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A little something from Geoff Johns Twitter page.
Enjoy!

BTW, this week I am reading Marvel for a change, I haven't read a thing since WorldWarHulk so I need to get updated. I am thinking of starting with Deadpool Corps and later on Dark Reign

Comic Review: Green Lantern 52

Green Lantern v4 no.52
Writer Geof Johns
Pencils Doug Mahnke

One word. AWESOME!!!

If you wanted to see the lanterns work together, you got it. If you wanted to see Siniestro as a white lantern doing some awesome stuff, you got it. If you wanted more info and background on stuff you got it.

Since this comic was out yesterday I will not spoil you guys, I will leave that to the review of blackest nights final installment (next week)

Here is the second Cover

In this great issue you will see that a lot of stuff is going on, and as always, a good story seems to be revealing itself. As you may have guessed by the last issue of BN, the entity has to be one of the most powerful beings on the DC universe, to bad Hal did not get to be the host but there has to be a reason.

This is a must, and is probably going to be something a collector might like to get his hands on probably with a copy to archive if you like keeping comics int their graded packs.

The art is really good and you get some REALLY COOL spread pages and as in most of the BN series you get dark pages, colorful pages and now white pages. 

Totally recommended, you will definitely enjoy this one.

Preview! Blackest Night no.8 Cover

Comic Review Blackest Night no. 7

OK, it's been a long time since this one was out, but since Blackest Night 8 is out next week I figured out I can go ahead and give out the spoilers freely.

Blackest Night no. 7
February Release
Writer Geoff Johns
Pencilwork Ivan Reis
Inkers Oclair Albert & Joe Prado

It is almost the end of Blackest Night (prepare for Brightest Day) and thing just keep getting better and better!

First, the Coverpage, great one (as most of the BN series), you get to see all the human lanterns chosen at the end of Blackest Night 6 algonside Hal Jordan. Great art! Here is a look at the previous version of the Cover found in Sinclair´s deviantArt page

This comic has a lot going on. You get to see all the colored lanterns use their powers which gives us some really good rainbow colored pages with characters we have known for a very long time. Scarecrow actually gets his 5 minutes of glory before Luthor gets all "My preciuous" and wants all the rings for himself, courtesy of that orange ring of he is now wearing.

So apart from having all of the black lanterns, Black Hand and Nekron, now the good guys also have to fight Luthor who by now has an Orange ring, a Yellow ring and is wanting to rip Mera's Red ring off. At the same moment we see the death of a Guardian by Black Hand who uses his oddly brightly colored insides to summon The Trespasser, the Light Entitiy.

Seems that like all entities, the Trespasser is unable to attack. The trick with this one is that it is linked to all lanterns of all colors and so Nekron damages the entity and all the lanterns feel it.

So then again our heroes figure it out really fast (like the whole Parrallax can defeat the Spectre stuff) and Hal wants to be the entitiy's host. But he gets stopped:

And then for the last page we get something that made me feel akward, Siniestro as the Light Entity's host. So this will be Siniestro The Trespasser.

Brigthest Day is almost here, which reminded me of Fanboy Wife

Recently Fanboy Wife posted on her blog quick remark about how long the Blackest Night has been for being just a night. So obviously the following picture quickly reminded me of her feelings. (Mostly in an ironic way, since she will possibly have to hear the whole story of Brightest day from her Fanboy)

For those of you that have not heard of Fanboy Wife, it is a blog made by the Wife of Ash (a fake name for her husband) that functions as a compilation of all that our female counterparts have to go through. During the time I have followed her I have found interesting tips on how I sound when I talk about my stuff and a lot of humor of how silly our loved comic stories sound when told out loud.

Visit her blog, she updates more often than I do and you can look at how she progressively gets to know more and more about our stuff, she will eventually become one of us.

For the Hunt. New Predator Movie around the block.

The Predator/Alien franchise is a big one and is growing day by day. This year we have Predators brought to us by Robert Rodriguez and directed by Nimród Antal. 

