DCU Comic Book Reviews

BLACKEST NIGHT:  JSA #3

White Lightning

April 2010

Written by James Robinson and Tony Bedard

Pencils by Eddy Barrows, Marcos Marz, Eduardo Pansica

Inks by Eddy Barrows, Luciana del Negro, Wayne Faucher, Eber Ferreira,

    and Sandro Riberio

Covers by Eddy Barrows and Gene Ha

Synopsis

In STAR Labs, Black Lantern Superman of Earth-2 fights against his cousin, Power Girl and the JSA.  Nearby, Mr. Terrific continues to work on a device that will destroy the Black Lanterns.  Elsewhere, Jesse Quick runs with her father, Black Lantern Johnny Quick.   Meanwhile, Mr. Terrific continues to work on device.  Superman manages to break through Green Lantern’s shield and is about to attack Mr. Terrific.  At that very moment, the Quick’s reach New York City.  Mr. Terrific turns on the device and it works, destroying all of the Black Lanterns.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

This was a good, very simple, ending to a convoluted storyline. Except for the Quicks, this was essentially the fight against Superman and the race by Terrrific to finish the device he was creating.  It was effective, suspenseful, and the device made enough sense that you can buy that it would work, but it had enough pseudo-science, mumbo jumbo that you weren’t trying to determine if it really would work.  Ultimately, this issue totally removes every other Black Lantern, leaving only Superman left, from the story, making you wonder why they just didn’t stick to that particular story to begin with.  And the Quicks, which was actually quite touching as Jesse races with the man she knows is not her father, but close enough that she gets emotionally vested in him.  It was touching, making me wish there was more of them. 

Except for the New Guardians, is Mr. Terrific the person to take out the most Black Lanterns in one shot?  He took out the entire city, including some super powered Lanterns.  Speaking of which, what happened to the other JSA Black Lanterns.  Did they really “die” (have the connection to the black severed) when Damage went kaboom.  I would’ve thought they would’ve come back the way all Black Lanterns come back, but we never saw any of them in this issue. 

Maybe it is just me, but I don’t recall reading a scene where Black Lantern Terrific attacked Thunderbolt.  Was it in the first issue?  If it was, it must’ve been a brief panel that was stuck in there without much explanation so that the ending wasn’t ruined.  Not that that the ending was ruined.  I mean, we all knew the Black Lanterns would be defeated in some way and the heroes would be victorious.  I mean, how and why Mr. Terrific knew what to do to defeat the Black Lanterns.

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