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Aug 24, 2009#1

Dave

Anyone else reading this? My son is buying them and they're very, very dark. The darkest, even.

I'm wondering if this series is going to be canon since they are killing people off right & left.

Hawkman? DEAD!

Interesting series so far.

Aug 24, 2009#2

V.Bond

You mean Blackest Night, the ongoing green lantern event that's happening right now?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure we had a thread on this, a few people we're reading it.

And yes, it's pretty gory. In a good way though.

Look at how bad-ass Aquaman has gotten.

http://i29.tinypic.com/357f58w.jpg

Aug 24, 2009#3

wana10

that page would be so much more awesome if instead of "vuuvuuvuuvuuvuu" it said "yumyumyumyumyumyumyum"

>.>

Aug 24, 2009#4

Norris

Dave said:
I'm wondering if this series is going to be canon since they are killing people off right & left.

It's DC's big crossover event of the summer (tying into a bundle of different books), it's been building in the pages of Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps for the better part of two years, and it's written by Geoff Johns.

It's gonna be in continuity.

Aug 25, 2009#5

redapples

Dave said:
Anyone else reading this? My son is buying them and they're very, very dark. The darkest, even.

I'm wondering if this series is going to be canon since they are killing people off right & left.

Interesting series so far.

I refer you to the podcast you did with TNG. They are currently being dead.

Aug 25, 2009#6

@Li3n

Vagabond said:
You mean Blackest Night, the ongoing green lantern event that's happening right now?

The PC police are at Dave's house... you're getting him in trouble...

And who else thinks that some of the Black Lanterns will end up being back to life after BN?!

Aug 25, 2009#7

twitchmoss

some? sure. but no way in hell all of them.

they've

resurrected the parents of both dick grayson, and tim drake. not only that, but ABIN SUR.

along with every single deceased GL buried in the GL morgue.

Aug 25, 2009#8

@Li3n

That's why i said some...

Aug 25, 2009#9

Covar

I've read the first two issues of this. Love it. I need to go back and get caught up on the build up in Green Lantern and GLC.

Anyone else think the resurrection of Pariah was an awesome touch?

Aug 26, 2009#10

Shannow

Darkest Night

we need another thread on this?

here is a 3 page thread on it already:

http://www.halforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7910

Edit: also, my next nerd tattoo is going to incorporate something from the black lanterns

Aug 26, 2009#11

@Li3n

Darkest Night

That one is in the wrong sub-forum...

Aug 26, 2009#12

Shannow

Darkest Night

Yeah, lord knows we do need more sub forums!

Aug 26, 2009#13

Covar

Darkest Night

I like the new subforums. With the excellent New Posts button finding new things to read is independent from the subforum they are posted in, and the subforums make browsing older posts by catagory simpler.

Aug 26, 2009#14

ThatNickGuy

Darkest Night

I, for one, like the new subforms. Now, I have a whole forum all to myself and my fellow comic nerds.

If I weren't going to be busy with school (and instead, maybe had an office job that I could monitor the subforum), I'd volunteer to be its mod.

Aug 27, 2009#15

twitchmoss

Darkest Night

so... GL #45. two pages in and we have a holy shit moment.

mogo has COMPETITION.

Aug 27, 2009#16

Foxfiree

Darkest Night

My customers are loving this. Had a long talk today with someone about how DC has redeemed themselves after Final Crisis.

So far all the tie ins have been great too. The titans book came out yesterday, and they're killing off more Titans. That poor team can't catch a break.

Aug 28, 2009#17

@Li3n

Darkest Night

So, the new Dove is also at peace it seems... interesting.

Also, Was it just me or did Sinestro had 2 colours in GL #45, meaning that Superman isn't special in relation to the lights?

Aug 28, 2009#18

Shannow

Darkest Night

Anyone can have different colors at different/same times. it is in relation to what you are feeling at that moment in the emotional spectrum.

As for the dove thing...ugh. i mean, i understand what the dead dove has it, but the living one? That was a stretch.

Aug 31, 2009#19

@Li3n

Darkest Night

Shannow said:
Anyone can have different colors at different/same times. it is in relation to what you are feeling at that moment in the emotional spectrum.

