Green Lantern: Blackest Night Author: Visit Amazon's Geoff Johns Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1401229522 | Format: EPUB
Green Lantern: Blackest Night Description
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"The dead will rise. And that's good news for comic book readers in Space Sector 2814."
-- New York Daily News
From the Hardcover edition.- Paperback: 272 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics; First Edition edition (July 19, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1401229522
- ISBN-13: 978-1401229528
- Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
I gave Blackest Night four stars because it was pretty much relentless action almost from beginning to end and I felt readers need the occasional breather. It also seemed to be incomplete, missing a lot of back story with events happening with no resolution. Having read THIS book (confusingly ALSO called Blackest Night) it's clear to me that the actual story is interlaced between the core Blackest Night series and the ongoing Green Lantern series and possibly the Lantern Corps series. Reading just one book leaves a ton of questions open. For example in Blackest Night the Spectre is taken over by the Black Lantern Corps and then... nothing. In this book the Spectre is a member of the Corps with no explanation and has a HUGE impact. You need both books to make sense of it. This book offers up the back story on how the various lantern corps joined together to fight the Black Lanterns. As much as Blackest Night needs this book this book needs Blackest Night even more.
The fact of the matter is that I enjoyed this collection more than the Blackest Night mini-series itself and that may be because I read this second and it felt a lot more complete. Since it's from the Green Lantern series it's much more Lantern Corps centric featuring the ongoing fighting between the seven colored corps including battles between Atrocious and Larfleeze and Sinestro and Carol Ferris so on. One question I had was how come Larfleeze seems to have diminished in power since I last read about him. In previous books he was supposedly as powerful as an entire corps with his amazing 100,000% fully powered ring but now he seems about on par with Atrocious or Sinestro. Mongul makes a fantastic appearance in a dual with Sinestro.
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