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A Wayne Enterprises dark site is in trouble: a volcano is erupting, and will destroy the structure. Its director, Dr. Madison, is registering a last message, telling that there's something not working in the Earth's core, a bizarre behaviour caused by some of the metal inside it. As the volcano is about to destroy the place, Batman, with a special robotic suit, breaks in and saves the life of the doctor, also with the help of Aquaman, even managing to save the data the site retrieved. Arthur would like to know why Bruce kept a secret base inside his dominion, the sea, but Batman answers him he should trust him. He's looking for something hidden. While talking with Aquaman, a woman, calling herself Lady Blackhawk, reports to his base, telling Batman did not find what he was searching.
Hal Jordan was assigned to a secret mission from Ganthet, regarding the potential threat of a dark universal force freeing herself. This force will have the opportunity to do it on Hal's planet, Earth, and more precisely the coordinates to check correspond to Wayne Manor, home of Batman. Hal gets to the Batcave, looking for what's originating the problem while Bruce is away, but he's attacked by Duke Thomas, who has one mission: to allow no one inside the cave, even family. Hal dismisses Duke easily, and then finds a secret way inside a hidden part of the cave.
Inside the room stands a huge tower, functioning as a tuning fork. And Batman wants to run inside it the frequency he and Mr. Terrific studied: it's finally time to see what hides in the depths of the dark.
Strap in and be warned: There will be MAJOR SPOILERS past this point. We're spelunking into the dark caverns of DC lore, trying to keep up with (if not get ahead of) this blockbuster's developments. Part 2 of our annotations can be read here.
By the way, the "KraKaTow" sound effect isn't a comics reference, but it may well refer to the 1883 explosion of the volcanic island Krakatoa. Located near Indonesia, Krakatoa's explosion supposedly produced the loudest sound ever recorded, heard thousands of miles away. The resulting tsunamis killed over 36,000 people, and seismographs recorded shock waves for days afterwards.
Strap in and be warned: There will be MAJOR SPOILERS past this point. We're spelunking into the dark caverns of DC lore, trying to keep up with (if not get ahead of) this blockbuster's developments. Our first part (available here) covered the first half of the book; below, we dive into the back half, including some of the biggest surprises of the entire issue.
Page 28 depicts a multiversal tuning fork, used by the Monitor in 1985's original Crisis On Infinite Earths to protect five key parallel universes from the Anti-Monitor's antimatter clouds. In 2005-06's Infinite Crisis, Earth-Three's Alex Luthor used it (along with the Anti-Monitor's corpse) to re-create the infinite Multiverse, albeit only briefly. Here, it looks like Batman is using it to track "dark energy" from the Multiverse.
That initial message two summers ago was the start of a relationship between the Bulldogs and Sauce that has led to one clothing line raising thousands of dollars for cancer research and now another meant to help a Bulldog family in need during its darkest days.
DARK DAYS THE FORGE & THE CASTING DIRECTORS CUT #1
(W) Scott Snyder, James TynionIV (A) Andy Kubert, John Romita (A/CA) Jim Lee
The road to DARK NIGHTS: METAL began with DARK DAYS: THE FORGE and DARK DAYS: THE CASTING! Now, these two top-selling specials are presented again in this new Director's Cut edition! As THE FORGE begins, Aquaman, Green Lantern and more of DC's pantheon of heroes suspect Batman of hiding a dark secret that could threaten the very existence of the multiverse! And in THE CASTING, The Joker's surprise attack threatens to lay waste to all of Batman's carefully laid plans. This Director's Cut includes never-before-published extras!
RATED T In Shops: Nov 29, 2017
SRP: $7.99
In DARK DAYS: THE FORGE #1, Darkness comes to the DC Universe with the mystery of the Forge! Aquaman, The Flash and more of DC's pantheon of heroes suspect Batman of hiding a dark secret that could threaten the very existence of the multiverse! It's an epic that will span generations -- but how does it connect to the origins of one of DC's most legendary heroes?
