When DC Comics titled their latest crossover event Dark Knights: Death Metal, readers knew to expect something extreme. And boy, did they deliver. Each issue of the seven-part main story comes in a foil-embossed cover, emblazoned with a hard-rocking image: Wonder Woman in a golden crown and wielding a shimmering chainsaw; Superman with flowing locks (no, not the Super-Mullet) and a sleeveless shirt showing off his new rocky right arm; and Batman sporting a spiked leather jacket and a chain-link utility belt.
Despite its foreboding title, Dark Knights: Death Metal tells a hopeful tale, a super-heroic testament to accepting your failures.