Supes was the first that was show in... and you know how DC is with they super special awesome money maker... heck, up until the 80's they always redrawn his face in the comics drawn by other artists then the approved supes-face-drawing ones...

Shannow said:
As for the dove thing...ugh. i mean, i understand what the dead dove has it, but the living one? That was a stretch.

Because the original Dove had post dead character development?! As it is now it seems that being at peace is a pre-requisite for being Dove...

Aug 31, 2009#20

Shannow

Darkest Night

Yeah, and yet the living Dove was not at peace in the comic. Also, one would think a black lantern might try to acknowledge that soemthing is off with that one. Ah well, its going to be a big part of the story. Hence My ugh.

Aug 31, 2009#21

@Li3n

Darkest Night

As far as i can tell BL's aren't really thinking much...

But dove seemed "at peace" enough, so meh...

Aug 31, 2009#22

Shannow

Darkest Night

Yeah, I guess. Just not really with the whole thing that dove is going to be a big part of the story. Ah well. other than that, I am loving it so far.

Aug 31, 2009#23

@Li3n

Darkest Night

I like Dove and Hawks as a concept... though it's prob really hard to make it work...

Aug 31, 2009#24

Shannow

Darkest Night

Agreed.

Sep 11, 2009#25

twitchmoss

Darkest Night

bumpity bump bump.

GL corps #40 hit this week, with plenty of awesome bits

especially

salaak pulling rank on the alpha lanterns, and verbally bitchslapping them by *quoting guy at them*

Sep 11, 2009#26

Shannow

Darkest Night

Got em with my normal batch of comics for the week. Fun stuff. Think I am done discussing it for a while though.

Sep 11, 2009#27

Covar

Darkest Night

I need to get caught up on my GL:Corps.

Also can we please get the title of this thread fixed?

Oct 29, 2009#28

Shannow

Ahahahahahahaha, I loved this weeks issues, especially

Larfleeze running from the blacks on his world like a cartoon.

No big revelations at all, its pretty much playing out exactly as expected, but hot damn, I love this whole event.

Oct 29, 2009#29

fade

Shannow said:
Ahahahahahahaha, I loved this weeks issues, especially

Larfleeze running from the blacks on his world like a cartoon.

No big revelations at all, its pretty much playing out exactly as expected, but hot damn, I love this whole event.

Oct 29, 2009#30

Shannow

Its true. This whole event is a thinly veiled metaphor about the terrible trials and tribulations of the African American throughout the history of the United States.

Oct 29, 2009#31

@Li3n

Shannow said:
Its true. This whole event is a thinly veiled metaphor about the terrible trials and tribulations of the African American throughout the history of the United States.

And how in the end they'll rise up and eat our brains...

Oct 29, 2009#32

V.Bond

I love how Atrocious

raged himself back to life.

That was a holy shit moment for me.

Oct 30, 2009#33

Qonas

I can offer no more glowing words for this event other than I have been a lifelong Marvel comic guy (had nothing against DC, just grew up Marvel with the X-Men) and have begun buying my first DC issues just for this. So, so awesome.

A question though:

Why the hell is Dick Grayson now Batman and Bruce Wayne dead?? How'd I miss this?

Oct 30, 2009#34

Shannow

Qonas said:
I can offer no more glowing words for this event other than I have been a lifelong Marvel comic guy (had nothing against DC, just grew up Marvel with the X-Men) and have begun buying my first DC issues just for this. So, so awesome.

A question though:

Why the hell is Dick Grayson now Batman and Bruce Wayne dead?? How'd I miss this?

Big thing that happened during Final Crisis

Nov 2, 2009#35

Rubicon

Vagabond said:
I love how Atrocious

raged himself back to life.

That was a holy shit moment for me.

Or how Sinestro

built a safety backup into all his Power Rings

I jaw dropped at Atom

chest bursting out from a black lantern..holy shit

I felt so sorry for Agent Orange

Nov 3, 2009#36

Soliloquy

You know, reading this thread without opening any of the spoiler tags is really tantalizing.

Nov 3, 2009#37

@Li3n

Vagabond said:
I love how Atrocious

raged himself back to life.

