A review by depreydeprey
Black Lightning: Brick City Blues by Tony Isabella

1.0

This collection is terrible in all the ways a comic collection can be terrible in 2020. When Isabella created Black Lightning along with Trevor Von Eeden the original series had a pleasant mix of Shaft meets In the Heat of the Night with Von Eeden's art elivating Isabella's corny poetry infused storytelling. Fast forward to 1995 where Isabella, fresh off watching New Jack City on cable or something, decides Black Lightning needs a grim, urban facelift where the hero only beats up people of color and works with the police even after they mistakenly shoot at him. Mercifully, DC takes the car keys from Isabella after 8 issues but the art stays awful and the plots and diologue don't improve enough to save this dumpster fire of a collection.