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The Colors of The Blackest Night

If you’re a fan of DC Comics or just a fan of good comics in general, then you’re obviously hip deep in The Blackest Night: DC’s latest big crossover event. Now, STOP- I don’t want you getting your nerd panties all in a twist and starting on some big nasally rant. NO, Blackest Night isn’t some cheap money making scheme (you must be thinking of Marvel’s crappy Blackest Night knock-off: “Necrosha”) and NO, it isn’t a rip-off of “Marvel Zombies”, either. Blackest Night had its origins planted WAYYYYY back in Green Lantern: Rebirth in 2004, a year before Marvel Zombies game out…so kindly shut up, please and thank you.

Now, if you’ve been living under a rock, or are just plain simple, I’ll go over the story real quick like. The Green Lantern Corps aren’t the only ring-based army out in space anymore and over the last year, lanterns of various colors and emotional backgrounds have been making themselves known and are at full out war with each other:

Red: RAGE

Orange: AVARICE

Yellow: FEAR

Blue: HOPE

Indigo: COMPASSION

Sapphire: LOVE

Which brings us to the final lantern set in this emotional spectrum: The Black Lanterns, who represent death. A mysterious force has been sending out black power rings across the galaxy which have been resurrecting deceased heroes and villains who plague the living…and brother, do they do a good job. The difference between this and Marvel Zombies is that the later was just senseless monster fun, while Blackest Night is more of an emotional-action ride that makes you use your brain every once in a while. Heroes are having to come face to face with grotesque and twisted versions of their long lost friends, comrades, and loved ones who are hell bent on ripping them apart. And besides being an awesomely frantic adventure, it also serves as a great commentary on death in the DC Universe, which I have been waiting years for. We finally get to see the somber tone in graveyards as the heaps of dead heroes are finally remembered and mourned. And despite the fact that people are dropping like flies, death is still a heavily deep and meaningful thing that should make an impact on readers as well (if you have a heart, that is).

So go ahead and dive right in: there’s a lot to choose from, most of it being pretty great stuff. You can just stick with the main Blackest Night series, but if you wanna dip into tie-ins by way of your favorite books, it’ll just add more to the fun. So even though October has come and gone, you can still get your undead monster fix all the way ‘till March. While you figure all this out for yourself, here’s the tie-in checklist for November:

Blackest Night # 5

Green Lantern #48

Green Lantern Corps # 42

Justice League of America # 39

Superman/Batman # 66

Doom Patrol # 4

Booster Gold # 26

R.E.B.E.L.S. # 10

Teen Titans # 77

Adventure Comics # 4

Outsiders # 24

And if you want another way to fall deeper and deeper into your superhero delusions, you can pick up a different colored ring every week at your local comic shop. Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to put on my green ring, a domino mask, and run around the street pretending to save the world.