A review by crookedtreehouse
Blackest Night by Geoff Johns

3.0

I remembered this series so fondly, that I was glad to revisit it, only to find the core of this collection incredibly underwhelming. Upon looking at my reviews of the issues as they came out, I've always thought this was a series of diminishing returns. It starts as an interesting conceit: fleshing out (sorry) Johns's Mighty Morphin Lantern run into The Blackest Night. The stakes have never been higher. Heroes are back from the dead. D-level superheroes die. Tha plan doesn't work, but then right at the end, during a confusing fight scene where heroes rip trite one-liners and worry about dying, a barely explained hack es machina is dropped in, and the good guys win. It turns out the bad guy was never really a threat, and apart from a few dangling plotlines, the DCU will go back as if this event never happened, just like every crisis except [b:Identity Crisis|26085|Identity Crisis|Brad Meltzer|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327948044l/26085._SY75_.jpg|530148], which is still a pivotal plot point, even in this crossover.

Do I like it more than the other Crisis books? Sure. But the ending was so lackluster that I questioned whether to keep reading through the Brightest Day/War Of The Lanterns that's on the horizon.

I've decided to go forward, mostly because I already have the books piled up on a table.