-Lightray Daedalus- Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 I love comic books an right Now the Mayor Event of my favourite Company DC is the Blackest Night....And it is pretty awesome...[spoiler=[b]Background[/b]]The storyline was first mentioned at the conclusion of the "Sinestro Corps War" in Green Lantern vol. 4' date=' #25. As the war between the Green Lantern and Sinestro Corps reaches its climax, the four Green Lanterns of Earth (Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner) are told by the Guardians Ganthet and Sayd of the "Blackest Night" prophecy. According to the prophecy, the three existing Corps would be joined by four new ones, each driven by a specific emotion and empowered by a specific color of the emotional spectrum, leading to a "War of Light" that would subsequently destroy the universe. Johns says the prophecy has its origins in the story "Tygers" by Alan Moore, which touches on the rising up of the Guardians' enemies, like the Weaponers of Qward, Ranx the Sentient City and the Children of the White Lobe, and the destruction of the Green Lanterns, showing Sodam Yat and Mogo dying. Atrocitus, however, denies the accuracy of this prophecy, suggesting that it blended Blackest Night and Sinestro Corps War with pure falsehood. Johns later revealed that Nekron was the leader of the Black Lantern Corps in an interview with IGN, though he originally intended to keep that plot element a secret. Commenting on selecting the character as the "mastermind" behind his event, Johns provided the following explanation:“ "For me it honestly was never a question. If I was going to do a Green Lantern storyline about the dead rising, the character I was going to use was going to be Nekron. He's pretty obscure, but like Black Hand, Sinestro and Hector Hammond – you know, these characters that had been a little under the radar for years or even decades – he's someone I wanted to pull out and reimagine and rebuild. And again as you're seeing, Ivan has done an incredible job, along with Joe Prado, on redesigning the character." ” The teaser for the storyline stated that "...the armies of fear and willpower must come together, because across the Universe, the dead will rise." A decomposing hand was shown coming out of the ground with a black ring on its finger. The symbol on the ring is of Green Lantern villain Black Hand. Both Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver have stated that "Blackest Night" is the third part of a Green Lantern event trilogy that began with Rebirth and continued with "Sinestro Corps War". In an interview with IGN, Johns stated that he has the monthly Green Lantern book plotted up until issue #55. More details for the event were revealed in DC Universe #0,which depicted Green Lantern villain Black Hand discovering the black power battery on the planet of Ryut. Blackest Night #0 was released on Free Comic Book Day 2009, and portrayed a series of events directly leading into Blackest Night #1. The standalone self-titled miniseries consists of the Free Comic Book Day issue and eight monthly issues. Tie-ins include issues of both Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps starting with the issues #43 and #38; and a handful of 3 issue limited series such as Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps, Blackest Night: Superman, Blackest Night: Batman and Blackest Night: Titans. Ethan Van Sciver had planned to work on the opening book as he did in the Sinestro Corps War, but because of his work on the The Flash: Rebirth mini-series he was not able to complete both effectively. However, he still created many of the designs for this storyline along with Ivan Reis.[/quote'] NOW DISSCUSS GUYS!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenrir Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 Sounds cool. I really need to pick up some comics some time. >_>; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Docomodake Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 I've seen the blackest night series on shelves for a while but never really got around to picking up a copy. Maybe I will now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeDeFiA Posted November 26, 2009 Report Share Posted November 26, 2009 Comic books are a great pastime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Lightray Daedalus- Posted November 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 29, 2009 I just read BN #5...........I was like OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*Won't spoil anything though* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dweller of Parables Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 I've never heard of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Womi Posted November 30, 2009 Report Share Posted November 30, 2009 black -> blacker -> blackest? lolwut? OT: Never heard of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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