It's not a stretch to think that of the various tie-ins this will be one of the stronger Death Metal books with this cast, Xermanico's art and Williamson's terrific characterizations and clear comprehension of current and previous continuity. Read Full Review

If you're reading Death Metal you won't want to miss this. Read Full Review

Writer Joshua Williamson conjures up a wild narrative full of adventure, fights, and unions between unlikely allies. Read Full Review

Xermanico delivers some truly breathtaking art in this issue. Everything from the backgrounds to the characters look great. The Slaughter Swamp interlude is fantastic, but the first few pages showing Robin's view of the League are some of the best I've seen recently. Read Full Review

Overall, this was a good set-up, and it looks like “Doom Metal” is going to be exciting and give some of the lesser-known characters some shine in one of DC's biggest titles.  Read Full Review

There's maybe a bit too much exposition in this issue, as Luthor explains what's happened to the world, but the action and dialogue are both strong. Read Full Review

Justice League is back. If you have been skipping the fill-in issues, now is the time to pick the book up again. This arc continues directly after Scott Snyder's run and finally starts addressing lingering cliffhangers. If you are reading Death Metal you will have a bit more info, but it is not essential for understanding this book. Read Full Review

As far as side quests go, this book delivers. You get the banding of heroes together, good villains, and high stakes all established in the first chapter. There's even a good use of the mentor figure you see in the hero's journey that plays into an untrustworthy world. Read Full Review

The Justice League series seems to matter again and that's an amazing feeling. While I will need to see more from these tie-ins to be fully on board with what we'll be getting out of this series, what we got here was interesting enough to keep me interested, while using its time to explore the world of Death Metal as much as it could........ not to mention that the art was great throughout so yeah, I'm down with Justice League right now. Read Full Review

"Doom Metal" kicks off inJustice League #53, and although the art is gorgeous, the plot feels threadbare and by-the-numbers. There's definite potential for growth - due more to overarching narrative promise than anything technically delivered here - but it may take another issue or two to reach it. Turns out, not even death metal can rock at an eleven every time. Read Full Review

Doom Metal is ramping up to be my favourite Death Metal content I've read so far" not that the bar is particularly high. Whether I end up enjoying the final product or not, I'm just happy to be reading a comic that is trying to tell a smaller story with some of my favourite characters " even if they're stuck in a cosmic epic that I have no real investment in. Read Full Review

Justice League #53 reads like a footnote"an afterthought featuring B-list characters and subplots for something much larger. Read Full Review

Art 5/5
Story 4.5/5

I liked the story. I like how it gave a quick rundown of what happened. I hate that dc doesn't have a couple "previously in" paragraphs like marvel does. I'm a big Nightwing fan. And I'm not trying to race bait or anything lol but wasnt hawkgirl as white as nightwing throughout this whole justice league run? She looks like she turned into a black woman with no explanation.
And does the fact that martian manhunter is fighting mindhunter mean he already got past the omega titan?

Better than the main series.

A pretty good read that was better than expected but still a little crazy and a little corny but that fits right in with what metal is.

Jumping on for Doom Metal, and not having Batman in this series made it less annoying and more enjoyable to read, and I am a huge Batman fan. First off, these tie-ins actually feel important, like they matter. Following Nightwing and Hawkgirl on their mission to Perpetua's Throne given is DM Issue #3, they run into Lex Luthor, go figure. Had to bring him in somewhere, and here is as good as a spot as any.

Loved the art, Xermanico with Farjardo on the colors are killing it. He makes Nightwing look like a bad-ass. While yes playing with some Batman obsessed characters cause what is Metal without Batman, Williamson manages to sell it better than Snyder himself, of course accompanied with some stellar art. I mean, the character introduced just look awesome. I was iffy on Death Metal, but so far the recent tie-ins has managed to pull me into the event. Gooddialogue by Williamson, Chimp has always been a treat. good action, good flow, hallmarks of a good tie-in. more

This wasn't as bad as I expected, but it was mostly just set up. My biggest question coming out of this issue is, "Why did Nightwing and Hawkgirl get all Metal'd out?" They presumably came straight from New Apokolips, where they all looked like their usual selves.

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TheHyruleElf - Sep 16, 2020

Well, they've probably been traveling the land for a while

Psycamorean - Sep 16, 2020

I don't think they have.

Liem Duong - Sep 16, 2020

Nah it was just an art choice. This literally picks up from Death Metal #3, so it should just follow one after another. Nevertheless, I like their design, its fire.

Psycamorean - Sep 17, 2020

The Nightwing one is cool. I'm not so sure the Hawkgirl one fits my tastes.

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Honestly not terrible, just kind of bland. I spent most of my time thinking about who designs and makes their apocalypse outfits.