Untold Tales of Blackest Night #1 (Animal Man and Lyssa Drak stories)

[pyrotwilight]

The book came out over a month ago and only the Wondergirl (Cassandra) story was posted as far as I could see so I'm posting a bit more from it since it had a bunch of stories inside.

Animal Man had a 12 page story in the book and I'll be posting 3 from it

Lyssa Drak had a story on her which was 6 pages and I'll be posting 2.

Animal Man's story begins on the start of Blackest Night with an army of extinct animals trying to kill Animal Man. He's doing well protecting his family but in an effort to battle them off tries tapping into the morphogenetic field of the extinct animals attacking him



The story then cuts to the JLA as it was assembled during Blackest Night with him and the other members getting possessed by Black Rings as they've died and been resurrected before.



Yeah, a pretty sick scene but well the Black Lanterns are attacking emotional ties so this one makes some sense.

The White Ring flies onto Buddy turning him into a White Lantern as he had in Blackest Night for all of a few panels and shows the most interesting bit of the story....



Panel 3 seems to be saying Animal Man is the Protector Deadman's searching for but I'm guessing this was more of an accident than anything. The last panel also seems to be a heavy tie in to the current stuff going on in Brightest Day and particularly Generation Lost. So here's hoping he shows up in Brightest Day soon.

Lyssa Drak during Blackest Night was caught into the Boo of Black by Scar and left there...



Lyssa's been having a bad time since then.



And Lyssa's been given a new lease on life, sorta.

Hoping she's used well, she was my favorite of the Sinestro Corps members shown thus far and of course the mystery about the shrouded figure continues.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Comments

[althechi]

The dramaturgic effect of Animal Man kneeling in the Black Lantern symbol was kind of ruined by the fact that I saw this first:

[autumn_lily]

I can't unsee it now. Still funny though.

[badficwriter]

X(

[badficwriter]

I quite like Lyssa Drak too, despite the fact that she's a villain. She just loves stories and books! She's one of the few villains you'd want to visit. In prison, so she couldn't kill you. :)

[cainofdreaming]

There is another? They're bringing Tefé into the DCU proper?

Okay, it's more likely that's referencing Vixen but... meh.

[big_daddy_d]

4th page, 3rd panel. I had to look at that 3 times because initially I was thinking "Sooo..she doesn't wear..anything..down there..at all? She just..goes commando?"

I had to look at that 3 times before finally noticing that she is wearing something down there.

[greenmask]

So much rape and rape imagery! Yaaaay for comics!

-_-

[meicdon13]

I really hope that Animal Man pops up in Brightest Day. And I think that he really might be the new protector that Deadman's supposed to be looking for.

Speaking of Brightest Day, is there finally a checklist part 3?

[darkknightjrk]

Just make sure if you're in the same book club as her to not say anything bad about a book she liked. :O

[darkknightjrk]

"The last panel also seems to be a heavy tie in to the current stuff going on in Brightest Day and particularly Generation Lost. So here's hoping he shows up in Brightest Day soon."

I dunno--Superman's cape hanging in tethers like that makes me think it's more likely he's going to be involved with that "Doomsday Will Reign" thing that's in January.

[darkblade]

So every time Superman dies his cape always lands on a peice of jagged wood so that even in death it can wave dramatically.

[jlroberson]

I've been wondering when they'd bring that up, considering the Red originated in Delano's woefully underrated and excellent(in its own way as good as Morrison's, but very different) run on AM. Because Buddy's been kind of a "flesh elemental" ever since then, though it appears they dropped that aspect altogether. But at that point, his powers pretty much were at least overlapping with Tefe's.

I wouldn't mind seeing Tefe return in the DCU. Personally I think the idea of having Vertigo separate from the DCU(as regards the company-owned stuff) outlived its usefulness because the DCU now is much more violent and "adult" than it was back then. Back then it was a way to avoid the embarrassment of the rest of that day's DCU from tainting those books. God knows I preferred it that way. Now? I think Vertigo should be fully DC's Epic, a place exclusively for creator-owned "Indy"ish stuff.

Of course, that's leaving aside the peculiar definition of "creator-owned" at DC, which is to say that it's yours once you can buy it back or till they stop reprinting it for a looong time. Marvel at least didn't used to pull that crap, even under Shooter, who made it VERY clear what was WFH and what wasn't.

[jlroberson]

There was lots of that in BN. Particularly when James Robinson was involved. Remember the JLA issue that was mainly about Dr. Light being slowly stripped over the course of the book of clothes, dignity and sanity by Rapey Dr. Light? Probably the single most disgusting and indefensible section of the whole thing.

Don't mess around with Jim.

[jlroberson]

That's why you're not supposed to tug on Superman's cape.

[greenmask]

I don't! Which I am glad about.

[badficwriter]

"While I liked the use of suspense, I felt Stephen King's use of gore was over the topRARAGGGHARRRRGH"

Now, I'm curious about a teamup between Lyssa and the Queen of Fables.

[jlroberson]

Don't, ever.(don't even look it up here. Yes, some of it is posted somewhere here) It was awful. After reading it I wanted to clean my eyes with lye. I do not understand what has happened to James Robinson, who used to be a decent second-tier British writer. (i.e. the guy you get when you can't get Morrison, Gaiman or Milligan) I mean, there was nasty stuff in GOLDEN AGE, but it made sense and was appropriate to the material. I get the feeling Robinson is carrying some resentment toward DC because he seems to like defiling their characters in ways that are not even slightly artistically constructive.

[greenmask]

Was that the guy who wrote Starman, when Starman was the guy with the earring and leather jacket?

[jlroberson]

PS--Keep in mind, this is coming from a guy who creates adult comics.(and the subject of rape in itself doesn't freak me out--I'm a defender of the film STRAW DOGS) I'm not easily shocked nor prudish in the least. So Robinson had to REALLY do some crap to bug me.

[jlroberson]

The answer is DING DING DING yes!

[greenmask]

D: D:

[jlroberson]

Yeah. I know. It's sad.

[sweettart1823]

I think this is a sign Buddy needs to forever stay away from Kory forever... and ever. This was disgusting -_-

[jlbarnett]

that's mostly supposed to feature the Superman family.

[star_of_airdrie]

Buddy and Kory together is beyond horrid. Let's rape the former slave!

And the "Last Days of Animal Man", don't get me started...