Reddit reviews Absolute Blackest Night

There's no Blackest Night omnibus yet. I'd suggest picking up Absolute Blackest Night if you want to check out the main events of the story arc. There're also torrents of the entire run which include some of the more obscure issues.

Blackest Night is the arc that got me into comic books. I highly recommend it.

Absolute Blackest Night is the best edition.


Available on Amazon.

I bought Absolute Blackest Night and that summed it up pretty well. If you really want the pre-stories then yeah start with Green Lantern: Rebirth, but for me personally the Absolute version had everything I was looking for. It's a little pricey but the oversized artwork is great.

Here's a link to it on amazon if you wanna check it out

Is this what you're talking about?

If you get that, you can read it and you will have "Blackest Night" - you'll get the story, and it will be pretty coherent. There was also a few Green Lantern Corps issues that "tie in" which means that they lend some extra context to what's happening in the big book, but you could just read that big book without them and be fine. They're extra, but unnecessary.

Of course, Blackest Night was the culmination of a lot of things that had been going on in the Green Lantern Corps. You'll enjoy BN much more if you have read Agent Orange, Rage of the Red Laterns, and all the other stuff since 2005. But that stuff isn't neccessary - you can follow the story of BN well enough without it.

>Is blackest night not included in the main green lantern comics?

If this was 2009 (?) and you were just buying the Green Lantern title, you'd miss out on some of Blackest Night. There were 8 or 9 issues that were titled "Blackest Night #1, #2, etc." I think Black Hand's origins are told in the backups for the Blackest Night Title. Not sure if they're present in that book I linked, but they probably are.

Brightest Day

Absolute Blackest Night

Blackest Night spans multiple trades. This is the collection of the entire arc, but does not include Tales of the Black Lantern Corps or Green Lanter Corps: Blackest Night. This contains all of the Brightest Day arc itself, but does not include Green Lantern: Brightest Day, which sets up the next major Green Lantern arc, War of the Green Lanterns

If you can't wait for the upcoming Omnibus /u/DementiaPrime mentioned

Blackest Night

Secret Origins

Sinestro Corps War

https://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Blackest-Night-Geoff-Johns/dp/1401240739

Yes, I just don't have them. I don't know if the Brightest Day Omnibus has the GL issues included or just the 24 main ones (it's not even out yet). But either way, you don't need to read GL: BD and BD at the same time because there's only one moment that they actually overlap. GL: BD mostly sets up the next trade.

Blackest Night

Brightest Day

Make sure if you DO buy the trades, you find a decent reading list online. If you read them book after book you're going to be confused.
This might help: http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?322514-Blackest-Night-TPB-Reading-Order (DC compiled Blackest Night pretty poorly in TPB form).
Also, be on the lookout for Absolute Blackest Night, coming out fairly soon! http://www.amazon.com/Absolute-Blackest-Night-Geoff-Johns/dp/1401240739

Oh, and here's a bonus from IGN: http://www.ign.com/articles/2009/07/11/the-absolute-blackest-night-guide

ME TOO!! It is one of the most beautiful comics I have seen. All the color is mesmerizing...so awesome.

You need this my friend!

It'd be silly for it not to be.

From the amazon page.

> This volume collects: Blackest Night #0-8, select pages from DC Universe #0 and Green Lantern #44-48, 50-52.

And just for clarity: Issue #49 was a Green Lantern Corps tie in following John Stewart.