PHANTOM STRANGER #42 - Blackest Night - From the pages of Blackest Night, the Phantom Stranger and Blue Devil hold the line against the Black Lantern Spectre! And the Black Lantern Deadman attempts to learn the secrets of the Phantom Stranger



STARMAN #81 - Blackest Night - When a Black Lantern Starman stalks the streets of Opal City, its up to the Shade to drop what he was doing and take out the trash. James Robinson returns.



GREEN LANTERN CORPS #44 - Blackest Night - Guy Gardner is in the grip of a Red Lantern ring. Can he help fight off the Black Lanterns?



Blackest Night -THE FLASH #2 (OF 3) - Barry assembles Team Flash and Captain Cold rallies the Rogues to take a stand against the Black Lanterns.



OUTSIDERS #26 - In the shadow of the Blackest Night, written by none other than Dan DiDio himself.



BRAVE AND THE BOLD #31 - Featuring the Atom and the Joker.

You omitted Power Girl #8.

You. Of all people.

Green Lantern and Outsiders for me

GLC on the hold. I might pick up Phantom Stranger. Because Phantom Stranger is cool.

Green lantern Corps was EPIC!!!
OH dear Guy.


Also: Flash...Man The Rogues are always #####in

GL Corps and Blackest Night Flash I had already pre-ordered.

But I have to see if I can get the Phantom Stranger & Starman titles. Hopefully there is some left on the shelves.

Decided after last week to get all of the side stories in the Blackest Night series to see who is alive and whos dead so I can try and build a BN heroclix scenerio. That way I dont miss anyone.

Joe the Barbarian #1 A little on the light side content wise (especially for a Morrisson book), but still pretty interesting. Joe is a Type 1 diabetic, whose dad dies in Iraq and is picked on by school bullies. He misses his insulin shot one day and begins to hallucinate that all the transformers, GI Joes, Batman etc. toys in his room are real. He now has to fight through his imaginary kingdom to get to his meds. It would have had more impact if the previews all over the place hadn't given away the end of the first issue.

Hellblazer #263 Milligan's run keeps getting better. John and Epiphany are still holed up in Mumbai trying to stop a particularly nasty demon while John tries to keep one step ahead of the law, gangsters and his own conscience.

Phantom Stranger #42 Not following Blackest Night, but I got the gist of it. Still this one's kind of a head scratcher. Blue Devil and the Stranger fight the Spectre for the first half of the book but then suddenly do a 180 and go deal with Deadman's struggle with the Black Lantern Deadman (from the BN: Batman mini). Huh? How do we go from "We must stop the Spectre at all costs" to "OK let him go, we've got to head off in this other direction". Part of the fun of the Stranger is his motives are mysterious, but this one was a little too out of left field.

Streets of Gotham... another guest writer. This is oddly frustrating for me. I deliberately skipped the non-Dini issues of Detective Comics, but if I do that now I'll miss the Manhunter stories.

Oh well, at least this story isn't bad, and Nguyen's art is always fun.

Also picked up Outsiders again. Tomasi bored me away from his run, but I've been an Outsiders mark for so long I'm always willing to give it another chance. I'm curious enough to stick around for a little while, though it's troubling that the very first issue needed two art teams.

Wow, that all sounds more negative than I'd like -- truth be told, I liked my books this week. They're just falling under the "current results may not be indicative of future performance" warning.

-J

Yes, yes he is!

Starman #81 (could have been called Shade #5) was not bad.

It was ncie seeing the O'dares again.

Should have been called Atrocious Art #1 and the story was bad too it's the first Blackest Night tie in I opted not to buy. Even a one shot tie in should have a reason that connects to the greater story or it's own series and yet Starman some how didn't get the memo to do either.

Because Phantom Stranger & Blue Devil are totally out of their league in a fight against The Specter it's like telling bullets to go stop Superman. The Specter knows this as well so he's going to go find Hal and merge with him in order to fight the Black Lantern that's corrupted him.

We'll see. I'm still waiting on Bruce Wayne leading the League of Assassins, all of whom will have yellow power rings. You're not doing so hot on your predictions, man. Sorry if that sounds harsh.

I got Wonder Woman though, this is a company wide event, and most of the JLA is wearing a power ring just not the colors I thought they would except for Wonder Woman of course. We still don't know what "The Brightest Day" is refering too it might very well mean return of Bruce Wayne as a White Lantern.

Hmm. I read the Starman issue and it seemed to have just as much to do with Blackest Night as essentially every other crossover issue has - the Weird Western Tales, the Suicide Squad, the Phantom Stranger, the Power of Shazam, the Outsiders, Doom Patrol, the Justice League of America, etc., etc.

All of those crossovers feature people fighting against Black Lanterns. Starman does exactly the same thing.