16 Jul 2009
Blackest Night #1 came out on Wednesday and Shannon, future best wife on the planet, hoofed it over to Alliance Comics on her way home from work.
(Black Lantern version of the Martian Manhunter pictured above.)
I’m so happy she did because I don’t think I could have waited any longer for this book.
Geoff Johns has been building to this moment since bringing back Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) from shitty storytelling hell a few years ago, and this first issue delivers on that slow build-up.
Blackest Night isn’t just a Green Lantern story, though the Green (and Red, Orange, Violet, Indigo, Yellow, and Blue) Lantern mythology is the centerpiece.
Basically all the dead superheroes from the past rise from their graves and are attacking their friends and loved ones from their breathing days. The first issue has a ton of action and while there is a good amount of ‘inside baseball’ for people who know a lot about current comics continuity, it isn’t so obtuse that a casual reader wouldn’t understand.
I’ve read issue #1 twice now (the ending three times) and I’m salivating for issue #2. Its been a great time to be a fan of superhero comics.
Blackest Night gets an A+.
