Sparky Prime wrote:Dove is dead but he's at peace, making it so the black rings cannot raise him, making him unique from every other dead character rising as Black Lantern. That says something about Dove.
What it says about him is that he's at peace. Because he's Dove. Hur. I can almost *hear* Johns chuckling to himself, he thinks he's so clever.
What fun would the comic be if we didn't see the characters interacting with their dead loved ones? And if you've actually been paying attention to the story, the Black Lanterns have been harvesting that emotional energy (for some yet unknown reason), and it's that energy that is the only thing capable of fighting the Black Lanterns.
Maybe it would be more fun if not for the fact that EVERY SINGLE confrontation with Dead Loved Ones has played out *exactly* the same way so far. We see the relevant characters in some neutral setting, usually handily talking about or dealing with death in some way. Then some Black Rings fly in (FLESH!!) and resurrect a dead loved one, who confronts the relevant character and starts lecturing them to draw out some emotional response. We then see these emotional responses via Black-Lantern-O-Vision where it's translated into the color spectrum and then redefined for us (this is annoying too, since despite all the times they've done this, they still feel the need EVERY TIME to let us know that Red means Rage, Green means Will, etc. Talk about insulting your audience). Then the relevant character is almost sucked into it, but then something happens to snap them out of it (they get attacked a little too hastily, another hero flies in, whatever), they realize that the Black Lantern is NOT ACTUALLY THEIR LOVED ONE, listen to a little more lecture, deliver a punctual 'Shut up' line, and blast them away using whatever means they have handy. Every. Single. Time. They expect us to follow this for eight whole issues? Plus tie-ins?
Anyway, while the main Blackest Night book is earning plenty of sarcastic ire from me, I will begrudgingly admit to enjoying the part that's playing out in 'Green Lantern'. The interaction dynamics between the slowly assembling Most Powerful Members of the Technicolor Dream Corps is FAR more interesting than b-list heroes wangsting at the sight of dead loved ones. The fight between Sinestro and Mongul was awesome, if only for showing how much Sinestro actually cares about Korugar, and how they really view him in a rather positive light. Too bad Hal's been kind of a sarcastic, shallow, snippy dick through this whole thing. Is this how Hal Jordan is usually written? I haven't read a lot of GL before this. But otherwise, it's been enjoyable. Looks like we'll get more Larfleeze in the coming issues. I love that little guy.
Scourge wrote:Anyway, please tell me that Black Lantern Cliff Steele's Body had a robot brain in it. You don't even know how happy it'd make me. Weird that they had to stretch that far, though. The Doom Patrol's got more dead members than any other superteam other than maybe Alpha Flight. Hell, Larry, Rita, and Niles were all dead last I heard. Any sign of Karma, Tempest, or Celsius? That's even without getting into the Vertigo-era guys who're all dead now.
Sadly, Steele's resurrected body just has an empty hollow area where his brain would be. Anyway, Niles, Larry, and Rita are all alive in this new Doom Patrol series. And Temptest and Celsius are Black Lanterns along with Cliff Steele's body and the Negative Woman, whom the Patrol start fighting in this issue.
Dom wrote:Hair retcon? Please explain.
In the latest issue of 'Batman & Robin', Jason Todd was revealed to have switched back to his Silver Age-style red hair. He proceeds to bitch that Bruce made him dye it before, to make him look more like Dick Grayson.
That's hardly the only two groups of people reading comics.