- Hardcover: 304 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (27 Aug 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1848568061
- ISBN-13: 978-1848568068
- Product Dimensions: 26.4 x 17.6 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 184,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Comics' hottest writer, Geoff Johns, raises the dead in this hardcover collection of the most anticipated comics event of the year! Throughout the decades, death has plagued the DC Universe and taken the lives of heroes and villains alike. But to what end? As the war between different coloured Lantern Corps rages on, the prophecy of the Blackest Night descends. Now it's up to Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps to lead DC's champions in the battle to save the Universe from an army of undead Black Lanterns made up of the fallen Green Lanterns and DC's deceased heroes and villains.
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Geoff Johns has written Infinite Crisis, 52, Green Lantern, X-Men, The Avengers, Superman, and many more. Ivan Reis has illustrated The Avengers, Crux, Lady Death, Iron Man, The Invisibles, and Xena: Warrior Princess.
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57 of 58 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The War of Light has erupted in the universe.
The Green Lantern Corps now face opponents (and allies) of the rest of the light spectrum - Red rage, Blue hope, Orange avarice, Yellow fear, Violet love and the mysterious Indigos. There is an imbalance of light, and the prophecy of the blackest night has come to pass. The dead have risen. The Black Lanterns want your Life. Death wants his due.
I should begin by saying that the Blackest Night story is the culmination of many of the plot lines that have been running in the Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps series. While it can be enjoyed by itself, if you want to fully appreciate the epic scale of the event you would need to read the Green Lantern Corps and Green Lantern tie ins. (Though you would find the main story perfectly fine by itself).
One of the complaints directed towards the core series is that it lacks characterisation on many of the core characters. Particularly Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. They were not mistakenly omitted. They were covered in their own series, which tie directly into each issue of the 8 part series (and fill the gaps in between too).
For those completists that want the FULL story:
Begin with the frankly incredible Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War (Vols. 1 and 2)
Then move onto the "Official Preludes to Blackest Night"
Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns
Green Lantern: Agent Orange
Green Lantern Corps: Sins of the Star Sapphire
Green Lantern Corps: Emerald Eclipse
As for the Main story:
Blackest Night
Blackest Night: Green Lantern
Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps
With respect to the main story - the order of reading is the above, issue by issue. I.e. Part 1 of Blackest Night 'continues' in Green Lantern and then Green Lantern Corps.
I must admit thats a hell of a lot of reading. But each volume is amazing. The writing is superb, plenty of action, plenty of characterisation, plenty of plot twists, and the art in every volume is beautiful. I was aware of this reading order beforehand and thought it worth sharing.
This blockbuster series is highly recommended. I loved it. I hope you do to.
The Green Lantern Corps now face opponents (and allies) of the rest of the light spectrum - Red rage, Blue hope, Orange avarice, Yellow fear, Violet love and the mysterious Indigos. There is an imbalance of light, and the prophecy of the blackest night has come to pass. The dead have risen. The Black Lanterns want your Life. Death wants his due.
I should begin by saying that the Blackest Night story is the culmination of many of the plot lines that have been running in the Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps series. While it can be enjoyed by itself, if you want to fully appreciate the epic scale of the event you would need to read the Green Lantern Corps and Green Lantern tie ins. (Though you would find the main story perfectly fine by itself).
One of the complaints directed towards the core series is that it lacks characterisation on many of the core characters. Particularly Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps. They were not mistakenly omitted. They were covered in their own series, which tie directly into each issue of the 8 part series (and fill the gaps in between too).
For those completists that want the FULL story:
Begin with the frankly incredible Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War (Vols. 1 and 2)
Then move onto the "Official Preludes to Blackest Night"
Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns
Green Lantern: Agent Orange
Green Lantern Corps: Sins of the Star Sapphire
Green Lantern Corps: Emerald Eclipse
As for the Main story:
Blackest Night
Blackest Night: Green Lantern
Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps
With respect to the main story - the order of reading is the above, issue by issue. I.e. Part 1 of Blackest Night 'continues' in Green Lantern and then Green Lantern Corps.
I must admit thats a hell of a lot of reading. But each volume is amazing. The writing is superb, plenty of action, plenty of characterisation, plenty of plot twists, and the art in every volume is beautiful. I was aware of this reading order beforehand and thought it worth sharing.
This blockbuster series is highly recommended. I loved it. I hope you do to.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This book collects the main (and I stress main, as there are plenty of ancillary books) eight issue Blackest Night series, that's been all over DC this year past.
I'll own up and say that this book put my knowledge of the DC character collection to shame, so many of them I only vaguely recognised or had little clue who they were. But credit to Johns, that didn't stop me having a good time reading this at all. Plus, I partly picked this up as preparation for the Green Lantern film, as it's a character I know, but haven't read extensively. In that regard it didn't disappoint, it gave me what I like about the Lantern Corps and limited what I don't, namely The Guardians (can't help but think Space Smurfs when they appear). It even made the many coloured Lantern Corps bearable, as usually this is my biggest problem with modern Green Lantern titles.
