Which Blackest Night trades?

[Arryc]

So, I'm excited about reading the Blackest Night story, but there are multiple series involved in that, and I won't be getting all of them. Of the trades that are out now, which two or three are essential (or just darn-awesome reads).

Obviously, Blackest Night would be one of those. I'd probably go with Blackest Night: Green Lantern as well. What else would you guys highly recommend?

[E. Wilson]

So, I'm excited about reading the Blackest Night story, but there are multiple series involved in that, and I won't be getting all of them. Of the trades that are out now, which two or three are essential (or just darn-awesome reads).

Obviously, Blackest Night would be one of those. I'd probably go with Blackest Night: Green Lantern as well. What else would you guys highly recommend?

Blackest Night: Green Lantern is the single most important book to the event aside from BN itself, so good call on selecting it.

Unless you really, really, really dig the new Lantern Corps, skip Tales of the Corps. Aside from Saint Walker's story (which is actually quite moving), the tales are fairly mundane, and in many cases, don't tell us anything new. The Book of the Black is just more of Black Hand being all crazy, and the Superboy Prime issues...well, it's Superboy Prime.

Some good stuff also goes down in the Green Lantern Corp volume, but it can probably be skipped if you're not particularly interested in the Lantern-centric part of the DCU.

Beyond that, I think it's more of a matter of seeing what characters are in what books and going from there. None of the other tie-ins are incredibly necessary for understanding the main story, so it's more a matter of what creators/characters sound appealing to you.

Having said that, I think BN: Batman is one of the biggest disappointments in comic history. However, it's slightly balanced by being in the same volume as the Superman tie-in, which was a fun take on the BN concept, playing into the "horror movie" aspect as super-zombies attack Smallville. It's quite creepy in some of the early scenes.

Also, Martha Kent kicks ass. But we already knew that.

[E. Wilson]

I wouldn't guess that Ma Kent would be kick-ass in BN: Superman.


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