Even with a guest appearance by the new Blue Beetle, this issue isn't the best of the bunch - it spends too much time in recap mode - but it's a great setup for the next issue, which looks to be even better. Read Full Review

Booster Gold continues to be one of my favorite books. Jurgens and the gang turn in a quality book month after month. Read Full Review

Jurgens and Norm Rapmund do their usual solid job on the art; it's very handsome, classical superhero styling. They get to tackle a lot of the big names of the DC Universe here, and everyone looks perfectly on form, well enough that if DC ever needed someone to draw all of the in-house model sheets they should look no further than Jurgens and Rapmund. Norton's pages starring Blue Beetle look great as well; like Jurgens, Norton has a clean art style and they fit in well enough that to the casual reader they might not even notice the shift in art. With "Booster Gold" being a solid read month after month, hopefully "Blackest Night" will help bring in some more readers. It's a fun book. Read Full Review

This book makes me thankful for the JLI, for Bwah-ha-ha, for Kooey Kooey Kooey, and for the remembrance of times past. Read Full Review

But other than getting the most out of the book's heightened exposure through accessibility and adding a few surprisingly emotional moments, I can't say this issue does anything more with the Blackest Night storyline than we've seen in other relatively insignificant tie-ins. I think it's still safe to say you can skip any monthly book that has "Blackest Night" on its cover but not the words "Green Lantern" or "Green Lantern Corps." Read Full Review