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10
I have never liked what DC has been doing with Wonder Woman more than recently with stuff like Dead Earth and Death Metal. This whole series was a love letter to fans of the entire DC Universe. Specific fans. The ones who actually love the entire universe. Anyone else, it may be lost on them.
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10
I'm going to be sincere with you, this is the best playful DC saga for me, it's crazy, insane and megalomaniacal, but that's what the saga set out to be, however for me it was extremely fun and I sincerely love it when Scott Snyder does this type I will make a point of rereading when the saga comes out in Brazil and honestly I am sad that he will stop doing things for DC for a while, and for those who agree with me, do not get carried away by the channels that are Snyder's haters, if you liked the saga and had fun, so there is no problem with you, I AM A FAN OF SNYDER YES, and no 30/40 year old reader will prove to me that he is a bad writer.
I liked this last issue very much, as it was a good conclusion for the final battle of Wonder Woman against the Darkest Knight, and the big change in the structure of the multiverse including the whole Omniverse thing left me very intrigued and curious and I am looking forward to the coming around. more
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10
Epic moments, and satisfying ending.
And good palette of artists.
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10
For me that was a great last issue to be honest. I know that there is a huge amount of hate going on toward Death Metal, and I understand where it's coming from, but i think that there are a lot of great qualities, that gets overlooked when we talk about death metal. Ofc art is subjective, but sometimes you have to look at some art deeper to understand it, as most of you probably know.And ofc even after that, you sometimes don't like it, which is totally normal. All i am saying is that sometimes you have to look deeper and looking at some the users reviews here, I get the feeling that some of them don't. Then again i could be wrong. Just don't jump on the hate train, without trying to enjoy it.
However, i think that the themes and the symbolism are amazingly well presented. This really is the trinity's darkest hour. Evil is stronger, because it does not restrain itself.
But even in the darkest hours, when the good guys are pretty much destined to lose, they still fight united , showing us that there is always hope.
Batman fighting army of infinite number of evil robins, which seems totally impossible for him to win, without having a thought about giving up, mirrors his own infinite fight with the injustices in the world, but with patience and determination he wins .
Superman facing his own worst fear, and choosing to sacrifice himself, only to be saved by Lex, shows us that even one of the worst villains , can be inspired to do the right thing by Superman, which is pretty much the goal of Superman existence.
And wonder woman decision to finally follow the truth and her morals instead of conforming to the evil, which can give her a fake paradise, saves everybody.
i think that all of these moments are close to the characters core, and shows us their most inspiring traits. Even in a way, all the heroes wins because of those traits.
I know that sometimes Batman or Superman's missions seems impossible to accomplish with their morals , but here we see that there is hope for them.
By saving the universe, Dc is pretty much directly telling us that those are traits, that they appreciate.That's why we get the talk between the 2 wonder womans . Dc wants to respect the past , but also look at the future, which i think it's the right way to go.
A true inspiring and hopeful superhero comics. That for me is a 10. more
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9.0
This final issue is the second best issue in this whole series.( Secret Origin is the best)
Although there are so many bullshits and pure shits in the story before, they were cleared just before the last minute, and leaves at least one good issue. Like Star Wars 8 did (until Star Wars 9 brings back all the shits again).
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9.0
It was a very interesting ending. I thoroughly enjoyed it. And the art was gorgeous.
So I guess throwing continuity out of the window now opens a lot more possibilities. Interested to see if they make good use of that creative freedom
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8.0
It was a little hokey towards the end when they just kept hammering to us that the now everything matters that happened in the past. Overall though it was good. It had cool parts and I liked the concept of it even though it wasnt executed as well as it could have been.
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7.5
contrarily to everyones belief, I thought this crossover was decent. Re-reading it all at once makes me appreciate it more. Sure its convoluted but I like how it brought back the omniverse and was the Anti-crisis. Lets hope Batman who laughs never appears again.
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7.5
I enjoy this conclusion but the are also issues that make me not love the number. Capullo is good (he is one of my fav artist) but it is not one of his best work unfortunately. There are not not enough memorable pasges and 2/3 pages of just a color or re-use of previous page :/
And for the story, like Metal i had the feelling the conclusion was a little rush. But there are also a lot of good, Snyder deliver a good event, with an optimistic and real heroic message. I loved the narration and some of dialogues and Capullo stay Capullo so it is god damn beautifull!
Finaly, even if I liked a lot Death Metal and I thought it was a solid and enjoyable event, I'm glad to go in new horizon with new writers and characters. (the epilogue was really good and the teasing worked a lot on me). more
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7.0
It's clear that this book had multiple changes from the editorial, and I don't think it's as bad as some people say it is, but it's definitely nowhere near to how good the original Metal was.
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7.0
Solid read.
