Blackest Night Spectacular! - Comic Book Reviews

[Strayspiderstrut]

UHm.. Hey.. Can you guys tell me how to read Blackest Night in order?

[MrSharkytales]

do you have 1-41?of blackest night?i am in need of those!love the show!

[thethirdq]

Great Video I really enjoy it! Hope you enjoy ours…

[vancouver1907]

I wonder which holiday combo would be more powerful.

Christmas, Red and Green Lanterns

Halloween, Orange Light and Black Lanterns

Easter, Purple Star Sapphires and Yellow Sinistro

[CentralBattery]

@vancouver1907 lol you forgit indigo tribe and blue lantern corps

[stevedoll1982]

Also... Hanson? ... HANSON!? Way to show your ages, guys. Go back to your grandparents basements, because obviously your actual parents are far too cool for you.

[stevedoll1982]

Oh for fucks sakes... you guys again, again? Fuck. Ok, let's actually try to make it through your review... trying so hard... oh fuck you guys suck. I agree with some of what you say, but... this is not excellent. Plain and simple, even though you're trying to be cool with your beers out in the open and your "adult language", trying to be very really mature and forced commentary? Yeah... shit, there's really no words... just stop "helping" the comic reading community, right now. Just. Stop.

[RESISTDALAW]

the blackest night is incredible i love it hawkmans skull got smashed in!!! hey i live in chandler n i was looking for issue 2 and 4 in the blackest night series and i was wondering do you know where i can get one besides the internet.

[28145Greenlantern]

also just thought of this. I love barry allen i picked up a few (including number 1) a few of the flash fastest man alive series that i didn't like that much.

[28145Greenlantern]

GL was the first comic i have really read and followed (started with BN #0 then bougth GL 40.) but wo i was blown away by it! I didn't feel the emotional connection true. but still amazing work i have bouf=ght every tie in (doesn't mean i enjoyed them) except for the seconed outsiders one. This is just amazing! then i read GL secret orgin everything just went BAM! whole new level! I LOVE DC AND I LOVE GEOFF JOHNS! Marvel ni have read... really meh kinda think deadpool's funny kinda trying it meh

[funkychickeness]

these guys will make out

[kairus1]

wait those blackest night involve a zombie superman or batman.

ive lost track of whats going on?

[HeartoftheHeartless]

Blackest Night is about every DC hero and or villian who had died in the past and are brought back to life by black power rings. Its part of a Green Lantern arc.

[MrRatchet13]

one day i was in a comic shop looking for war machine, didnt find it BUT i found these and now im turning to the DC side

[Scioli54]

Check out the Scioli show for quick Comic book reviews. All the fun of a real show only not quite as funny.

[Cennobite1]

Really wonder what will happen when the rings reach 100%, scary stuff no doubt.

[archer1949]

How can anyone not like Green Lantern?

It's freaking cops in space! How cool is that?

[310thegame228]

@archer1949 i know man,,,,,,,

[greenlantern2482]

Hey guys just want to say this is my first time watching the show. The Blackest Night is utterly incredible in fact one of my great friends is a huge marvel reader and hated DC for the longest time. Well now he is a DC reader because of this book.

[ComicBookClub]

Hey, that's very cool! Thanks for watching, and glad you and your friend both like Blackest Night so much!

[DamianRavenblood]

i DON'T SEE THE POINT OF THIS WHOLE BLACKNEST NIGHT story. To begin with, I find geoff john's multi colored emotion based rings to be unconvincing as good science fiction. Just not my thing really. However, his run on Action Comics and JSA was TRULY TRULY GREAT WORK. His brainiac arc for action comics to me is his best written work. i've never found any of his GL stuff to be any good. Peter Tomasi's GLC is better.

[ssnarco]

its not only about GL, they put that in GL coz it was about the rings of power. That story will bring dead people alive, ( Batman... HELLO ! ) kill some, bring back others ( Conner Kent ) Its gonna be a complete crossover, way better than Final Crisis.

[DamianRavenblood]

Correction,IT TOOK ALL THE REMAINING DC HEROES IN THE MULTIVERSE INCLUDING THE ZOO CREW THAT WERE NOT INFECTED OR DEAD TO WEAKEN Maandrak.

[cabby4]

I loved this issue! this show is really well done.

[jokrz69]

Just a thought, is Jeff Johns repeating himself with Blackest Night? Didnt he do this already with Day of Judgement?

[tubernery]

What a great issue this was! How do you defeat a black lantern? I CAN'T WAIT until they introduce the white lanterns!!!!

[ZyxthePest]

"I just wanna say I lo-AAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGHHH!"

Great line Justin.

First time watcher, but I can tell I'm gonna love the show.

[ComicBookClub]

Awesome! Welcome :)

[illersz1]

PETE HATE DC .

[AintRealProductions]

WTF!!

why doesnt anyone want to talk about how

Bruce Wayne's Head comes to play in all of this

and the fact that Bruce is still live!

