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

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  • Brian888Brian888 Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Antimatter wrote: »
    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


    I hope Johns clarifies exactly how the Orange Lanterns work. They're just too different from all the other Corps so far.

    Don't get me wrong, though, the Orange Lanterns are awesome. "MINE!"

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  • DeJesusDeJesus Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    1 orange lantern who kills people and steals their souls or something, then he can make them and they can each do whatever.

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  • VirralVirral Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Someone should photoshop the Seagulls from Finding Nemo to give them Orange Lantern uniforms.

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Virral wrote: »
    Someone should photoshop the Seagulls from Finding Nemo to give them Orange Lantern uniforms.

    What? Stop looking at me like that.

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  • Psychotic OnePsychotic One The Lord of No Pants Parts UnknownRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Virral wrote: »
    Someone should photoshop the Seagulls from Finding Nemo to give them Orange Lantern uniforms.

    What? Stop looking at me like that.

    I whole heartedly endorese this idea

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Cash money, bitches.

    Seriously. I made a couple of desktops of my avatar for someone who asked via PM and haven't heard so much as a peep since. So fuck it. My good will has run out.

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    So, anyone think the events of this week's release of Flash: Rebirth #2 will connect to Blackest Night?
    It does make Barry's appearance in Blackest Night #0 take on a new meaning.

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  • HadjiQuestHadjiQuest Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Also, are those new miniseries that Didio announced in DC Nation (two for Robinson, one for Tomasi), or are they the existing ones?

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  • Futt BuckerFutt Bucker CTRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    HadjiQuest wrote: »
    Also, are those new miniseries that Didio announced in DC Nation (two for Robinson, one for Tomasi), or are they the existing ones?

    Probably the existing ones, I don't think we got creative teams for any of them yet.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Owenashi wrote: »
    So, anyone think the events of this week's release of Flash: Rebirth #2 will connect to Blackest Night?
    It does make Barry's appearance in Blackest Night #0 take on a new meaning.

    Can someone explain what happened to me? Scans_daily had the final page, but I didn't really understand why
    he became the Black Flash. I was actually under the impression that the Black Flash wasn't even sentient, much less a title you could inherit.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    it beats a yellow fear bug, but on the same level of "guh?"

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  • OwenashiOwenashi Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Owenashi wrote: »
    So, anyone think the events of this week's release of Flash: Rebirth #2 will connect to Blackest Night?
    It does make Barry's appearance in Blackest Night #0 take on a new meaning.

    Can someone explain what happened to me? Scans_daily had the final page, but I didn't really understand why
    he became the Black Flash. I was actually under the impression that the Black Flash wasn't even sentient, much less a title you could inherit.
    Probably not anywhere near the correct answer but the Black Flash to me seemed to be simply the Speed Force's extension of Death, which was shown off recentlly as the Black Racer in FC. It could be that without said 'New God' being around anymore, not to mention Barry's previous state and his race against Death within the pages of FC have maybe tainted him enough to make him a much more appealing host then whatever the Black Flash was using as a body previously.

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  • mattharvestmattharvest Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    You're confused: Black Racer is not the same entity as Black Flash any more than it's the same as Vertigo's Death. They may be aspects of the same meta-entity (though Gaiman denies this), but they're distinct.

    However, we saw Black Flash die - we saw its corpse - and so it's not surprising that
    someone would have to rise into the position
    . I interpret it like the Fables: when a character is killed, it isn't that the character is resurrected but rather that some other character finds themselves guided into becoming that character, filling that void.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    How did he/it die?

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  • KyleWPetersonKyleWPeterson Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    How did he/it die?
    Wally West pushed it to the edge of time and space like a decade ago, but it came back for Bart a year or two ago so I don't know how that all works.

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  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    My theory:
    When Barry "died" and became one with the Speed Force, he inherited some of its internal properties, such as the power of the Black Flash. In other words, the Speed Force is a semi-sentient entity that must police itself. In the absence of the original Black Flash, the Speed Force transferred the responsibility of the job onto Barry.

    The role of Black Flash is much more similar to the way the entity of the Spectre works. It picks a host, whether the host is willing or not.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    The role of Black Flash is much more similar to the way the entity of the Spectre works. It picks a host, whether the host is willing or not.

    This is exactly what I was thinking
    They're basically doing with Barry what they did with Hal. I hope it doesn't stick.

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  • CrimsondudeCrimsondude Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Stick? Hasn't Secret Origin and the current war of light shown that Johns wants ram as much through as fast as possible? It'll probably be resolved before you hear fireworks in your neighborhood.

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  • KVWKVW Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    So, Firestorm is a Black Lantern now. Isnt he alive? I thought only the professor personality/merged guy died? Fuck if I understand Firestorm's backstory.

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  • CoJoeTheLawyerCoJoeTheLawyer Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    KVW wrote: »
    So, Firestorm is a Black Lantern now. Isnt he alive? I thought only the professor personality/merged guy died? Fuck if I understand Firestorm's backstory.

    Don't feel bad Kirk, I thought Firestorm died back in Identity Crisis.

    But between the Superman, Martian Manhunter, Firestorm and Aquaman, the Black Lanterns have a powerful lineup. And they haven't even tapped into all the dead villians yet.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Ronnie got stabbed by Shadow Thief, blew up, disappeared for a while, his mind then briefly merged with Jason Rusch, then apparently disincorporated, and has not been seen since.

