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nikshelby's review against another edition
5.0
Tangential tales...that I would have been sad to have missed.
I know that some were less than impressed With the Flash/Rogues story arc...but, I enjoyed it. It was kind of fun having some old-school comic art via Scott Kolins. Also, since the main Blackest Night storyline...I've been converted to Flash-fandom.
I was particularly impressed with this scene: Geoff Johns juxtaposed Flash and Captain Cold - each reaching their own personal solid determination to continue the battle against the black lanterns, regardless of their past difficulties. One a villain. One a superhero. Completely different journeys...and yet, the came to the same place.
Kid Flash: "I'm a little scared to be honest."
Flash: "it's okay to be rattled...We've been fighting this all wrong...Tossing aside emotion like the guardians. Hiding what we feel. We reap what we sow. No matter what life throws at you --
Captain Cold: "or what way the road turns --
Flash: "You've got to put one foot in front of the other --
Cold: "and keep moving forward --
Flash: "with an open heart."
And, the Wonder Woman story arc? I only have two words: Greg Rucka. Nicola Scott's art? So so good. Greg Rucka with Wonder Woman...so so good.
WW: "I'm not afraid of the dark...Love is light...In darkness, love must survive."
I know that some were less than impressed With the Flash/Rogues story arc...but, I enjoyed it. It was kind of fun having some old-school comic art via Scott Kolins. Also, since the main Blackest Night storyline...I've been converted to Flash-fandom.
I was particularly impressed with this scene: Geoff Johns juxtaposed Flash and Captain Cold - each reaching their own personal solid determination to continue the battle against the black lanterns, regardless of their past difficulties. One a villain. One a superhero. Completely different journeys...and yet, the came to the same place.
Kid Flash: "I'm a little scared to be honest."
Flash: "it's okay to be rattled...We've been fighting this all wrong...Tossing aside emotion like the guardians. Hiding what we feel. We reap what we sow. No matter what life throws at you --
Captain Cold: "or what way the road turns --
Flash: "You've got to put one foot in front of the other --
Cold: "and keep moving forward --
Flash: "with an open heart."
And, the Wonder Woman story arc? I only have two words: Greg Rucka. Nicola Scott's art? So so good. Greg Rucka with Wonder Woman...so so good.
WW: "I'm not afraid of the dark...Love is light...In darkness, love must survive."
karliclover's review against another edition
3.0
I don't think it was as good as the first volume.
The beginnings of the JSA issues were organized strangely. And I really don't know that much about the JSA characters, unfortunately. At least, not the ones that became Black Lanterns. But I knew enough to understand most things and relate them to the main BN story.
The Wonder Woman stuff was good. I especially liked the parts with Max Lord. And I love her respect for the fallen soldiers. Although, I was a bit confused about how and when Wonder Woman and Mera went to that pier.
The Flash stuff was good, but it felt a little scattered to me. It might have been just me, because I was constantly trying to figure out where it takes place in relation to the main BN book, but that's no big deal.
All-in-all, these were some good stories that all added to Blackest Night.
The beginnings of the JSA issues were organized strangely. And I really don't know that much about the JSA characters, unfortunately. At least, not the ones that became Black Lanterns. But I knew enough to understand most things and relate them to the main BN story.
The Wonder Woman stuff was good. I especially liked the parts with Max Lord. And I love her respect for the fallen soldiers. Although, I was a bit confused about how and when Wonder Woman and Mera went to that pier.
The Flash stuff was good, but it felt a little scattered to me. It might have been just me, because I was constantly trying to figure out where it takes place in relation to the main BN book, but that's no big deal.
All-in-all, these were some good stories that all added to Blackest Night.
rmgebhardt's review
2.0
Better than the first volume, but still weak overall. The Flash story was interesting as it explored his rogues gallery a bit and you didn't need a degree in Flash canon to understand it. The JSA story wasn't very interesting for a non-JSA fan. Lastly the Wonder Woman story was really two mini-stories. Both were pretty average Rucka tales. Again, this volume should only be for Blackest Night completists as it really doesn't add much to the parent story and the individual stories don't hold a lot of weight on their own.
lewis_fishman's review against another edition
3.0
imagine how sick it would have been reading this at the time aye
crookedtreehouse's review against another edition
3.0
Having read the first volume, which focused on Batman, Superman, and the Titans, I thought I might enjoy this book equally or more. I've read the earlier Flash books more recently than almost anything else, and this was around the time where I found Wonder Woman the most interesting.
Alas, I thought all three of the stories were okay, but didn't rise to the level of their main series.
I understand it. Johns, who wrote The Flash section was writing the main Blackest Night book, plus Green Lantern, plus serving as overseer on the Green Lantern Corps and all of these side books. He was busy. And I believe the Flash book suffers because of it. Again, it's not terrible, it's just a dip in quality from his previous run, and not as fun as I remember Brightest Day being (but, oh, is it classic literature compared to Flashpoint).
