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Number Crunching: Blackest Night #8

Title: Blackest Night

Issue: 8 (Last)

Creative team: Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis, Oclair Albert and Joe Prado

Pages: 40

Price: $3.99

Price per page: Just under 10 cents

Splash pages: 3

Double splash pages: 2

Quadruple splash pages: 1

Average panels per page: 3.7

Free Plastic Ring: 0

Plastic rings you get if you download this illegally. 0

He-Man references: 1

Number Crunching: Blackest Night #8

Body Count: Minus 14

Reunion scenes: 10

How many are violent: 3

How many are kisses: 2

How many will already being rewritten as slashfic on various usenet boards: 5

Possible spinoff series that could emenate from this one issue alone: 38

Books that are spinning off, listed at the back: 10

White Lanterns: 11

Number Crunching: Blackest Night #8

Big crowd scenes with everyone using their rings at once. 5

Scenes set in graveyards: 1

Really cool scenes with Deadman: 3

Really cool scenes with Lex Luthor: 2

Moral platitudes express in a really clumsy fashion: 3

Big plot points glowing in the middle of the street: 1

Increase in respect given to colourist Alex Sinclair after this issue: 148%

How much of this series I actually understood: 80%

How much of Final Crisis I actually understood: 20%

Motto: Choose Life.

Number Crunching: Blackest Night #8

Blackest Night #8 ships today in the US and tomorrow in the UK.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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