tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post5188648883670795974..comments2024-03-27T21:12:28.287-05:00Comments on Collected Editions: Review: Blackest Night: Green Lantern hardcover/paperback (DC Comics)collectededitionshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-75670837233352057752010-09-01T09:58:27.597-05:002010-09-01T09:58:27.597-05:00I lean a bit toward David's take on the "...I lean a bit toward David's take on the "cheap angst." Some of the tie-ins were good -- Blackest Night: Flash, and many of the "resurrected titles" including Question, Catwoman, and Starman -- but outside the main series and the Green Lantern and Corps books, I was oftentimes disappointed by somewhat generic stories. <br /><br />Blackest Night: Batman barely touched on Dick's guilt when faced with a resurrected Blockbuster, the man he let be murdered; beyond Donna Troy and her family, most of the resurrected Titans were so much window dressing; Wonder Woman's encounter with Maxwell Lord barely scratched the surface of what that death meant to the DCU as a whole; and the modern JSAers hardly exchanged two words with their dead counterparts. Many parts of Blackest Night were exceptional, don't get me wrong, but (in my opinion) I understand the "predictable" charge.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-57671774813074580912010-09-01T04:10:15.380-05:002010-09-01T04:10:15.380-05:00Yeah, but no. There's been a fair bit of disc...Yeah, but no. There's been a fair bit of discussion on the other reviews how the tie in minis didn't go the obvious route with predictable zombie angst - particularly Flash, Wonder Woman and Superman. I haven't read Rise of the Black Lanterns yet, but the other companion volumes have been pretty good.Hixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-1735324645390414562010-09-01T03:19:06.934-05:002010-09-01T03:19:06.934-05:00Well this series grew into a DC event out of what ...Well this series grew into a DC event out of what was originally a Green Lantern story.<br /><br />It might be overly simplistic, but it's hard not to think of the BN: GL chapters as being many of the main story points relocated to the GL series, to accomodate a more JLA-centric main miniseries. Part of the reason a little less happens in Blackest Night is that it handles a the recap of recent DC history and a lot of exposition, and the reintroduction of a several characters (Mera, Firestorm, etc.)<br /><br />It's a strange structure, but I do think the main miniseries and the BN:GL book were really strong.<br /><br />The rest of the tie-ins didn't interest me very much. From the outside, it just seemed like BN was an excuse to have every DC character/team fight against some zombie copies of their most famous dead. Cheap angst, really.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-83856648094220992212010-08-19T08:43:00.990-05:002010-08-19T08:43:00.990-05:00Agreed; if I were going to read two Blackest Night...Agreed; if I were going to read two Blackest Night hardcovers simultaneously, it would be Blackest Night and Green Lantern, and one might as well just leave Green Lantern Corps out until the end. <br /><br />That said, even as it was "deleted scenes," I thought the Green Lantern volume was a stronger book overall than Blackest Night. It's like one book is the fighting, and one book is the talking.collectededitionshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14698269790653953645noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10945794.post-13801808622838822192010-08-19T08:38:53.019-05:002010-08-19T08:38:53.019-05:00Yep, it reads like a collection of deleted scenes ...Yep, it reads like a collection of deleted scenes really - shorter stories that tie into the action (particularly the formation of the "rainbow rodeo"). It really can't be read independently and needs to browsed in tandem with the main series. on the other hand, with the exception of the first and second-to-last issues, Green Lantern Corps actually reads well independently. You just never get an idea of why this is happening or the final confrontation.Darrenhttp://m0vie.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com