Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps [Hardcover]

Geoff Johns (Author), Peter J. Tomasi (Author), Sterling Gates (Author), Jerry Ordway (Illustrator), Ivan Reis (Illustrator), Dave Gibbons (Illustrator), Doug Mahnke (Illustrator)

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Series: Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps | Publication Date: July 27, 2010

In this 3-issue miniseries, the secrets behind the Lanterns of BLACKEST NIGHT are revealed! Bear witness to Blue Lantern Saint Walker's pilgrimage of hope, Star Sapphire Carol Ferris' sacrifice for love, Green Lantern Kilowog's courageous beginnings, Red Lantern Vice's source of rage, Orange Lantern Blume's bizarre creation, and the first appearance of the mysterious Indigo, leader of the Indigo Tribe!

Written by Blackest Night author Geoff Johns and fan favorite Pete Tomasi, BLACKEST NIGHT: TALES OF THE CORPS is an essential part of the Blackest Night storyline.

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About the Author

Geoff Johns has written Infinite Crisis, 52, Green Lantern, X-Men, The Avengers, Superman, and many more. Peter Tomasi is the writer of The Light Brigade as well as stories for Outsiders and JSA Classified. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: DC Comics (July 27, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401227902
• ISBN-13: 978-1401227906
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.6 x 10.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #322,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enriches an already rich storyline in DC History, July 27, 2010

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A. Bautista "MClass" (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (Hardcover)

As a long time DC fan, it has been an absolute joy to follow Geoff Johns's work with Hal Jordan / Green Lantern. Like the best creative minds, Johns has succeeded in taking the core of a myth -- will made manifest in green light, an intergalactic police force, old loves and enemies, what it means to be frearless -- and stretch the boundaries of the core to unexpected, but not too unfamiliar territories.

Blackest Night expands on an already expanded Green Lantern mythos. The green light of will actually coexists with the other sentient emotions in the universe; red for rage, orange for avarice, yellow for fear, blue for hope, indigo for compassion, and violet for love. And as emotions do, they go to war with each other through their various lantern corps for control and dominance. In the midst of the war, emotionlessness, the black emerges to restore the universe into its original lifeless and lightless state. It then falls to Hal Jordan to rally his worst enemies (Sinestro, Atrocitus) and his best friends (Barry Allen) to go all out, restore the light and defeat the black.

This particular volume provides vignettes / back stories of specific members from the various corps. While each of the stories fleshes out different aspects of each of the colors, they also illuminate the emotional roots of the featured characters and why they were chosen / consumed by the respective emotion. This volume is not critical to enjoying the Blackest Night storyline, but it does supplement the already rich tapestry of the event.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Adds some depth to the various Lanterns of Blackest Night, October 18, 2010

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N. Durham "Big Evil" (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (Hardcover)

Blackest Night may very well be the best crossover to come out of DC in quite a while, with mastermind writer Geoff Johns providing various other titles that add a bit of depth not only to the main storyline, but to the various colored Lanterns that play such pivotal roles. Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps provides a handful of stories involving various members of various Lanterns; namely Green Lanterns Kilowog and Arisia, Red Lantern Bleez, Agent Orange Larfleeze, Sinestro Corps member Mongul, Blue Lantern Saint Walker, Star Sapphire Carol Ferris, and Indigo Tribe leader Indigo-1. We also bear witness to the birth of Nekron, and even get a first hand take on The Book of the Black. Also featured here is the two-part story from Adventure Comics in which Superboy Prime yearns for a happy ending, but winds up facing off against the newly-risen Black Lantern Alexander Luthor and the heroes Prime murdered during Infinite Crisis. The various artists, including Jerry Ordway, Rags Morales, and Doug Mahnke among others, do great work, while Johns along with Peter J. Tomasi and Sterling Gates manage to flesh out more of the overall Blackest Night story. All in all, Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps isn't an essential tie-in to Blackest Night, but it is a worthwhile endeavor regardless.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading if you are following the Blackest Night series, January 4, 2012

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G. Simon (London, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (Paperback)

This volume collects the `parallel' Blackest Night stories from Blackest Night - Tales of the Corps #1-3, Green Lantern #49, Adventure Comics #4 & #5, Blackest Night #2-#8. Some of these are back-stories (Killowog, Arisia, Mongul II, Saint Walker, Carol Ferris), others are continuations of, or lead-ins to, scenes from the main series (Superboy-Prime). They are worth reading if you are following the Blackest Night series, or the characters' own series, bur this is not a stand-alone volume.