The English Major: /seriously, this is rigoddamneddiculous

Ok so I don't follow the DCU universe at all but of course I know who Batman and Green Lantern are.

Can someone in the shortest and simplest way possible make those pictures make sense to me.

redmond24: Ok so I don't follow the DCU universe at all but of course I know who Batman and Green Lantern are.

Can someone in the shortest and simplest way possible make those pictures make sense to me.

This. All I'm seeing when I see this shiat is the franchise jumping the shark, pulling farking oddball shiat out of their ass in a sad attempt to fuel interest in...whatever the fark this is.

I just dont get it. Perhaps I never did.

redmond24: Ok so I don't follow the DCU universe at all but of course I know who Batman and Green Lantern are.

Can someone in the shortest and simplest way possible make those pictures make sense to me.

Ok. Green Lantern Corp rings work using will power, which is the green part of the emotional spectrum. The Sinestro corp uses fear, which is yellow. There's a prophecy about a war of light between the various colors of the emotional spectrum (fear, will, avarice, rage, hope, compassion and love = yellow, green, orange, red, blue, indigo, violet). These are derived from the white light of creation. The antithesis of all of these is black (death).

All of these colors have a lantern corp now. Their (all but black) war brought about the Blackest Night, which is the rise of the black lanterns. Black Lanterns are the dead who wield black rings. Originally, the dead rose, manipulated the emotions (see spectrum) of people they knew in life. After a certain emotional response level, the Black Lanterns ripped out the hearts of the living and ate them, feeding power into the Black Lantern central battery. After enough carnage (100% BL battery charge), the Central Battery emerged and Nekron was brought forth by Black Hand. Incidentally, Black Hand has been wandering around toting Bruce Wayne's skull. The skull is from the corpse of Wayne/Batman after Darkseid hit him with the Omega Sanction in Final Crisis.

The Black Lantern Batman is from Blackest Night #5. Nekron causes him to be. Batman's emotional connection to the big heros of the DCU makes them susceptible to Nekron's power. The rings Batman spews force themselves onto people's fingers and Nekron commands them to die. Thus, they become Black Lanterns (except Barry Allen and Hal Jordan). Nekron then makes Batman dead again, his purpose completed. (Yes, Barry Allen is alive again. See Final Crisis.)

Ultimately, the goal of Nekron and the BL Corp is to destroy the white light of creation (and life) that later fragmented into the aforementioned emotional spectrum.

tl;dr: DCU is turning into the Care Bears vs Zombies

Brown Jenkems: redmond24: Ok so I don't follow the DCU universe at all but of course I know who Batman and Green Lantern are.

Can someone in the shortest and simplest way possible make those pictures make sense to me.

Ok....words.....

tl;dr: DCU is turning into the Care Bears vs Zombies

Oh yeah. Blackest Night has been really farking good for the most part. This has been building since the return of Hal Jordan and the Sinestro Corp War.

I liked Final Crisis too.

redmond24: Ok so I don't follow the DCU universe at all but of course I know who Batman and Green Lantern are.

Can someone in the shortest and simplest way possible make those pictures make sense to me.

I can start. I don't know enough about the DCU to do it very thoroughly.

Basically, the Green Lanterns aren't the only Lantern Corps out there, each keyed to a different emotion. Green is Willpower, then you have Red (rage), Orange (avarice), Yellow (fear), and so on.

Black Lanterns are dead people, basically. The ring resurrects them with all superpowers intact, their switch flipped to the "evil" setting, and if any part of them is injured, it can partially restore them.

Pretty lame. DC has really dropped the ball on this ring thing.

The comics that came with a ring were horrible with the exception of Booster and such, but the rest like Adventure blew chunks. Thanks DC for putting them in comics nobody gives a rats arse about. REBELS deals with a yellow ring but gives out a blue one.
They didn't even have the common sense to give out a ring the same color as the story would have.
Green Lantern Corp is an absolute mess which few can follow. Hopefully they pull their head out and get some good solid storylines.
The mini series like Blackest Night: Batman and BN: Superman were ok, but people wanting to read the whole series are dropping out pretty fast and just sticking with the core books.

/works in a comic book store
//shouldn't even BE here today

Heroic Poser: Pretty lame. DC has really dropped the ball on this ring thing.

The comics that came with a ring were horrible with the exception of Booster and such, but the rest like Adventure blew chunks. Thanks DC for putting them in comics nobody gives a rats arse about. REBELS deals with a yellow ring but gives out a blue one.
They didn't even have the common sense to give out a ring the same color as the story would have.
Green Lantern Corp is an absolute mess which few can follow. Hopefully they pull their head out and get some good solid storylines.
The mini series like Blackest Night: Batman and BN: Superman were ok, but people wanting to read the whole series are dropping out pretty fast and just sticking with the core books.