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6.5
Who the hell are these critics on this site that give 90% of everything they read 10 stars? Everything can't be a 10. Its hard to take the critic reviews on here seriously sometimes. But this was a solid comic and series. Definitely not a 10 but was worth the read. But I am so glad this event is finally over. These huge events that span for months and have multiple tie ins and effect every storyline is really starting to turn me off in both dc and marvel. Sorry for the negativity but these events lose so much of their potential by dragging it out into nothing but a cheap cash grab.
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5.5
I remember 30 years ago, back in 2017 when Metal first dropped. I was excited and so was the comic shop owner that sold me the comic. Flash forward to Death Metal #7 and I'm left wondering what was the point of it all? If it was meant to be a fun one-off story, then they should have stopped after Metal. If they wanted it to be a massive reboot, well that's what Rebirth and Doomsday Clock did. If it wanted to showcase the Multiverse, Morrison beat you to it.
Seriously, what was the point?
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5.5
I went into this ready to love it, but the fight turned out feeling very anti-climatic and the narration fell flat at times. I know some people lament that there is less and less text in comic books but I think this one should have let some of the art speak for itself.
In true Snyder fashion, this is more a beginning than an end, which should work but it doesn't.
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5.5
Overall this event was a 2015 Secret Wars parody, that repeated the plot of Convergence and had similar consequences as Doomsday Clock.
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5.0
You've ever played with a bunch of figurines and such at once? Build a group, or an entire army of them and face them against threats as big as you could possibly imagine at the moment? Your imagination was the only limit, since there was no franchise or creative boundaries. Superman could fight along Spider-Man, Harry Potter could face Captain Planet, or Batman could ride your mom's dildo. As I said, your imagination was the only limit.
I see the same in this comic - there's pretty much everything that Scott Snyder could possibly come up with, squeezed and crammed together no matter if it makes any sense or not, with anything possible at any given time. And the same way a child can come up with impromptu deus ex machina solutions to equally impromptu deus ex machina problems, Snyder leads a chaotic narrative where nothing and no one ultimately matters, because it all can be changed, fixer or undone by anything or anyone else. Oh, look, Batman lost his hand, of course off-page, and his Black Ring won't work anymore, imagine the shock, he's going to die for good! But wait... of course he didn't put it on his finger, what a twist, he stands up and resurrects everybody who died on the battlefield, and then Sailor Moon and Skeletor joined the fight and... and... Godzilla told an army of Hot Wheels to give her a lift to the nearest Micky Dee's because dad brought some Big Macs for us.
Yeah, seriously, this entire event seems like something where end justified the means even more so than in Doomsday Clock (which I actually truly enjoyed, but I get why so many readers have some serious gripes with it). Anything and everything to introduce the idea of the Omniverse. Creationists would be proud. I am not. I feel like Death Metal started out pretty damn good just to quickly derail and lose any illusion of plot it may have had initially, so DC can try to address the pisspoor reception of some things they've introduced in recent years that infuriated practically everybody. more
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4.5
Its both so underwhelming yet so suprinsgly fun at the same time. The big monster summer blockbuster by DC finally has reached its end, finally. There was so much things going on, all of it happening quickly, I had to take a break from the event because of everything. With that said, it had some very strong high points with great art throughout, of course balanced out with really bad points and a mess of a story.
What Death Metal and the entire Metal Saga boils down to really is if this type of cosmic boisterous event is your style. If it isn't, you will dread this like bland steak. If it is, you will love the freaking bonkers out of it. For me, while I did enjoy parts of it, lets just say I am glad its over and will never be reading it again. more
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4.0
Everything happens so much.
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4.0
Horrible.
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4.0
someone else on here said it well - it feels like Snyder slapped the word "hope" on a dialogue balloon for at least one character every other page, and crammed the book with....stuff. From that we're supposed to ignore the messy, stretched-out storyline over two similar events, and all we get at the end is a reinforcement of Morrison's "Multiversity" (which was great) by saying there are other multiverses out there to explore.
Well, let's just get on with it. This book could have been done as an oversized special/conclusion to the original Metal.
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4.0
Did Scott Snyder, the writer of the COURT OF OWLS storyline, just kill DC comics? I don't see anything good coming out of this event, man. The guy's career at DC began with a bang and ended with a whimper. You can slap the word 'hope' on each page and insert a thousand heroes but that doesn't make it a good comic book. Especially if the consequences are flat which this event has in droves... Also, the interactions between the heroes are hella dry.
Stick with Doomsday Clock. At least that event was WAY more consistent than this... :/
Congrats to Capullo and the art team for putting up with Snyder's antics... This gets a 4.
P.S. Why are outlets giving this comic a 9-10 score? Their opinion, yeah, but a 9?
C'mon...