I don't have any particular complaints against any of these stories, I just found them less interesting than some of the other side stories going on at the same time.
Alas, I thought all three of the stories were okay, but didn't rise to the level of their main series.
I understand it. Johns, who wrote The Flash section was writing the main Blackest Night book, plus Green Lantern, plus serving as overseer on the Green Lantern Corps and all of these side books. He was busy. And I believe the Flash book suffers because of it. Again, it's not terrible, it's just a dip in quality from his previous run, and not as fun as I remember Brightest Day being (but, oh, is it classic literature compared to Flashpoint).
I don't have any particular complaints against any of these stories, I just found them less interesting than some of the other side stories going on at the same time.
the_rox13's review
3.0
Overall, I didn't think this volume was near as good as the first one. The stories just didn't have the same emotional weight to them and I found myself becoming very frustrated with the characters falling for their Black Lantern loved ones' lies. I mean, seriously. They look like damn zombies and they have on these black uniforms - I don't know, it was tedious.
The Flash/Rogues: The Flash's tie in focuses on both Barry and the Rogues. Unfortunately, I thought Barry's story was the weaker of the two. The whole point of it was to basically show how Barry ends up getting a Blue Lantern ring and how they separate Bart Allen from the Black Lantern ring. I thought the Reverse Flash would play a bigger role, but he didn't. I didn't really understand how the Reverse Flash was a Black Lantern and yet, alive in another location at the same time? Whatever, I guess that's just the Reverse Flash for you. I enjoyed the Rogues' stories way more. Captain Cold is always a bad ass and I loved Snart interact with his Black Lantern sister. I thought that Owen Mercer feeding people to the previous Captain Boomerang was a creepy touch as well. Then Snart throws Owen down into the pit to be killed by his own father. It was all very Walking Dead.
JSA: The JSA is one of the superhero groups in DC Comics that I know the least about. They just never interested me and I always thought their costumes looked silly as hell. This was my least favorite story and I mostly attribute that to me not knowing these characters, so when their lvoed ones become Black Lanterns - I didn't care. Earth-2 Lois and Kal-L do come back in this story, which was cool. I didn't quite understand the stuff with Jessie Quick and her father Johnny Quick. At no point does it seem like Black Lantern Johnny Quick is planning on turning on Jessie, so I was like, is he different from the others or what? It's also possible that he was destroyed before he turned on her, but it kinda bugged me.
Wonder Woman: Can I just say that Maxwell Lord is such a creep in this? I mean that in two ways: he's creeping because of the shit coming out of his mouth and his appearance. When Diana first encounters him and his head is still backwards from when she broke his neck, I was like "oh, man, that's creepy as hell." I liked how desperate sounding Diana was when the Black Lantern ring was controlling her body. It was heartbreaking - it was her just pleading with herself to not kill her friends. I was slightly disappointed when it is revealed that Diana killing Wonder Girl and Donna Troy was just a simulation by Aphrodite because I felt like it took away some of the stakes of Blackest Night. But overall, it was pretty good.
The Flash/Rogues: The Flash's tie in focuses on both Barry and the Rogues. Unfortunately, I thought Barry's story was the weaker of the two. The whole point of it was to basically show how Barry ends up getting a Blue Lantern ring and how they separate Bart Allen from the Black Lantern ring. I thought the Reverse Flash would play a bigger role, but he didn't. I didn't really understand how the Reverse Flash was a Black Lantern and yet, alive in another location at the same time? Whatever, I guess that's just the Reverse Flash for you. I enjoyed the Rogues' stories way more. Captain Cold is always a bad ass and I loved Snart interact with his Black Lantern sister. I thought that Owen Mercer feeding people to the previous Captain Boomerang was a creepy touch as well. Then Snart throws Owen down into the pit to be killed by his own father. It was all very Walking Dead.
JSA: The JSA is one of the superhero groups in DC Comics that I know the least about. They just never interested me and I always thought their costumes looked silly as hell. This was my least favorite story and I mostly attribute that to me not knowing these characters, so when their lvoed ones become Black Lanterns - I didn't care. Earth-2 Lois and Kal-L do come back in this story, which was cool. I didn't quite understand the stuff with Jessie Quick and her father Johnny Quick. At no point does it seem like Black Lantern Johnny Quick is planning on turning on Jessie, so I was like, is he different from the others or what? It's also possible that he was destroyed before he turned on her, but it kinda bugged me.
Wonder Woman: Can I just say that Maxwell Lord is such a creep in this? I mean that in two ways: he's creeping because of the shit coming out of his mouth and his appearance. When Diana first encounters him and his head is still backwards from when she broke his neck, I was like "oh, man, that's creepy as hell." I liked how desperate sounding Diana was when the Black Lantern ring was controlling her body. It was heartbreaking - it was her just pleading with herself to not kill her friends. I was slightly disappointed when it is revealed that Diana killing Wonder Girl and Donna Troy was just a simulation by Aphrodite because I felt like it took away some of the stakes of Blackest Night. But overall, it was pretty good.
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