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The Blackest Night: And the Dead Shall Rise (and Receive Power Rings)

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    I don't think he's going to be a Black Lantern, after I read the page again
    He just dug into the grave adn took the skull

    As far as how does he know, who knows

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I got that book for FCBD, and it looks like there's an unmarked grave next to Thomas and Martha Wayne's. What the fuck?

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    That would be Batman's

    Hence the top of the tombstone kinda looks like the top of the bat symbol

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    It does kind of look like a Bat, but that also makes no sense and is stupid.

    Maybe this whole thing is supposed to be metaphorical. I mean, Why would all these people be buried in the same graveyard anyway?

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Batman only has so much time to brood, so if all of the graves are in the same place, it's more efficient?

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Oh, wait, now that I've actually read the issue it sort of makes sense.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    It makes plenty of sense

    He doesn't want a big ceremony, so he has an unmarked grave

    And let's be honest where would he want his remains buried?

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I thought the issue would be full size with those pin ups as a bonus. It's really only 12. You could probably find all the pages online, especially with what Robos posted last week.

    Also,
    Hawkman, Hawkgirl and Atom's appearance makes no sense if Black Hand ripped out Bruce Wayne's skull from the grave

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Well Hawkman and Hawkgirl make sense if they had died during FC, because so are the rest of the characters whose names are on the page.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    They didn't die, and neither did Atom (Ray) that I remember. So that was kind of weird. Unless they are to fly by, see this happen, and are then killed off in Blackest Night like Johns always does to establish a baddie as a threat.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    It makes plenty of sense

    He doesn't want a big ceremony, so he has an unmarked grave

    And let's be honest where would he want his remains buried?

    It's a bit silly to claim that Bruce Wayne isn't dead right after a fresh, unmarked grave has been added next to his parents'. Also, it's a Bat-shaped grave, and superheroes are always visiting it. Maybe we should ask Batman about that? Oh wait, he's dead too.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    TexiKen wrote: »
    They didn't die, and neither did Atom (Ray) that I remember. So that was kind of weird. Unless they are to fly by, see this happen, and are then killed off in Blackest Night like Johns always does to establish a baddie as a threat.
    I know they didn't die. But if this was written awhile ago, Johns might have thought they did.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    It makes plenty of sense

    He doesn't want a big ceremony, so he has an unmarked grave

    And let's be honest where would he want his remains buried?

    It's a bit silly to claim that Bruce Wayne isn't dead right after a fresh, unmarked grave has been added next to his parents'. Also, it's a Bat-shaped grave, and superheroes are always visiting it. Maybe we should ask Batman about that? Oh wait, he's dead too.

    Look at me

    Not giving a shit about comic book logic that we know doesn't really matter

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  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    Ok well
    Think he's coming back as a Black Lantern

    Also the Batman grave, I read that again, he just dug up the skull

    So maybe that's going to be the battery? That would be a little fucked up, using Batman's skull for a power battery

    Not commenting on the other stuff, I thought the anti-moniters corpse was already the power battery.

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    When I was a little kid, I always pretended I was the hero,' Skip said.
    'Fuck yeah, me too. What little kid ever pretended to be part of the lynch-mob?'
  • RansRans Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    that's powering their central power battery, yeah!

    but what if all of their little lantern power batteries are actually skulls that end up getting empowered to pull from their CPB

    (sort of hate the idea but....)

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    That makes sense actually. Powering the ring via the remains of the dead. Although Black Hand in one inked page for BN #0 was licking/eating the skull, but that could be because he's a necrophiliac as Johns alluded to in Secret Origins (which really, come on Geoff. Not cool.)

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    Central battery != power battery

    There's a central battery on Oa/Qward/the other homeworlds, but at least the GLC and the SC have their own power sources that draw power from the central

    Also
    When he picked it up the eyes started glowing and he recited the oath soooooo

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    I'd rather have him be the only one who has to draw power, and the rings just act to keep the other Lanterns functioning

    So we don't add grave-digging to the list of "things Black Lanterns do"

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Golden Yak wrote: »
    Batman had a corpse in the present. After he was hit with Darkseid's Omega Beams, his body was left behind, all burnt and shriveled. Everybody thinks he's dead, while in reality his soul is traveling through alternate dimensions and past lives or something due to the Omega Effect. His friends likely gave his present-day body a burial somewhere, and that's what is being dug up. It'll be interesting to see if he can actually be turned into a Black Lantern, or if it won't work because his soul is elsewhere.

    Batman's body was fired off into space in FC #7. That's how he ended up back in time at the end.

    I'm assuming Johns thought Hawkman and Hawkwoman were dead because that was Morrison's intention in FC, until he has overriden by DiDio in interviews after FC #7 came out.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    Wh...what

    No

    He ended up back in time because of the Omega beams

    His body was buried

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  • RansRans Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    they did put something in the capsule they shot to another world. it looked like batman's cowl or costume or maybe his body, it was pretty vague.