/works in a comic book store
//shouldn't even BE here today

Yeah, most of the tie-ins have been less than stellar. I'm not looking forward to the next batch. I'll still buy them because I'm a chump like that. The best stuff has been in GL and BN. GLC is just...meh. Though the end of the last issue was great. Kyle sucks.

I wish they would have stuck to the original plan and left the story in ongoing GL titles, especially after all of the tie-ins for Final Crisis.

Brown Jenkems:
I wish they would have stuck to the original plan and left the story in ongoing GL titles, especially after all of the tie-ins for Final Crisis.

Yes. Or at the least, not give the whole thing another CRISIS feel.
Most people are buying the titles but feel the whole thing will be "reset" when it's over.

Heroic Poser: Pretty lame. DC has really dropped the ball on this ring thing.

The comics that came with a ring were horrible with the exception of Booster and such, but the rest like Adventure blew chunks. Thanks DC for putting them in comics nobody gives a rats arse about. REBELS deals with a yellow ring but gives out a blue one.
They didn't even have the common sense to give out a ring the same color as the story would have.
Green Lantern Corp is an absolute mess which few can follow. Hopefully they pull their head out and get some good solid storylines.
The mini series like Blackest Night: Batman and BN: Superman were ok, but people wanting to read the whole series are dropping out pretty fast and just sticking with the core books.


How can you not like Adventure Comics #4? I read a review that perfectly described it as parody of Blackest Night by the author of Blackest Night (and also a PART of Blackest Night). And it has actually depicts the reader's reaction IN THE COMIC:

So does this mean that every dead superhero/villain can be a black lantern? And if so, why not make Doomsday a black lantern? And I'm not talking about all those clones that came afterwards, but the original Doomsday. The guy who fought Superman to a standstill and killed him. Man just imagining someone with that much power with a freakin lantern ring!

Brown Jenkems: redmond24: Ok so I don't follow the DCU universe at all but of course I know who Batman and Green Lantern are.

Can someone in the shortest and simplest way possible make those pictures make sense to me.

Ok. Green Lantern Corp rings work using will power, which is the green part of the emotional spectrum. The Sinestro corp uses fear, which is yellow. There's a prophecy about a war of light between the various colors of the emotional spectrum (fear, will, avarice, rage, hope, compassion and love = yellow, green, orange, red, blue, indigo, violet). These are derived from the white light of creation. The antithesis of all of these is black (death).

All of these colors have a lantern corp now. Their (all but black) war brought about the Blackest Night, which is the rise of the black lanterns. Black Lanterns are the dead who wield black rings. Originally, the dead rose, manipulated the emotions (see spectrum) of people they knew in life. After a certain emotional response level, the Black Lanterns ripped out the hearts of the living and ate them, feeding power into the Black Lantern central battery. After enough carnage (100% BL battery charge), the Central Battery emerged and Nekron was brought forth by Black Hand. Incidentally, Black Hand has been wandering around toting Bruce Wayne's skull. The skull is from the corpse of Wayne/Batman after Darkseid hit him with the Omega Sanction in Final Crisis.

The Black Lantern Batman is from Blackest Night #5. Nekron causes him to be. Batman's emotional connection to the big heros of the DCU makes them susceptible to Nekron's power. The rings Batman spews force themselves onto people's fingers and Nekron commands them to die. Thus, they become Black Lanterns (except Barry Allen and Hal Jordan). Nekron then makes Batman dead again, his purpose completed. (Yes, Barry Allen is alive again. See Final Crisis.)

Ultimately, the goal of Nekron and the BL Corp is to destroy the white light of creation (and life) that later fragmented into the aforementioned emotional spectrum.

tl;dr: DCU is turning into the Care Bears vs Zombies

Good lord, I'm glad I quit reading comics.

This is just too goddamn stupid.

jocutus: How can you not like Adventure Comics #4? I read a review that perfectly described it as parody of Blackest Night by the author of Blackest Night (and also a PART of Blackest Night). And it has actually depicts the reader's reaction IN THE COMIC:

The entire thing was pretty much blatantly dedicated to taking the piss out of the retarded bullshiat with Superboy Prime. I loved it.

Also, I collected all but the pink and black rings from Blackest Night (still trying to find a pink ring, don't care about the black rings). Since they're promotional pieces of crap they're just molded, single-color plastic. I got some Warhammer miniatures paint from Games Workshop and really spruced them up into something pretty kick-ass, though.



