The Crisis that Broke DC | Dark Nights: Death Metal
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Ya know....I was going to, but then I realized its dumber than I thought it was. And I already thought it was an 11 on the Dum-ometer. You made me realize that was too low. ITS CLEARLY A 30!!
Come on Tiff, host Dark Crisis 😀
This should honestly theoretically be the final story set in this DC Universe. How do you go back to the status quo after all of this? Why would the villains go back to being villains after everything that happened. The world obtained peace. Thats one problem with storytelling in comics the status quo comes back and significant changes never stick.
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The greatest laugh of Sal's career
@@deviousj5868 but if you make status quo changes, the fans and higher-ups fight tooth and nail, as hard as possible, to revert things to the way they were as soon as possible. Keeping those characters in a state of perpetual freeze. All so that they can complain that nothing ever changes and the companies are just selling them the same story over again. You can not win. Not with comic book fans.
Marvel/DC comics and their relationship with continuity is broken beyond repair. All because writers and artist face criticism if they even try to tell diffrent stories. Look at the backlash to Hydra-Cap. Look how many fans threw a giant hissyfit when Marvel kind of, sort of, started having some of their heroes replaced by other characters. Look at the fan freakouts now to any and all changes in the MCU, where diverse change-ups are met with moronic complaints of things being "too woke" or whatever. All of those reactions were unwaranted, considering how miniscule the changes really were. And all of them end with people complaining that it's not the same anymore, pining for more of the old stuff.
I have been a comic book fan and reader for almost 30 years and in my expert opinion all heroes should be legacy heroes by now. With few exceptions for things like gods or immortals. And even those should be also be subject to changes. For example, by now Damian Wayne should be wrapping up his tenure as Batman and training his successor for the role, while also taking care of an elderly Dick Grayson as he hits the twilight years of his life.
Comic heroes should age in real time, grow old, get married, find out they're gay, find out they're straight, fall in love, get divorced, die, lose an arm, lose a loved one, start a family, go back to school, get a new job, quit their job, retire, get mind controled by someone else, relinquish their mantel to someone else, explore other cities, mature, regress, become mentors to the next generation of hereos, turn evil, do good things, do bad things, do unforgivable things, find redemption, become addicts, become sober, die again, etc. Just like real people do in real life. No retcons, no take-backs, no reboots. If a decision in a story causes you to no longer enjoy that character? Oh well. Too bad for you. Get over it. Let everyone else enjoy and you go find something else in the wide world of a billion other stories.
Ben and Sal: *Start singing*
Me: *gets into it*
My brother: ya know you're a weird dude
That Tiffany "NOOOOOOO" is ICONIC.
Up there with Darth vador
Sal pulled two jokes at the beginning, one for the audience, then one on Tiffany: he pulls out 52 just to put it to the side; then he pulls out Death Metal
Sal and Ben singing one is the Christmas gift I didn't think I needed.💕
I loved it
Loved it! And Tiff's facial expression was gold 😂
What song is that?
@@Newarksfinest05"One" by Metallica.
I've never felt such a rollercoaster of emotions within the first 2 minutes of a show
Same here!
That's great.
That was amazing haha
I was oh my god
I already knew what the story was going to be, but flashing 52 like that hurt. XD
It's kinda amazing to see the 10 year pipeline of Scott Snyder going from the guy who was praised for his Batman run being super grounded and new-reader friendly to him writing incomphrensible nonsense about multiverses, God beings and the spirit of creation.
It's 100% my jam xD
stop writing a hero or write long enough to ruin a villian
I was always a batman fan but didnt get into comics hardcore until n52 and snyder's batman was and still is the GOAT
@@miken.1705 I don't know if I'd call him the goat but definitely one of them. For some reason all of the best Batman writers end up going off the wall after so long.
You're insane. His Justice League run was fucking great. It was wild and wacky, but it was definitely influenced by the silver age.
That Batman run was fire, though 👀👀👀
The invisible chainsaw puts me in mind of that joke from The Simpsons Movie when Homer tries to convince an angry mob he has a chainsaw by making the sound with his mouth.
See, that’s why the chainsaw is so effective. The enemy thinks you’re just doing a really elaborate ventriloquist act, and then _BOOM!_ They just got invisible chainsaw’d.
