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A review by thekarpuk
Dark Nights: Metal: The Resistance by Joshua Williamson
3.0
These secondary books tying into a mega-event can be such a mixed bag. At times it amazes me that some of this stuff was actually sold as single issues that they expected people to pay $4 for.
If there's one really good selling point for The Resistance, it's the first few chapters, which involve Robin and a motley crew of heroes and villains storming the mountain that grew out of Gotham in the main Dark Knight: Metal series. Each ring is controlled by a different Batman villain who received a magical metal card from The Batman Who Laughs.
This honestly could have been the whole book. Each circle could have made up a few issues, since there's rich possibilities with giving these villains complete power over a domain. But most of the pages are given over to inter-party squabbling between Robin and everyone else. In general I find super heroes working against a common enemy more compelling than when they fight amongst themselves, but the latter seems popular with many writers.
And that story ends on a pretty unsatisfying note, leaving the back half justifying its existence as a full-priced graphic novel by stuff in odds and ends from around the DC universe. I don't find many writers at DC to be deft hands at the one-shot, many of them seem constrained by 6 issues, so several of these stories I skipped after reading about half, since they failed to engage.
If you loved the main Dark Knight: Metal series, this one might be worth it on sale, but don't expect to be blown away by anything within.
If there's one really good selling point for The Resistance, it's the first few chapters, which involve Robin and a motley crew of heroes and villains storming the mountain that grew out of Gotham in the main Dark Knight: Metal series. Each ring is controlled by a different Batman villain who received a magical metal card from The Batman Who Laughs.
This honestly could have been the whole book. Each circle could have made up a few issues, since there's rich possibilities with giving these villains complete power over a domain. But most of the pages are given over to inter-party squabbling between Robin and everyone else. In general I find super heroes working against a common enemy more compelling than when they fight amongst themselves, but the latter seems popular with many writers.
And that story ends on a pretty unsatisfying note, leaving the back half justifying its existence as a full-priced graphic novel by stuff in odds and ends from around the DC universe. I don't find many writers at DC to be deft hands at the one-shot, many of them seem constrained by 6 issues, so several of these stories I skipped after reading about half, since they failed to engage.
If you loved the main Dark Knight: Metal series, this one might be worth it on sale, but don't expect to be blown away by anything within.