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Today In Metal – Batman Murder Machine #1 And Suicide Squad #26 (SPOILERS)

Published Wed, 27 Sep 2017 05:30:55 -0500

Today sees the publication of two Metal spinoffs. Suicide Squad #26 by Rob Williams and Stjepan Sejic and Batman: The Murder Machine #1 by Frank Tieri, James Tynion IV, Riccardo Federici and Rain Beredo.

Metal has seen the sentient Dark Multiverse invade the DC Universe and bring a lot of nasty Batmen with it, as well as throw dinosaurs, emerging mountains under cities, Sandman, Plastic Man as an egg (no idea what's inside though), Baby Darkseid and whatever madness they can throw at the wall, see what sticks, and if it doesn't stick, hammer velociraptors into them until they do.

And they do have rather different tones. So while in Suicide Squad, we have a fourth wall-breaking Harley Quinn making an impossible jump in a school bus with the rest of the Squad…

In The Murder Machine we see Harley and the rest of the Squad murder Alfred Pennyworth.

In Suicide Squad we see Poison Ivy bring in dino-plants…

While in Murder Machine, a distraught Bruce Wayne unable to let go of a father figure, brings him back, with the help of Cyborg, as an artificial intelligence.

In Suicide Squad, colour scheme is important…

While in Murder Machine. Alfred takes over the world, and murders those he thinks are a threat to Bruce.

Though it's not all giggles in Suicide Squad, we see some truths for the Batman Who Laughs – and the Batman who screams…

While the Murder Machine Batman now exists as a merger of Bruce Wayne, Cyborg and Alfred. And everyone seems go have daddy issues…

So there is hope, even in Batman: The Murder Machine…

Two Metals. Which flavour do you prefer? It does seem the Williams and Sejic hew closer to the grain carved by Snyder and Capullo – which is a little bit of a mixed material metaphor…

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