Sal: “Look at how the whole world got transformed into the Batman logo!”
I feel like that’s the perfect metaphor for the current state of the DC comics universe/company.
I must admit, it was pretty funny going to see the Flash movie...and Flash is basically Batman's sidekick for the first act
Y'know, Ben's absolute joy and syncing up the song with Sal is just great. A wonderful bit.
Death Metal is when you force a bot to read all the Crises and then ask it to generate its own Crisis script:
_The Batman Who Laughs: "I am such a freak! Society is bad! You drink water! I drink anarchy!"_
_Tiffany looks around for a better story, but it is still Death Metal. This makes her have anger. She fires a criticism._
_The Batman Who Laughs deflects it with his sick sense of humor. A clownly power._
Does he give Tiffany a expired coupon for parents?
@@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749 Yes, but it’s expired.
So, who gives birth to Robin?
@@thegloriouswizard5270 Zombie Alfred, since it is his job.
@@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache ah, of course. How silly of me to forget!🤦♂️😀🧙♂️
My favorite low key moment of this was Ethan saying “that’s it? I’m very underwhelmed.” When he got to see Castle Bat😂
The fight against Castle Bat could have been an entire issue, honestly. Imagine the Justice League fighting hordes of demonic Batmen across an endlessly-changing cityscape, with moving walls trying to crush them or block their path, literal hostile architecture, and massive sinkholes opening up in the streets trying to devour them. And _then,_ to top it all off, the Castle could transform into a giant Unicron-style mech to crush them once and for all, and the League could form their own mech to fight it in a callback to the first issue of the original Dark Nights series! Like, how awesome would that be? So much wasted potential there.
The story that Sal has dreaded talking about; but much like Bendis, Death Metal was _Coming_ no matter how hard you tried
You can beg, borrow or bargain but no matter what you do it's coming.
And then........ IT CAME.
BENDIS IS COMING.
0:40 Watching the horror in the eyes of a man's wife as she sees him doing embarrassing impromptu karaoke on camera for the world to see is priceless.😂 Happy Holidays Comic Pop!
Who else rewinded to the part of Sal and Ben singing that metallica song a few hundred times, I was waiting for ben or tiffany to just jump up and start dancing but there shocked faces was equally entertaining
The 52 gag might be one of my favorite bits on the couch 😂
Wait, 52 is a gag on Comic Pop? That's really funny 🤣😂
One day, it will cease to be a gag and be one of the best backissues on the channel
@@tristanmaldonado670 Yeah, they keep joking about doing it on the show and then they don’t. It’s funny.
Still love that DC sold an actual companion vinyl album for this event.
Also, love the thing Sal & Ben were doing at 0:40.
You can get it on spotify if anyone is curious.
it sucks lol
@@yurifairy2969 You’re mad. The songs are actually pretty good… Even if most of them don’t really sound like actual death metal. lol
I liked the first one better but this one was pretty good. I liked Deftones.
This was the event where I thought to myself “you know if Batman is THIS dangerous that Multiversal clones of him can take over the multiverse twice, maybe we should kill him”
And once Batman is dead, then Jason Todd can finally kill the Joker/end homelessness! There, I did it. I solved comic books. Everyone go home.
Right
@@abaque24 honestly, I love stupid over the top shit like this. Loved Morrison's run, loved Snyder and Capulo's 52 issue Batman run, especially Super Heavy, fuck yeah Jim Gordon Batman! I even enjoyed Dark Knights Metal.
But hooooboy, everything after that felt like a writer grasping at straws to drag a story out to ludicrous results. It seems like DC editorial saw how much publicity Dark Knights Metal genereated and told Snyder to drag out Batman Who Laughs stuff out for as long as possible. And it just got absurd. It also felt like Snyder's heart just wasn't in it anymore. It will be interesting to finally read Death Metal, and watch this Back Issues episode to see how far south shit had actually gone.
