Black Lantern Ressurection Man?

[Shatagni]

For those who don't know about the short lived comics series, Mitch Shelley aka The Resurrection Man basically has these "tektites" which gives him a strange ability, every time he dies he get's revived with a new superpower.

Now imagine a Black Lantern ring floats by and attaches to him just before those tektites kick in.

What would happen? Would he get revived and still have the ring? Would the ring reject him because he is no longer dead? Would it prevent the tektites from resurrecting him? Would it not make a difference?

Just a thought.

[TOAA]

I guess it wouldn`t work, like how on some "special" characters Black Lanterns can`t identify any emotions.

[dupersuper]

Interesting question...

[Sean Walsh]

For those who don't know about the short lived comics series, Mitch Shelley aka The Resurrection Man basically has these "tektites" which gives him a strange ability, every time he dies he get's revived with a new superpower.

.....I didn't remember this, but really? So he's like a good guy Multi Man (kinda)...

[Desaad]

.....I didn't remember this, but really? So he's like a good guy Multi Man (kinda)...

Well, without the physical malformities.

What is actually revealed is that he's naturally an immortal who has been reincarnated over and over for a very long time, each time with a new super power. He's friends with Deadman, the Phantom Stranger, Wonder Woman's mom and he's the mortal, eternal enemy of Vandal Savage. But he gets mistaken for a homeless guy and happens to get picked up by some of Savage's men, via an organization known as "The Lab". They are experimenting on homeless people with tektites that they took from Vandal Savage, trying to make someone unkillable/immortal as he is. It doesn't work with anyone but Shelly.

So now, instead of coming back as a baby and starting life new each time, he comes back from the dead immediately, usually with an ability that helps him overcome whatever it is that killed him.

It was a pretty great little series, actually, and I'd love to see the return of the character. I doubt we will without DnA or Butch Guice, though, both Marvel exclusive.

[DonC]

I don't want to see Geoff Johns writing Mitch Shelly. It's not a knock against Johns, it's just the Abbnett and Lanning created the character and they should be the only ones writing him.

[Desaad]

I don't want to see Geoff Johns writing Mitch Shelly. It's not a knock against Johns, it's just the Abbnett and Lanning created the character and they should be the only ones writing him.

I disagree. I'd like to see the character get picked up, but not by Johns. Someone like Eric Trautmann or Tony Bedard I think could do something good with him. Maybe Matt Sturges, too.

I don't think he's Johns' type of character, but I don't think he should be exclusively DnA's (especially since they are Marvel exclusive and I don't want to wait for them to come back to DC!).

If there is one thing I really hate it's the way characters get left by the wayside when the original creators leave. It happens all over the place, mostly to Morrison creation, but even Johns can't get new characters established -- when is the last time we saw Johnny Sorrow, dammit?! :)