I’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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