Ya know....I was going to, but then I realized its dumber than I thought it was. And I already thought it was an 11 on the Dum-ometer. You made me realize that was too low. ITS CLEARLY A 30!!

Come on Tiff, host Dark Crisis 😀

This should honestly theoretically be the final story set in this DC Universe. How do you go back to the status quo after all of this? Why would the villains go back to being villains after everything that happened. The world obtained peace. Thats one problem with storytelling in comics the status quo comes back and significant changes never stick.

25:00 The greatest laugh of Sal's career

@@deviousj5868 but if you make status quo changes, the fans and higher-ups fight tooth and nail, as hard as possible, to revert things to the way they were as soon as possible. Keeping those characters in a state of perpetual freeze. All so that they can complain that nothing ever changes and the companies are just selling them the same story over again. You can not win. Not with comic book fans. Marvel/DC comics and their relationship with continuity is broken beyond repair. All because writers and artist face criticism if they even try to tell diffrent stories. Look at the backlash to Hydra-Cap. Look how many fans threw a giant hissyfit when Marvel kind of, sort of, started having some of their heroes replaced by other characters. Look at the fan freakouts now to any and all changes in the MCU, where diverse change-ups are met with moronic complaints of things being "too woke" or whatever. All of those reactions were unwaranted, considering how miniscule the changes really were. And all of them end with people complaining that it's not the same anymore, pining for more of the old stuff. I have been a comic book fan and reader for almost 30 years and in my expert opinion all heroes should be legacy heroes by now. With few exceptions for things like gods or immortals. And even those should be also be subject to changes. For example, by now Damian Wayne should be wrapping up his tenure as Batman and training his successor for the role, while also taking care of an elderly Dick Grayson as he hits the twilight years of his life. Comic heroes should age in real time, grow old, get married, find out they're gay, find out they're straight, fall in love, get divorced, die, lose an arm, lose a loved one, start a family, go back to school, get a new job, quit their job, retire, get mind controled by someone else, relinquish their mantel to someone else, explore other cities, mature, regress, become mentors to the next generation of hereos, turn evil, do good things, do bad things, do unforgivable things, find redemption, become addicts, become sober, die again, etc. Just like real people do in real life. No retcons, no take-backs, no reboots. If a decision in a story causes you to no longer enjoy that character? Oh well. Too bad for you. Get over it. Let everyone else enjoy and you go find something else in the wide world of a billion other stories.

Up there with Darth vador

Same here!

That's great.

That was amazing haha

I was oh my god

I already knew what the story was going to be, but flashing 52 like that hurt. XD

It's 100% my jam xD

stop writing a hero or write long enough to ruin a villian

I was always a batman fan but didnt get into comics hardcore until n52 and snyder's batman was and still is the GOAT

​@@miken.1705 I don't know if I'd call him the goat but definitely one of them. For some reason all of the best Batman writers end up going off the wall after so long.

You're insane. His Justice League run was fucking great. It was wild and wacky, but it was definitely influenced by the silver age. That Batman run was fire, though 👀👀👀

I must admit, it was pretty funny going to see the Flash movie...and Flash is basically Batman's sidekick for the first act

Does he give Tiffany a expired coupon for parents?

@@adamntcaponewholikesbigcoo1749 Yes, but it’s expired.

So, who gives birth to Robin?

@@thegloriouswizard5270 Zombie Alfred, since it is his job.

@@Just_Some_Guy_with_a_Mustache ah, of course. How silly of me to forget!🤦‍♂️😀🧙‍♂️

I loved it

Loved it! And Tiff's facial expression was gold 😂

What song is that?

​@@Newarksfinest05"One" by Metallica.

See, that’s why the chainsaw is so effective. The enemy thinks you’re just doing a really elaborate ventriloquist act, and then _BOOM!_ They just got invisible chainsaw’d.

You can beg, borrow or bargain but no matter what you do it's coming.

And then........ IT CAME.

BENDIS IS COMING.

The fight against Castle Bat could have been an entire issue, honestly. Imagine the Justice League fighting hordes of demonic Batmen across an endlessly-changing cityscape, with moving walls trying to crush them or block their path, literal hostile architecture, and massive sinkholes opening up in the streets trying to devour them. And _then,_ to top it all off, the Castle could transform into a giant Unicron-style mech to crush them once and for all, and the League could form their own mech to fight it in a callback to the first issue of the original Dark Nights series! Like, how awesome would that be? So much wasted potential there.

