BLACKEST NIGHT #1 (OF 8)
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This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Well I don't know about you, but I definitely smell a mystery.
So yes after months of build up and anticipation we've finally, FINALLY, got the big summer event in our hands, and I, for one, am a little underwhelmed.
Don't get me wrong this issue had a lot of great moments and a lot of kick ass action in the end. But considering there's, what? 20 issues of prelude to Blackest night out there, did we really need about 75% of this issue to be set up for the series?
I like the little things, like it being set on the day that Superman died or all the Giffen Justice League together.
I'm a little confused about the qualifications for rings though. If Ronnie Raymond is too decomposed to get a ring, how Sue Dibny, in the story about how she died Ronnie was killed, is not?
I did like the quiet moments with all the heroes.
I kind of think the 2 page spread of the dead heroes was a little bit painting the lily, but it was still kind of nice. It just went on too long.
I know this is an 8 issue series and, if it's like the last one, once it gets going it's going to steam roll me, but this was not enough for me.
When this series finally kicked into high gear it was pretty damn impressive, though.
It seems like Johns is the only one creator that can do anything worth while with the characters at the end. The living ones, not the dead ones.
The art was perfect As much as I complain about the 2 page spread, it was beautiful. The varying degrees of decomposition. All sorts of great little things in this issue.
It was a good issue. Just not a great one.
So yes after months of build up and anticipation we've finally, FINALLY, got the big summer event in our hands, and I, for one, am a little underwhelmed.
Don't get me wrong this issue had a lot of great moments and a lot of kick ass action in the end. But considering there's, what? 20 issues of prelude to Blackest night out there, did we really need about 75% of this issue to be set up for the series?
I like the little things, like it being set on the day that Superman died or all the Giffen Justice League together.
I'm a little confused about the qualifications for rings though. If Ronnie Raymond is too decomposed to get a ring, how Sue Dibny, in the story about how she died Ronnie was killed, is not?
I did like the quiet moments with all the heroes.
I kind of think the 2 page spread of the dead heroes was a little bit painting the lily, but it was still kind of nice. It just went on too long.
I know this is an 8 issue series and, if it's like the last one, once it gets going it's going to steam roll me, but this was not enough for me.
When this series finally kicked into high gear it was pretty damn impressive, though.
It seems like Johns is the only one creator that can do anything worth while with the characters at the end. The living ones, not the dead ones.
The art was perfect As much as I complain about the 2 page spread, it was beautiful. The varying degrees of decomposition. All sorts of great little things in this issue.
It was a good issue. Just not a great one.
Story: 3 - Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
Art: 4 - Very Good
Actually it was GREAT!!!!
oh okay I stand corrected
It was not "good" or "great" but "VERY GOOD", and anyone who says otherwise is WRONG. 😛
OK… I’m going to slowly make my way out of this comment box… must get.. to the..submit button..before Black Lanterns flapjaxx and changingshades attack…..ahhhhhhhh!
The art IS great. I just wish I know what the hell the story is about!
ah ah ah. where do you think you’re going?
And robby, the story is about super powered turtles that have ancient Japanese weaponry and like pizza.
Also cake
I actually agree with you, changingshades. I thought there were some great, emotional moments with characters, but overall I was underwhelmed. I don’t know how to explain it yet exactly, but I felt like something was missing from this first issue to make it really great.
@Legend
Thank you. It wasn’t that it was bad, and it didn’t really fail. It was just set a mostly set up issue. And I know it’s issue one, but we’ve had the road to BN pretty much since the end of Sinestro War. I’m not a huge fan of Final Crisis, but at least once it started it STARTED, y’know?
Like I said, good, just not great
I have no clue what’s you’re talking about with Ronnie Raymond, Changingshades. He gets a ring right in the middle of the splash page where the rings are moving toward the graves. He just hasn’t appeared yet.
Where Scar is saying the darkness cannot fest on your hearts they need full ones.
Is he talking about Firestorm or the guardians he’s gooing to the wall? I was confused
Why would scar be talking about Ronnie Raymond? In any event, Scar kills the guardian and takes his heart out. She tries to use it as a power source for the Black lanterns but it’s devoid of emotion, so it can’t be used. It looks as if the Black Lanterns are attracted to emotion, and thus why we see the two Hawks glowing in the spectrum before the end of the issue. Presumably, this is why Scar glues the other guardians instead of killing them outright.
The placement of the word balloons wasn’t clear and the reasoning wasn’t readily apparent to me, which is a problem I sometimes have with Johns. He will give a pseudo science explanation for the motiviation of his characters and assume it makes immediate sense.