DARK DAYS: THE FORGE #1 is a 40-page one-shot with card-stock covers. It is written by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV, with art by Jim Lee, Andy Kubert, John Romita Jr. and others.
This issue features a foil-stamped cover by Jim Lee and Scott Williams (APR170259). It also features variant covers by Andy Kubert (APR170260) and John Romita Jr. (APR170261).
DARK DAYS: THE FORGE #1 is on FOC on May 8 with an on-sale date of June 14.
Superman tells Batman if he is doing something too big for him to do alone to ask him for help. Batman thanks Superman for the offer but that he can handle things and he has Mister Miracle to help him open the door to the secret room in the Fortress of Solitude.Mister Miracle and Batman go deeper into the Fortress of Solitude together. Mister Miracle wonders what happened to the key for the secret room Batman set up. Batman says he shot it in the sun.Mister Miracle attempts to open the secret room but when he approaches it an explosion suddenly occurs. Mister Miracle takes the explosion as a sign that they need to turn back and enters a Boom Tube portal to leave before things get worse.Batman stays behind and looks at a tower. Batman has his computer analyze the tower to examine the frequency of the dark energy.
Aquaman, The Flash and more of DC's pantheon of heroes suspect Batman of hiding a dark secret that could threaten the very existence of the multiverse! It's an epic that will span generations-but how does it connect to the origins of one of DC's most legendary heroes?
Aranthur is a student. He showed a little magical talent, is studying at the local academy, and is nothing particularly special. Others are smarter. Others are more talented. Others are quicker to pick up techniques. But none of them are with him when he breaks his journey home for the holidays in an inn. None of them step in to help when a young woman is thrown off a passing stage coach into the deep snow at the side of the road. And none of them are drawn into a fight to protect her. One of the others might have realised she was manipulating him all along....
When Rome transgresses upon his father's domain that lays between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Pacorus, a prince of the Parthian Empire, is sent to exact revenge. After a string of victories, Pacorus and his men are captured in Cappadocia, clapped in chains, and sent to Italy to live out the rest of their days as slaves. But fate intervenes and Pacorus and his companions are saved from a living hell by a renegade gladiator named Spartacus. In gratitude, Pacorus agrees to help Spartacus build his army as Rome musters its legions to crush the slave uprising.
Sviska is a man of the shadows, an assassin without any one place to call his own. But in the Far North, he discovers a secret. Magic, long thought lost to the world, is alive. The genocide to destroy every elf, wizard, and sacred being of old is not yet complete. Sviska's masters work the strings of the world and he has been sent for a task he does not even fully understand yet. When at last he feels he has what he has always wanted, darkness falls upon the world.
So Hunter borrowed a Celtic harp, began recording demos in Portsmouth, and eventually, she returned to England to work with producer Cicely Goulder to create Lovegaze; Hunter's enthralling debut album is not only colored by those ancient English tales, but by her own life in California and the recent darkness that seems to have blanketed us all.
A melding of ambient music with R&B, jazz and classical touches, Lovegaze holds space for that duality. Much of Hunter's previous music served as a salve, offering a sense of hope through her harp's ethereal qualities, but her latest record looks turmoil right in the eye: "This time, I was, like, 'Yes, there's despair. Let's cry it out. What about the dark? Let's look down into the abyss'," she says.
She has always been a fan of musicians skilled at balancing light and dark. Among her musical influences, Hunter cites Ryuichi Sakamoto, Imogen Heap, and Joe Hisaishi (the composer responsible for most Studio Ghibli films).
Her instrument of choice, often pigeonholed by its angelic timbre, is actually quite capable of expressing something much colder and darker. It's at this point in our conversation that Hunter briefly gets up to fetch Ophelia. Bright red and very plinky-sounding, Ophelia was her very first harp.
Hunter became so enamored by the instrument that she'd hole herself up in the harp room and practice for hours. She says it offered her the kind of structure she was lacking at the time; "I think, especially in my younger days, it was always fun to be the Black girl rolling up into a space with a harp."
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