This past Saturday, I discovered something marvelous. I realized I had been paid for the previous week of work, and had some money in my account ready to be used. I went out during my Saturday morning class lunch break to Phil's Grill, my favorite burger place in the history of ever, and discovered a neat little comic book store tucked away on the other side of the road. So, I took this opportunity to buy the first two issues of DC's Blackest Night series, and after I left class, I went to Crescent City Comics to pick up the other 3 that have been released up til now, as well as Flash - Blackest Night #1. I also got Deadpool Classic, but that big book of awesomeness is a tale for another blogpost.
Blackest Night is, like most decent comic book series nowadays, an epic crossover. Centered around the Green Lantern, Blackest Night centers around the fight between all the Lantern colors in the spectrum, as they fight against the rise of the Black Lanterns, as well as amongst themselves. All across the universe, black rings are going out, and bringing the dead back to life.
I picked a helluva time to jump on, because issue #5, which is the current issue out, as far as I know, leaves off in a great cliffhanger. But before getting to that, I have to go over the previous 4 issues, in a quick recap. Essentially, the Black Lanterns control the dead bodies of heroes and villains alike, taking their memories and powers to make an evil, undead doppleganger. These Black Lantern's seek to kill everyone and return the universe to silence. To do so, they hunt down everyone, feed off their emotions, slowly killing them, before tearing out their heart, and having them reanimated with the black rings as well. The first to fall are Hawkman and Hawkgirl (who likes them anyway?), to a reanimated Elastic Man. Well, in reality the first to fall were some of Oa's Guardians, but I never cared for them anyway. This trend of resurrected heroes and villains killing live ones continues, and it seems the only ones that can keep alive are the Atom, Flash and Hal Jordan.
It slowly becomes a gorefest, readers waiting to see who is the next to fall. Some purple lanterns show up, with the key to killing the black lanterns being the white light of creation. Some superheroes such as the Dove with the ability to shine are also able to kill the lanterns. The fun part is in issue #5, once the villain behind this is revealed to be Nekron, assisted by the Black Hand. Nekron uses Batman's skull to reanimate him for a moment, in order to create a link between the surviving members of the Justice League, and turn them into Black Lanterns, since they too have died before. Issue #5 leaves off in a cliffhanger with Flash, Superman, Wonderwoman and others being engulfed in black energies.
The Flash - Blackest Night #1 was also pretty good, as he faced off against the Reverse Flash, now the Black Flash. A lot of feelings in that issue, though not much I can stretch out beyond that one sentence recap. Hopefully they'll all stay dead finally and DC can move on to some new heroes, and Marvel follow their lead as well. I'm anxious to see how this concludes! When I have a bit more money, I'll be sure to get Fall of the Hulks: Alpha. I've always liked green guys and gals, and that includes Hulk, though from what I hear he doesn't make a single appearance in Alpha.
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