Back in November at his sublime Everyday is Like Wednesday blog, our own J. Caleb Mozzocco listed (and drew!) some Black Lanterns that he hoped would appear tomorrow. Among his highlights:
Pa Kent
The Red Bee (which is another way to know Caleb did it)
Check out the rest of his gallery when you get the chance. But for right now . . . if YOU had to choose (apart from the obvious ones we know, like Aquaman, etc.), what FIVE DC dead would you want to see rise as Black Lanterns? Go nuts.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Anyone who died in Hitman. I don’t want to say which ones in case anyone hasn’t read the series.
July 14th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Black Lanterns vs. Marvel Zombies
July 14th, 2009 at 10:14 am
Blue Jay. The Yazz. The original Mongul. Anima.
… Geoff Johns wouldn’t pit Kyle Rayner against a Black Lantern Alex DeWitt, would he?
July 14th, 2009 at 11:05 am
This one’s easy– and I won’t cop out and mention Katma Tui, whom we all knew would be sporting the black since this was first conceived.
1. Titans– together!
Huh? What’s this, you say? Think about it… the Titans have a list of DC deaths in which characters have come back in new bodies, leaving the old husks behind to potentially wreak havoc in zombie-infested worlds. Those that come immediately to mind include Bart Allen, Raven, Jericho, and Donna Troy– just to name a very few. (Sidenote: I am -still- pushing to see a Tiny Titans “Blackest Night” crossover/spoof issue for Halloween. Who’s with me?)
2. Alex DeWitt
Collectededitions above beat me to saying it, but this one’s another no-brainer like Katma. DC hasn’t tortured Kyle Rayner enough with the women of his past. In fact, let’s go for the trifecta– Alex, Jennie-Lynn Hayden (since we already know well enough that Jade will be back in black), and the discarded Donna Troy body mentioned above should make for a -very- dark anti-Valentine’s Day.
3. Ch’p
If you’re going to have former GLs everywhere sporting the latest in dark fashion jewelry, why not bring back the squirrel supreme from the great tree of the beyond? Ever since he was slain in the pages of GL:Mosaic (where’s our Showcase Presents of Mosaic, DC?), he’s been missed. Besides– evil zombie squirrel! Something for RageCat Dex-Starr to go chasing after! There’s nothing cuter than that!
4. Morpheus
We saw in JLA that the walls between Vertigo & DC were broken down enough to let Dream himself come through– at least, the current iteration of Dream. Let’s take it a couple of logical steps further, then, and bring the grand master of it all into play in a one-shot showing what happens when Dream becomes Nightmare.
5. Jenny Sparks
Wildstorm is Earth-50 now. And the Anti-Monitor can cross the earths; he did so with startling regularity in 1985. What’s to say that 25 years later he doesn’t do the same thing and bring back the bad-ass Brit who electronuked “god” in the original Authority series? Warren Ellis, Geoff Johns, and Grant Morrison should bring this tale of worlds colliding (Morrison’s multiversal travelling, Johns’ story arc, and Ellis writing Jenny as only he can) to the fangeeks of infinite earths.
That’s my five. Anyone else?
July 14th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
John Zatara
the KGBeast
July 14th, 2009 at 3:07 pm
Those guys from Global Guardians
Elvis Presley
Earth-207 Superboy
Keith Giffen’s Legion of Super-Heroes (which was Geoff Jones-ized - meaning ignored by desire -, but not dead)
Black Orchid
July 16th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
This list from 4th Letter is too good to be forgotten.
http://www.4thletter.net/2009/06/the-top-ten-real-life-black-lanterns-i-want-to-see/
All I want to see is Deadman vs. Black Lantern Boston Brand.