After a few months of build up DC Comics has begun it's annual title crossover event : Blackest Night.
The cross overs can be a hit and miss affair - 'Crisis on Infinite Earth' was a bullseye hit.
'Infinite Crisis' was also a square-between-the-eye's hit.
'Final Crisis' was a big miss. I mean WTF happened? The plot (too confusing to describe here) was convoluted to the point of well...convolusion.
The only interesting thing to come out of the series was the death (although he really isn't) of Batman. Interesting because now Dick Grayson has inherites the mantle of the Bat and the different Batman titles have a whole new dynamic.
And now we have 'Blackest Night'.
Over the last couple of Years DC has killed off some of it's hero's. Blue Beetle, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Elongated Man....to name but a few.
Writer Geoff Johns has expanded the Green Lantern mythos by creating a whole slew of corps, all represenative of the emotional spectrum. FOr example, the Red Lanterns are full of rage, the Indigo Lanterns are representative of Hope, the Pink Lanterns are Love..and so forth.
But the Black Lanterns...
The Black Lanterns are anti-life and the series opened with the Black Lantern Power rings descend through the cosmos seeking out dead flesh to be their host's..dead flesh such as Blue Beetle,Martian Manhunter....you get the picture!
Issue one came out this week and Geof John's has done a cracking job of kicking it off with a bang - the resurrected Elongated Man ripping the heart out of his old team buddy Hawkman...then placing a Black Lantern ring on his dead hand...
A good start, let's hope it doesn't disappoint like these series that have come before.
