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GREEN LANTERN #43 Review & Spoilers
It's basically the origin of the Black Hand. His obsession with death throughout the years - from being the son of a funeral director, watching dad embalm corpses - to his first encounter with the Green Lantern (the bit where Hal and Sinestro fought Atroticus) - to the more recent developments under Johns' hand (losing his hand to Hal-Spectre, getting it rebuilt, with the "touch of death," by Evil Star).
And all throughout, we see a voice speaking to him. A voice that calls back to him in the present day, giving him visions of both the dead (Ralph, Sue, Max, Ted, Firestorm, Dr. Light, J'onn) and the previously dead * (Superman! Hal! Ollie! Conner! Bart! Barry!) * OMG, I totally called it! A voice that urges him to become its first Black Lantern. A voice that tells him to kills his family...... spoilers:
Let the Blackest Night............BEGIN. 
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07-08-2009, 09:56 AM
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Wow, although I gave up on GL/GLC. I might simply get Blackest Night along GL.
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07-08-2009, 10:49 AM
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Sean. You magificent bastard!
I hate when you get to read all this stuff before me! So you enjoyed it? Can we merge this with the preview thread as plenty of peoples comments in that thread would be revelent to this issue? 
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07-08-2009, 11:15 AM
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I am on my way to the LCBS to pick this up, hopefully they still have a variant laying around. The cover is bad ass.
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07-08-2009, 12:13 PM
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Wow, but, here's the crazy part (to me anyways):
Scar implies that Black Hand IS the BL entity... just like Ion, Parallax, and "Predator" (for the Star Sapphires!!! whoa...). I had thought Black Hand was more like Sinestro, Atrocitus, etc... Well, in any event, I thought this issue kind of raised more questions than it answered - for instance, what is BH stepping on in that one panel? - but yes: let the Blackest Night begin. |
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07-08-2009, 12:39 PM
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07-08-2009, 01:02 PM
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I quite enjoyed it. It's been a while since an origin story really reeled me in, but Black Hand's worked very well. The sequence at the end - with William and his family, and his inevitable fate, is amazing. As I read the first page I remembered the days when Mahnke's art........didn't really do it for me (when he was on MAN OF STEEL), and how those days are long gone now. Mahnke, Reis and a back-on-his-stride Gleason (with folks like Ordway, Rags and Van Sciver here and there too) are gonna make this one great lookin' event.... I almost did a giant leap of joy when I got to the page with the previously-dead people. Any sort of BL connection to previously-dead-yet-now-alive people, and my belief that Hal will be every single Lantern by the end of this event, are the only 2 things I called ahead of time. 1 down, 1 to go.
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07-08-2009, 01:06 PM
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Gives me an idea for a prediction/vault THREAD that people can put theories and other predictions in? Interested?
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07-08-2009, 02:12 PM
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Wow, I did not see an ending like this coming, this Blackest Night event is going to rule the DCU.
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Dan Slott: "I think there's a vocal crowd out there who didn't like the status quo shake up from 2007-- and whether they know it or not-- it's clouded their judgment to the point where we can tell stories that are just as valid as the ones DeFalco, Michelinie, and JMS wrote-- but they walk in looking for flaws and wanting it to be off. If you pick at something long enough-- if that's the mindset you walk in with-- I guarantee you WILL find flaws" |
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07-08-2009, 02:21 PM
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So Evil star is the leader of the gremlins?
Didn't they capture him in 52? I might like this developement if we get to see evil star launch his own attack on the corp. Just for a big space battle.
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07-08-2009, 02:24 PM
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07-08-2009, 02:29 PM
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Just him going ROGUE again against the remaining Gaurdians. Not Ganthet or sayd. We don't know yet what context that panel is in.
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07-08-2009, 02:38 PM
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Sweet issue especially the end...the Blackest Night is here!!!
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