That was a holy shit moment for me.

Would have worked better if they didn't remind us how the red rings replace their hearts at the start of the issue. The original foreshadowing when the RL showed up was enough.

I felt so sorry for Agent Orange

I felt that Larfleeze was portrait too pathetic compared to how powerful he was portrayed before as the sole Orange wielder. He need to sound less scared and more desperate... and maybe put up a little fight even.

Nov 3, 2009#38

Shannow

@Li3n said:
I felt that Larfleeze was portrait too pathetic compared to how powerful he was portrayed before as the sole Orange wielder. He need to sound less scared and more desperate... and maybe put up a little fight even.

Naw, i thought it was perfect for him. amde me laugh quite a bit too. he had all that power, of course...and it was all being spent out with the blues tryin to get their rings. And not only that, all those beings be absorbed and made constructs were the ones coming back at him. They really fucked him up.

I see him as an insane coward with a napolean complex, so he got power, and ran with it, but when something came back at him that wasnt easy to just overpower, he ran like a little bitch. It was great (and I love the larfleeze character, by the way. One of the best characters to come out of this thing, for me). And the way he was running reminded me of a cartoon you would see on Saturday morning and had me cracking up at the panel.

Also, the orange lantern oath is great:

"MINE!"

Nov 5, 2009#39

@Li3n

Shannow;288638][quote=@Li3n said:
I felt that Larfleeze was portrait too pathetic compared to how powerful he was portrayed before as the sole Orange wielder. He need to sound less scared and more desperate... and maybe put up a little fight even.

Also, the orange lantern oath is great:

"MINE!"[/quote]

Exactly, which is why i felt desperation would be better then that kind of fear...

NONONO, IT'S MINE, YOU CAN'T HAVE ITTTTTTTTTTT............ WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH....... etc.

Naw, i thought it was perfect for him. amde me laugh quite a bit too. he had all that power, of course...and it was all being spent out with the blues tryin to get their rings. And not only that, all those beings be absorbed and made constructs were the ones coming back at him. They really fucked him up.

I see him as an insane coward with a napolean complex, so he got power, and ran with it, but when something came back at him that wasnt easy to just overpower, he ran like a little bitch. It was great (and I love the larfleeze character, by the way. One of the best characters to come out of this thing, for me). And the way he was running reminded me of a cartoon you would see on Saturday morning and had me cracking up at the panel.

The running at the end of the previous issues was hilarious, and it would have worked as a looney tunes reference either way imo.

But the guy took on the Guardians and the entire GL Corps, and even before he had the orange light stole from the Guardians... at least he could have put up a little fight (while running all the way).

Nov 5, 2009#40

Shannow

He was useless though. Two colors are needed, and there was absolutely no one around to help him. So the off panel between last issue of when the show up and him running is one supposed to lead you to know he gothis ass royally kicked by all those he killed...and there is a whole corps full of them. heh

Nov 25, 2009#41

Rubicon

OMFG OMFG OMFG I picked up Blackest Night #5 today on the way to work

wtf!??!?! There is no hope now, none. Superman? Wonder Woman, all of the heroes who have died in the past, even though they are alive now, are again dead and now Black Lanterns?!!?

AND the very last panel of the issue? Two black rings soaring toward Hal and Barry..since they've died in the past

WTF!?!?!?!?!!? Even the combined light of the various colored Corps wasn't enough to stop Nekron and now this?! Kyle's gone, Ion's gone, soon Hal will be, as well as practically the entire main roster of the Justice League..

THIS is how you write a mini series dangit! This is what Final Crisis should have been!

Nov 25, 2009#42

wana10

RISE!!!

Nov 25, 2009#43

LittleSin

Must...not....look!

Damn everything in Newfoundland being delayed by a full 3 days!

Nov 26, 2009#44

Shannow

Mav said:
OMFG OMFG OMFG I picked up Blackest Night #5 today on the way to work

wtf!??!?! There is no hope now, none. Superman? Wonder Woman, all of the heroes who have died in the past, even though they are alive now, are again dead and now Black Lanterns?!!?

