Hello everyone, today I will discuss a question with you:
"Does the current comic book event still have a meaning?"
With the official start of the event "Black night: Death Metal", which screenwriter Scott Schneider spent a year designing, the DC multiverse is completely plunged into an unprecedented crisis.
And the source of this crisis is no one else, it is the laughing bat that rose in 2017, made a comeback after a year of silence, provoked the relationship between Luthor and the Justice League, and stole the fruits of the entire villain year.
Originally, the character of the Laughing Bat brought surprises to everyone, because throughout the history of the DC Universe, there has never been such a terrible existence, because the laughing bat itself is not strong, he is strong in being able to see through human nature and anticipate all the reactions of superheroes.
There is no glimmer in his personality, which is completely different from the classic villains of Gotham City, laughing bats are more evil than demons, and can even be said to be the nightmare incarnation of the multiverse.
Before the Laughing Bat appeared, the most evil being in the DC Universe was nothing more than the Joker, and few could imagine a darker existence than him.
But who would have thought he would have been a superhero and right in front of our eyes?
The only one who is darker than the Joker is Batman, and when the two people are combined, the Laughing Bat is born.
His appearance refreshes the lower limit of the entire DC Universe and raises the upper limit of what the villain can do.
The Justice League was overwhelmed by him alone, and if it weren't for The Dream God helping Batman and Superman, they wouldn't have had a chance to fight against the Laughing Bat's plan, and in the face of his darkness, the aura of the protagonist of the world's first superhero was not enough.
With the success of metal events, Scott Snyder was given the opportunity to take control of the justice league's main issue, and he also tried to create a bigger event that was even crazier than metal, naming it "Death Metal".
Does the story of death metal look good?
Very good-looking, extremely dark, full of all kinds of crazy plots, it can be said that DC has not had such a major event involving the Almighty Cosmic War in many years.
Are there some problems with dead metals?
To be honest, this big event is really too big a problem.
The first problem is that the appearance of the Goddess of Destruction, the creator of the multiverse, Papetua, has made the former villains in the DC Universe no longer have their original status.
Papetua is set by Scott Snyder as the creator of all crises, starting with the first anti-surveillance wave of antimatter trying to devour the entire multiverse, and the conspirator behind all the big events is Papetua.
The villains who have thrilled countless DC fans for years have now become "tool men" under Papetua.
Except for some of the existence that is set higher than the multiverse, the other villains are not stronger than the Goddess of Destruction, and the character lacks charm and does not look like a god who created the multiverse, and she can be said to be discredited, extremely selfish, and not worth anyone to trust.
For her, only revenge is the most important, and everything else is a tool, a tool for revenge.
The second problem is the laughing bat, he can always anticipate everything, every time he is superior.
To be honest I don't know what the point of this villain's existence is, he will never make a mistake, his plans will always be a few steps more than his opponents.
None of the secrets of the entire multiverse could hide from the Laughing Bat, and his appearance reduced the interest of the entire death metal, and once again put the Justice League in a dilemma that could not be overturned.
Just like the former "Darkest Night: Metal" although it has been praised by many people, one of the problems that people can't ignore is that the laughing bat has calculated everything, but he has not been able to calculate that the Justice League can turn over in an instant?
In the first five issues of the comics, all the superheroes can be said to have no resistance in front of the laughing bat, while in the last issue of the comic, Batman and Superman can rely on the "tenth metal" to turn the tables.
And it's clear that this time it will be a similar story.
In the fourth installment of The Metal of Death, Wonder Woman manages to convince The Supreme Superman with a cannon, and the Big Three succeeds in bringing the Power of Crisis back to the Main Universe and attempting to send them to Wally West's body, but no one thinks of a key question:
The "Chair of Möbius" has become a trap for laughing bats, and he anticipates the betrayal of the Supreme Little Superman, and from the very beginning he takes control of the Chair of Möbius, channeling all his power into his body.
The Laughing Bat succeeded in calculating everyone again, but he couldn't have the last laugh.
However, this kind of "laughing bat" is invincible plot does make many people feel speechless.
Because every time he will be superior, it is as if batman in the main universe has become a.
Everyone is essentially Bruce Wayne, why are laughing bats so anti-heavenly?
And that brings us to another question, why do DC writers want to shape the big events that happen in comics, and why do they do it?
The answer is already obvious, it's all about the sales of the comics.
From the current situation, the restart of the DC Universe is only a matter of time, and 2021 will be the time point of the restart.
The so-called big event is just a product of the writers to stimulate the sales of comics, and there are many gimmicks every year, but they are not much higher than regular serials.
However, a well-known screenwriter in the industry, Gerry Conway, called on the Internet that they should cancel the big event, reposition the audience of the comic, so that more people can accept the story in the comic, of course, in the screenwriter's vision, the main consumer group of the comic should be children under the age of 13.
In other words, is there still a need for the current big event?
The big event itself is a large-scale project that links the entire manga universe, but now that more than one big event is planned every year, the quality of the manga has seriously declined.
And screenwriters will face a dilemma, that is, the exhaustion of creativity.
No one can write a perfect big event while in charge of several comics at the same time, and speed and quality cannot have the best of both worlds.
So canceling big events may be really worth trying, at least to make regular serials more attractive.