Dark Days: The Road to Metal

In 2018, DC Comics launched Dark Days: The Road to Metal, a single-issue prologue co-written by Scott Snyder and James Tynion IV that set the stage for the sprawling Dark Nights: Metal event. Featuring a powerhouse art team including Andy Kubert, Jim Lee, and John Romita Jr., this one-shot served as a cryptic, high-stakes mystery—introducing the ominous threat of dark matter and the hidden history of the Batcave. It matters as the essential first step into Snyder and Tynion’s cosmic-scale saga, a dark, ambitious prelude that reshaped the DC Universe’s mythology.