Blackest Night

Blackest Night! You know... Blackest Night!

So there was this comic event that happened, I guess a few years ago now... called Blackest Night.

It was a Green Lantern storyline, and there were about a million different characters involved.

What started as only the Green Lantern Corps, quickly evolved into 7 different corps, all representing a different colour and emotion.

Green Lanterns wield the power of Will
Yellow Lanterns are the Sinestro Corps and wield the power of Fear
Violet Lanterns are know as Star Sapphires and wield the power of Love
then suddenly there was Blue
Blue Lanterns wield the power of Hope and only work when a Green Lantern is around
and then...
Red Lanterns wield the power of Rage, and are essentially dead, with acidic plasma blood keeping them and their rage alive.

Orange Lanterns, well, there's only one Orange Lantern, and his name is Larfleeze. He wields the power of Avarice, which basically means he's greedy and wants everything all the time. His ring has a 100,000% power level and brings forth as many orange lantern avatars as he's killed. Confusing right?
Indigo Lanterns are mysterious, because nobody knows what they do. They wield the power of Compassion. (What? That's a power?) They apparently worship Abin Sur, the Green Lantern that died on Earth and who's ring chose Hal Jordan as a Green Lantern.

All the coloured Lantern Corps came together, eventually, because they needed to stop a threat to the Universe, the Black Lanterns, who wield the power of the dead. The black rings made the dead heroes and villains of the DC Universe rise from their graves and mess with the living. The sole purpose? To bathe the living heart with emotions and 'harvest' it, which fed the power of the ultimate Black Lantern, Nekron. Nekron wanted to extinguish all of life in the Universe, because he was the ultimate darkness.

It explained how some heroes in the DC Universe had been resurrected over the years, while others stayed dead. And then at the end of it all, 12 heroes/villains were alive again, and there's a White Power Lantern, which I assume is why the next bit is called Brightest Day.

Blackest Night is a long story, because there are a lot of dead heroes/villains that came back to life. As such, many different titles were tie-ins to the main event. I skipped a few of them, because they seemed to be the same old story. Everyone is surprised to see so-and-so alive, then everyone fights. Sometimes the heroes manage to figure out that intense white light destroys the black ring. Or more characters die from having their hearts ripped out.

Overall it was an intense story line that was supposed to have the reader experience a lot of character emotion. This was difficult for me as I was not as invested in the characters as someone who say, spent the last 10 years reading comics.

So now I embark on the next part of this Green Lantern story... Brightest Day. Where a bunch of redemption will be interwoven into the story. That's my guess anyways.

Onward...