AND the very last panel of the issue? Two black rings soaring toward Hal and Barry..since they've died in the past

WTF!?!?!?!?!!? Even the combined light of the various colored Corps wasn't enough to stop Nekron and now this?! Kyle's gone, Ion's gone, soon Hal will be, as well as practically the entire main roster of the Justice League..

THIS is how you write a mini series dangit! This is what Final Crisis should have been!

Final Crisis was good.

Nov 26, 2009#45

Rubicon

Shannow said:
Final Crisis was good.

If you enjoy an incoherent story that just jumps between panels with no reason, sure. Or the fact you needed to buy a thousand different titles to fully get the entire events story..

Nov 26, 2009#46

LittleSin

Shannow;305535][quote=Mav said:
OMFG OMFG OMFG I picked up Blackest Night #5 today on the way to work

wtf!??!?! There is no hope now, none. Superman? Wonder Woman, all of the heroes who have died in the past, even though they are alive now, are again dead and now Black Lanterns?!!?

AND the very last panel of the issue? Two black rings soaring toward Hal and Barry..since they've died in the past

WTF!?!?!?!?!!? Even the combined light of the various colored Corps wasn't enough to stop Nekron and now this?! Kyle's gone, Ion's gone, soon Hal will be, as well as practically the entire main roster of the Justice League..

THIS is how you write a mini series dangit! This is what Final Crisis should have been!

Final Crisis was good.[/QUOTE]

Are you trolling for lulz?

Because I WILL scissor kick you in the ear.

Nov 26, 2009#47

SpecialKO

Shannow said:
Final Crisis was good.

Nov 27, 2009#48

Shannow

Not trolling, just I completely disagree with you guys. It was batshit insane, yes, but it was also quite good.

Nov 27, 2009#49

twitchmoss

not wanting to turn this into a FC thread, so i'll keep it short.
I really liked the darkseid-themed storyline, and the death of the new gods. it felt properly
apocalyptic and 'oh shit its the end times'. the new gods are dead! anti life equation! epic shit occurring!

the monitor/mandrakk storyline on the other hand just felt... bleh. and didn't help the rest of the series by turning darkseid into
a second banana villain by the last damn issue. 'great, he's been defeated... now meet the REAL villain!'

bleh.

blackest night on the other hand, has been fairly awesome, despite some vague crisis fatigue setting in. its becoming increasingly obvious that the only books that really need following are the
main book and the GL books. WHICH IS HOW IT SHOULD BE.

Nov 27, 2009#50

Shannow

Yeah, not going to get into FC here, I know its hated on. BN has been fantastic so far (aside from the Titans books)

Nov 27, 2009#51

Rubicon

twitchmoss said:
not wanting to turn this into a FC thread, so i'll keep it short.
I really liked the darkseid-themed storyline, and the death of the new gods. it felt properly
apocalyptic and 'oh shit its the end times'. the new gods are dead! anti life equation! epic shit occurring!

the monitor/mandrakk storyline on the other hand just felt... bleh. and didn't help the rest of the series by turning darkseid into
a second banana villain by the last damn issue. 'great, he's been defeated... now meet the REAL villain!'

bleh.

blackest night on the other hand, has been fairly awesome, despite some vague crisis fatigue setting in. its becoming increasingly obvious that the only books that really need following are the
main book and the GL books. WHICH IS HOW IT SHOULD BE.

This, xOver9000

Darkseid was great, even if he felt a little underplayed, and the whole thing with Batman was cool.

The love story between two Monitors was..retarded at best. Really? Come on.. Thats so opposite what the original Crisis did right.. One Monitor, trying to save the multiverse, none of this "oh no I've been confined to being a human, i miss mah girl!" bullshit.

I think if FC hadn't of jumped panel to panel, it would have been a better story. I waited till all the issues were released and bought them all/read them all at the same time. I couldn't follow the story. One moment the JLA were fighting off Darkseids minions, the next it's some backstory of the Question or some technobabble from the Monitors that referenced shit in other titles or previous stories I didn't get.

Which sucks cause thats the great thing about a Crisis, you usually don't need an extensive back knowledge of the DCU. I went into the original Crisis only knowing a handful of characters back in the day and the story was awesomesauce omfg, and I could easily follow new characters that were new to me.

