Blackest Night

shiky800 wrote:

Batman25JM wrote:I absolutely LOVED issue #6. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Blackest Night is my favorite event to date. It's just great.

The deputies at the end were awesome. I LOVED

Spoiler:

You know, I really really want a Hal Jordan/Barry Allen GL/Flash ongoing. They're great together.

they are like superman and batman they work great together.

shiky800 wrote:does anyone have a pic of blue lantern barry allen? man i can't wait to read it next week

prescribeddrone wrote:

shiky800 wrote:does anyone have a pic of blue lantern barry allen? man i can't wait to read it next week

Batman25JM wrote:^ I don't really think the resurrected heroes becoming Black Lanterns was ignored. They talk about it and are attacked by them. I don't know what else you'd expect to happen. It seems logical that after they were created they'd attack the heroes.

Batman25JM wrote:I forgot to mention a couple things. First, I LOVE the cover to issue #6. It's honestly one of my favorite covers of all time. Second, Flash outrunning the black rings was awesome.

Bigtymin504 wrote:

Batman25JM wrote:^ I don't really think the resurrected heroes becoming Black Lanterns was ignored. They talk about it and are attacked by them. I don't know what else you'd expect to happen. It seems logical that after they were created they'd attack the heroes.

I thought they would serve more of a purpose in Nekron's main plans, which they didn't. Nekron turned them then just left the scene. They seemed like they would be more important than your standard Black Lantern but apparently not. At least for now.

Bigtymin504 wrote:The end was a very cool "geek-out" moment. It was somewhat obvious Barry would become a Blue Lantern at some point during Blackest Night, but Lex becoming an Orange Lantern was a big surprise and very badass. I knew there was a reason for those random brief scenes with Lex and Scarecrow earlier in the series. All the new Lantern picks were pretty cool...except Mera as the Red Lantern IMO. I know Johns is trying to push her but I think it should have been someone in the DCU known for rage or something.

Aussiemandias wrote:Well I thought BN #6 was good fun. Not much else to say really other than it looked great too with excellent art from Reis.

Probably only criticism is that Johns has really been hitting us over the head with the Ray Palmer is compassionate idea over the last few issues to set this up. Not a fan of telegraphing things like that.

Bigtymin504 wrote:The end was a very cool "geek-out" moment. It was somewhat obvious Barry would become a Blue Lantern at some point during Blackest Night, but Lex becoming an Orange Lantern was a big surprise and very badass. I knew there was a reason for those random brief scenes with Lex and Scarecrow earlier in the series. All the new Lantern picks were pretty cool...except Mera as the Red Lantern IMO. I know Johns is trying to push her but I think it should have been someone in the DCU known for rage or something.

Didn't see Lex coming either and I liked the "You want it all" as he was selected.

Interesting you mention Mera as she has certainly had a surprisingly prominent role in this book so far. I guess picking her for rage is that right at this moment she's absolutely full of rage and it kind of gels with where she's at right now emotionally. And when you think about it that makes sense for rage - it's a sort of spur of the moment emotion.

superdoug wrote:(It would also have been interesting to see the Atom as a Sapphire.)

superdoug wrote:I...didn't like Mera being recruited into the Red Lanterns. In my opinion, Diana was a better candidate, being a warrior in her heart and prone to battle fury. Mera was a better candidate for the Star Sapphires, as her love for Arthur is eternal...and lost, which is something that has been established as being criteria for induction into the Sapphires. (It would also have been interesting to see the Atom as a Sapphire.)

I thought everyone else was dead-on, however. All in all, a fantastic issue. It was interesting to see the various welcomes into the various Corps.

superdoug wrote:
I...didn't like Mera being recruited into the Red Lanterns. In my opinion, Diana was a better candidate, being a warrior in her heart and prone to battle fury. Mera was a better candidate for the Star Sapphires, as her love for Arthur is eternal...and lost, which is something that has been established as being criteria for induction into the Sapphires. (It would also have been interesting to see the Atom as a Sapphire.)

I thought everyone else was dead-on, however. All in all, a fantastic issue. It was interesting to see the various welcomes into the various Corps.

Bigtymin504 wrote:
At first I thought the same thing about Wonder Woman when they kept showing Diana as exclusively violet/love in Blackest Night: Wonder Woman...like just because she's a woman they were lumping her in with the "girly" emotion, even though she's a warrior. But I think Johns justified it well enough this issue with the comment about her "loving" Earth more than anyone on the planet. That made sense to me based on Diana's connections to Earth and Gaea.

Mera I just find uninteresting, so her becoming the Red Lantern was blah for me.

Spoiler:

Bigtymin504 wrote:Blackest Night #7 "top secret" covers revealed:

(Rodolfo Migliari variant)


I'll "spoiler" the main Reis cover cuz people still may not have read #6 (we saw this art at the end too)

Spoiler:

^Is it just me or is Flash making a jerk off motion?

Tom wrote:Really liked BL #6, except for the cover.
I mean, it looked cool, but it seems like the cover for #7 is better suited for #6.

Batman25JM wrote:

Tom wrote:Really liked BL #6, except for the cover.
I mean, it looked cool, but it seems like the cover for #7 is better suited for #6.

I wouldn't say that. First of all, it would completely spoil the issue. Also, what was set up in that final page of #6 leads to #7 and thus they are on the cover of it.