Blarkest Night

As an avid comic reader, I’ve been waiting for the Green Lantern “Darknest Night” saga to begin for years. Now that it has, I’m a little disappointed. On the outset, the series sounds like Marvel Zombies, where super heroes turn into cannibalistic zombies. Instead of a plague, however, this change is being brought about by power rings from the black of space. They’re resurrecting the dead into soulless beings who need to eat hearts to power themselves. The series is hyped by it’s cast of favourites dug up from some of DC’s most enduring past characters like Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Batman and Superman of Earth 2. Only, some of these characters haven’t been absent for more than a few months. Less frequent readers might even be surprised to know they’d even been killed off. To further complicate matters, as evil creatures, these characters are almost completely devoid of any personality. They ramble off lines