Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 1

Wondering where heavy-hitters like Batman, Superman, and the Titans were during the main Blackest Night storyline? Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 1 collects three 3-issue mini's, each focusing on the aforementioned DC icons and what they were up to when the dead began to rise. With Blackest Night: Batman, the newly-mited Dark Knight Dick Grayson finds himself up against a cavalcade of resurrected old Batman villains, as well as his parents to boot. Fighting alongside him are Robin, Red Robin, Deadman, the GCPD, and even Etrigan the Demon as Gotham City gets plunged into an undead hell. Written by Peter J. Tomasi and nicely drawn by Ardian Syaf, this opening mini winds up being the best of the bunch here. With Blackest Night: Superman, writer James Robinson doesn't quite work the same kind of magic here that he has during his run with Superman of late, but he does pen an entertaining tale of Superman and Superboy going toe to toe with the resurrected Kal-L and Lois Lane of Earth-2, with Smallville being the battleground. Eddy Barrows provides some fantastic art for this mini, which almost makes up for the underwhelming conclusion. With Blackest Night: Titans, the many deceased members of the Teen Titans over the years all come back to haunt the current Titans members, as Gar tangles with Terra, and the current Hawk & Dove fall prey to the resurrected Hank "Hawk" Hall. J.T. Krul's script is solid, and the artwork of Ed Benes is always a welcome feature in any comic tale. All in all, while not a truly essential tie-in to the Blackest Night saga, Black Lantern Corps Vol. 1 is a worthwhile endeavor regardless.

The absolute best Blackest Night Tie In Book. This volume focuses on the gut punch of Batman, Superman, and the Teen Titans all dealing with the resurrected dead during the Blackest Lantern event. The Batman and Teen Titans tie-ins are some of the most emotionally intense of all the BN tie-ins (keep in mind that during the event, Batman is Dick Grayson). Dick and Tim Drake are faced with the resurrection of some of their old foes and, even worse, their lost parents. Superman and Superboy do battle with the deceased Superman of Earth 2. The Teen Titans face off against their lost members like Beast Boy's girlfriend Terra and even Donna Troy's husband and child. Seeing Tim Drake relive his father's death during Identity Crisis or Donna Troy having to put down her Black Lantern baby is just brutal. Although this story is just an optional tie-in to the main event it is emotional gut punches such as these that make the Blackest Night event so damn good. An absolute brilliant read.

I'll keep this review as short as I can.There's 3 stories on this book. Batman, Superman and Teen Titans. Each story show us how each individual Hero (or heroes) face their respective Black Lantern oponents.I did enjoy the 3 stories. Seeying Dick and Tim handling emotional problems, Superman and Superboy mixed emotions and the Teen Titans get their heads screwed was awful fun. Another sweet deal is the art. Ed Bennes knows how to draw Starfire, I can tell u that!.The extras this book have are exactly as the others. Variant cover gallery, concept art of some Black Lantern Corps guys.The warning goes here: you don't really need this book to get the main story right. This is only side stories. No biggie if you borrow this from someone and that's it. You really don't need it.If you, however, are the type of person who like to have everything no matter what, I advice to wait for the paperback edition. Save your money. You'll thank me later.

Some have complained that these were the "worst" stories of Blackest Night, but I found them all intriguing. Overall, I thought Blackest Night was not as interesting or well-executed as the Sinestro Corps War story arc, but these collections are far better reads than the somewhat schizophrenic collections that sometimes come from these massive cross-overs (Eg Marvel's Secret Invasion -- probably one of the worst offenders in this category). If you're a fan of Tim Drake (Red Robin, Robin), Superboy (and presumably Superman) or the Titans you'll find rewarding stories here. Plus, I can never get enough of the Demon Etrigan or Deadman. If these are not characters you care about, then you can easily take a pass on this book -- especially since DC's New 52 essentially obliterates all past continuity.

The Story was great. The only thing that I did not like about it was the way that it was layed out by DC in Graphic Novel format. I think such a great story deserves to be gathered into one or two giant volumes, not 7 smaller graphic novels. I found it confusing not being able to read through a whole book and then move on to the next one. For it to "flow" you have to read one or two stories from a book, then one or two stories from another book and then back to the original book...... I know there is probably no real way to make a perfect ordering of the books, but I believe it still could have been layed out better.

All three of the stories in this book are very formulaic. Dead heroes and villains come back from the dead and attack the people they knew the closest. The heroes defeat these villains and then hear about how other heroes are being attacked and go and help them. However despite this formula the stories are pretty enjoyable. On each book the art is solid, and not being too much of a fan of Teen Titans or Superman it was interesting to see who had died in their lives. Like others have said this book doesn't tie into Blackest Night at all. Its worth skipping but at the same time its not a bad book. Although I won't be getting the next volume.

This book delves into one aspect of Blackest Night, one of DC's best storylines in decades. There are other books dealing with Blackest Night, and one should really read them all. I know I'm going to.

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Good stories. All the Blackest Night stories feel like they are hitting the heroes where it hurts and explored the nature of death in comics. Explores the actions of Superman and Batman (Dick Grayson) during the event of the return of the dead and once more adds to the overall arc.

A marvellous tie in to blackest night.

Great value have been waiting to get a copy of this book for ages.Will be buying the follow up soon. Great art and story so far.

Good to read..

Gran historia.