[fanboy2177721]

I really like Blackest Night so far. I passed up Tales from the Corps but I did subscribe to BN:Batman and I'm hoping it's good.

[misanthropicmumlover]

i'm really happy with the love you guys showed BN#1. this series is going to be awesome!

and yay! no whiny pete!!!

[hornychipmunk]

This was a good show, I think anytime you guys review all DC books, you should do the show without Pete. All he does is talk about how much DC books "suck".

Black Lanterns are like Pete's polar opposite -- a Marvel Zombie.

[micronoid]

So alex based on what your wife said about Blackest Night are you say that i as a person who has never picked up an issue of green lantern would get and enjoy this story. I wouldn't need to buy the the lantern stories that ran up to this one.

[DevynRodriguez]

I wouldn't recommend it. You will probably be lost if you pick up Blackest Night. You definitely need to have knowledge of Green Lantern to get what is going down with all the other Lanterns.

[kaliban81]

Damn you twitter!!!!!! (says man on his hands and knees, shaking his computer violently)

[DamianRavenblood]

The 2 issues of Superman Beyond alone can overshadow all the events of Blackest Night. Superman has literally dealt with the very housing (overvoid)of (DCU )reality. Mandraak was/is the ultimate Dark Lord of the DCU. Mandraak could eat and fart out guardians in a blink like nothing.

[BizarroPat345]

That's why he got beat by a construct of a stake...yeah...he sure is powerful....

[DamianRavenblood]

Hey for your info, before the GLs stepped in to deliver the final blow, it took the combined might OF ALL THE SUPERMEN FROM THE ENTIRE MULTIVERSE TO WEAKEN the Dark monitor re-animated by Mandraak's blood. IT WASN'T EVEN MANDRAAK HIMSELF. This was a lesser monitor than Mandraak. Face it man, guardians are as powerful as tacos to Maandraak. Hold the onions.

[trence5]

TRUE!

[Govtthird]

Being a DC outsider and having picked up B.N, I too did not feel ANY emotional connection to any characters. Nothing like seeing Goliath die in civil war, or having Rick lose a hand. QUICK!! WHO UNDERSTOOD THAT!!!?

I'm excited to see how this all unfolds.

[Champion17]

Yay my Tweet got mentioned! Thanks guys.

That is the best thing I'm looking forward to this event. (Other then the fantastic story and art) Is seeing the ridiculous Golden Age and Obscure Heroes/Villains.

[avengersassembled]

because dc sucks !!!!! marvel 4ever

[TheIndigoEffect]

We're all challenged and refreshed by your unique point of view!

[detectivecox]

Greetings from Tempe, AZ... :-) for reals... I loved The Blackest Night and I really look forward to what is coming from this series!

[luketowers]

No pete so you guys have a blackest night special. Great idea we dont have to listen to pete say its shit...lol

[JMan1380]

I'm completely on board for Blackest Night! Johns has such a better ability to craft a story. This is going to be what Final Crisis should have been. I think all the threads that have been running since Identity Crisis are going to get closure. I hope the situation with the Dibny's gets handled well, Ralph's was one of my favorite stories through 52.

[Champion17]

I think that's Pete shapeshifting into Justin.

Cause the caption in the beginning said 'Pete' :)

[ComicBookClub]

Yeah, I realized that far too late. Prophetic, perhaps?

[spacement]

I haven't read this yet, but isn't a bunch of rings with corresponding emotions just the premise for Captain Planet? Any chance of seeing our aqua marine skinned, green haired, friend showing up for some fun?

[baeritukaez]

The Green Lantern predates Captain Planet by decades.

[MakenZero]

It makes sense that Ralph and Sue Dibney killed the Hawks,i s that they never treated each other really all that great yet they love each other whenever they start to get killed. While Ralph and Sue didn't deserve any of the stuff that happen to them. They were the first to fall in a lot of the stuff that's now build up. They're pissed that they didn't get a second chance (well not yet or OF they can.) Also Deadman suppose to be helping out in Batman comics how does that work.

[TheComicRant]

My problem with Secret Invasion was that it had SUCH potential and then nothing happened except Norman Osborn took over the Marvel U.

Final Crisis was an okay story but it wasn't a universe altering event like DC hyped it to be. BN is more akin to a earth shaking crisis.

[timeywimeylord]

I didn't realize teh guy on the right was married until he touched his rign and I was like "What was that?" and I saw the ring and I was like "Oh, he's married.".

[SithLordSteven3]

Ichiban, is a good restaurant you from Syracuse?

[sidecarcomedy]

I am from Syracuse! I grew up in Central Square mostly and we would always go to Ichiban on special occasions. In fact I was just back there at the end of June for my little bro's high school graduation and we went out and had a blast at ichiban.

[SithLordSteven3]

Liverpool, Myself, went to CNS, now I go to Le Moyne, I am Senior there.

Interesting to know I was kinda suspicious because of your accent.

[darkseidrules]

I loved Blackest Night.

Dint expect the ending and cant wait for issue#2!

Nice to see you back Justin.

