Dark Nights: Metal creators Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo are gearing up for a new Justice League adventure, and DC is teasing that story with an image of Wonder Woman wielding the Chainsaw of Truth.
This new teaser image appears in Justice League #39, the final chapter of Snyder’s run on the series. It shows an armored, battle-scarred Diana wielding what appears to be a chainsaw forged of Nth Metal and powered by her own Lasso of Truth. Check it out below:
Snyder also posted the teaser on Twitter, along with the cryptic message “It’s all been building to this…”
This unnamed new series looks to be the Dark Nights: Metal followup Snyder and Capullo have been teasing for the past couple years. Judging from the teaser, this series may be called Mayhem and focus on Wonder Woman in the same way Metal was a largely Batman-centric story.
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As Snyder alluded, this new project is the culmination of several years of storytelling. Metal set the stage for the current volume of Justice League, which pits the League against Lex Luthor’s Legion of Doom. Luthor is now a servant of a dark goddess called Perpetua, with the goal of proving that Doom is a stronger force than Justice and that humanity’s selfish, fearful nature will ultimately win out. That conflict is also at the heart of DC’s Year of the Villain event, as the evolved “Apex Lex” approaches various villains with offers of greater power.
Warning: the following paragraph contains spoilers for Justice League #39!
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Sadly, Luthor is proven correct in Justice League #39, as humanity makes its choice and the Justice League find themselves cast out of Earth altogether. Snyder’s run ends on a cliffhanger when the Quintessence (a group that includes the Highfather, Ganthet, Hera, the wizard Shazam, the Spectre and the Phantom Stranger) return and open a door to an unknown region. The exiled Justice League members pass through that door, hoping it will lead them to the key to defeating Perpetua and triumphing over the power of Doom.
That cliffhanger won’t be resolved in the pages of Justice League itself, as issue #40 begins a new story from writer Robert Venditti and artist Doug Mahnke, one which is set before the events of Justice/Doom War. Instead, this ending will lead directly into Mayhem, which we assume will be debuting in spring or summer of 2020. The current Hell Arisen miniseries will also chronicle the final battle between Apex Lex and Metal villain The Batman Who Laughs.
Fortunately, Snyder also reassured readers they won’t need to have read all 39 issues of Justice League to enjoy Mayhem. After all, a book with a chainsaw-wielding Wonder Woman pretty much sells itself. He tweeted, “We just needed a bigger stage to make a final all encompassing saga that links many DC stories, past & present, in the biggest showdown possible.”
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Source: IGN.com DC Teases New Story With Wonder Woman's Chainsaw of Truth