Tempest in Blackest Night? Didn’t See That One Comin’.
Posted by Matt in Blackest Night, Teen TitansI’ve been going through the old “to read” pile while waiting for the LCS to stock up on all of the new Wednesday releases, and man was last month’s Titans #15 a surprise.
Back when all of us Comic Book Revolutionaries had our Blackest Night Roundtable (I was consistently known as Groovy Superhero back then - these days I have more personalities than Aurora, Norman Osborn, and Margot Kidder), I never would have dreamed that Tempest would be one of the big bad zombies playing a role in Blackest Night.
For one thing, he’s been alive and keeping strictly on the sidelines since - well, since he was calling himself Aqualad, and calling Donna Troy “Wonder Chick”. Not to mention all the high-profile, already-dead Atlanteans to contend with. But DC went ahead and killed him, strictly for the purpose of coming back to life as a Black Lantern.
The irony is that he’s getting more face time as a corpse than he did for the last several decades he’s been alive.
Of course, back in June, I never would have thought I’d be recommending the Titans as a comic to add to your pull list, but as I’ve mentioned, once they kicked Judd Winick to the curb, the quality in this book took a sharp turn for the better.
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