@@jonasquinn7977that was the one everyone wants back for some reason
Sadly, Batman has predicted that you would be born some 30 years ago and would have this exact thought this exact second, so he went back in time so that he could inject your father with a nanite injection as a replacement for his regular flu shot and the nanites entered the core of the sperm cell that would enter your mother's womb, at which point it would wait patiently until you grow up and develop your "Batman-critical" line of thinking, at which point the nanites would stun you and then leave through your nose, enter your credit card, soak up its info before transitioning into every gadget in your house and ordering an indefinite subscription to DC Universe Infinite, leaving you paralyzed from the head-down with your only solace in life being to watch as your phone and your laptop automatically invest every bit of cash into more and more DC Comics, which, at this point, let's face it, is just Batman comics, so they can just rebrand to BC (or Batman-and-Superfriends-C?), because Batman isn't a murderer, but someone dangerous enough to have critical thoughts about Batman comics must be stopped.
The Multiverse stopped being a democracy 40 years ago. It's Batmancracy now, b*tch!
I just came into this book for shit like “Wonder Woman melts down the invisible jet to turn it into a magic chainsaw to murder the Batman who laughs,” and it absolutely delivered that. Repeatedly, for like a year 😂
This is the best intro ever and why I love this channel was laughing for a solid 2 to 3 minutes straight and re-watched it like five times
Right
I'm on my fifth watch now 🤣🤣
Sal: “There will be no more Crisis Stories”
DC: Laughs in Dark Crisis
I have been waiting for this video because I believe Back Issues will do a better job of explaining Death Metal than Death Metal.
Tiffany trying to dip out is hilarious! I feel you Madame, I feel you!😂
The most important thing that I got out of this episode is that I really want to see Sal and Ben do a full acapella version of Master of Puppets.
I love seeing all four members of ComicPop's gang together! It makes the episode all the more special! And starting off with a Metallica reference??? This episode is gonna be great!
Truly, I know it's hard to schedule and makes it more special when it does happen, but any episode with all 4 is instantly so much more fun. Love the show guys!
I absolutely love how much half of the couch was into and how the other half WAS NOT.
An accurate summary of how comic fans feel about this book
The rollercoster of seeing 52 come and leave the couch had me rolling
This event feels like all the worst aspects of 90's comics turned up to 11.
Says you. Death Metal was awesome.
Meaning that it's awesome?
@@dn22pkkdd476 it's all bad
City Batman: “Oh no! My property values!”
I bought death metal last year in preparation for this episode. I explained it in length to friend so that he too could watch this episode. I'm fucking ready
Tiff: "Does anyone need coffee?"
After Sal's intro I don't think anyone will need any coffee ever.
1 minute in and this is already my favorite thing ever. Thank you Sal. Thank you for this gift.
Guys this is incomprehensible. I salute the effort that went into this
I never read the book, but I do remember continually asking my local comic shop owner, “This is still a thing?” every few months. I now also want a Comic Pop covers album of 80s Metallica songs.
I couldn't help but laugh as you guys tossed out 52 just to fake out Tiffany. I can't wait for 52 to show up on the couch, but that reaction alone was worth the misdirect.
Sal is chaotic evil in this episode
Sal is always chaotic evil
Sal talking about Ben from NJ at the 34 minute mark was hilarious and should be a short. He almost talked about the famous “Nearness of You” story from Astro City without realizing it which was insane!
That intro alone was the best Christmas gift I could ever get this year 🤣🤣🤣
Oh tiffany I'm so sorry 😂
I think we watched the first instance of double astral projection on CZcams as Ethan and Tiffany's souls left their bodies during that sing along.
It’s a DEATH METAL CHRISTMAS!!!! Happy holidays POPulation!
Also we need more Sal and Ben Metal covers 🤘
I have been waiting for this back issues since it story concluded and it is amazing to see Tiff's expression right off the bat. What a way to end the year 🤣🤣🤣. You guys are awesome.
You can see it on her face that she trying not to say anything about how stupid this is.
I'm only about half way through and it's my favorite Back Issues
22:39 Tiffany, who is clearly disappointed with what she's hearing, looks over at Ethan, who is similarly clearly disappointed with what he's hearing. Ethan than makes eye contact with Tiffany, who nods to confirm the feeling is mutual. Meanwhile, Ben looks perplexed for a moment before calling out, "NO!"
I kinda love Wonder Woman's design in this, feels like a great modern take on the character
Here Ben, here's 52, a pivotal and expansive story that people have been asking for for years
Now toss it, we're doing DEATH METAL! ! The last DC crisis?
