Dark Days: The Road To Metal

Product is visibly used but advertised as brand new

This is a collection of preludes of things to come. This is a real mixed bag. I did enjoy the Road to Metal stories the Forge and the Casting, but most of the other back issues in this collection were my least favorite Batman stories ever.If I was going to rate the Forge and the Casting I would have given this 4 stars because the artwork was great, lots of guest stars but a little lacking in the action department for me.I really did not like Final Crisis, it felt too rushed to me and I am not a fan of the DC terminology that I had the buy ever DC book at the time to fully understand every aspect of it. Though I was happy Batman got a decisive role in it. The Return of Bruce Wayne was a better storyline for me, but this only contained issue 1 of the six part mini series. I saw the thin thread to Metal in it but still not impressed.Towards the end, I get Batman Endgame part 4 and 5, then Nightwing 17? Why was the last story there? I would have preferred if they swapped that one for the Endgame part 6. Why not give the ending to the Endgame which does relates Metal instead of a story of the first and last Robin arguing about their legacy?The final story though short I really. It reminded me who Tom/Red Robin is my fave as far as the Robins go. Also shows his is the closest one to actually be able to think like Batman/Bruce Wayne.A good beginning and ending, but no matter how they relate not my favorite Batman stories in the middle. I did like the variant covers at the end of every issue. It. Oils have been better but an overall OK.

Probably the series that inspired me to get back into comic reading the most, I've been looking forward to reading Dark Knights Metal. Naturally, looking up the reading order brought me to this. It's a strange one, because part of me thinks 2/5 stars is too harsh, especially after reading the Dark Days issues. The problem comes in after that, where we get an absolute mess of a comic story collection. Most if it has no preface, no context, nothing. It's a mess which is baffling for those just getting into the dc universe in this way (as I am) and while the art throughout is beautiful I just simple cannot excuse the lackluster organisation here. The Dark days comic is awesome, really makes me excited for the series. The rest really drags this down. If you can get the separate issue, do that instead. I hope the rest of the series matches my expectations.

This is somewhat pointless. The two Dark Days issues should simply have been included in the main Dark Knights Metal collection. The bulk of this book is made up of disparate issues, all of which are just disjointed pieces of other stories, none of which are presented in their entirity. Because there is nothing like a coherant narrative present, this just comes across as a badly concieved cash-grab volume.

Ok so was abit confused as to where to start reading this series, this is the first book, and is a great start but ..... in my opinion you really only get 2 parts of the story. Then the rest is kinda ..... you read and your like “ok what’s this gotta to do with the other 2 parts”.It’s also like they put it in there to make the whole book bigger and look full. I get it, but kinda wanted more.

These comics are not my cup of tea, this was bought for my grandson for his birthday, and he loves them. As he is the expert on them he has sent a five star review.. looks like I have more in the series to buy in the future.