DC Comics Rebirth & Dark Nights Metal Spoilers & Review: The Batman Who Laughs #1 Has The Joker & The Death Of Superman?

Spoilers, Top Story

DC Comics Rebirth and Dark Nights Metal Spoilers and Review for The Batman Who Laughs #1 follows.

The book opens won Earth 22 of the Dark Multiverse where a Joker and a Batman are at odds likely as on every other planet in both multiverses.

Batman has pushed to the edge and…

…kills the Joker and is bathed in gases from his corpse.

Turns out he’s been impacted by the Joker gas and…

…likes who he is so kills his Robins (current and old) so they don’t look for a cure!

This Jokerized Batman also kills the Justice League including Wonder Woman with Superman…

…and his family, wife Lois Lane and son Superboy, left standing.

The Batman Who Laughs has his own twisted Jokerized Robins to terrorize the Superman Family who it appears he kills!

The Batman Who Laughs changes costumes and realizes their is a Dark Multiverse of worlds to conquer with…

…with hordes of more Dark Knights read to descend upon the DC Rebirth prime Earth 0 in Dark Nights: Metal.

The Batman Who Laughs gloats to an unrevealed prisoner.

Will that prisoner come back and turn the tides against Barbatos and his Dark Knights in Dark Nights: Metal?

Stay tuned.

So…

Compelling story matched with appropriately creepy and dark art style. Excited or more DC Metal. 8 out of 10.

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