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I love comics. I really do. However this is why I hate them sometimes…

A coworker just excitedly came over to show me the giant haul of Green Lantern books he bought. He picked up three volumes: Blackest Night: Green Lantern, Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps and Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps. Awesome, right??

Sadly, while he did buy those sweet collections, he forgot to get the one called “Blackest Night.” I showed him the insane Blackest Night checklist to prove it to him. 

This is what’s wrong with comics in a nutshell. The whole story wasn’t even good enough to justify its own series (it’s best summed up by, “I’M A DEAD ANGRY SUPERHERO RAAAAWR”), but they stretched it out into enough tie-ins to fill six volumes. Rediculous.

If DC wants to do anything different post-relaunch, they’ll cut back on the unnecessary event books. But they probably won’t.