Story wraps round Blackest Night fine but disappointing art

I enjoyed the story, not as good as the main story but fine. I was taken out of the story plenty of times by the art. Bodies twisted in angles that would kill anyone and inconsistent look for the main characters. Filled some gaps in the main story but not needed. Get it cheap if you must.

This is the collection of The Blackest Night story that features "The Other" Green Lanterns. Since Kyle is my favorite, that's just as well. It also delved deeper into the other corps as well.

Unlike the Green Lantern collection, this one does end. Sorta. The last chapter deals with a part of the aftermath. One thing that came out of this one, was my liking Guy Gardner's character more.

My favorite of the group, just because I like the Guy/Kyle friendship. The moment where I thought Kyle was out and Guy was a Red Lantern was great. I could read about the corps forever.

We discussed this series in our Green Lantern spotlight over on the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/episode-251-green-lantern-is-80-years-young

If you've been reading the Green Lantern Corps volumes leading up to this event, then this is the gentlest transition of all the Blackest Night sidebooks. It's the natural continuation of the the tales of Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, Soranik Natu, Mogo, Saarek, Sodam Yat, Stel, Salaak, and everyone else featured in the ongoing series. The chemistry between the characters continue to build, even as the book seems to launch from action scene to action scene. The first four issues are a satisfying story. The epilogue is....fine.

If you haven't been reading the Green Lantern Corps books, this is probably a huge, confusing mess of too many characters, and not enough breathing room to figure out what's going on.

It is unnecessary if you just want to read the Blackest Night book. And it's not as accessible as the Batman, Superman, or Green Arrow side-stories because holy Oan clusterfluff are there Too Many Characters.

But, again, if you've been reading and enjoying the regular Green Lantern Corps title, this doesn't feel like one of those event books that distracts from the overall story. This has been the goal for the ongoing story since Johns took over Green Lantern, and it slides perfectly into the larger event.

Wow! What an epic! While DC botched some of the parts of this big mega-crossover, here its done very well. Almost all of the story is self-contained. The majority of the story is a huge, stellar fight scene. Without spoiling anything (even if it is 6 years old) Lanterns die, fight, get resurrected, fight, turn into Red Lanterns, fight, fall in love, fight, and finally stand up for themselves. A classic. The art by Patrick Gleason, who've I've never been a big fan of, delivers a good book. Sometimes his faces were too cartoony, but overall there some amazing visuals. Such a fun book.

The entire book was a battle scene with sketchy transitions and lackluster writing. When Guy Gardner is the best part of any Lantern story...there's problems.

A positive note: Patrick Gleason's issue #41 cover was hauntingly eerie and Greg Horn's variant #42 (of Guy Gardner) was AMAZING!

The different lantern corps come together to defend Oa and the green lantern from the black lanterns. That's it really. A couple of minor plot lines are tied up each individual lantern member's story is advanced but since I don't really care about Kyle Rayner's love life or pointy eared chick's dead parents I wasn't too thrilled. When the black lanterns get you they talk trash and try to make you emotional, so the history of every character is brought up again and I don't care about it at all. Reading the Green Lantern Blackest Night and Blackest Night 0-8 was sufficient for me, nothing new here.

This book follows Kyle Rayner, Soranik Natu, Guy Gardner, Kilowog and the other minor Lanterns as they defend Oa from the invading Black Lantern Zombies. There are epic fight all around and it only collides with the main title toward the end, but I really think this needs to be read with both the others.

I really enjoyed Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps., silliness and all. I highly recommend that this be read with the main [b:Blackest Night: Green Lantern|7331572|Blackest Night Green Lantern|Geoff Johns|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1342897036s/7331572.jpg|8976285] Series and [b:Blackest Night|7052524|Blackest Night|Geoff Johns|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1342895794s/7052524.jpg|7076647] using an order like this:
http://new.dcuwiki.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=4269

The other tie-in books are optional with the possible exception of [b:Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps|7312683|Blackest Night Tales of the Corps|Geoff Johns|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1320547638s/7312683.jpg|8808074] which gives backstory on some of the lesser known Lanterns. All these enrich the story and really make it the epic it deserves.