Posts Tagged ‘ Black Lanterns ’

I posted this on my Tumblr earlier, but since I have marginally more people coming here than I have following me there….

I do love me a good homage.

I’m palm slapping my forehead that I didn’t see the title of the newly-announced biweekly book from DC Comics coming.

I mean really, it was obvious wasn’t it?

And I guess that symbol there is of the White Lantern everyone’s been assuming can save the day in the end?

Ok, so in this week’s Blackest Night #2, something that will undoubtedly become some kind of key plot point is that the Black Lantern rings were unable to revive and co-opt Don Hall, the original Dove – because he was apparently resting in peace.

Apparently, Don had no such qualms when Brother Blood raised him from the dead, but…

…I can live with that; maybe the Black Rings ‘ask’ a little – but what about his brother Hank Hall, better known as Hawk?

Apparently, he’s not resting in peace…

But here’s where I get confused. Following Don’s death in Crisis on Infinite Earths, Hank got a new Dove as a partner – Dawn Granger.

This was all well and good until Armageddon 2001, where the time-traveling despot from the future, Monarch, turned out to be Hank Hall himself.*

Later, Monarch kidnapped Hawk and Dove and killed Dove**, specifically so he could incite Hawk to kill him and become Monarch himself. What a plan.

So at this point, Hawk has become Monarch. Monarch then skipped around the timestream for a while, battling Captain Atom for a bit*** before eventually resurfacing in Zero Hour as Extant, having duplicated Waverider’s powers to add to his own. He killed a couple of JSA members, including the Atom…

…and years later showed up in JSA. Eventually, Atom Smasher managed to swap his mother (who had died in a plane crash) with Extant, saving his mother, avenging his father and finally killing Extant.

So: is the Hank Hall rising from the dead in Blackest Night the remains of the Hank Hall who became Monarch who became Extant who died on that plane? If so, does he still have Extant’s powers? Or just Hawk’s?

I’m confused!

*Yes, he was originally intended to be Captain Atom but lets not get into it now…

**Dove wasn’t dead; that was an illusion and she was secreted away by Mordru to carry Hank’s child who would eventually be aged to become the reincarnation of Hector Hall, Dr Fate. Or something like that.

***Even more confusing; along the way, Monarch ran into Nathaniel Adam in the timestream who, it turns out, never became Captain Atom at all, and the CA we know was just basically a copy made from the alien metal. Adam helped Monarch out, and in return he gave him his armor to get out of the timestream. Adam then became a second, heroic Monarch for a while- not to be confused with the third Monarch, who was apparently Captain Atom once again in Countdown. Maybe. Brain…exploding…

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*I’m an idiot – Thanks for pointing that out, Paul!

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Ch’p!

Poor, sweet Ch’p!

Damn you Geoff Johns!

Damn you all to hell!!!!

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Via the Source – what looks to be a Black Lantern roll call – looks like I called it and called it (Captain Atom aside as he’s back in the land of the living).

It’s kind of a shame to see some characters so recently dead on here – like Dr Light and Batman (wait, does this mean he’s actually dead, just his corpse or what?) – but the more I see, the more I think this’ll end with the majority of the Power Ring Zombies heading back for a dirt nap.

Probably after some heroic sacrifice as they shake off the bonds of the Black Hand.

Still kind of looking forward to this, though.

Hey, if, as not-so-subtly-hinted-at, Sue and Ralph Dibny are going to be among the Black Lanterns…

…what happened to them running around, possessing bodies and playing ghost detective, as seen in the early forgettable (at best) issues of Batman and the Outsiders?

Is this now being ignored? Because I kind of liked the idea of them as ghost detectives, if not the execution.

Then again, just because the bodies rise, I guess it doesn’t mean the spirit does, right?

DC’s let the final of its Corps images out (from this weekend’s FCBD issue, I assume) – and it’s no surprise that it’s the Black Lanterns.

So who do those hands belong to? Well, I see the already confirmed (L-R) Martian Manhunter, Aquaman and Earth 2 Superman:

As for others, I think I recognise Captain Boomerang (Sr) -

– and the original Mirror Master -

But the others are a mystery to me (although that orange flouncy one seems familiar – a miscolored Ron Raymond?).

For some reason, the idea of a Black Lantern Deadman appeals to me. But then so do Black Lanterns Jonah Hex, FKAJL and, of course, Pa Kent…

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Oh you know it’s going to happen…

It’s almost an inevitability at this point, isn’t it?