Quick Review: Blackest Night #0

Blackest Night #0I made it out to one of my local comic stores on Saturday for Free Comic Book Day, and picked up several books (some free, some not). As a Flash fan and long-time DC reader, I grabbed Blackest Night #0, the prelude to this year’s huge event.

Now, some background: Geoff Johns is really hit-or-miss for me. I loved his run on The Flash and Final Crisis: Rogues’ Revenge, but JSA and Justice Society of America just doesn’t click with me, I couldn’t stand Infinite Crisis, and I’ve never been particularly interested in Green Lantern no matter who’s writing it. (I’m not sure why — you’d think sci-fi space action would be right up my alley.)

Anyway, Blackest Night #0 left me with a resounding “meh.” There wasn’t anything wrong with it, it just wasn’t terribly compelling. It did its job, or at least one part of it, which was to establish which major characters had died recently, show that death in the DC Universe is not always permanent (by focusing on two characters who have come back fro the dead), and introduce the Green Lantern Corps and the groups based around the other colors. for those who might not be keeping up with Green Lantern. But it didn’t catch my interest for picking up the main story, which is what I’m sure DC really wanted it to do.

For some contrast, one of the other books I picked up was the trade paperback, Powers Vol. 12: The 25 Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time (not free, obviously!). I haven’t read Powers in several years, and I suspect I may have missed a few issues between when I stopped reading and the beginning of this volume. I opened it up when I got home to take a quick look at the first few pages and get an idea of how much time had passed, and couldn’t put it down.

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  1. Kevin

    Blackest Night #0 was a real miss opportunity for DC since as it was suppose to act as a way to get new readers into Blackest Night. But unless the reader knows what has been happening with the DCU events as of late new readers will leave scratching their heads on what is going on. I had some kids at my LCS who read it and were wondering what happened in the book(i.e. that Batman is dead)

    What DC should do is publish a book similar to Marvel’s Saga books that chronicle things that happen leading up to the event and give it out for free.

    .-= Kevin’s latest blog post: Anime Review: Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2 16 =-.

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