Zombie zombie zombie zombie! (revenant?) (and rings!)

Blackest Night reviews.  Spoilers ahead for Teen Titans #77, JLA #39, Blackest Night: The Flash #1, Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1, Green Lantern #48 and Blackest Night #5.
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Teen Titans #77
Let's be honest, this didn't really advance the Blackest Night story any.  However, as it was all centred around my beloved Rose Wilson, I rather enjoyed it.  It definitely advanced her and Slade's story.  The start of the story is narrated by William Randolph Wintergreen, an excellent character who I am very glad to see back, even in a Black Lantern guise.  We are told about Slade's early and married life, how he hurts everyone he is close to, and we see Rose catching up with him ready to exact revenge.  She doesn't initially believe him about the Black Lanterns, and then her dead brother Grant turns up.  Grant starts burning Slade and Rose decides she should probably save her father.  Wade (who I can't quite recall as a living character) and Wintergreen also arrive.  The issue ends with Rose throwing Grant into the fire and Joey (Jericho), her brother emerging, but not as a Black Lantern.  I got pretty confused with what has been happening to Jericho months ago, so I have no idea what the explanation for his re-appearence will be.

Joe Bennett did the pencils and he draws Rose very well.  She becomes athletic and he doesn't make her breasts massive.  She is lean and solid muscle and so her breasts are drawn correspondingly smallish.  She's not drawn cheesecake sexy, she's drawn like a fighter.  If you find that sexy, so be it, but sexy isn't the first thing on the penciller's mind.  Full praise to Bennett!  According to Wikipedia he's also done Buffy, Birds of Prey, Hawkman, 52, Terror Titans and Teen Titans.  Shows how much I notice.  His art page is here.  He does commissions!

All in all a great issue.


JLA #39
Bought to get the ring (photos below).  An ok issue.  Wobbly Plastic Man, Dr Light vs Dr Light, Zatanna vs Zatarra, crappy art but no mention of the word rape.  Evil Dr Light does lick Firestorm’s Girlfriend’s salty head though.  This will be fine to re-read but isn’t a world changer.

Green Lantern #48
Oooh oooh ooh we like this!  It's Larfleezetastic!  And the 7 colours unite together together!  I love it when folks who don't really like each other have to band together to fight the big unstoppable evil.  And in comics it's just so damn colourful!!


Blackest Night #5
Oooh we like this too!  6 spine tingly (if you are a sucker like me) oaths and a confused Larfleeze.  Wally!Flash sports his new costume, so it's a good thing Flash Rebirth #6 came out on time, eh?  The living Lanterns plan to destroy the black battery doesn't go quite as expected, Donna's infection gets worse, Bruce Wayne comes back (briefly), and those heroes that have come back from the dead are turned into Black Lanterns.  So, to recap, thats:
Superboy
Animal Man
Wonder Woman
Kid Flash (Bart)
Green Arrow
Donna Troy
Ice
And Superman

Black rings are chasing Hal Jordan and Barry Allen.

The DCU is fucked.

Blackest Night: The Flash #1
Heh heh heh, this is a reverse cover of Rebirth number 1.  The art is by the same guy who did Rogues Revenge, excellent!  I think this wil be a cracking read.


Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1
Diana versus Max Lord, with a cemetary full of dead soldiers in the way.  Diana is full of love.  As for Flash, I have hopes for this series.

And now, the rings!



EDIT - shit, just noticed I didn't post the picture....oh well that will be another post then!




Da da da daaaaaaaaaaaa!

Who hopes they'll release a white one when this is over?

Boris Johnson = wanker and mouthfrothingly bad research of the day

There's been this free festival in London, originally called Respect, now called Rise, going for the last 10 years or so, and it's central function and role is as an anti-racism festival. That delightful new London mayor, Boris Johnson, has decided it will not longer be anti racist.
Info taken from The F Word.
Why? I mean, what possible reason could he have to disallow them to promote it as anti racist, except for the fact that he supports racism?
Wanker.

And while we're at it, stupid research of the day award goes to this article.

• 90 people do not a good sample group make.
• "Scientists at the prestigious Stockholm Brain Institute in Sweden also found certain brain circuits linked to emotional responses were the same in gay men and straight women." So the imnplication is that gay men and women are overly emotional now are we? As opposed to straight men and unfeeling dykes?
• "suggest the biological factors that influence sexual orientation - such as exposure to testosterone in the womb - may also shape the brain's anatomy." Does it really? Are we certain of this or is it just conjecture? Why the hell are we researching what makes people gay anyway? It doesn't fucking matter. we are what we are and I cam't help feeling that the research is being done so that people can choose not to have gay children. Fuck off.
• "identified differences in spatial and verbal abilities related to sex and sexual orientation. Tests have found gay men and straight women fare better at certain language tasks, while heterosexual men and lesbians tend to have better spatial awareness." Bollocks.
• "The results could explain a University of London study earlier this year that found gay men and straight women share a poor sense of direction compared with heterosexual men, and were more likely to navigate using landmarks alone." Fuck off fuck off fuck off.
• "some mental disorders affect men and women differently. For example, major depressive disorders are far more common and persistent in women, while autism is around four times more common in boys than girls." Could this not be a diagnosis problem?

And where's all this research on bisexuals then? Not that I want to be dissected but there's a lot of us out there. Or do we not fit into your straight/gay landscape? How do they know none of the straight men or women in the study were in the closet?
Angry angry angry angry.