DC Comics & Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 Spoilers & Review: A Superboy-Prime Punch? Wally West The Flash Powered By Doctor Manhattan & A New God! A Robin King! Who Are Friends & Foes?!

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DC Comics and Dark Nights: Death Metal #4 Spoilers and Review follows.

A Superboy-Prime Punch?

Wally West The Flash Powered By Doctor Manhattan and A New God!

A Robin King!

Who Are Friends and Foes?!

The book has a few more variant covers on top of the above.

Plus the main cover.

We open with a storyline catch-up view Sgt. Rock’s head during the war waged on a ravaged Earth as…

…we are also reminded of what the current Metaverse looks like.

Batman is on the Crisis of Infinite Earths world…

…Superman is on Final Crisis world while…

…Wonder Woman is on Infinite Crisis World with…

…Superboy-Prime.

Wally West the Flash (fueled by Doctor Manhattan), Barry Allen the Flash of the Justice League and Jay Garrick of the Justice Society of America (JSA) are on the Land of Gotham of the Metaverse running from the Darkest Knight (the Batman Who Laughs evolved by a Dark Multiverse Doctor Manhattan); they are seeking Jarro the Starro, but…

…he / it, Harley Quinn and others are tangling with the Robin King.

Superboy-Prime has trapped Wonder Woman and thinks the super-heroes caused the problems of the multiverse as…

…Batman suffers as…

…does Superman.

Wonder Woman tries to convince Superboy-Prime that an infinite multiverse where everyone wins is possible…

…as he gets ready to target the crisis energies and…

…a reality changing Superboy-Prime punch is teased.

Looks like Superboy-Prime will help our super-heroes…

…against the Darkest Knight with…

…the fate of the last 52 multiverse Earths at stake.

The Pulse:

Not as convoluted mythology and story-wise as what came before. Business picks up in this issue. Amazing art. 8 out of 10.

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