[rubpust69]

"ANSWER ME!!" Well said, Justin! So glad you're back and that Pete hasn't killed you.......yet.

[sweenigami]

nok klik tok

lok nok

[TheComicRant]

The ending to this was crazy! I didn't know how to feel about it right away, since I love Hawkman's character and Ralph Dibny. However, after some thought I realized that it was a great way to kick off an event.

Already this series is what Final Crisis and Marvel's Secret Invasion failed at being.

[timeywimeylord]

Secret Invasion was cool.

[ramseyrocks]

Skywalker Ranch? REALLY??? lol

[ComicBookClub]

Hey, I gots to get my nerd on.

[CixXxCuzzo]

another outside POV i only read marvel but i have been checkin in on GL for a while..and i honestly belive that Blackest Night is every accessible..im familiar with the main characters but with the Elongatedman/Sue/Hawks/Atom thing i wasnt real invested the 'emotion' of the death of Hawks being killed by Eman/Sue but i honestly think Blackest Night is very accesble to likes like me who dont read any DC and jus know the main charcters

[amberthestylist]

When a guy licks my skull, I find it dark & creepy too.

I love your tweets, Alex!

[doink1422]

pete doesn't want to talk about a dc book what a shock.

[BrandonHex101]

Alex, give her Final Crisis and see what she thinks of that as far as accessible :P

[darkseidrules]

I liked FC

[BrandonHex101]

The dead have to be evil and hate life?

Not buying it, AKA Nekron!

[TaishoReno]

According to a rumor, Neron is suppose to be the Guardian of Death, or at least one of the heralds for the Black Lantern Corps.

[agmaster]

I'm thinking Indigo is the zen of the war. They turn your powers against you. Death is to be their bitch, non?

[MainCharacterChannel]

Blackest Night kicked ass. It's already what Final Crisis wasn't. I liked Tales of the Corps, but I think from here on I'm only picking up the main Blackest Night series, and the regular Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps series.

[thetum]

you guys should cover the Last Days of Animal Man series

[ptsteelers]

Alex, I am thinking that the scal of power increase ( the .01 and .02 as shown) is the total charge of the black "battery" (whatever that could be) and not the scale of power charge for the individual black lanterns. You may be right, of course, cause damn I am good at being wrong. Can't wait for Dead Arthur next issue. Welcome Back Justin and as always, thanks for the show guys.

[ptsteelers]

of course by "scal" of power I mean "scale". Damn self edit.

[comicbookfanboy]

All Green Lantern, well now I know how those people feel when they do all Marvel and don't read Marvel. Me, I'm all about Marvel. So yeah, I'm with Pete on GL. I tried it when people kept saying how good it was and I just fell asleep.

[ComicBookClub]

No worries, we've got plenty of Marvel coming up on the next few shows (and check our Twitter feed tomorrow for tons of advance Marvel reviews).

[thescorp87]

Great reviews guys! Felt the same way you did on both books. Looking forward to finding out more about the Indigo Tribe. Their story in BN: TotC felt like reading a silent issue. The thing I'm most interested in right now is where everyone is going to end up at the end of the series, particularly Black Hand and all the dead Lanterns. And, yes, that scene with Ralph and Sue was creepy as hell. Looking forward to Martian Manhunter's confrontation with Hal and Barry in this weeks Green Lantern.

[marvelfanboy22]

i just bought my tickets for next years anger con. So f**king angry that i have to wait a whole year!!!

[bigdonkey14]

whats up with the black lantern's having short sleaves? it just looks silly to me. like they're that annoying guy at the gym who insists on flexing near the bar

hate that douchebag

[marvelfanboy22]

I didn't want to hear pete's negativity anyway.

[HotRodakaMadMax]

it's revenge for B.S.ing Wolverine. Both Green Lantern & Wolverine kick ass.

[Booma151676]

Awesome show. I completely agree with your reviews of both comics. Cant wait for Blackest Night #2.

[TaishoReno]

Good to have Justin back! I agree with the Hawks' death, because I am not familiar, but I think we will connect with them as the event goes on. Like Sinestro Corps War first three issues will be slow, but after wards will be supremely awesome! I can not wait for Black Hand vs. Hal, and maybe Sinestro.

[mastulogan]

I really hope after this the Dibny's get a rest. I don't pick up a lot of DC books but it seems like Sue's death gets talked up all the time.

[Melville10]

Blackest Night and Capt. America Reborn---so underwhelming.

[CixXxCuzzo]

damnw at happned to the quality

[ComicBookClub]

It takes about 10-15 minutes to upload to full quality. Wait, and check again.

[spdrwrtr]

Blackest Night #1 was FANTASTIC! The attack on the Hawks had me on the edge of my seat. Can't wait for #2!

Tales of the Corps....was boring.

[natzo89]

I say that they somehow are going to take this route. Since the 7 color of light form a white light, they are going to mix them into a white ring of life, since the emotions are life and black is death.

[ofiros123456]

Second.

great show guys.

[konfan279]

first view! amazing!