, Lee, Romita Jr., and Kubert.” —Comicosity

About the Author

Scott Snyder is a #1 New York Times best-selling writer and one of the most critically acclaimed scribes in all of comics. His works include All-Star Batman, Batman, Batman: Eternal, Superman Unchained, American Vampire and Swamp Thing. He has also been published in Zoetrope, Tin House, One-Story, Epoch, Small Spiral Notebook and other journals, and has a short-story collection, Voodoo Heart, which was published by Dial Press. He teaches at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence University and lives in New York with his wife, Jeanie, and his son, Jack Presley.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ DC Comics; Illustrated edition (January 8, 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 140128762X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401287627
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 15.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.6 x 0.48 x 10.16 inches

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I write comic books! Growing up, I always wanted to write comics, but I ended up trying my hand at fiction first. I got my MFA from Columbia University, published a book of short stories with The Dial Press in 2006 called Voodoo Heart, then finally broke into comics in 2009 and haven't looked back since. I've worked extensively for DC Comics, writing such titles as Batman, Detective Comics, Justice League, the comic event books DC Dark Knights Metal and Death Metal, and Swamp Thing, among others. I've also created a number of series with some great co-creators and partners -- books like We Have Demons, Clear, Night of the Ghoul, Nocterra, American Vampire, Wytches, the Wake, AD: After Death, and more... I live in NY with my wife, Jeanie and our three boys. I am also a big fan of Elvis Presley.

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Constantino Benavides

Reading order

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2018

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Reading order.
01 DARK DAYS:THE ROAD TO METAL The Road to Metal Dark Days: The Forge #1
02 DARK DAYS:THE ROAD TO METAL Dark Days: The Casting #1
03 Dark Nights: Metal #1
04 Dark Nights: Metal #2
05 DARK NIGHTS: THE NIGHTMARE BATMEN Batman The Red Death #1
06 DARK NIGHTS: THE NIGHTMARE BATMEN Batman The Murder Machine #1
07 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Gotham Resistance - Teen Titans #12
08 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Gotham Resistance - Nightwing #29
09 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Gotham Resistance - Suicide Squad #26
10 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Gotham Resistance - Green Arrow #32
11 DARK NIGHTS: THE NIGHTMARE BATMEN Batman The Dawnbreaker #1
12 DARK NIGHTS: THE NIGHTMARE BATMEN Batman The Drowned #1
13 Dark Nights: Metal #3
14 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Batman Lost #1
15 DARK NIGHTS: THE NIGHTMARE BATMEN Batman The Merciless #1
16 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Bats Out of Hell - The Flash #33
17 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Bats Out of Hell - Justice League #32
18 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Bats Out of Hell - Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps #32
19 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Bats Out of Hell - Justice League #33
20 DARK NIGHTS: THE NIGHTMARE BATMEN Batman The Devastator #1
21 DARK NIGHTS: THE NIGHTMARE BATMEN Batman Who Laughs #1
22 Dark Nights: Metal #4
23 DARK NIGHTS METAL: THE RESISTANCE Hawkman Found #1
24 Dark Nights: Metal #5
25 DARK NIGHTS: THE NIGHTMARE BATMEN Dark Knights Rising: The Wild Hunt
26 Dark Nights: Metal #6

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Hodge Podge

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2020

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Other reviews hit the nail on the head--this collection is a real hodge podge that doesn't necessarily enhance your understanding of the Dark Nights Metal event and is highly skippable. The first two issues are like a "prologue" to Metal, yes, and they do have some tidbits, but nothing you absolutely need to jump into the event.

On the flipside, the rest of the book is a smattering of Final Crisis, (The Return of Bruce Wayne?), Endgame, and Nightwing that will leave you scratching your head. If you're a person who needs extra background, this will confuse the hell out of you even more. And if you're like me, and you actually read all of those previously, you'll go "okay, I guess that was a refresher of sorts," but it's too jarring to really enhance your understanding or enjoyment of Metal.

TL;DR-The first two issues have new info, but don't justify the purchase. The rest of the book is a messy, hard to follow collection of previous stories.

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Dustin Hanna

High-quality collection of both exciting new material and insightful supporting context.

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2018

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The first two issues in this collected edition are proper preludes to the Dark Nights: Metal event, and are exciting episodes that dive head-first into the action, chalked full of teases of what is to come. While heavily steeped in DC canonical references (which are often confusing based on how they may become further contextualized or otherwise entirely retconned in the Rebirth era), these issues tease beloved characters, teams, and concepts that point to a explosive re-emergence within the DCU. How integral this delving into DC comics history will actually be to the main event remains to be seen in Dark Nights: Metal.

