By Tim Board
Since the Metal saga began last summer, Scott Snyder’s “rock
and roll” restructuring of the DC Universe has been building up to a crescendo.
With only two more issues left in the series, I felt that issue No. 5 would be the
one where it would reach its highest hope-devouring note and it feels like that
is exactly what we got. So many things happened, and we had to run through it
so fast, it left me wishing that this was a 12-issue bi-weekly. But if I got my
wish, I imagine Greg Capullo and Jonathan Glapion might want to strangle me.
We open up the issue to find Barbatos perched on his pole,
with dragons flying around. Not just dragons, but Joker dragons! I didn’t think
much of it at first, because with seven evil Batman-things and Batmanium in the
story, one gets used to such things.
