Tales from the DC Dark Multiverse Paperback – 23 Feb. 2021

A nice hardback book with a dust jacket and lovely images on the hardback cover.I didn’t know what to expect from these stories.I’m following this story carefully because it will follow into Year of The Villain, which I’m also looking forward too.Well, you get a god-like narrator that shows you The Multiverse and The Dark Multiverse and the subtle changes that can make it darker.Knight fall, Blackest Night, Infinite Crisis and The Judas Contract, all major stories all reimagined into a dark story.First of all, Knightfall.Well, the story is as iconic as can be.The Dark Knight Rises took a lot of inspiration from said story and it shows.But Azrael wins?! He does and it’s a bloody good story.I’ll not spoil too much but it shows Bruce in a worse spot than having his back broken.Knowledge isn’t 100% necessary for enjoying this story but it does help.On t he plus side you do get all the original stories in the back!Infinite Crisis.Well, Blue Beetle goes a little crazy and kills everyone.I never enjoyed Infinite Crisis as much as some, but I did enjoy this version more.Beyond my first sentence, there isn’t much more to say.It’s an enjoyable read, but knowing the full extent of Infinite Crisis really did but a better twist on this story although I didn’t enjoy it profoundly.Blackest Night.Sinestro, keeps his ring.Lot of Lobo ( I personally can’t stand him, but I do warm up to him in this story)Yeah, it’s enjoyable. Blackest Night is one of those large stories I recommend you read fully because it is enormous, a lot of people say just read The Green Lantern bits but you lose a lot of good story.Anyway, yeah, I’d say this was my least favourite story because the change is so minor.The Judas Contract - Teen Titans.I never read this story beyond this book and I’d say it was by far the best Dark Multiverse story of the lot.People say words are powerful and in this case they’re world destroying.See Dick Grayson leave his Robin tights, see him become Nightwing, then wear his Robin outfit again and a lot of action.Having no prior knowledge of this story I have to say I loved it.The great thing about this book is you get all the original stories (well, snippets of a longer story but I’m sure you get what I mean)So the original source material is there for reference.You get the usual variants etc at the back which were all lovely.I’d say get this book just for a little bit of change and difference.This Dark Multiverse is one of the most original stories I’ve seen in comics for the last 30 odd years, so long may it continue.Thanks for reading.

"The difference between me and you is just one bad day" the Joker.Five stories stories where the a small change takes the universe on to a darker track. Then an issue from each saga these are based on.Kinghtfall. What if the event of Knights End did not have Bruce reclaim him place as Batman. The new St Batman has saved Gotham but the world has crumbled.Death of Superman. The day Superman died he left sn angry wife and a world without a saviour. What they now have is vengeance.Blackest Night. The Blackest night just longer and darker.Infinite Crisis. If a hero did not die, could the world be even worse off?The Judas Contract. A peice of advice, with the best of intention causes the road to hell.The Broken Bat. The is the last issue of Knightfall Vol 1. I know why they included this issues. I remember first reading this and the shocking ending. This was the first time I had seen the hero lose. However I don't think this was the right choice as the point of change was the end of Knights End, but that ending was a bit of a let down.Death of Superman. The original fight between the Man of Steel and Doomsday.Blackest night. Issues one of of the Blackest Night mini series. The dead rise, kill and rise again.Infinite Crisis. The trust is broken between the Trinity, and a new Crisis is coming.The Judas Contract. The Titans have been betrayed and captured. This so much darker then any animated or normal movie I have see.An ok collection of stories. I do appreciate having issues from the origin reprinted. However I think the issue where the turn hapoen instead of the iconic.There is a varient cover gallery and sketch book as well. I would have given this 3.5 stars, but I think I deserves a round up them down.

“Tales from the Dark Multiverse” collects a number of ‘classic’ (or at least ‘pivotal’) stories from DC’s often revised history, along with the originals, so you can judge the quality of both.There is a narrative justification for these stories, in that they take place in the ‘Dark Multiverse’, where ‘failed’ timelines live, and where some characters from the ongoing Dark Crisis were born.This does not make the stories any less uninteresting or nihilistic though, despite the quality of the writers and artists involved.If you like meaningless violence and suffering, or even stories of meaningless violence and suffering, for we are all comic-book fans, or we wouldn’t be looking at this in the first place, then you will likely find this entertaining.The five stories are taken from “Knightfall”, “The Death of Superman”, “Blackest Night”, Infinite Crisis”, “The Judas Contract”.They are, mostly, well-written and illustrated, and if you are not as old and worn-out with less than interesting comics as I am, you could, and should, enjoy them.

quite boring stories, where the end result is verypredictble- someone goes bad and mad with power and kills everyone, usually with having very little motivation to. There isnt enough pages to have a character to do a complete U-turn on all their morals and principles just so we can have a cool moment where blue beetle kills some dudes.