And so, Metal #6 is out and done.
What do I feel?
I feel that Scott Snyder is a fantastic writer. Has great ideas, big ideas, and really sells them-on his books. On an event?
I felt like he was a freshman player moved up to starting varsity for the injured senior-and he wasn't ready for it. Those first 2 issues, of the Forge and ...the other...were wow, just WOW!! But then, the series began.
Trying to ape the insanity, and scatteshot chaos that coalesces into majesty like Morrison (yeah, I'll say it! :p ), or trying to big and as bombastic, and delivering with the BIG MOMENT like Millar, or the cleverness and satisfying delivery of someone like Waid, Snyder just or delivering the essence of the stand like Johns can, Snyder falls...flat in trying to be like that.
Morrison always left things be discovered by the reader between panels, and Snyder told a story almost entirely in that regards here-but it just left me confused about what and where things happened-or why they happened in the first place.
In trying to be overly clever (c'mon, I loved that they were called meta because the L got dropped off), the excess tongue in cheek and layering of everything in history together again just didn't...work for me.
Batman got lost in this story. it was his failure and fault throughout all this...and it was Diana and Hawkman that truly saved the day, I think. The weird Macguffin of
just felt ..out of place, or mismatched to the events here.
Then the ending narration....was not anywhere near as awful as that Secret Wars bullshit, but man....I'm not sure I really bought the words.
I don't know, perhaps I feel a bit bitter because it wasn't amazing....
..and it was another secret way to change the DC universe again, to continue to fix Rebirth...So.....I don't know, whatever is whatever.
I'm going to read EVERYTHING again and just...see what I feel about it.
Afterwards? OH hell, I'm stoked now! I really am! DC books at least always pique my imagination and curiosity for the future (currently, I should say).