tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351781565889046164.post3102592933973881191..comments2010-04-22T23:52:19.378-07:00Comments on Dan's Stuff: In Defense of Blackest NightDaniel Feltshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04116252165652431879noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351781565889046164.post-23649444906437568242010-04-22T23:52:19.378-07:002010-04-22T23:52:19.378-07:00I concede on several points. I've been wantin...I concede on several points. I've been wanting to do a film & literature/emotional spectrum comparison for a little while now, and the many criticisms aimed at Blackest Night seemed to call out for some positive feedback. The over-arcing theme of the story could've been handled in a single series instead of all the spinoffs. In fact, Top 10 #8 pretty much nailed the whole life=light thing back in 2002.<br />Now you have me taking it apart, and I'm supposed to be championing the series.Daniel Feltshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04116252165652431879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-351781565889046164.post-30761024462890925202010-04-20T14:14:01.179-07:002010-04-20T14:14:01.179-07:00My problem with Blackest Night wasn't in it...My problem with Blackest Night wasn't in it's premise but in it's totally lackluster execution. This was an idea I've thought would be just about the coolest thing ever since I was a little kid (I've never been that big a fan of the color green, but I loved the idea of a ring that could let you fly and make things so I'd draw Hal but replace the green with blue or red). The idea of multiple colored lanterns is cool enough in and of itself. I didn't need it to be a big Earth-shattering event, but if they were going to make one of it anyway, I was happy to see what happened and where it would go. The stumbling, non-sensical, overly-long for a paper thin story complete with some of the absolute worst or most irritating dialogue I've ever read in a comic outside of the 1990s was enough to make me want to cry. Actually, you know what, it wasn't that it was so bad it made me want to cry, it was <i>so</i> badly handled that it made me not care. Even when I hate a comic, I still love comics. Even when a comic is bad, I still care about it because it is a comic. Each passing issue of Blackest Night just made me less interested in reading the next one. I knew I had to keep reading them to know what happened, but I just kept caring less and less about what would happen. Aside, from the comics themselves not being very good, I think the constant information/updates culture that comics are in plays a part in that feeling. (I knew who the big bad guy was going to be before the second issue came out, etc. That kind of thing.) There were a few surprises, but they mostly just seemed like surprises for surprises sake, for the sake of trying to get people to say, "Did you see what happened in Blackest Night #5?! OMGWTFBBQLOL!!!"<br /><br />I've kinda lost where I was going with this, so I'm just going to go ahead and post it and see if I can come back to it later or stimulate some further conversation from it.chrishaleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06062262593718888325noreply@blogger.com