BN is far superior as a storyline than FC, I read 3 books to follow it (the mini title itself) and GL/GLC, which I read already anyway so I'm good. Are some of the other titles worth reading? Sure, maybe. I know Batman BN looks interesting but I really doubt I need to read it to follow the storyline of BN.

And trust me, DC used to be shit when it came to crossovers, remember Zero Hour? Huh? that mini destroyed the LoS for me, I had to read like 10+ titles to follow the story

Dec 24, 2009#52

@Li3n

Anyone read #6 yet?! This book has everything.

Dec 24, 2009#53

twitchmoss

...oh my.

that. was. EPIC.

holy hell. that whole damn issue qualifies as a Crowning moment of awesome.

every. single. black, lantern. in the universe.

johns coming back, and bringing all hell with him

GREEN LANTERN GANTHET!

'barry allen of earth. you have the ability to instill great hope

and that final panel. holy crap.

Dec 24, 2009#54

Iaculus

Mother... of... Odin...

Dec 24, 2009#55

Green_Lantern

twitchmoss said:
...oh my.

Unholy awesomeness from space *__*

Dec 24, 2009#56

@Li3n

All will be well!!

Dec 24, 2009#57

Green_Lantern

Dec 24, 2009#58

twitchmoss

Green_Lantern said:

Dec 24, 2009#59

@Li3n

As far as i know Santa Never actually died... someone else connected to this holiday did though... (but i guess He'd be about the same as Dove)

Dec 25, 2009#60

Green_Lantern

@Li3n said:
As far as i know Santa Never actually died... someone else connected to this holiday did though... (but i guess He'd be about the same as Dove)

maybe he died and come back to life? Like you know... Superman.

Dec 25, 2009#61

LittleSin

God damn Newfoundland and Chrstmas for the shipping delays!

Me wanty!

Dec 26, 2009#62

Rubicon

Green_Lantern;320889][quote=@Li3n said:
As far as i know Santa Never actually died... someone else connected to this holiday did though... (but i guess He'd be about the same as Dove)

maybe he died and come back to life? Like you know... Superman.[/QUOTE]

Superman never actually "died".

When a Kryptonian is near a yellow sun, they act as a solar battery. Their unique genetic makeup allows this solar collecting to power their abilities, flight, super strength etc.

In the battle with Doomsday, he literally ran out of power. And since they kept him in a tomb, away from direct sunlight, he was just in a very death-like state. Once his body started to recover and regain energy he was fine.

Dec 26, 2009#63

figmentPez

Mav said:
Superman never actually "died".

Eh, that depends on what you're reading. In the novelization the whole "super coma" thing was very fleshed out, but in the comic the Eradicator says outright that Superman was really and truly dead, and that the circumstances that allowed him to come back wouldn't easily repeat themselves.

As for Santa Claus, of course he died, Tim Allen killed him and took his job.

Dec 26, 2009#64

@Li3n

Mav;320987][quote=Green_Lantern;320889][quote=@Li3n said:
As far as i know Santa Never actually died... someone else connected to this holiday did though... (but i guess He'd be about the same as Dove)

maybe he died and come back to life? Like you know... Superman.[/quote]

Superman never actually "died".

When a Kryptonian is near a yellow sun, they act as a solar battery. Their unique genetic makeup allows this solar collecting to power their abilities, flight, super strength etc.

In the battle with Doomsday, he literally ran out of power. And since they kept him in a tomb, away from direct sunlight, he was just in a very death-like state. Once his body started to recover and regain energy he was fine.[/QUOTE]

Hmmm... i haven't read the comic, but i recall reading somewhere that his soul met papa Kent etc.

And if you read BN#5 it's pretty much canon that he died.

Dec 26, 2009#65

Green_Lantern

@Li3n;321023][quote=Mav;320987][quote=Green_Lantern;320889][quote=@Li3n said:
As far as i know Santa Never actually died... someone else connected to this holiday did though... (but i guess He'd be about the same as Dove)

Dec 26, 2009#66

Rubicon

@Li3n said:
Hmmm... i haven't read the comic, but i recall reading somewhere that his soul met papa Kent etc.

