Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 2

The awesome Black Lantern Corps series collects the spin-off tie ins that numerous comics featured during the main event. Again, the key here is that these are tie-in stories and not necessary reading to understand the main Blackest Night event. However, if you want a bit of fun reading that further develops the main story and the numerous characters it effects, this is a great read. In this collection we get to see how the resurrected dead effect The Flash, the Rogues, the JSA, and Wonder Woman. Specifically, The Flash and his new Blue Lantern ring attempt to save Bart Allen while the Rogues battle their demons in the forms of past members who fell in battle. The JSA arc is surprisingly emotional as Power Girl faces off against Earth 2 Lois Lane and Superman (the pair who essentially raised her as mother and father) while Jesse Quick gets one last race with her father. Finally, the Wonder Woman story arc sees WW battling a resurrected Maxwell Lord (who is both creepy and hysterical as he admonishes WW for snapping his neck) and then we see more about how Wonder Woman is both turned into a Black Lantern and then saved by the Star Sapphire Ring (Max Lord even makes fun of the insanely ridiculous Star Sapphire costume WW gets stuck with). All in all, a terrific series of stories that further fleshes out one of my favorite DC events.

Like the first Black Lantern Corps hardcover volume, Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 2 collects three mini-series' that flesh out some more details of the ordeals of some of the big players of Blackest Night, as the DC universe gets plunged into hell and the dead rise from their graves. Blackest Night: The Flash proves to be surprisingly essential to the core storyline, as Blackest Night writer Geoff Johns details Barry Allen's struggle against the Black Lanterns, as well as Barry's role in the event as he attempts to save his grandson Bart "Kid Flash" Allen from a terrible fate. What makes this mini in particular all the more interesting is that during Barry and the heroes ordeal, the Flash rogues have their own to deal with as well as Captain Cold and co. take the fight to the resurrected rogues. The ending of this mini is worth the price of admission alone, even if Scott Kolins' artwork is inconsistent. Blackest Night: JSA finds the current Justice Society hunted down by the resurrected original Sandman, Dr. Midnite, Mr. Terrific, Atom, Johnny Quick, and the Earth-2 Superman and Lois Lane to boot. Co-writer James Robinson (teamed here with Tony Bedard) re-teams with penciler Eddy Barrows to pick up on some plot points left found in their Blackest Night: Superman mini (found in the Vol. 1 hardcover), and this time around they fare better. The last mini, Blackest Night: Wonder Woman, is written by Wonder Woman vet Greg Rucka, and at first finds the legendary heroine taking on the resurrected Maxwell Lord, before finally succumbing to the Black Lanterns and eventually overcoming them thanks to the Star Sapphires. This mini isn't special, but the pencilwork by Nicola Scott is gorgeous enough to recommend on its own. All in all, Black Lantern Corps Vol. 2 is slightly better and almost more essential than Vol. 1 thanks to the Flash mini alone, but neither is an absolute must-own tie-in to the overall Blackest Night saga. Still though, it's a worthwhile endeavor regardless.

Nice looking book. Thos one involve 3 stories: The Flash, JSA and Wonder Woman. Flash and JSA were ok stories. More than anything Flash was trying to get Bart Allen out of the Black Lantern Corps and himself dealing with the blue ring. The JSA storie is about survival and some emotional ties that needed to be severed (read it and you'll understand).I particulary enjoyed the Wonder Woman story. There's 3 parts of it: WW when all the Black Lantern issue begun, WW with a black ring, and WW with a violet ring. Loooove is the answer (jeje). Big revelation, hum?.Although it looks pretty and the stories are good, this book is not essential to the whole Blackest Night saga, so if you skip it there's no problem. If you decided to get it no matter what you should consider to get the paperback edition that comes out in 2011.

For years, the Green Lantern titles have been on fire! The stories are great. Blackest Night is one of the best. The sense of dread and urgency was palpable. The books exploring the Black Lanterns is therefore essential.

Seeing as Blackest Night and GL:Blackest Night are the only essential books for the whole story, I knew there was a chance this would be a waste. Some people say it really fleshes out the story but, to me, these issues in particular are more in line with their regular titles than adding anything worthwhile to Blackest Night.

I got all of the Blackest Night books not only because I love DC, but because of the zombie angle also. With this volume, you need to get it if for nothing else than the Wonder Woman chapter. Greg Rucka writes a nearly perfect Diana.

Black Lanterns are hard corr

I enjoyed reading this book but to enjoy it to the fullest you need all the books in the collection. So i recommend you buy all of the books in the Blackest Night collection.

Great!

This is a great addition to the Blackest Night saga as it explains the origins of some of the characters becoming black lanterns.I'm not going to give anything away, but the artwork is awesome and the stories are brilliant!

Keeping it nice and dark, love it

las historias de Batman y Superman, son muy entretenidas, no necesita uno leer el evento principal, para disfrutar estas buenas historias, la de los titanes si va mas conectada a la historia principal, pero son muy buenos ti-inns

Dieser Band bildet eine schöne Ergänzung zu den 3 wichtigen Blackest Night Bänden.Es sind je 3 Hefte von Wonder Woman, Flash und der JLA enthalten. Vor Allem die Wonder Woman Hefte waren spitzenklasse!