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3.5
nop I don't like this
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3.5
Okay time to cut the bullshit, I waited for the book to end, and now that the time is finally here : Capullo and Snyder, in the immortal words of Snoop Dogg - "I can live without that shit".
Seriously, the only good Metal take is found in the Tales of The Dark Multiverse series. Just an issue long, no bloat and a satisfying ending.
This issue though ?
The fight between The Darkest Knight and Wonder Woman was so underwhelming. Honestly Superboy Prime and Perpetua were both better contenders , and I would have been happy if Prime actually delivered the killing blow - but no.
Wonder Woman reached god level , having her demi-god status shed into looking a golden visage like Disney's Hercules - but this was less exciting.
The whole thing felt like a joke that fell flat and just overstayed it's welcome.
From Etrigan's appearance to Nightwing's "pixie boots" comment , this issue felt like it was written by the staff of Mad magazine.
And that ending - really , a jamboree ? And if that was not bad enough , seguing into basically lifting the multiversal amnesia of the DCU , like every DC character is Wolverine fresh out of House of M.
I can now see why in some concepts of rebirth, the loss of the memory of one's past life is necessary. This book is a reminder of that. Hell, this whole series.
Plus, The Darkest Knight can be hurt by just one red sun? So he's Superman all of a sudden , when just issues earlier he was pelting Perpetua with planets?
I will be missing Futire State , just like I skipped Endless Winter , but to be frank as bad as this series was - at least a few Watchmen characters got involved and Wonder Woman rocked a chainsaw while Batman was a zombie. There was an army of Lobos. Superman was corrupted and Lex Luthor walked around like the leper on Death's album covers - so all was not loss.
This was Capullo and Snyder, I read Last Knight, I knew what I signed up for. At least I thought I did. They left there stamp on the DCU, but when some new writers come to retcon what they did as Capullo & Snyder close the door behind them, DC better make sure those two don't have a spare set of keys.
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3.5
I'm being very generous and that's only because this is FINALLY over and I'm just real glad that this whole mess is behind us now.
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3.5
What can I say about this whole Death Metal event I never liked, but I can admit that the WW part and the hand of the multiverse made me laugh so much remembering the Kung-Fusion movie and the hand of Buddha.
The conversion of Diana to a type of goddess like Saori from the Knights of the Zodiac makes me a bit ridiculous, it is more I think that soon we will see her with Saint Seiya-type decorations.
In the end it's like Doomsday a little bit everything gets rearranged and they have a party.
Definitely the only good parts were the Buddha's hand, sorry not from the Multiverse and the comments from the Robins Shorts with a bit of emotion from the Batfamily including the corpse Alfred in the matter.
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3.0
That was bad. Like. Actually bad. Other issues have been mediocre and full of nonsense but this was like bad. I didn't like anything, every problem I had with Death Metal are multiplied in this issue.
I did like some of the jokes batfamily made and the art, so it is not a total waste. I do hope that BWL is gone. And never to be seen again because Snyder ruined him.
Like others, I got many vibes of Hickman's Secret Wars, but this just wasn't that. I didn't know that WW and BWL were nemesises. Nor did I get that feeling during this event.
I haven't hated DC event as much as this after HiC. Maybe it is these Crisis/Anti-Crisis -events that rub me the wrong way. DC, please don't do these kidn fo events in the next 5 years? Please? more
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3.0
Thank god it's over.
They lost me the minute Wonder Woman hits Batkek with the literal Hand of Creation.
This is truly an "Anti-Crisis" because everything a Crisis gets right, Death Metal gets wrong.
Sure the symbolism and themes are there; the over indulgent writing and the high stakes, but you can't just gift wrap a pile of shit and sprinkle it with glitter expecting that it will turn into a pot of gold.
Death Metal doesn't merely jump the shark, its the shark attempting to jump over itself and accidentally pulling a muscle.
Also, just because it's self aware ("A Slap in the Face", jesus christ) doesn't make it good!
If there's one thing I've learned from reading Scott Snyder, it's that every story he's told has been done better by Morrison. If you want the last stand of the DC Universe, just go read Final Crisis!
At least Batkek is gone. Hopefully... more
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3.0
I feel like if the last... 30 issues of Death Metal weren't dedicated to making me hate comics on a deep and fundamental level, I would have liked this finale more. Instead what we get is just *more*. Snyder does all his tropes, because of course, and the day is saved in an ever more convoluted and unsatisfactory way! Just fucking Make Mine Marvel the DC timeline and be done with it. I don't need or want the rest. Also, didn't the fucking Justice League have a huge Doomerism problem back in Snyder's JL because they didn't keep the average public in the loop on all the cosmic bullshit going on? And now, they're doing that again? Okay. I just don't give a shit about anything that's been set up. Leave me alone.
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10
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10
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10
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10
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9.5
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7.5
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1.0