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    I wouldn't be surprised if it was a spare costume but I'm pretty sure they would've kept the body for one of his funerals

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  • RansRans Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    but notice crimsondude said "back in time" and i said "another world" because who the fuck knows what happened in any issue of final crisis

    it looks like the general consensus around the dcu concerning the fallout of final crisis is "darkseid tried to take over and j'onn + batman died and maybe some other stuff happened but uhhhhhh fuck it"

    Rans on
  • SentrySentry Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I'm fairly certain you see Batman's body under Jason Todd's mattress in the last issue of BFtC

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    When I was a little kid, I always pretended I was the hero,' Skip said.
    'Fuck yeah, me too. What little kid ever pretended to be part of the lynch-mob?'
  • MetroidZoidMetroidZoid Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Me Too! wrote: »
    I wouldn't be surprised if it was a spare costume but I'm pretty sure they would've kept the body for one of his funerals

    Can't say Bats doesn't plan ahead ...

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    Rans wrote: »
    but notice crimsondude said "back in time" and i said "another world" because who the fuck knows what happened in any issue of final crisis

    it looks like the general consensus around the dcu concerning the fallout of final crisis is "darkseid tried to take over and j'onn + batman died and maybe some other stuff happened but uhhhhhh fuck it"

    There's also a general consensus I think that Batman is alive in the past but left behind a smoking corpse

    Which is what was buried

    And from Barry and Hal's conversation I wouldn't be surprised if he was buried as Batman and Wayne will just be announced as dead

    Just in time to come back next summer

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  • Golden YakGolden Yak Burnished Bovine The sunny beaches of CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    There was the Bat Signal, and a couple copies of the Daily Planet, but I guess there could also have been his body.

    But given that Black Hand digs up someone out of Batman's grave, I kinda doubt it.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Why would you put a corpse in a time capsule? You'd get corpse juice all over your other stuff, and lord knows you'd freak out whomever opened it.

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  • psycojesterpsycojester Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Why would you put a corpse in a time capsule? You'd get corpse juice all over your other stuff, and lord knows you'd freak out whomever opened it.

    Goddamn thats a great idea, i want to have my corpse spring loaded and forced into a time capsule when i die, so i may scare the living crap out of future generations.

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt (effective against Russian warships) Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Why would you put a corpse in a time capsule? You'd get corpse juice all over your other stuff, and lord knows you'd freak out whomever opened it.
    There was an episode of 'Bones' exactly about this.

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I only mentioned it because you can see the rocket in the background as he's carving his symbol into the cave.

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  • DeJesusDeJesus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    with all the talk about bats in te blackest night preview, the guy pretty much has to come back from te dead. maybe bats is the black hand. or is this a character from the past that i dont know about?

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  • Gabriel_PittGabriel_Pitt (effective against Russian warships) Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    It's a character from the past you don't know about.

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I'm assuming that Batman will not be part of BN. There were quite a few headstones shown in the last few panels, and everyone is assuming that it was Wayne's skull that Black Hand pulled out.

    As far as the rocket in FC, it was pretty much filled with stuff and fired into the chaos of the collapsing multiverse. It found its way to Anthro's world or time- where a time/universe stranded Bruce reclaimed his utility belt from the dying Anthro.

    Yes, Batman was dead. And yes, Batman is still alive. Omega Effect for the confusion.

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  • Dr. FrenchensteinDr. Frenchenstein Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    hey Tach is there a fullsize version of your sig anywheres?

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  • TachTach Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Alls I did was photoshop all of the individual images together into one grande image, and then shrunk it down to applicable max forum width.

    I still owe Brian888 a bigger copy.

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  • Dr. FrenchensteinDr. Frenchenstein Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    yeah i couldn't find all of the individual images, i think i've only seen yellow green and sapphires.

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  • Golden YakGolden Yak Burnished Bovine The sunny beaches of CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    They're all somewhere in this very thread. Including the Black Lantern one.

    edit - Or here:

    http://dcublog.dccomics.com/2009/04/29/corps-101-the-finale/

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  • Brian888Brian888 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Tach wrote: »
    Alls I did was photoshop all of the individual images together into one grande image, and then shrunk it down to applicable max forum width.

    I still owe Brian888 a bigger copy.


    It's cool, I found the larger versions. Thanks, though.

    So, I read #40, and I'm a little confused about how the Orange Lanterns work. From the "Tales of the Orange Lanterns" part at the back, it looks like an Orange Ring flies out when Glomullus is eaten and absorbed into the Orange Lantern Corps. Likewise, in the actual issue, the GL who is eaten and absorbed has an Orange Ring on his finger when he reappears. However, the Corps members are apparently only Orange Light constructs themselves. Are the constructs wearing actual rings? Do they just look like they're wearing rings, as a special effect or something, with only Larfleeze actually wearing an Orange Lantern ring? What gives?

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  • AntimatterAntimatter Devo Was Right Gates of SteelRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    It says he creates avatars, which makes me think the constructs might be able to make more constructs themselves.
    Basically I'm saying Orange Lanterns are greedy space vampires

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