Blackest Night

Blackest Night

Product Description Graphic Novel. Amazon.com Review A Look Inside Blackest Night (Click on Thumbnails to Enlarge) From Booklist Death in superhero comics is notoriously impermanentcharacters ranging from world-beaters like Superman to minor bit-players are killed off only to be resurrected laterbut never more so than in this miniseries, in which dozens of fallen heroes and villains, including Aquaman, the Martian Manhunter, and Elongated Man, are reanimated as evil, zombielike forces under the command of Nekron, the embodiment of death, who wants to kill all living entities. As always, its up to the stalwart superheroesmost notably the original Flash and Green Lantern, both recently returned from the grave themselvesto set things right. Like all such companywide crossover events, the story line was integrated into nearly all of DCs many titles, but the major events occur in the nine issues collected here. Even so, the absence of the supplemental stories makes Johns thorny narrative even more abstruse, especially for casual readers. Reis art perfectly matches the script: ostentatiously flashy at the expense of coherence. But for die-hard fans, Blackest Night, which sets in motion monumental changes that will be felt throughout the DC Universe, is a must-read. Grades 9-12. --Gordon Flagg Review If youve read a superhero comic book published by DC Comics within the last few years, and were completely blown away by it, theres a good chance that it was something written by Geoff Johns. -- Washington Examiner The talk of the comic book world. -- USA Weekend