BLACKEST NIGHT#5: the saga continues
I've really enjoyed the Blackest Night series from the beginning and I followed all the tie-ins and mini-series related to it. Every time I read a Blackest Night book (especially Blackest Night and Green Lantern) I find the saga compelling than before and I'm really looking forward to it.
In this issue, we see that Hal Jordan has already reuned a squadron constituted by a member of each corps,
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(Hal, Carrol Ferris, Sinestro, Atrocitus, Larfleeze, Saint Walker and Indigo-1)
based on the theory that the combined might of the light of all of the Corps could form a white light (the light that Dove projects), that can destroy Black Lanterns (see Blackest Night 4 & Blackest Night: Titans 2 & 3).
At the same time a superhero team formed by Barry Allen, Superman, Superboy, WonderWoman, Wally West and others take the fight to Black Hand, Scar and the Black Lantern Corps' Secret Guardian Nekron. If that name doesn't ring a bell on your head chef his ComicVine bio.
But it's what comes next thing that happens that you may find more shocking. I know some people might have already seen it but I'm still putting it on Spoiler Zone.
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Black Hand somehow turns Bruce Wayne into a Black Lantern and we see a Black Lantern Batman. If he's somewhere lost in time how can he be dead. That's the question!
And more, Black Hand flyes Black Rings to Superman, Superboy, Ice, WonderWoman, Green Arrow and other heroes that have cheated death over the years and somehow he makes them die imediatly only by wearing the ring and turns them into Black Lanterns. And Hal Jordan and Barry Allen are the next in list: we se a pannel of them running from the rings.
It was an enjoyable read but it felt like it was too quick: so much things happened in one issue.
I'm not saying it was a bad issue. That's not it. I personally think you should check this issue and series out.
Blackest Night is a big saga of this generation.
Blackest Night (the main title) and Blackest Night: Titans are fundamental picks.
And that's it.
