DC Comics and Knight Terrors: Night’s End #1 Spoilers and Review follows.
Sun Sets On The Dawn Of DC?! Who Is Doctor Hate?
Where We’ve Been.
Insomnia had a varying presence in:
- Knight Terrors week 1 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 2 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 3 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 4 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 5 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 6 (full spoilers here);
- Knight Terrors week 7 (full spoilers here); and
- Knight Terrors week 8 (full spoilers here).
Let’s see how Knight Terrors week 9, the final week, unfolded in its one-shot finale.
What To Expect.
KNIGHT TERRORS: NIGHT’S END #1 Written by JOSHUA WILLIAMSON Art and cover by HOWARD PORTER Variant covers by SIMONE DI MEO and MICO SUAYAN 1:25 variant cover by DAN MORA 1:50 variant cover by KENDRICK LIM 1:100 variant cover by MICO SUAYAN 1:250 variant cover by HOWARD PORTER Darkest Hour variant cover by HOWARD PORTER ($7.99 US) $5.99 US | 48 pages | One-shot | Variant $6.99 US (card stock) ON SALE 8/29/23 KNIGHT TERRORS FINALE! SPECIAL OVERSIZE ISSUE! Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman, along with the DCU’s other heroes, have escaped the Nightmare Realm only to find the Nightmare League has followed them home! The entire world has become engulfed in horror, and the last person standing to take down Insomnia is Deadman. But does he want to? And don’t miss the exciting ending that continues the Dawn of DC mystery and introduces Dr. Hate! Wait… who is Dr. Hate? Knight Terrors’ thrills and chills are brought to the DC Universe by DC architect and superstar writer Joshua Williamson with horrific art by comics legend Howard Porter!In addition the main cover and solicitation above the title has few variant covers below.
Knight Terrors: Night’s End #1 Spoilers and Review.
The book opens with a tease of what is the come.
The last impacting of Knight Terrors.
Super-heroes are feared just as the super-villains are?!
We then get a bit of a recap of what’s transpired mainly in the Knight Terrors 4-issue mini-series that complemented the various duologies.
Insomnia has the Nightmare Stone and he doesn’t mind that all the super-heroes are awake in the real world now.
In fact, Insomnia focuses on Deadman.
Trying to persuade to give in to dream of having a family again… a Dead Family?!
As the super-heroes battle Insomnia they try to wake Deadman from the dream.
Deadman realizes this isn’t real.
He won’t standby while his friends fight him.
Insomnia then shows Deadman what he most fears… being alone.
He then literally rips apart Deadman as the world knows he’s won and he needs to continue punishing all the super-heroes.
The super-heroes, seeing a distracted Insomnia, find the corpse of Doctor Destiny and thinking John Dee’s Dreamstone may be able to counter the Nightmare Stone.
The animated corpse of the Golden Age Sandman, animated by Lazarus rain elixir, jumps at the chance to use the Dreamstone.
As that is happening, Deadman prides in his whole death act!
Deadman and the super-heroes taken on Insomnia unified.
Deadman sacrifices himself seemingly to take out Insomnia for good; to go to where they can rest.
It is implied that Deadman is going to Heaven.
Insomnia seemingly when to the “other place”; definitely not Heaven.
On Earth 0, the super-heroes commune at the Hall of Justice despite no active Justice League in place.
The world is awake and its time for the Golden Age Sandman to return to the grave with the help of Zatanna’s magic and the Dreamstone.
While Sandman rests, so does Batman, but a different of rest.
Looks like Deadman had been in Batman’s body too long and his body needs the rest of sleep.
Wonder Woman and the super-heroes disperse with her telling Superman that they didn’t win this fight; Insomnia did.
We see that what the book opened with it ends with; super-heroes being feared.
How the meat of what’s next is exposed.
Amanda Waller speaks with the Lights updating them that they found the Helmet of Hate of Lazarus Island (evoking the recent Lazarus Planet event) and, in the confusion of the recent battle (evoking this Knight Terrors event), secured the Nightmare Stone.
She gives both to an unrevealed accomplice.
With it, it appears that “he” becomes Doctor Hate.
Since there’s no Justice League, Amanda Waller sets her sights on the Titans and the upcoming Beast World event.
The Pulse.
I found Knight Terrors as an event big and underwhelming. It is the same feeling I had for Lazarus Planet. That said Knight Terrors had some cool moments in it, particularly around the Golden Age Sandman, but even this final issue is more intriguing due to how the event leaves DC in its wake then the events of the battles, etc. in the issue itself. The art was also grainy, which may suit the tone of the story, but it was grating on me. 4 out of 10.
