Blackest Night reading Order


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What's the best reading order for the following collections of Blackest Night

Blackest Night 0-8
Green Lantern Blackest Night issues (43-52)
Green Lantern Corps Blackest Night issues (39-46)
Batman: Blackest Night 1-3

I understand that they all more or less happen at the same time, but any suggestion on how to go about reading them? I don't want to go back and forth too much between the various titles and the comicvine ordering is a mess at best with so many tie ins.

Should I read them straight through or should I read them going from title to title? Or should i follow one for a bit then another... and if it's straight through what order are the collections best read it... the GLC issues, with 10 issues would seem best from a numbers stand point.


 

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never mind... found a good and easy to follow list ^.^


 

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It's REALLY a shame the trades were released the way they were. Unfortunately Johns went out of his way to remove most of the Green Lantern from Blackest Night, but managed to do a fantastic job using Green Lantern proper to fill in the blanks. The trades just read terrible as collected because of this.

Also, just for the record, on the tie ins:

BN: Batman - starts off strong, but becomes rather pointless rather quickly. Given this is where Deadman really started to come into the picture, its a shame overall. I cut it from my final collection. Of all the DC heroes, Grayson sort of gets dissed in this event.

BN: Superman - Total filler. Cut it early.

BN: Titans - This is actually really quite good and fairly important to a couple scenes, particularly in GLC and moving into Brightest Day. I consider it far and away the best of the tie in series.

BN: JSA - More total filler. Oddly, it mostly continues BN: Superman, so if you REALLY liked that, maybe... you know, just skip it.

BN: Flash - Excellent set of books. The first one is more about the Rogues than anything (which is never a bad thing), but issues 2-3 fill in the gap between BN6-7 nicely.

BN: Wonder Woman - This one is really weirdly written, and the 2nd issue in particular happens so smack dab in the middle of things that its hard to include. Issue 3 though does a great job of getting mileage out of the BN6-7 gap.

Atom & Hawkman - Again, fills the gap nicely. Also ties in nicely with GLC and makes that story fit better with the rest of the event. I'm quite fond of this one.


 

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Read them in the order they were released. It's the only way to keep the story straight. You're gonna have to go back and forth between Blackest Night, GL, and GL Corps at the very least.


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Originally Posted by White Hot Flash View Post
Read them in the order they were released. It's the only way to keep the story straight. You're gonna have to go back and forth between Blackest Night, GL, and GL Corps at the very least.
I only bought those 3 hardcovers and read one issue of each and kept rotating it. It wasn't perfect, but I got a good sense of the story.


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