DCU Comic Book Reviews

BLACKEST NIGHT:  TALES OF THE CORPS #1

September 2009

Tales of Blue Lantern by Geoff Johns and Jerry ORdway

Tales Of The Sinestro Corps by Peter J. Tomasi and Chris Samnee

Tales Of The Indigo Tribe by Geoff Johns and Rags Morales

Covers by Ed Benes and Dave Gibbons

Synopsis

On Odym, the Blue Lanterns are fighting Larfleeze and the constructs of the Orange Lantern.  Larfleeze intends to take hope.  Saint Walker tells him you don’t take hope.  It is something you share.  Walker then recalls the moment when he almost lost his faith when his homeworld was near destruction and he lost his family.  But he retained hope and soon became a Blue Lantern.

Many years ago on Debstam IV, Mongul Jr. waits for his father’s return.  As he does so, he pretends to rule the world like his father.  When aliens land on the planet due to a ship malfunction, Mongul enslaves them so they worship them.  However, when Mongul returns he tells his son that there is only one person who deserves worship.  So, Mongul kills the slaves. 

In Sector 3544, the Indigo Tribe encounters a fallen Green Lantern and Yellow Lantern.  The Indigo Tribe kills both of them. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Overall, I like the idea behind this mini-series, but I am not sure doing it in separate installments like this was the right way to go.  These, I think, are better suited as back-up features, attached to the Green Lantern Corps book.  It is mostly because these snippets are not really complete stories.  And even though Blue Lantern portion is a complete story, it doesn’t feel complete, mostly because it is a minor character and the flashback occurs in the midst of events occurring in other books. 

The Blue Lantern story went on a little too long for my tastes.  I like the idea behind the story (it is supposed to be the science fiction version of Jobs), but it took too long to actually execute those ideas.  As I was reading, I understood what Johns was trying to do with all of the disasters that befell Walker, but it seemed to drag on and on.  It almost became comedy as something new tests Walker’s faith.  I just didn’t think there was a need to pile on so many separate disasters.  Maybe one or two would’ve gotten the point across.

The Sinestro Corps story was cute and I liked the art, but the story feels truncated.  I think there is more to tell with Mongul Jr. and just when it seems to get to the point of the story really getting going, it ends.  Still, I liked it and I liked the peek into the mind of a child whose father is truly evil.  There is an odd conflict of a child’s innocence mixed with the evil that he would eventually become.  It is a deft balancing act and I think Tomasi pulls it off fairly well. 

The Indigo Tribe story is the weirdest, featuring characters we have never seen before, speaking a language we don’t understand, and performing actions that don’t make sense.  Hopefully, it will all make sense as the War of Light continues, but for now it was nonsensical.  I think I understand what happened, but the art is entirely clear.  At the end it kinda looks like the Yellow Lantern was flying away from the construct so perhaps he wasn’t killed.  It is intriguing, however, to note that green constructs killed the Green Lantern and yellow constructs attacked the Yellow Lantern, so the Indigo seems to have some kind of power of the other colors.  But exactly what, it is too difficult to tell. 

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