And if you read BN#5 it's pretty much canon that he died.

This is true somewhat. He did have several meetings with Pa Kent, some weird coma like near-death dreams (the whole white light, meeting your loved ones, etc), a lot of Pa Kent from his army days etc.

But they easily proved he didnt die when Superboy Prime and New Krypton came into being, showing off how their powers alter either in a Red Sun or Yellow Sun environment so its easy to see.

Feb 4, 2010#67

Green_Lantern

HOLY SHIT

Feb 4, 2010#68

wana10

Green_Lantern said:
HOLY SHIT

not to rain on your parade but i gotta ask, only because i've seen a lot of people amazed by this, was this really that surprising? sinestro corps war ended with the black lantern battery forming around the corpse of the anti-monitor, it being a black lantern seemed a given.

Feb 4, 2010#69

Green_Lantern

wana10;338015][QUOTE=Green_Lantern said:
HOLY SHIT

[/QUOTE]

It is not the surprise, is just the situation has a high Holy-Shit-Quotient

Feb 4, 2010#70

Frankie Williamson

Despite the storyline being pretty awesome, is this whole series (including Green Lantern and whatever else Johns is writing) just giving Geoff Johns an excuse to write the goofiest God damn dialogue ever?

For example:

Hal calling Parallax "Fearasaurus" in GL 50

What the fuck?

Feb 4, 2010#71

Green_Lantern

Frankie said:
Despite the storyline being pretty awesome, is this whole series (including Green Lantern and whatever else Johns is writing) just giving Geoff Johns an excuse to write the goofiest God damn dialogue ever?

For example:

Hal calling Parallax "Fearasaurus" in GL 50

What the fuck?

What would you say to the living entity of fear?

Feb 5, 2010#72

ThatNickGuy

Green_Lantern said:
What would you say to the living entity of fear?

Probably "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

Feb 5, 2010#73

@Li3n

Mav;321109][quote=@Li3n said:
Hmmm... i haven't read the comic, but i recall reading somewhere that his soul met papa Kent etc.

And if you read BN#5 it's pretty much canon that he died.

Feb 5, 2010#74

ThatNickGuy

The explanation that the Superman writers gave is that he was essentially in a coma.

For everyone else, he was dead. And he was considered dead for the story purposes of Blackest Night.

Feb 5, 2010#75

Green_Lantern

I really shouldn't, but I will justify that maybe superman had a "clinical death" for a few seconds but thanks to Nekron he comeback and entered in a coma.

better?

Feb 6, 2010#76

@Li3n

He died, get over it...

Feb 8, 2010#77

Rubicon

I haven't had a chance to catch up with BN, how'd the latest issue turn out? I saw the panel of Barry and others become lanterns of various colors

Feb 10, 2010#78

Shannow

Feb 10, 2010#79

ThatNickGuy

Shannow said:
.

http://www.halforums.com/forum/showthread.php?8655-Blackest-Night&p=337810&viewfull=1#post337810

Feb 10, 2010#80

Shannow

Huh, for some reason that didnt load for me, and all I got was blank there, so I didnt see it. Ah well, there it is again. (red x was all i got here). Sorry about that.

..edit..removed that last bit..as it was a bit much.

Feb 10, 2010#81

Alucard

Whose that dude in the picture? I don't recgonize him.

Feb 10, 2010#82

Shannow

Anti-monitor. He was the big bad for crossovers and DC since Crisis on Infinite Earths. His corpse powers the black battery. At the end of Sinestro Corps Wars, when Prime hucked him out to space, he landed and the black battery fromed around him, much to his chagrin.

Feb 10, 2010#83

Alucard

Ahh okay thanks man. Just was trying to recgonize who he was.

Feb 11, 2010#84

@Li3n

BlackCat said:
Ahh okay thanks man. Just was trying to recgonize who he was.

Go read Sinestro Corps War... it's worth it.

Feb 11, 2010#85

Covar

@Li3n;340416][QUOTE=BlackCat said:
Ahh okay thanks man. Just was trying to recgonize who he was.

