Tie-ins include issues of Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps starting with issues #43 and #38, respectively, and nine 3-issue limited series: Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps, Blackest Night: Superman, Blackest Night: Batman, Blackest Night: Titans, Blackest Night: Wonder Woman, Blackest Night: Flash, and Blackest Night: JSA. The standalone, self-titled miniseries consists of Blackest Night #0 and eight monthly issues. More details for the event were revealed in DC Universe #0, which depicted Black Hand discovering the black power battery on the planet of Ryut.īlackest Night #0 was released on May 2, 2009, - Free Comic Book Day-and portrays a series of events directly leading into Blackest Night #1. In a December 2007 interview with IGN, Johns stated that he had the monthly Green Lantern book plotted up until issue #55.

Both Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver said that Blackest Night is the third part of a Green Lantern event trilogy that began with Rebirth and continued with 'Sinestro Corps War'. Johns says the prophecy has its origins in the story 'Tygers' by Alan Moore, which touches on the rising up of the Guardians' enemies the Weaponers of Qward, Ranx the Sentient City, and the Children of the White Lobe, the destruction of the Green Lanterns, and shows Hal Jordan, Sinestro, and Mogo dying. According to the prophecy, the two existing Corps would be joined by five new ones, each driven by a specific emotion and empowered by a specific color of the emotional spectrum, leading to a 'War of Light' that would subsequently destroy the universe. As the war between the Green Lantern and Sinestro Corps reaches its climax, the four Green Lanterns of Earth- Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner-are told by the Guardians Ganthet and Sayd of the Blackest Night prophecy. The storyline was first mentioned at the conclusion of the ' Sinestro Corps War' in Green Lantern (vol. Teaser for Blackest Night from the last page of Green Lantern (vol.

Various other limited series and tie-ins, including an audio drama from Darker Projects, were published. The crossover was published for eight months as a limited series and in both the Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps comic titles. Geoff Johns has identified the series' central theme as emotion. Blackest Night involves Nekron, a personified force of death who reanimates deceased superheroes and seeks to eliminate all life and emotion from the universe. ' Blackest Night' is a 2009–10 American comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics, consisting of an eponymous central miniseries, written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, along with a number of tie-in issues.

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