Most of the franchise success comes from what started it, the first predator film, the second predator film, the whole bunch of alien films and the old arcade alien versus predator, those were the big hits for this ones ( have not played the other games so I will ot talk about them), then we all remember the big no-no's, although they  had a good idea was behind them, I am talking about both AVP and AVP2  which did have a really cool story behind them, specially the first one, but it was not done correctly.

But let us entirely forget about those awful films and go back to our loved alltime good films. What made the Predator franchise so good? 

-It was not the charm of the Governator, although he did a really good job with what was expected, looking tough, good action scenes and lines like "If it bleeds, we can kill it".

So Arnold was one key element. Unfortunately he is governator right now, so don't count on him filming on this one.

But we can understand from this that good drama actors are not needed, we need actors that can mimmic Arnolds performance, but then again, we do not need a remake, so we need new faces on a new script.

-Soldiers, lots of them. You have a bunch of trained-to-kill-and-survive humans against one Predator. Having the soldiers made the viewer think us humans can make a stance. It is a good feeling.

-Figthing the unknown, predator was a mythical hunter-demon that came every year or something. The first time I saw the film I was waiting half the movie just to get a good look at the damn demon, which later became the famous Predator. On the second film, our main characters had no idea what they were fighting, and the same goes for the first Alien film.

-Good filming, on all the predator only and alien only series you always fell like you know ere you are, what can happen and what can go wrong. The viewer had a good sense of ubication, they new where the things were happening.

So what was wrong with AVP and AVP2?

-No tough guy, the main one was a girl that had no clue. Don't get me wrong I am not against the girl part, I am against the had no clue part.

- Bad scenes, you never get a feeling you now where you are with al those wierd shots.

- Soldiers got ripped off really quick (most of them)

SPOILER ALERT!

So let us see whats cooking on the new Predators film.

Plot: A bunch of humans (most look militaristic, probably selected that way by the predators) are kidnapped by predators and are thrown in a jungle-like planet (back to basics, good) where they are hunted by a new breed of predators (unkown, good). The guys do not make it easy on the predators and eventually find one guy that has survived (and seems he killed one already).

-we are looking at a good number of predators XD

Thats about all I know, but it seems the guys at Fox are going back to the basics on this film. I really hope for the best.

-Fishburne, as in Matrix, he is a survivor

-looks similiar huh? just scroll up a little

-Let us hunt!

-Nice big shots

Oficial Site: http://www.predators-movie.com/

Black Lantern Green Arrow 30 Comic Review

Black Lantern Green Arrow 30
Blackest Night Tie-in
February Release
Writer J.T Krul
Pencilwork Diogenes Neves

First look and you will see something really familiar, the coverpage. This cover is one idea that has been used over and over and over again. I like it when they use artistics this way, but when they do, since it is a "classic" cover for this title I really expect it to be breathtaking. In this case it was not.

  

The story is similar to superboy's in Adventure Comics this month. Ollie as well as the other resurrected characters got themselves "possessed", "controlled" or whatever it can be called by the black lantern rings. This is Ollie's story on how he is supposed to fight the black ring and how the black ring says a lot of evil stuff to the people near him. As in Superboy's (and Wonder Woman's) comic this month, the comic starts with a back story on the character, we also see things on the real world and things from Ollie's perspective from inside.

I never really liked the Green Arrow stories myself (sorry to all of you GA fans), he is always whining about incorrect decisions and takes incorrect decisions because of it. This issue is no different, Ollie is having issues with his previous actions all the way almost to the last page. I think Green Arrow has always felt inferior to the rest of the guys. I do not think he is, but the fact that he feels it kind of makes him sometimes.

One thing I have been noticing more and more is that the old JLA members are all feeling more emotional with all this death heroes resurrected and stuff. You can read the thoughts being more personal, they all have known each other for long.

One thing I did like was the expressions made bye Black Lantern Arrow. He really looks evil.

The end did not surprise me. I would rate this one really low. I would have it join my "to be read again" library  only if the things that happen in this issue trascend (which probably would not)