Go read Crisis on Infinite Earths... it's worth it.[/QUOTE]
ftfy

Anti-monitor doesn't really do anything in the Sinestro Corps War, but stand around and give people scared reaction shots. In Crisis he is a badass mother-****er who goes toe-to-toe with the Spectre and still not be stopped.

Feb 11, 2010#86

fade

He's creepy and all, but "Anti-Monitor" is a pretty stupid name.

Feb 11, 2010#87

Covar

It made more sense when he was the evil opposite of the Monitor.

Truthfully the Anti-Monitor is like Doomsday. He's an über powerful plot-device villain created for a single story. After that story is over there's just not that much to the character.

Similar characters are Venom and the second Reverse Flash (zoom was an awesome character who went from being a sympathetic man with good intentions who just cracked, to a complete psycho who goes around attacking heroes to make them "better").

Feb 11, 2010#88

@Li3n

Wasn't the 1st Reverse Flash a guy from the future that found Flashes suit and used his powers to commit crimes?

Also, the Anti-Monitor is called that because he's from an anti-matter universe or something like that, his actual moniker is just the Monitor too.

Covar;340585][QUOTE=@Li3n;340416][QUOTE=BlackCat said:
Ahh okay thanks man. Just was trying to recgonize who he was.

Feb 23, 2010#89

wana10

here is something that no one saw coming... NO ONE!!!
HOLY SHIT

SPOILERS UP THE WAZOO

Feb 23, 2010#90

Dave

Great. Now my wazoo hurts.

Feb 24, 2010#91

@Li3n

Man, that's so bloody obvious of course no one saw it coming... with everyone assuming it was Hal that's the most logical way to go...

Mar 31, 2010#92

kaykordeath

Well, the final issue came out today. I'm going to assume NickGuy has read it. Any one else out there?

Everyone else as blown away by it as I was? I mean, it had been a spectacular trip all along, and while not OVERLY surprising in terms of plotting, the epic story was not only captivating, but seemed to hold true to each and every character's motivation...which is a nice surprise in comics these days.

Mar 31, 2010#93

wana10

it was a fun ride with a decent end, which was the one thing i was worried about. quite a few events have great build ups and then trail off into garbage but i didn't think blackest night did that. now i just gotta wait 9 months for the collected version to come out. hopefully they don't fuck it up like marvel usually does...

Apr 1, 2010#94

ThatNickGuy

Don't assume I read it, Kaykor. For one, I don't buy monthly issues anymore and haven't in years. Two, I'm sick of events.

I've seen the scans and read what happens. And it's stupid beyond belief. GOD, I'm so sick events.

Apr 1, 2010#95

SpecialKO

I thought it started great, went to decent, and ended a little lame, but not deal-breakingly so. Loved the art through-out, even though the Star Sapphires were a bit much.

Also...

Kyle is going to be in so much trouble.... :sneaky:

Apr 1, 2010#96

Bowielee

Quite frankly, I thought the ending was a bit on the retarded side.

Arbitrarily bringing back who they felt like bringing back was just plain stupid. Let these heroes stay fucking dead. And of all the people they bring back from the dead, fucking Captain Boomerang gets a new lease on life? WTF?

Apr 1, 2010#97

SpecialKO

Bowielee said:
Quite frankly, I thought the ending was a bit on the retarded side.

Arbitrarily bringing back who they felt like bringing back was just plain stupid. Let these heroes stay fucking dead. And of all the people they bring back from the dead, fucking Captain Boomerang gets a new lease on life? WTF?

I found that it's much easier reading DC/Marvel comics if you just give up on expecting them to leave people respectfully dead. The other option is not reading them, which I mostly don't.

Apr 2, 2010#98

twitchmoss

it was fun overall, but i think they made the wrong decision in making it a company wide crossover. even though i only read the main title and the GL/GLC issues, i could see from the endless tie-ins that they were milking it like it was a cow made entirely out of money.and solid gold udders. i'd have to re-read both, but it didn't feel remotely as epic as the sinestro corps war, and i'm not sure why.

Apr 2, 2010#99

Bowielee

I loved the Sinestro Corps War.

Apr 2, 2010#100

Green_Lantern

I readed today and I loved it. =)

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