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Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands by Tony Isabella

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Original Black Lightning writer Tony Isabella has some good ideas with making Jefferson younger and setting him in Cleveland, and several parts of the story are at least competently handled.

The book has one problem: It's woke to an extreme at a cost of telling good stories. Let's be clear, Black Lightning stories have always had a slight political overtone in dealing with issues of crime, poverty, and race. What this six-issue mini-series does is try to make sure and check every single woke issue, and the best way to do that is copious amounts of exposition boxes to clearly identify every possible progressive cause and ideal the author embraces.

I can't begrudge a little politics, but this is a book that overdoes it. It drips of self-importance and takes itself way too seriously.



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