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Metal Brings Back Hypertime In Today's Justice League #33 And The Batman Who Laughs #1 (SPOILERS)

Today sees the release of two Metal tie-in comic books. Dark Nights: Batman Who Laughs #1 written by James Tynion IV, drawn by Riley Rossmo, colours by Ivan Plascencia, letters by Tom Napolitano and edited by Dave Wielgosz, Rebecca Taylor and Eddie Berganza. And Justice League #33 written by Joshua Williamson, art by Tyler Kirkham and Mikel Janin, colours by Arif Prianto and Jeremy Cox, Letters by Richard Starkings and Jimmy Betancourt, and edited by Andrew Marino, Rebecca Taylor, Eddie Berganza and Brian Cunningham.

The Batman Who Laughs is the last of the Dark Knights books and the most anticipated, looking at the origin of the Joker-reworked Bruce Wayne, how he became the Judge Death-lookalike he has been through the series so far and where it's all heading.

Hypertime was a storytelling device created by Grant Morrison and Mark Waid in 1999 and primarily used in Waid's comic, The Flash, as well as the limited maxiseries, The Kingdom. It was an early attempt to restore the DC Multiverse, presenting it as a multitude of alternate realities that somehow diverge from the "main timestream" in one way or another and sometimes reconnect with the "main timestream" briefly.

 

It has had mention in DC Rebirth in Flash

Metal Brings Back Hypertime In Today's Justice League #33 And The Batman Who Laughs #1 (SPOILERS)

Justice League
Metal Brings Back Hypertime In Today's Justice League #33 And The Batman Who Laughs #1 (SPOILERS)

And being an active fighting force over in Detective Comics

Metal Brings Back Hypertime In Today's Justice League #33 And The Batman Who Laughs #1 (SPOILERS)

But in Justice League #33 we get the definition for what it is now, and see it for the first time.

Metal Brings Back Hypertime In Today's Justice League #33 And The Batman Who Laughs #1 (SPOILERS)

And it is clearly a conduit for the Dark Multiverse invasion of Earth Prime. And there are more Dark Knights out there to be chosen…

Metal Brings Back Hypertime In Today's Justice League #33 And The Batman Who Laughs #1 (SPOILERS)

There's a Batman merged with Lex Luthor? Could it be worse than the Batman merged with the Joker? After all, he does do this…

Metal Brings Back Hypertime In Today's Justice League #33 And The Batman Who Laughs #1 (SPOILERS)

Which leads to this…Metal Brings Back Hypertime In Today's Justice League #33 And The Batman Who Laughs #1 (SPOILERS)

And the plan appears to weaponise Hypertime.  because there are lots more than just twisted versions of Batman out there… indeed, he's always been the least powerful of them all…

Metal Brings Back Hypertime In Today's Justice League #33 And The Batman Who Laughs #1 (SPOILERS)

If you have a sentient Dark Multiverse, and a Hypertime fighting back – is that sentient too?

The Batman Who Laughs #1 and Justice League #33 are published today from DC Comics.

 

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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