[Comic Review] Blackest Night #3

Review by Chris Beveridge


Mania Grade: B-

In Summary:
I thoroughly enjoyed the first two issues of Blackest Night but with the Indigo Lanterns arriving here, the info dump we get and the language barrier and confusion doesn't help it all that much. Between that and the conversation that Barry and Hal have, it left me wanting to smack a few of them. The things that save the book though are the moments with Mera as she explains what happened and we see that she's smart enough to go to the Justice League headquarters to get more help and the dual Firestorm subplot. I liked what Jason and Gen brought to the table but I especially liked how the Black Lantern Firestorm played his cards with them, both in action and words. Still, this issue needed something more to it than what we got outside of the info dump and the lack of that has it slowing down instead of ramping up.