Writer Scott Snyder as well as artists Jonathan Glapion and Greg Capullo are gathering to deliver an epic encore fans will never forget with the first issue in their comic series Dark Nights: Death Metal #1, giving Wonder Woman a new title as the Queen of Hell.

The DC Universe is in disarray and ruin as The Batman Who Laughs and the evil super-celestial Perpetua reign over the multiverse. To make matters worse, with the superheroes Wonder Woman, Superman, and Batman dispersed throughout the multiverse, it's going to take a miracle to prevent it from being completely shrouded in darkness. As The Batman Who Laughs reigns as king of Earth, he enslaves members of the Justice League-including Wonder Woman--and for laughs, he tasks them with ruling over various areas of Earth.

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For Wonder Woman, it's an assignment as the Queen of Hell, master of the Tartarus Pits (where Diana of Themyscira is forced to house The Batman Who Laughs' greatest adversaries). In Snyder, Glapion, and Capullo's comic Dark Nights: Death Metal #1, the rocking and head-banging continues as Wonder Woman is given the title Queen of Hell. Though, if she could have it any other way, she would. Although being given the title Queen of Hell may be exceptional. For Diana, she can't stand the fact that she has no autonomy, forced to watch the people she loves perish by the hands of the Batmen, or rot in the cells of Hell. She may be the one in charge of the flaming prison... but she is also a prisoner herself, serving at the whim of The Batman Who Laughs. For now.

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In the first issue, The Batman Who Laughs hosts a gathering with a few Dark Batmen and Harley Quinn, who has become hunter of the Wastelands; Aquaman, commander of the Black Fleet; and Wonder Woman, guardian of the underworld. Because The Batman Who Laughs is a sick and twisted villain, the main reason he hosts a gathering is because he wants to boast about how Perpetua has destroyed another universe (and its Earth), leaving only a handful left for the cosmic goddess to break.

But the story is only beginning. And like many men in the DC Universe, The Batman Who Laughs underestimates Wonder Woman. By the end of Dark Nights: Death Metal #1 he discovers he, too, should fear Diana of Themyscira.

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