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“Stop whinning!!
Blackest Night was the event I enjoyed the most since the original Crisis. Of coruse there are messy things around.
Can´t help but say “uh?” when Anti-Monitor returned and Barry Allen did not piss his tights lol.”

So you aren’t whining because you put “lol” after your critique?

“DC still has the potential to make his characters great again.”

DC is one guy? Is it Dick Clark? David Cassidy? David Cross? Do tell…

I never knew!

Of course it has flaws but the series is trying to:
1) Be an event.
2) Be better than Final Crisis.
3) Tie some loose ends from the entire GL run.
4) Be an entertaining story.
5) Show a lot more of the other heros besides Supes, Bats & Wondy.
6) Deceive us from Didio´s decision to make this an event book when It was surely planned as a GL event like Sinestro Corps.
7) Revive characters and set Brightest Day.

I must say that Marvel keeps kicking DC´s ass but DC still has the potential to make his characters great again. And DC has some of the most uninteresting books around.

Still, that´s only my opinion though.

Batman/Robin seem to be in a pocket continuity because it appears DC doesn’t want Dick Grayson to be Batman in anything other than the Bat Books (and the occasional JLA.)

Superman is in this crap called New Krypton, which is so complex and yet so insignificant that he has not been a part of Blackest Night or the “death” of Bruce Wayne. You would think he’d be on fire for his best bud dying, but other than a small appearance at, what we now know to be a “fake” funeral, he’s nowhere to be found. He was barely in Blackest Night, and I’m sorry DC, but Superman is the leader. Of your whole company.

Blackest Night ended and I celebrated. I admire and respect Geoff Johns, but ultimately this story was pointless as it sullied the character of Sinetro by giving him a conscience, and ultimately brought back everyone who died, so what’s the point?

In closing, because this is too long, I think since Final Crisis, the DCU has been in flux because the stories haven’t been coherent, and you almost have to pretend that each book is its own continuity. And I know, I know, a lot of people don’t think continuity isn’t important, but if you go through the trouble to make stories that are logical (in the realm of the DCU) and need fans to have an emotional attachment to the source material, then continuity matters most, without it, you have the Sunday funnies.

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We have since seen former Lords Amethyst and Mordru alive. Were they missed or forgotten about? Did they just stop being Lords? Were they retconned into never having been Lords to begin with? Where do Hawk & Dove’s powers come from now? Could their Lords (T’Charr and Terataya) still be alive somehow? Maybe DC will eventually get around to telling us?

Point #3: the colored corps rings are interactive with the people wearing them. They are lively. The black rings are stone cold and emotionless, like computer programs. I found that to be a nice touch, actually.

Point #4: you’re right. Diana or Princess Diana would have been better than Diana Prince, but it’s not that big a deal. I couldn’t care less if they fix it in the trade or not.

Point #5: the blue ring is about embracing hope not inspiring it. For the last few years Superman has spent his time either fighting or crying. Not much embracing of hope in there.

Point #6: I kept expecting to see at least someone saying that the information that Batman got in Blackest Night: Batman regarding the freezing thing was relayed to any of the other heroes. But that didn’t happen. It’s like either it didn’t happen, or it happened off-panel and none of the other characters cared to mention it.

Point #7: although the Blackest Night series took around 9 months to come out in full (more if you count from Blackest Night #0), most people seem to forget that the entire thing took place in one single night. That’s almost 12 hours, maybe even less. The Milestone and Red Circle characters might have dealt with black lanterns in their areas, but without being connected to, let’s say, the JLA or JSA emergency signals, they wouldn’t know that the main battle was in Coast City until it was well underway. And by the time they reach it, it would be over. Plus, the call to arms was transmitted by Barry, who just recently came back to the DCU and probably doesn’t know about these characters more than I do.

As for other dead or death-related characters, not all of them where resurrected as Black Lanterns because not all of them elicit emotional response in the DCU characters. Imagine if Nekron resurrected all the dead people from the dawn of humanity. Sure he’d have the advantage in numbers, but they would be useless to him since the rest of the DCU couldn’t care less about them.

Depending on how abstract the events of Adventures of Superman #500 is supposed to be, Superman was legally dead long enough to count.

Contrary to what many believe, white is not the absence of all color but contains the entire spectrum (ROYGBIV). It was brought up in the early issues that it takes a combination of 2 different colored rings to destroy a black ring. The light from Dove (and The Ray and Dr. Light) would contain all 7 colors. If 2 combined rings could kill 1 black lantern easily it would be easy to imagine what 7 would do.

On the other side of the coin, the entire spectrum in the DCU translates to containing all 7 emotions respresented by the rings. This would make for a complete person. A complete person would suffer no doubts. There would be no self-doubt like that created by the black ring wielders against thier supposed family and friends. It would explain why Don Hall was at rest peacefully and couldn’t be assimilated.

LOL

1. Didn’t Superman specifically NOT die? Are we now to believe that Nekron was what kept him alive or brought him back to life?

2. Ray and WW should’ve switched rings. Wonder Woman is full of compassion. Ray is full of love for his wife.

Tempest
Damage
Hawk (Dawn’s cousin/sister)

Why were the deaths done and necessary. The hawks were killed and brought back. Why? Just to bring back Shiera?

I think it was also just like you said: a way to highlight lesser known characters. There were miniseries for the Bats and Supes fans, but the point was to expand beyond the Big Three and show off the breadth of the DCU. I was glad to see Hal and Barry get their time in the spotlight; wondering about what Superman and Batman may or may not be doing is just unnecessary speculation. Where were the Great Ten and the world’s other super teams? Where was Ra’s al Ghul, who’s died a ton of times? Batwoman died just recently, how about her? If you think too hard, it’ll just drive you crazy.

One last thing: why does a comic have to wrap up every loose end at the conclusion of a story? Do other storytelling mediums clean up that nicely? At the end of a massive storyline like that, I would expect a million little questions, because answering all of them would just be tedious and detract from the ending. That’s even more so for an ongoing story like the DCU. The good guys won, the bad guy’s gone: there’s enough resolution to move to the next story. I think you’re getting too bogged down in what you want versus what is best for the story.