ScottWilliams
Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 11:01 PM
Title: Blackest Night #5
Rating:
Publisher Website: DC Comics (http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/)
Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Ivan Reis
Inks: Oclair Albert & Joe Prado
Colors: Alex Sinclar
Number of pages: 26
Price: $3.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP - Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.
Reviewer Comments:
The mind of Geoff Johns must be filled with every DC comic book ever written. There's no other explanation for it. I'm convinced the man has a photographic memory and has read every comic book even remotely involved with the DC universe.
Geoff Johns can write a book keeping in mind the everything there is to know about every single character's history. I found myself reading the pages of Blackest Night and looking at different characters, the wheels in my mind turning as I read on to the next page. There's no way around it, Blackest Night is a comic book masterpiece. Never before have I seen a comic book that touches on so many characters with lasting affects to their past, present and future. It's been joked here on Project Fanboy that even a phone book written by Geoff Johns would be worth reading, and the more I read of his work, the more I tend to agree.
Ivan Reis rocked the pencils and drew with amazing detail, even in the face of drawing so many different characters and variations of those characters. Never before have the lifeless been so full of life and the living so visually engaging. Alex Sinclair's colors definitely have a lot to do with that. Most men probably don't consider the rainbow "cool", but Sinclair burns every color of the Lantern spectrum deep into your retina with a brilliant display of dazzling paints that changes your opinion of the "Rainbow Rodeo" and illuminates Blackest Night as bright as day.
When you read the issue.... and you'd better read the issue, Johns gives us some revelations that range from, "Oh, that's pretty cool," to "HOLY COW! Did that just happen?!"
Nekron, the driving force behind Blackest Night has had a history in the DCU before and was a pretty powerful player since his original appearance in Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #2, but never has he been written as the major threat he has now become. It's a little overwhelming really, the build up that Johns has given him and makes you wonder how the heck there could possibly be a way out of this for our spandex clad heroes? And then you remember... this is Geoff Johns, he's probably already got an ending that will make your jaw hit the floor.
Remember the theory floating around the internet that when all of the lanterns combine their power to create the white light that should overcome the darkness? Well, let's just say that he addresses that too.
If you're not reading Blackest Night you're missing the best storyline in the history of comics. EVER.
Rating:
Publisher Website: DC Comics (http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/)
Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Ivan Reis
Inks: Oclair Albert & Joe Prado
Colors: Alex Sinclar
Number of pages: 26
Price: $3.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP - Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.
Reviewer Comments:
The mind of Geoff Johns must be filled with every DC comic book ever written. There's no other explanation for it. I'm convinced the man has a photographic memory and has read every comic book even remotely involved with the DC universe.
Geoff Johns can write a book keeping in mind the everything there is to know about every single character's history. I found myself reading the pages of Blackest Night and looking at different characters, the wheels in my mind turning as I read on to the next page. There's no way around it, Blackest Night is a comic book masterpiece. Never before have I seen a comic book that touches on so many characters with lasting affects to their past, present and future. It's been joked here on Project Fanboy that even a phone book written by Geoff Johns would be worth reading, and the more I read of his work, the more I tend to agree.
Ivan Reis rocked the pencils and drew with amazing detail, even in the face of drawing so many different characters and variations of those characters. Never before have the lifeless been so full of life and the living so visually engaging. Alex Sinclair's colors definitely have a lot to do with that. Most men probably don't consider the rainbow "cool", but Sinclair burns every color of the Lantern spectrum deep into your retina with a brilliant display of dazzling paints that changes your opinion of the "Rainbow Rodeo" and illuminates Blackest Night as bright as day.
When you read the issue.... and you'd better read the issue, Johns gives us some revelations that range from, "Oh, that's pretty cool," to "HOLY COW! Did that just happen?!"
Nekron, the driving force behind Blackest Night has had a history in the DCU before and was a pretty powerful player since his original appearance in Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #2, but never has he been written as the major threat he has now become. It's a little overwhelming really, the build up that Johns has given him and makes you wonder how the heck there could possibly be a way out of this for our spandex clad heroes? And then you remember... this is Geoff Johns, he's probably already got an ending that will make your jaw hit the floor.
Remember the theory floating around the internet that when all of the lanterns combine their power to create the white light that should overcome the darkness? Well, let's just say that he addresses that too.
If you're not reading Blackest Night you're missing the best storyline in the history of comics. EVER.