A great start to the Holiday episode
When they were talking about Snyder starting a fire with crisis I just imagined that scene from the office with the fire drill. I need an edit of that woth Scott Snyder face on Dwight
You know it’s gonna be good when they talk about Perpetua and the Batman who lols. Happy holidays to the Comic pop crew
To this very day, Todd McFarlane is still making figures of Dark Knights Metal and Death Metal. Because "It looks super cool". The ToddFather wills it so.
Within the first minute this became one of the best episodes of all time Loved everything keep up the good work
Many have said it, but it’s true, the intro got me hyped! I knew I was in for a legendary episode! Tiff channeling Clerks, ‘I wasn’t even supposed to be here today!’ Also that 52 there…when ComicPop when!?
Tiff's face reliving the madness throughout this video is amazing. XD
I’ve always interpreted the source wall as something that stretches across the multiverses, including the dark multiverses. It just is. Or maybe I’m wrong, who knows. Great episode!
57:13 "Wonder Woman would never have this plan. This is madness"
I liked the wordplay of the heroes having to generate an Anti-Crisis (AC) to counter the Direct Crisis (DC). AC/DC. Metal.
That and the "birth of a new kind of human" line referring to both a caveman mastering fire and the arrival of baby Superman on Earth.
Not even a minute in and Sal & Ben rocking out while Tiffany and Ethan are sitting there in stunned / amused silence is already a highlight.
Thank you for another great year, everyone at ComicPop!
Glad to hear you breakdown this event. When I read it for the first time, I had to take a moment to process what exactly was happening. Love to hear your thoughts on Justice by Alex Ross, Jim Krueger, and Doug Braithwaite. Keep up the good work and enjoy the holidays! 🎄✌️
Ethan read Justice before which was very briefly referenced on the Earth X episode or at least it seemed like he already read it.
It's a Christmas miracle, thank you all at comic pop for this wonderful episode. Happy holidays everyone.
Honestly for the most part and despite some flaws, I still really like this event as Scott Snyder really knows how to deliver a big popcorn-flick of a comic. It has plenty of memorable moments for me like Superboy-Prime fighting the Darkest Knight, Wonder Woman reconciling with Batman and Superman after their truths are revealed, and the Flashes racing away from the Darkest Knight.
Tiffanys face!! PRICELESS!! 😂
Absolutely in love with Tiffany’s Grinch Sweater!!!!
Absolutely loved this episode! Thanks for doing this.
Happy holidays!!! The real Death Metal were the Crisis we made along the way.
This is perfect, Tiff is wearing the grinch and wants to bail on the Christmas/ death metal event
ComicPop presents “Dark Nights Death Metal”, or “Why Sal is Sleeping on the Couch for the next few Months.”
I always love the episodes where all 4 of you are together. What a treat.
Me starting the video… 30 minutes later: OK, I’ll replay Sal and Ben singing heavy metal one more time… 2 hours later: I promise this is the last time lol Great review guys, perfect Christmas video. Thanks and Happy Holidays.
Dark knights death metal I thought was a very interesting event but oh boy I do agree with you that this event did break dc comics continuity so much to the point that I have no idea what is going on with DC comics anymore and where each story takes place.
...You mean it wasn't broken to begin with?
@@smashmaster521 well okay to be fair yes DC continuity was broken before that's true however I maintained that rebirth actually was trying to fix the mistakes of the new 52 and having all the books being connected and guess what it worked for a time before bendis and ruined everything and threw away a lot of hard work for bullshit at least in my opinion, and to make it worst you had both bendis and tom king deviating so much from the original plan that death metal had to come and try to make some plot points sort of make sense but in the end it made continuity now basically beyond repair which is sad because I miss having a DC universe that's organized and consistent not chaos but that's just my opinion.
@@TevyaSmolka is more of Didio’s fault than the writers
@@opposite_hedgehog_753 i agree this was dan didio fault from the very beginning.
Broke out into a huge smile laughing hearing Sal and Ben break out into ‘One.’ What an excellent start to a Holiday episode 😂
Ben: “There are too many Green Lanterns”
DC: “so you say you want another one and 2 teen green lanterns, huh?”
Funnily enough, I would say the main lanterns present in this book (Hal, John, Guy, Kyle and Jess) are the only lanterns you really need but the DCU would feel empty with them.
Is it possible to hate something and love something at the same time? That was this event.
