BLACKEST NIGHT #1 (OF 8)
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This review contains spoilers, click here to read
I'll admit it right off the bat: I was afraid of this series. I love Green Lantern, love what Geoff Johns has done to the characters and the GL universe, and I've loved the leadup to this series. But a good part of me was afraid that this just be an echo of the whole Marvel Zombies craze from a few years back, which, fittingly, has refused to die, despite the creative rotting and storyless shuffling it seems to be suffering.
I should have had more faith. This book almost made me want to vomit.
Johns has tapped into the concept that makes zombies and the living dead so profoundly disturbing, one so obvious and deepset that I'm having trouble putting it into words. What has returned is not only a physical distortion of the deceased, but an emotional. It's just WRONG. The fact that Johns embraced that aspect, bringing back beloved characters in a depraved, yet oddly respectful way.
Despite a comics universe where the dead return seemingly every year, the fact is that death (and taxes) is the only certainty in life. To twist that on its head is just wrong on every intellectual and animal level of the brain. So many heroes have returned from the beyond, it's almost spoiled the DC universe and me as a reader, somewhat, as well.
Johns' scripting allowed the story to ruminate on death and its impact in a very organic way, setting the stage for the reversal without feeling (too much) like exposition. Ivan Reis' pencils, of course, are as solid as always, letting the characters emote and move fluidly from panel to panel. He also did a great job keeping the new Black Lanterns from really looking like cliche zombies, but rather just desiccated, mobile corpses. (I swear there's a difference.) Van Sciver is great, but Reis is my preferred Green Lantern artist.
And ugh. Ralph and Sue. "I smell a mystery." Horrifying.
I want to read it again right now.
I should have had more faith. This book almost made me want to vomit.
Johns has tapped into the concept that makes zombies and the living dead so profoundly disturbing, one so obvious and deepset that I'm having trouble putting it into words. What has returned is not only a physical distortion of the deceased, but an emotional. It's just WRONG. The fact that Johns embraced that aspect, bringing back beloved characters in a depraved, yet oddly respectful way.
Despite a comics universe where the dead return seemingly every year, the fact is that death (and taxes) is the only certainty in life. To twist that on its head is just wrong on every intellectual and animal level of the brain. So many heroes have returned from the beyond, it's almost spoiled the DC universe and me as a reader, somewhat, as well.
Johns' scripting allowed the story to ruminate on death and its impact in a very organic way, setting the stage for the reversal without feeling (too much) like exposition. Ivan Reis' pencils, of course, are as solid as always, letting the characters emote and move fluidly from panel to panel. He also did a great job keeping the new Black Lanterns from really looking like cliche zombies, but rather just desiccated, mobile corpses. (I swear there's a difference.) Van Sciver is great, but Reis is my preferred Green Lantern artist.
And ugh. Ralph and Sue. "I smell a mystery." Horrifying.
I want to read it again right now.
Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent
Great review!