Scott Snyder talks ‘Dark Night’s Metal’, Martian Manhunter, and What’s Next for DC’s Mega Hit

By the end of 2017, two of the top-selling comics of the year came from one of the industry’s most prolific comic book creating teams, Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. After helping usher in a new golden age of Batman comics, the two reunited to bring us Dark Nights: Metal, a six-issue story that brings together DC’s greatest heroes against an evil team of Bruce Wayne’s from throughout the multiverse with world-ending intentions. After reading issue #5, Black nerd Problems got a chance to talk to Snyder about the creative process behind the series, the long-term implications it’ll have on DC Comics and what to expect from him in the near future.

*Warning: This interview contains spoilers for currently unreleased issues of Dark Nights: Metal.* BLACK NERD PROBLEMS: How would you say the reception for Dark Nights: Metal has stacked up against your own expectations when you first started writing, both with the general public but also inside DC? SCOTT SNYDER: It went way beyond what I expected, honestly. So, I’m incredibly grateful to fans and to DC and everybody for being so supportive. I mean, initially when Craig and I pitched it, it was a bit of an argument internally just because it’s so different than, I think, events of the past in the way that it’s meant to be a little bit crazy and celebratory, and compressed, and move at this kind of nutty breakneck pace, and it introduces a lot of new stuff very quickly. So, there was initial skepticism I think, which is healthy, but DC …