The writing by Scott Snyder is excellent here. He does a great job of throwing a bunch of concepts at the reader and making it easily digestible. Artist Greg Capullo is doing the best work of his career and this is pretty great. Read Full Review

Taking a heart-pounding trip through DC's storied history, Dark Nights: Death Metal (2020-) #4 is another rousing issue that will appeal, especially, to longtime readers. Read Full Review

Snyder, Capullo and company keep raising the stakes in this big event and incorporating DCs Crisis history to great effect in whats been a mind blowing epic. Read Full Review

Greg Capullo delivers some beautiful, inspiring art in this issue. Both Darkseid and Superboy Prime are visually menacing and every page is filled with gorgeously detailed imagery. Read Full Review

Snyder has done a great job catering to the fans who want as much information as possible while giving the ones who want the DC Universe-altering event just that and nothing else. All the while Greg Capullo is effortless reminding all why he's one of the best in the business. Read Full Review

With only three issues to go, I have no clue how this is going to end"or what the DCU is going to look like when it's over. That's what I call a good event comic. Read Full Review

This issue amplifies the insanity, but the series never claimed to be high art. this is comic-book rock'n'roll, people! Scott Snyder and co. are bringing back every aspect of the DC Universe, and all of it will be ours. A Multiverse is a very cool thing, but a Metaverse is even better! Read Full Review

When all is said and done, Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 delivers a great character-driven, high-octane story that plows ahead at max speed throughout its pages. Though it does have a minor stumble at the end. Even with this misstep, I can still say Im looking forward to seeing what the next issue brings. Read Full Review

"Dark Nights: Death Metal" #4 is an apocalyptic issue that combines several plot threads together to craft a new direction for the event. Read Full Review

Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 is an interesting look at three major DC Comics Crisis events and how they'd play out if the supervillains won. This issue forces Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman to confront those worlds and that adds a wrinkle to their experiences. This issue also holds a deeper purpose that energizes the heroes as they barrel towards stopping Perpetua for good. Read Full Review

This series has taken on some large concepts, but so far it's hit most of them out of the park. Hopefully, it can do the same with that last page, and the good news is it certainly has momentum on its side. Read Full Review

All in all, another well written and illustrated issue of this crazy series that is a totally entertaining read from start to finish. Read Full Review

Overall, Death Metal #4 is a clean up issue story wise with Snyder tying together the last few one shots that were released which feels like a waste almost with a main issue but he is able to clean it up and progress the story enough to make it worth the time and ending it on a note that will get the reader excited for what sure to be an exciting series of events moving forward. Read Full Review

Dark Nights Death Metal #4 marks the moment in which Snyder and Capullo attempt to make a crater-sized mark in the DC Universe. This is the stuff of crisis, an abject change from the tongue-in-cheek rock opera that Death Metal has been masquerading as up until now. Capullo, Glapion, Plascencia, and Napolitano work together to create a kinetic and exciting visual read, while Snyder's script coalesces the Death Metal event into a firm statement on the tone of the modern DC Universe. With two main issues left, it remains to be seen if the final act will keep the bright light on or leave us to wallow in the darkness. Read Full Review

Wonder Woman, Batman and Superman travel to worlds in crises only to find that not all is as it should be. While Batman struggles in a sea of emptiness, Wonder Woman has a heart-to-heart with Superboy Prime and Superman comes face-to-face with Darkseid. It's looking dark for our heroes in an issue that certainly feels like a midway point with its reliance of exposition and dialogue. But, a solid issue nonetheless made all that bit more brighter by Greg Capullo. Read Full Review

Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 continues to deliver on the massive scope of this Crisis-level event that Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo are telling. The right emotional story beats are hit to make the hail mary that the Trinity attempt have maximum impact for what happens with the Darkest Night appears. Though you will need to read several of the one-shot tie-ins to Dark Nights: Death Metal to understand everything going on in this issue. How many of those one-shots you read will impact how Dark Night: Death Metal #4 will be received. Read Full Review

Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 finds itself spinning its wheels a bit narratively when it should be charging ahead full-speed. It isn't abad issue per se, but it does feel a bit like the story is stuck in neutral. Read Full Review

Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 just generally falls flat. The comic is predictable far too often. There's parts are non-sensical at times, a big moment being when our heroes are freed (not really a spoiler). It's a ride though that focuses on desperation and delivering that emotion to the readers to get them interested. It's a chapter in the bigger story and will be completely fine as such in a popcorn read sort of way. On it's own though, it just doesn't quite work for me. Read Full Review