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  • KVWKVW Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Munch wrote: »
    Ronnie got stabbed by Shadow Thief, blew up, disappeared for a while, his mind then briefly merged with Jason Rusch, then apparently disincorporated, and has not been seen since.

    I take it that's a different Firestorm than the one in JLA?

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Yeah. Ronnie Raymond's the classic, Superfriends Firestorm who merged with Professor Stein to become Firestorm, and Jason Rusch is the new, younger Firestorm who got the powers after Ronnie died.

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Munch wrote: »
    Yeah. Ronnie Raymond's the classic, Superfriends Firestorm who merged with Professor Stein to become Firestorm, and Jason Rusch is the new, younger Firestorm who got the powers after Ronnie died.

    He also had a pretty good book that also died.

    He's like Jaime Blue Beetle except less popular.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    It was pretty average until Stuart Moore took over though. I think that killed a lot of people's interest.

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  • MatthewMatthew Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Well, I've officially read the entire SInestro Corps war storyline. I first decided to read this after reading through Annihilation. I have to admit it was pretty stellar. Great cast, nice epic feel, it was definitely the top story DC has put out in the last few years. Though I kind of feel that the first half was better than the second, which seemed kind of rushed to me, and I think it could have benefited from being stretched out a few more issues. A great memorable story, but I won't rank it above Annihilation where big cosmic brouhaha's of the recent years go.

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  • TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    The second half of Sinestro was a bit rushed because DC really didn't expect people to receive it as well as we did and tried to see what they could do to milk some more money out of it.

    There was an extra issue of GLC (the Sodam Yat/Ion origin issue) that was made at the last minute to carry some momentum, which is why there were 5 or six artists on that issue.

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  • RansRans Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    TexiKen wrote: »
    The second half of Sinestro was a bit rushed because DC really didn't expect people to receive it as well as we did and tried to see what they could do to milk some more money out of it.

    There was an extra issue of GLC (the Sodam Yat/Ion origin issue) that was made at the last minute to carry some momentum, which is why there were 5 or six artists on that issue.

    there were only two artists on the Sodam Yat / ION origin / Superboy-prime fight issue

    the issue of GLC before that one had five or six artists for unknown reasons

    Rans on
  • LucascraftLucascraft Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I bought all the Sintestro War stuff in issue form, so I'm not really sure what all got included in the TPB. Does it have the 4 origin books included? The Kyle Rayner issue, the Cyborg Superman issue, and the other ones? And what about the "Tales of the Sinestro Corps" back-up stories that ran for 3 or 4 months leading up to the war. Are these "Tales of" stories included with the war? Or is that all stuff that would be reserved for an Absolute Edition if one were to ever be made?

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  • Unco-ordinatedUnco-ordinated NZRegistered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Lucascraft wrote: »
    I bought all the Sintestro War stuff in issue form, so I'm not really sure what all got included in the TPB. Does it have the 4 origin books included? The Kyle Rayner issue, the Cyborg Superman issue, and the other ones? And what about the "Tales of the Sinestro Corps" back-up stories that ran for 3 or 4 months leading up to the war. Are these "Tales of" stories included with the war? Or is that all stuff that would be reserved for an Absolute Edition if one were to ever be made?

    All that stuff is included in the GL: Tales of the Sinestro Corps TPB. I don't really think it's worth buying though.

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  • RansRans Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    i have them all in issues and i really like the one shots in place in the storyline in the order they were meant to be read

    having them in a separate trade is a real shame

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  • The_ReflectionThe_Reflection Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Guess whats gonna happen to Hal, I mean hes already had three of the rings, whats stopping him from wearing the rest?


    My prediction is Hal becomes the Rainbow lantern.

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Guess whats gonna happen to Hal, I mean hes already had three of the rings, whats stopping him from wearing the rest?


    My prediction is Hal becomes the Rainbow lantern.

    Your theory is new and exciting!

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    Thank you for saying that

    We have not heard "Rainbow/White Lantern" at all since this was announced last year nope

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  • Me Too!Me Too! __BANNED USERS regular
    edited May 2009
    I'm just fucking with you everyone has said that already

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  • MatthewMatthew Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    I don't know, Geoff Johns doesn't seems like the kind of guy to wantonly "Sue-ify" an old character. Why, A white Lantern would probably have to be a perfect warrior, capable of doing anything and everything at a moments notice, unstoppable, and perfect in the eyes of all others as well. I seriously doubt Johns would write Hal Jordan as such a character.

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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
    Matthew wrote: »
    I don't know, Geoff Johns doesn't seems like the kind of guy to wantonly "Sue-ify" an old character. Why, A white Lantern would probably have to be a perfect warrior, capable of doing anything and everything at a moments notice, unstoppable, and perfect in the eyes of all others as well. I seriously doubt Johns would write Hal Jordan as such a character.
    So you're saying Barry Allen will be the white lantern?

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Like I said before, it'll be worth it for Sexy Sapphire Hal.

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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
    Like he's wearing Nothing at all!
    Nothing at all!
    Nothing at all!

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  • KyleWPetersonKyleWPeterson Registered User regular
    edited May 2009
    Like I said before, it'll be worth it for Sexy Sapphire Hal.
    Here

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