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| Blackest Night #2 (DC)
"Blackest Night"
Geoff Johns
Ivan Reis
Oclair Albert
Julio Ferreira
Alex Sinclair
Nick Napolitano
Mauro Cascioli (variant cover) |
okay, am not sure who's batting it out of the park more here -
Geoff Johns, or the stellar art team of
Ivan Reis and
Oclair Albert. i'm giving it to the latter duo (a highlight being the shark scene), as the story doesn't really get advanced much here. more deaths, more recruits, even right within the same sequence (
Aqualad). i was mildly surprised to see
Dove not get recruited - apparently, you had to have a violent death, and thus a troubled soul, to become part of the
Black Lantern Corps (figures). the bile coming out of the lips of some of
DC's beloved (currently dead, now zombified) characters are deliciously malevolent, its so wrong yet so right. and i've never seen
Aquaman this intense, even during his time as arrogant ruler of Atlantis (nice touch on
Mera holding her own and not being salad dressing this time). there also seems to be a subtle push to make
Hal Jordan the
resident DC Universe lothario (what,
Guy Gardner lost his mojo because of
Ice?). basically, since these zombies are practically unkillable, brute force is not the answer. i may be in the minority here, but this is scary.
