Metal Men #4 - DC

Ok, I think I understand what's going on now. It seems that Will's brother David thinks that he's doing what's in Will's, and the world's, best interest. He's always felt responsible for his brother, so when he heard that a bunch of scientists were working at Oolong island, and that Will and the likes of Morrow and Sivana were involved, he had to go and try to smack some sense in to his little brother. However, he arrived after all the hoopla, and found the place mostly empty. But while there, he discovered that some of the tech they had left behind had kind of come to life. They were trying to rebuild Morrow's Ever-ware tech. The machine that let him grab technology through time. But David sat down in the chair and kicked it in to gear by accident. In doing so, he started bouncing around time. During this adventure, he discovered a distress call from the Metal Men, sometime in the near future, saying that they had destroyed all life on Earth. So now, he's been trying to stall Will's invention of them, by interfering in his brother's life during the early days of their inception. Now, at the same time, it also appears that UNION was locked in to a robot body. That robot happened to be in the likeness of Morrow. So how long has UNION been assuming the Doc's identity? That we don't know yet. We also don't know who built the robot or why. But he's the one responsible for the machine that's been turning the Metal Men in to the Heavy Metal Men. There also seems to be some type of Alchemy group out there that's also after Will. They're like the Metal Men, but made of base elements instead of metals. They call themselves the Gogoloth, and consist of Granite, Lye, Bizmuth and Onyx. I haven't quite figured out what their role in this whole little drama is, but I'm sure it's not good. Anyways, all of this has happened in the first 4 issues. And we're only half way through the series. Duncan Rouleau has, so far, done a fantastic job with this series. Sometimes it does kind of feel like a science class when I'm reading it, but if you were a robot made out of reactive metals, you'd probably talk that way to. But I really like some of the ideas that Duncan's created in this book. Yes the first 3 issue were a little confusing, but now that the pieces are starting to fall together . . . it's all making a twisted kind of sense. Which I think is cool. Overall, I'd have to give it an A-.