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… will pretend this never happened in the morning.

[also, please visit my new project, Batman Punching People]

… is a bit lonely without Carol around.

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.

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

DC is going to have to do a good job to keep up with the HYPE!

Thursdays would be a torture if it were not for COMIC BOOKS BEING RELEASED ON THIS DAY!

Problem is, DC ain’t releasing any Green Lantern / Blackest Night related stuff until the second week! NOOOOOOO.

And thus, I just want to share my torture with you guys by putting the covers and release dates on this post.

Blackest Night #2 – August 12

Green Lantern Corps #39 – August 12

Blackest Night: Batman #1 – August 12

Blackest Night: Superman #1 – August 19

Blackest Night: Titans #1 – August 26

Green Lantern #45 – August 26

But James Robinson comes up with this page, taken from the preview of Justice League: Cry For Justice #2:

And I’m sold. Issue one was all melodramatic fluff with weird dialogue (come on, do people in real life really speak the way Robinson writes?), but this bit of humor redeemed it for me and I’m willing to give it another try.

And really, what the world needs right now is more comics chronicling Hal Jordan’s prowess. That’s a Flash Fact.