I want to get a few new green rings, because the black Kyle Rayner ring got some nasty scratches on the side and revealed the clear-grey plastic under the green paintjob. Still, I'm happy with hour they turned out!

Sigh, let's see if this works.

Bloody William: Sigh, let's see if this works.

something something

Wait, what?

WFern: Brown Jenkems: redmond24: Ok so I don't follow the DCU universe at all but of course I know who Batman and Green Lantern are.

Can someone in the shortest and simplest way possible make those pictures make sense to me.

Ok. Green Lantern Corp rings work using will power, which is the green part of the emotional spectrum. The Sinestro corp uses fear, which is yellow. There's a prophecy about a war of light between the various colors of the emotional spectrum (fear, will, avarice, rage, hope, compassion and love = yellow, green, orange, red, blue, indigo, violet). These are derived from the white light of creation. The antithesis of all of these is black (death).

All of these colors have a lantern corp now. Their (all but black) war brought about the Blackest Night, which is the rise of the black lanterns. Black Lanterns are the dead who wield black rings. Originally, the dead rose, manipulated the emotions (see spectrum) of people they knew in life. After a certain emotional response level, the Black Lanterns ripped out the hearts of the living and ate them, feeding power into the Black Lantern central battery. After enough carnage (100% BL battery charge), the Central Battery emerged and Nekron was brought forth by Black Hand. Incidentally, Black Hand has been wandering around toting Bruce Wayne's skull. The skull is from the corpse of Wayne/Batman after Darkseid hit him with the Omega Sanction in Final Crisis.

The Black Lantern Batman is from Blackest Night #5. Nekron causes him to be. Batman's emotional connection to the big heros of the DCU makes them susceptible to Nekron's power. The rings Batman spews force themselves onto people's fingers and Nekron commands them to die. Thus, they become Black Lanterns (except Barry Allen and Hal Jordan). Nekron then makes Batman dead again, his purpose completed. (Yes, Barry Allen is alive again. See Final Crisis.)

Ultimately, the goal of Nekron and the BL Corp is to destroy the white light of creation (and life) that later fragmented into the aforementioned emotional spectrum.

tl;dr: DCU is turning into the Care Bears vs Zombies

Good lord, I'm glad I quit reading comics.

This is just too goddamn stupid.

WHY SO SERIOUS?

Kyle Rayner, Hal Jordan, Kilowog... feh! there is only one hero who can end this... Blackest Night...

Bloody William: Sigh, let's see if this works.



/Queekly! Call Capto Planet!

I just want fun comics again. I got old. :(

And if anyone is actually curious for some background info, there was a great little primer compiled by a website called The Weekly Crisis, available here, including a synopsis of the Green lantern storylines back to when Hal Jordan was brought back to life.

dervish16108: Bloody William: Sigh, let's see if this works.



/Queekly! Call Capto Planet!



writers beat you to it.

I'll uh ... just leave this here.

I just turned myself into a goddamn meme AGAIN, didn't I?

/Fine, I'll take my pride with crappy plastic toys ELSEWHERE!

This is why I just watch comic book movies instead of reading comics.

Bloody William: I just turned myself into a goddamn meme AGAIN, didn't I?

that's why i love ya you little furry.

Mentat: That's just not fair. It was nice knowing you DC Universe, but Undead Batman always wins.

/Someone post the Batman-Green Lantern lol



Batman? You watch too many movies.

Mentat: If I recall correctly, the rings aren't technically resurrecting anyone, they just use the form of the person to invoke an emotional response in the victim. Batman isn't actually dead anyway, he was transported to the past by the Omega Sanction.

I completely missed Battle for the Cowl and all of the post-Final Crisis Batman bullshiat, but isn't that actually Bruce's body Alfred buried (after Superman brought it back after Final Crisis)?

And the rings aren't resurrecting anyone, but they're definitely reanimating. They access the host's memory to produce something like a personality, but they're not actually the dead brought back to life. They're more like meat-robots controlled by an elemental death power thingie.

/Grayson's now Batman, right? I've seriously lost track.
//And is Steve Rogers back? Last I heard he was unstuck in time or some bullshiat.
///Zathras warned S.H.I.E.L.D., but nobody listens to Zathras...

Bloody William: I just turned myself into a goddamn meme AGAIN, didn't I?

/Fine, I'll take my pride with crappy plastic toys ELSEWHERE!

You are truly the Lord of the Rings.