Barry's mom's skeleton jumping out of a Flash ring is hilarious. Is it just a pile of bones? Do you have to miniaturize them every time you want to put them back in the ring?
I too relate with her, it would be a nightmare if I had to sit and listen to an explanation of Dark Nights Death Metal…and get terrified of the possibility of writers doing a Dark Perpetua
Dark Perpetua? SHE'S ALREADY EVIL! HOW DO YOU CRANK THAT UP TO 11?!
@@smashmaster521 your asking me they wouldn’t pull something out of their arse for that?
@@qliphalpuzzle5453 ...There is logic in what you say.
@@smashmaster521 I can hear the scribbling of notes from here
I love that Sal gave Tiff a Twilight Zone twist for Christmas 🤣🤣🤣
Have a good holidays all
30 minutes in I was like "I think I'm lost"
1 hour in "I'm definitely lost. Wtf is happening!"
This is the first time I've ever felt sorry for Tiffany. No one deserves this punishment. I'm 28 minutes in. I would have walked off set at that point. Props to her for making it through this dreck.
42:53 Sal just made a whole Dr. Seuss tongue twister right there XD!
It would be cool if James Gunn's reboot of the DCU starts with a Justice Society film set in the 50's, and a solo Superman film. Have Wonder Woman as a member of the Justice Society and then build the universe from there
Love how ya threw away 52 at the beginning (still looking forward to that review).
Also, someone give Tiffany a hug at the beginning.
My inner high school metalhead was about to smuggly comment how "One" isn't a Death Metal song. But then it hit me, the song is all about death/wanting to die and it's in the genre of thrash metal. Therefore, by pure technicality, it's a Death Metal song.... you win this time
In all seriousness, that intro had me laughing my ass off. If the intro had me that hyped, I can't wait to finish this episode. Love you guys. Thanks for sharing your love of comics with the world. Keep being awesome
I've been curious about this event for a while. There was so much to it that I was like "nah man, I'm good."
Revenge is to force Sal to talk about Onslaught again. Just planting that seed folks. Then forget to record it again. (Evil cackle)
Remember when Batman fought mob bosses & mortal men in colorful outfits?
My favorite and only tie-in I bought was when the cosmic ghost rider enters and just writes down the events of Death metal
Tiffs facial expression ( in the thumbnail) is how I feel about all of scott Snyders career...he milked that court of owls cow completely dry 🤦
It's a ComicPOP Christmas miracle!!!! (But not for Tiffany lol)
The first minute with the trick played on Tiffany and singing made me laugh where she was betrayed! “It’s a trap!”
This episode is certainly a rewatch forever. Happy Holidays!
The first minute and a half already made this one of the best Back Issues episodes.
Tiffany's grinch sweater is just perfect!
I remember that RC car too! It was called The Animal!
The first 2 minutes were the real life embodiment of “It’s a TRAP!!!”
My 3rd Holiday special with you guys! Never been better. Happy Holidays🥰
OH MY GAWD!!!! Now this is a very pleasant surprise. I despise every DC Metal event, but you guys make anything Quite Enjoyable. Merry X-Mas and Happy Holidays everyone!!
You can see the Metallica Fans in the crew. Vital information.....also Camden shout out! Go South Jersey!
Now I need the snyder cut version of this with all of the tie ins added and it's black and white and in a 4:3 aspect ratio in 4 years.
As much as that intro kills me I adored every second of it. Happy Holidays everyone!
Holy crap you guys finally did it!!!! I can tell this one’s gonna be good based on the runtime alone lmao
I remember hearing something about Apex Lex Luthor and I was convince that Death Metal was about that but you can't even imagine my shock when it turned out to be the Batman Who Laughs AGAIN.
Everyone getting back their Pre-Crisis memories is a good idea and should have been used in more titles, but it hasn't really come up more than once or twice as far as I know.
Now all I can think of is that episode of Bluey where the dad is yelling “I’m chainsawing”
Twas the back issues before Christmas
And the book may kick/suck ass
But Sal is sick to damn death
Of the Batman Who Laughs
I have been reloading CZcams all day but it's here, thank you for the Christmas and birthday present
Great video! I really hope we get to see 52, Secret Wars 2015, No Mans Land, more Ultimate Spider-Man, and Multiversity sometime in the new year.