Wait, 52 is a gag on Comic Pop? That's really funny 🤣😂

One day, it will cease to be a gag and be one of the best backissues on the channel

@@tristanmaldonado670 Yeah, they keep joking about doing it on the show and then they don’t. It’s funny.

And once Batman is dead, then Jason Todd can finally kill the Joker/end homelessness! There, I did it. I solved comic books. Everyone go home.

Right

@@abaque24 honestly, I love stupid over the top shit like this. Loved Morrison's run, loved Snyder and Capulo's 52 issue Batman run, especially Super Heavy, fuck yeah Jim Gordon Batman! I even enjoyed Dark Knights Metal. But hooooboy, everything after that felt like a writer grasping at straws to drag a story out to ludicrous results. It seems like DC editorial saw how much publicity Dark Knights Metal genereated and told Snyder to drag out Batman Who Laughs stuff out for as long as possible. And it just got absurd. It also felt like Snyder's heart just wasn't in it anymore. It will be interesting to finally read Death Metal, and watch this Back Issues episode to see how far south shit had actually gone.

@@jonasquinn7977that was the one everyone wants back for some reason

Sadly, Batman has predicted that you would be born some 30 years ago and would have this exact thought this exact second, so he went back in time so that he could inject your father with a nanite injection as a replacement for his regular flu shot and the nanites entered the core of the sperm cell that would enter your mother's womb, at which point it would wait patiently until you grow up and develop your "Batman-critical" line of thinking, at which point the nanites would stun you and then leave through your nose, enter your credit card, soak up its info before transitioning into every gadget in your house and ordering an indefinite subscription to DC Universe Infinite, leaving you paralyzed from the head-down with your only solace in life being to watch as your phone and your laptop automatically invest every bit of cash into more and more DC Comics, which, at this point, let's face it, is just Batman comics, so they can just rebrand to BC (or Batman-and-Superfriends-C?), because Batman isn't a murderer, but someone dangerous enough to have critical thoughts about Batman comics must be stopped. The Multiverse stopped being a democracy 40 years ago. It's Batmancracy now, b*tch!

You can get it on spotify if anyone is curious.

it sucks lol

@@yurifairy2969 You’re mad. The songs are actually pretty good… Even if most of them don’t really sound like actual death metal. lol

I liked the first one better but this one was pretty good. I liked Deftones.

Right

I'm on my fifth watch now 🤣🤣

Truly, I know it's hard to schedule and makes it more special when it does happen, but any episode with all 4 is instantly so much more fun. Love the show guys!

An accurate summary of how comic fans feel about this book

Says you. Death Metal was awesome.

Meaning that it's awesome?

@@dn22pkkdd476 it's all bad

Sal is always chaotic evil

You can see it on her face that she trying not to say anything about how stupid this is.

I'm only about half way through and it's my favorite Back Issues

...You mean it wasn't broken to begin with?

@@smashmaster521 well okay to be fair yes DC continuity was broken before that's true however I maintained that rebirth actually was trying to fix the mistakes of the new 52 and having all the books being connected and guess what it worked for a time before bendis and ruined everything and threw away a lot of hard work for bullshit at least in my opinion, and to make it worst you had both bendis and tom king deviating so much from the original plan that death metal had to come and try to make some plot points sort of make sense but in the end it made continuity now basically beyond repair which is sad because I miss having a DC universe that's organized and consistent not chaos but that's just my opinion.

@@TevyaSmolka is more of Didio’s fault than the writers

@@opposite_hedgehog_753 i agree this was dan didio fault from the very beginning.

Ethan read Justice before which was very briefly referenced on the Earth X episode or at least it seemed like he already read it.

Dark Perpetua? SHE'S ALREADY EVIL! HOW DO YOU CRANK THAT UP TO 11?!

@@smashmaster521 your asking me they wouldn’t pull something out of their arse for that?

@@qliphalpuzzle5453 ...There is logic in what you say.

@@smashmaster521 I can hear the scribbling of notes from here