The Guardians of Oa FUCKING LIED!
By far, one of the single greatest universe spanning crossovers there has ever been. And yeah, I know people might claim, Secret Wars or Crisis, but this story entailed the ENTIRE DC Comics Universe. The whole fucking thing. They pimped titles that had long since been canceled with this amazing idea; continue those series for one last issue and use it to show how Blackest Night was affecting those characters. The remaining DC Universe got Blackest Night tie in mini series. Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman, Teen Titans, you get what I'm talkin' bout.
So apparently years ago, a little known writer by the name of Alan Moore suggested some future event in the Green Lantern mythos. And it's right there in the Green Lantern oath, "In brightest day, in blackest night." And that was a mere suggestion. It turned into the realization that there was more than just the Green Lantern Corps with the storyline, "Rage of the Red Lanters." Which was amazingly written by Geoff Johns and stupendously drawn by Ivan Reis. The big fucking lead in was with last year's Free Comic Book Day top draw, Blackest Night #0.
The mini series was brought up with various inklings of resurrecting Batman, Earth 2 Superman, Aquaman, Terra and a fucking shit ton of other characters. The opening pacing for the book is a little slow and starring some lesser known characters revolving around Atlantis.
The whole concept of Blackest Night lies in the creation of the universe. You know, "Let there be light." Yeah that came from a book that has a pretty decent sized following too. After the light shone for the first time it fractured into seven different spectrum of light. Each spectrum complete with a different emotion to govern them. Red/Rage; Yellow/Fear; Green/Will; Indigo/Compassion; Blue/Hope; Violet/Love; Orange/Avarice (look it up. It'll be good for you). It is thought that those seven parts of the rainbow could together bring about the original white light that created the universe.
But this story gets really brutal really fucking fast. Loved ones being torn from each others arms, killed and then resurrected by the Black Lantern rings. Think about all the characters that have been killed in the past half decade in the DC Universe, and then picture those same characters, risen as zombies with their same powers and with a fucking Black Lantern ring. I know fucking insane right? Now go and read the story, oh and read all the fucking tie in one shots and minis too. Think that's crazy. I bought every single one of those fuckers, save the Solomon Grundy #7, which my comic book dealer only ordered one copy of for me, as I was following the entire saga, but someone else was really hurting to get a hold of.
So I hope I whet your appetite for destruction without giving anything away. Oh, yeah Batman(Bruce Wayne)'s still fucking dead!
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