{"id":3010,"date":"2010-06-30T06:32:50","date_gmt":"2010-06-30T11:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/?p=3010"},"modified":"2010-06-30T06:34:56","modified_gmt":"2010-06-30T11:34:56","slug":"return-to-comics-green-lantern-blackest-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/30\/return-to-comics-green-lantern-blackest-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to Comics:  Green Lantern Blackest Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending some time with the PSP Digital Comics reader app, and downloading a handful of few and a couple of paid for books, I decided to take an expensive plunge back into my wistful days of my misspent youth.  [Not really wistful or misspent, but it sounded good on \u201cpaper.\u201d]<\/p>\n<p>I have always been a fan of Green Lantern (especially the Green Lantern Corps \u2013 love the concept), Captain America, Spiderman, and Batman.  After searching on Amazon for some graphic novels, and after downloading a Green Lantern: Secret Origin title, I decided that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackest_Night#Collected_editions\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blackest_Night#Collected_editions', 'DC\u2019s Blackest Night collection');\" target=\"_blank\">DC\u2019s Blackest Night collection<\/a> would be a good, if not expensive, jumping on point.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Blackest Night (collects Blackest Night #0\u20138, 304 pages, hardcover, July 2010, ISBN 1401226930)<\/li>\n<li>Blackest Night: Green Lantern (collects Green Lantern vol. 4 #43\u201352, 272 pages, hardcover, July 2010, ISBN 1401227864)<\/li>\n<li>Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps (collects Green Lantern Corps vol. 2 #39\u201346, 264 pages, hardcover, July 2010, ISBN 1401227880)<\/li>\n<li>Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps (collects Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #1\u20133, \u201cGreen Lantern\u201d #49 and \u201cAdventures Comics\u201d #4-5, 172 pages, hardcover, July 2010, ISBN 1401227902)<\/li>\n<li>Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps:\n<ul>\n<li>Volume 1 (collects Blackest Night: Batman #1\u20133, Blackest Night: Superman #1\u20133 and Blackest Night: Titans #1\u20133, 240 pages, hardcover, July 2010, ISBN 1401227848)<\/li>\n<li>Volume 2 (collects Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1\u20133, Blackest Night: JSA #1\u20133 and Blackest Night: Flash #1\u20133, 240 pages, hardcover, July 2010, ISBN 1401227856)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Blackest Night: Rise of the Black Lanterns (collects Power of Shazam! #48, Catwoman #83, Suicide Squad #67, Question #37, Phantom Stranger #42, Weird Western Tales #71, Atom & Hawkman #46 and Starman #81, 208 pages, hardcover, July 2010, ISBN 1401227899)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That pre-order of 7 graphic novels should give me plenty of reading pleasure for my comic jones.  If not, then hopefully, hopefully down the road these books will fetch something in return on eBay.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending some time with the PSP Digital Comics reader app, and downloading a handful of few and a couple of paid for books, I decided to take an expensive plunge back into my wistful days of my misspent youth. [Not really wistful or misspent, but it sounded good on \u201cpaper.\u201d] I have always been &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2010\/06\/30\/return-to-comics-green-lantern-blackest-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Return to Comics:  Green Lantern Blackest Night<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-3010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-psp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3012,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3010\/revisions\/3012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}