Review:
Blackest Night #8 and My Views of the Series as a Whole

First off, let me say I recommend fully reading Blackest Night #8 before you read my review on it. Now I'm not going to give away what happens in the issue, I don't believe a review should tell you everything that happens in the story, what's the point of buying it and experiencing it yourself? No, I believe a review should make you want to read it or make you run away from it as fast as you can. So that being said, it will be impossible to talk about Blackest Night #8 without revealing SOME of what happened. But I will tell you this, it's really good. A great ending to a great series. So go run to your comic book shop and snag a copy of it, read it, then come back here. Otherwise, read on beyond the picture.

So we're finally done. After nearly a year (and a lot longer if you want to start at Green Lantern Rebirth), the Blackest Night is over. And I'm very, very glad it is. I'm also very glad that it ended so well. Nearly all of the things that I predicted happened in one form or another. And that's a good thing because Blackest Night #8 left the DC Universe in a really good spot. They've finished up a bunch of plot threads, added new ones to keep us reading, and resolved a bunch of problems within the DC Universe itself.

As with any Geoff Johns’ project, a big part of his story is fixing bad storylines and events done to our classic DC characters. He did it in Rebirth with writing a plausible explanation on Hal and his turn to Parallax. Here he continues to fix bad nineties storylines, returning many of our classic DCU character back to those icon characters that most of us grew up loving. You'll understand what I mean even more after you read Blackest Night #8.

But I say again, I am very happy where Blackest Night leaves our living and undead heroes. The progression of the White Lantern storyline started last issue with Sinestro is very satisfying and once again. Johns slams us with something unexpected then quickly reverts it to something more plausible.