And as a surprise, probably the main supporting character to Hal Jordan's Green Lantern is the newly returned Barry Allen Flash. So good is this portrayal, of a character I've had a liking for in the past, that I think I'll be picking up John's current Flash series.
The art was outstanding, especially considering the sheer number of characters involved in this story and number of character references needed to portray them. Ivan Reis does a great job of doing the typical crossover routine, lots of glorious action shots and double page spreads. My only gripe is the use of those spreads vertically rather than the normal horizontal, this is just a personal thing, I don't like having to flip my book too often when I'm settled into a read.
The flaws here are what you might expect from a blockbuster storyline like this, and to be honest once in a while I can look past these. Little time is given to so many characters (probably something handled in the supporting books), some of the dialog can get a little cheesy, but like I said I'll forgive it for the blockbuster it is. The story's concept is intriguing, but the execution isn't very intellect stretching and apart from the prologue, it didn't do anywhere near as much exploration of the emotional side of the story that I could have done with, (after all, Death is a serious matter and more so now that Johns has declared that following this series 'Dead means dead', while he's in charge at least). Again, was not really expecting any of this so can't mark it too harshly.
The extras for this hardcover edition are, the covers with the alternate page as the penciled only artwork, an introduction by Donald De Line (producer on the upcoming Green Lantern film), a story so far page (which was a great help), the alternate covers, fifteen pages of commentary on the best and most important panels by the team behind the series (again, worth reading to fill in a few of the blanks), a script for a deleted scene, and profiles of three of the main characters with nice accompanying art, and finally brief bios for the creative team.
This of course leads to another DC universe story that will begin collection in Brightest Day Vol. 1 released in December.
I'll own up and say that this book put my knowledge of the DC character collection to shame, so many of them I only vaguely recognised or had little clue who they were. But credit to Johns, that didn't stop me having a good time reading this at all. Plus, I partly picked this up as preparation for the Green Lantern film, as it's a character I know, but haven't read extensively. In that regard it didn't disappoint, it gave me what I like about the Lantern Corps and limited what I don't, namely The Guardians (can't help but think Space Smurfs when they appear). It even made the many coloured Lantern Corps bearable, as usually this is my biggest problem with modern Green Lantern titles.
And as a surprise, probably the main supporting character to Hal Jordan's Green Lantern is the newly returned Barry Allen Flash. So good is this portrayal, of a character I've had a liking for in the past, that I think I'll be picking up John's current Flash series.
The art was outstanding, especially considering the sheer number of characters involved in this story and number of character references needed to portray them. Ivan Reis does a great job of doing the typical crossover routine, lots of glorious action shots and double page spreads. My only gripe is the use of those spreads vertically rather than the normal horizontal, this is just a personal thing, I don't like having to flip my book too often when I'm settled into a read.
The flaws here are what you might expect from a blockbuster storyline like this, and to be honest once in a while I can look past these. Little time is given to so many characters (probably something handled in the supporting books), some of the dialog can get a little cheesy, but like I said I'll forgive it for the blockbuster it is. The story's concept is intriguing, but the execution isn't very intellect stretching and apart from the prologue, it didn't do anywhere near as much exploration of the emotional side of the story that I could have done with, (after all, Death is a serious matter and more so now that Johns has declared that following this series 'Dead means dead', while he's in charge at least). Again, was not really expecting any of this so can't mark it too harshly.
The extras for this hardcover edition are, the covers with the alternate page as the penciled only artwork, an introduction by Donald De Line (producer on the upcoming Green Lantern film), a story so far page (which was a great help), the alternate covers, fifteen pages of commentary on the best and most important panels by the team behind the series (again, worth reading to fill in a few of the blanks), a script for a deleted scene, and profiles of three of the main characters with nice accompanying art, and finally brief bios for the creative team.
This of course leads to another DC universe story that will begin collection in Brightest Day Vol. 1 released in December.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
In my humble opinion as a long time fan of Geoff Johns, this is by far his greatest work yet! It totally brings into focus the DCU icons Green Lantern and The Flash and cleverly overshadows the usual trinty (Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman), who all appear as supporting characters.
I'm not going to give away any spoilers here, but if you're a fan of G.L. then you will be more than satisfied with this next chapter in the mythos; and if you're a casual fan, you will simply love the exciting DC drama that unfolds in John's cinematic style.
The artwork of Brazilian artist Ivan Reis is outstanding, particularly the full spread shots, and the superb creative team is completed with Oclair Albert and Joe Prado.
Take my work for it people...Buy it...Read it...Love it!
I'm not going to give away any spoilers here, but if you're a fan of G.L. then you will be more than satisfied with this next chapter in the mythos; and if you're a casual fan, you will simply love the exciting DC drama that unfolds in John's cinematic style.
The artwork of Brazilian artist Ivan Reis is outstanding, particularly the full spread shots, and the superb creative team is completed with Oclair Albert and Joe Prado.
Take my work for it people...Buy it...Read it...Love it!
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Published 15 months ago by Cass Whelan
The dead are rising, and none will escape the Blackest Night!
Anything that is wrote by Geoff Johns, in my oppinion, is amazing, and this is the book that made me think this.
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