The extended material in this collection offer context to the main themes of the impending “dark crisis” teases within the preludes, as well as pointers to clues sprinkled throughout Snyder’s New 52 run on Batman, around whom the event is primarily going to unfold. For those already invested invested in collecting DC comics’ greatest outings, the issues ripped from Final Crisis and The Return of Bruce Wayne (both by Grant Morrison of Bat-defining repute) will likely be repeats in your collection. In spite of this, I found the inclusion of these issues to be interesting for the purpose of teasing what themes will be explored, and what history will be expanded upon, in the upcoming event. For those up to date on New-52-and-beyond material for Batman and the Bat-family, the other issues included will likely be repeats, but again offer clues to what the upcoming event will cover, especially those clues embedded within Snyder’s run on Batman.

Overall, while the preludes are the only explicitly “new” material included in this collection, for those excited to delve into the Dark Nights: Metal event, this edition will offer insight, context, and teases into the “dark crisis” to come, all wrapped up in a high-quality hardcover with a snazzy foil dust-cover.

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Telee

Dark Days: The Road to Metal

Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2020

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I have to still give this book 5 stars because the book itself is great. I love the series and highly recommend it. However, Amazon really needs to understand they can't ship books in soft envelopes. I even tried ordering multiple books in one order, hoping they would come in a box, and they all ship separately in soft envelopes. Very frustrating, and sad to see all these damaged books I'll have to return.

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scifidude79

Just OK

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2021

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If you're like me and you just wanted to read some stuff leading up to Metal, then the first two comics in this book are good to read. They directly relate to and give you important back stories on Metal. The rest of the book seems like filler so DC can charge more money for the book. They're all issues from other DC stories that are in here completely out of context. What's worse is that they're collected in other volumes, along with the other parts of the stories they're from. So, you're better off just buying those volumes and reading the stories there, unless you've read them already and won't be lost reading the issues collected here.

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K. G. A. Alavi

The preludes collection

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 28, 2018

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This is a collection of preludes of things to come. This is a real mixed bag. I did enjoy the Road to Metal stories the Forge and the Casting, but mist of the other back issues in this collection were my least favorite Batman stories ever.

If I was going to rate the Forge and the Casting I would have given this 4 stars because the artwork was great, lots of guest stars but a little lacking in the action department for me.

I really did not like Final Crisis, it felt too rushed to me and I am not a fan of the DC terminology that I had the buy ever DC book at the time to fully understand every aspect of it. Though I was happy Batman got a decisive role in it. The Return of Bruce Wayne was a better storyline for me, but this only contained issue 1 of the six part mini series. I saw the thin thread to Metal in it but still not impressed.

Towards the end, I get Batman Endgame part 4 and 5, then Nightwing 17? Why was the last story there? I would have preferred if they swapped that one for the Endgame part 6. Why not give the ending to the Endgame which does relates Metal instead of a story of the first and last Robin arguing about their legacy?

The final story though short I really. It reminded me who Tom/Red Robin is my fave as far as the Robins go. Also shows his is the closest one to actually be able to think like Batman/Bruce Wayne.

A good beginning and ending, but no matter how they relate not my favorite Batman stories in the middle. I did like the variant covers at the end of every issue. It. Oils have been better but an overall OK.

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Kieran McLoughlin

Really awesome start, but really messy for most of the rest.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 18, 2020

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Probably the series that inspired me to get back into comic reading the most, I've been looking forward to reading Dark Knights Metal. Naturally, looking up the reading order brought me to this. It's a strange one, because part of me thinks 2/5 stars is too harsh, especially after reading the Dark Days issues. The problem comes in after that, where we get an absolute mess of a comic story collection. Most if it has no preface, no context, nothing. It's a mess which is baffling for those just getting into the dc universe in this way (as I am) and while the art throughout is beautiful I just simple cannot excuse the lackluster organisation here. The Dark days comic is awesome, really makes me excited for the series. The rest really drags this down. If you can get the separate issue, do that instead. I hope the rest of the series matches my expectations.

StrontiumDogBoy

Yet another incomplete 'collection'.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2018

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This is somewhat pointless. The two Dark Days issues should simply have been included in the main Dark Knights Metal collection. The bulk of this book is made up of disparate issues, all of which are just disjointed pieces of other stories, none of which are presented in their entirity. Because there is nothing like a coherant narrative present, this just comes across as a badly concieved cash-grab volume.

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Simon J

A good start to the story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 12, 2020

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Ok so was abit confused as to where to start reading this series, this is the first book, and is a great start but ..... in my opinion you really only get 2 parts of the story. Then the rest is kinda ..... you read and your like “ok what’s this gotta to do with the other 2 parts”.
It’s also like they put it in there to make the whole book bigger and look full. I get it, but kinda wanted more.

Audrey Gadman

Dark Days: The road to metal

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2021

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These comics are not my cup of tea, this was bought for my grandson for his birthday, and he loves them. As he is the expert on them he has sent a five star review.. looks like I have more in the series to buy in the future.

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