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Fun fact: Batman is never outnumbered.

I don’t find either issue as awesome as the previous ones and some of the prelude issues, but I do have this to say:

DEATH, DEATH, DEATH EVERYWHERE!!!

Comics is generally known to kill some of its characters. But Blackest Night REALLY takes it to the nth level by:

1. Killing more and more characters

2. Turning them into zombies.

3. A supposed “War of Light” of rainbow colored beings is supposed to save the universe. (THINK Power Rangers.)

Sounds like a lame concept? It sure as hell is!

But the awesome Geoff Johns MAKES. IT. WORK.

To be honest, I don’t even know where to start. I’ll start with this advice: read BACK. (No I mean REALLY read back.) Blackest Night is such a vast arc that everyone is practically tied in! To be able to connect with the various characters in their experience of death requires that the reader knows what they have been through.

This is their way of making one-series readers like me read everything else.

Which leads me to my second advice: READ WIDE. Read Batman, Superman, Titans, Red Robin, Justice League, Justice Society: EVERYTHING.

If there is one thing we know about superheroes, it is that they have an unending list of dead relatives and friends. And oh yeah, THEY DIE. There are a lot of Black Rings to go around – so I repeat: READ EVERYTHING.

As for my review I guess that is pretty much it! – There is NO WAY I see that I can make a review without spoiling anything except by saying DEATH IS EVERYWHERE.

One last thing: if you think the ending of Blackest Night #1 was awesome? Check out Blackest Night #2‘s ending. (Super Scary) 4.5/5 stars.

One uber last thing: Green Lantern Corps #39 was well written, but 70% of the important details in it are things that have either been revealed or are assumed. 3.5/5 stars.

Know what makes everything better? Zombies. Just look at Blackest Night. It’s the best event that DC has ever come up with (and we’re just past issue #1, folks!), and that’s saying a lot, since DC just finished Infinite Crisis, Sinestro Corps War, and Final Crisis (YES I LOVED FINAL CRISIS FUCK YOU HATERS).

You know what other things zombies can turn into something awesome? Jane Austen. I swear, if it wasn’t for Keira Knightley I would’ve dozed off to that Pride and Prejudice movie. What. It was a date.

Anyway, there was this little book called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies that came out a while back. I haven’t read it yet, but Lauren said that it was pretty fucking awesome. The thing is, it’s been ages since I’ve read something without pretty pictures in it (fuck you, comics!) so I haven’t picked up any book in ages.

Guess what: there’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel being developed right now. It’s going to be written by Tony Lee (X-Men, Spider-Man) and drawn by Cliff Richards (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). So I really can’t wait for this so I can get my Victorian-era zombie-killing action. Seriously, zombies and ninjas and women in weird puffy dresses. You can’t go wrong with that.

Come on, tell me you’re not excited. Really now.

Green Lantern fans await the movie a hell lot… So much that a couple of fan made trailers were made:

Hey kiddies, this uber uber late entry is all about me whining about the DC teams.

Firstly, Teen Titans!

Nothing really new. Same teen angst, same teen drama. Wonder Girl is still emo, somehow keeping the team from killing themselves with their wacky shenanigans. I’m really amused with Aquagirl openly hitting on Blue Beetle, I sense a catfight with Traci in the near future(YES PLZ). She also replaced Rose as the casually naked chick.

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