Scott Snyder continues to give readers some big moments, but I am still waiting for them all to click in my mind.  While this issue felt a bit forced to make things even worse for our heroes, we have the ultimate reset button on the good guys' side, which has me a bit excited.  Read Full Review

My main complaint here is that this book has the potential to be incredible, but the creative team seems to be taking the easy way out every time. That is to say, every time our heroes are faced with a challenge or obstacle or enemy, they overcome this so easily that their victory feels unearned and the battles feel hollow. This book's cliffhanger could be this book's course correction, but it remains to be seen whether or not the creative team follows up on it. This is by no means a bad book, but it could be so much better. Read Full Review

Death Metal #4 sets up a wonderful premise with questionable execution. Read Full Review

Much better than the last issue.

I'm saving you. Diana. Saving you all. If making a deal with the devil is the only way to do that.... Then so be it. "
- SUPERBOY PRIME

Snyder sure knows how to make a story feel larger than life, turn it from "just" a comic into a full blown blockbuster. There are two problems with Death Metal I have, though. First - it's confusing, thanks to several differently named spin-offs and tie-ins. And second - while as I said it's big (like, really, gigantic) it seems to intentionally leave its universe and characters somewhat hollow. There's no deeper worldbuilding outside of what's absolutely necessary to continue the main plot. Compare that to the original Dark Nights Metal, where each of the twisted evil Bats had their own backstory and motivation to prevail, or The Last Knight on Earth with its main mystery dating back to the pre-apo days. Death Metal in comparison falls rather flat in the lore department, and that's a shame. Real shame. I expected the Guidebook to solve this, but it didn't, leaving me truly disappointed.

There's tons of action to be found here to technically fill the issue to the very last panel, and I guess compensate for lack of depth, so if that's what you're looking for in an event like this, more power to you, you should have a ton of fun reading this comic, especially if you're familiar with Superboy-Prime, and what drives him as a villain.

Ultimately, do I look forward to the next issues and tie-ins? Yes. And I sure hope they'll deepen what's already there, offer us a glimpse at what made this world what it is, and why is it the way it is. That's the #1 thing on my priority list, overshadowing even the main plot itself. I have a feeling that's not going to happen, but still, worth mentioning, I suppose. more

This is the weakest issue.

First things first, you should most definitely read those tie-in issues that came out before this. I don't know why they didn't just call those #4-6 and make this event longer. Those issues are crucial to understand what has happened in between #3 and this one. Now that that is out of the way, this issue was alright. Nothing amazing, nothing horrible. Oddly enough it feels like Final Crisis in the way that it jumps around not just cities and locations, but universes without really warning the reader or gradually transitioning to it. The pacing of the story itself was also very strange, there's one page where it cuts from Superboy Prime punch into him just with Batman, WW, and Superman all together. It felt like a couple pages were missing in between those two pages. And this story also requires extensive knowledge of the multiverse, similar to Final Crisis as well. But luckily, this series is not as confusing or jumbled as Final Crisis was. The art is amazing, I'll miss Greg Capullo drawing Batman. I'd only recommend this to people who are already on the train. Those who are not into Snyder's Justice League or his writing would definitely not like this at all. more

The artwork as always was fantastic, however I felt there were certain issues with the story. Snyder retains his bloated exposition-heavy writing, and the resolution within the story felt unearned and sudden (Superboy Prime). Still a fun and silly read.

This issue has all the problems SS has, but additionally, It also becomes boring.

Things were going fine but how dare they skip the escape especially after putting them in situations like that.

Another mess.

Everything happens so much.

More of the same. I don't have the wherewithal to really delve into this. Bleh.

It feels so messy. I really don't like the idea how DC makes more and more one-shots that are required to read so that you understand the main book. Why not make them part of the main series?

I don't know what happened to Snyder. I really liked Metal but I really dislike this "EXTREME EPIC METAL WITH WTF MOMENTS AND CRISIS AND WATCHMEN". This book clearly tries too hard and fails miserably.

Especially with the main villain. I liked Doomsday Clock but this? This is just wrong. BWL is terrible and as much I hate to use that term, Robin King is just cringe. Pure cringe that should not exist.

I also liked BWL. But now? He is just bad. There is nothing in him that resembles Joker or Bruce gone mad. I don't even know what he is. more

This is hot shit.

Tusk Darkseid makes me want to stop reading comics.

This just might be the most heinous event story out of DC lore.

Scott, what happened?

More Metal garbage