www.NewsArama.com has some reports from the Baltimore Comic Con which was this past weekend. One of them is from the DC Comics DC Nation panel. I found one of the comments in there to be very telling. "Everyone is a Black Lantern." That’s right, anyone who has died, literally at any time in the DCU could be coming back into the current timeline as a Black Lantern. I started thinking about this and came up with this list off the top of my head.
GL
Abin Sur – this just makes too much sense.
Alex – Kyle Rayner’s first girlfriend
Jade
JSA/40s.
GA Mr. Terrific
GA Atom
GA Dr. MidNite
GA Hourman ?
GA Starman ?
Black Canary I
Blue Beetle Dan Garrett
Star Spangled Kid Sylvester Pembleton
E2 Superman
Hippolyta ?
Hourman android ?
Dr Fate Hector Hall
Fury Lyta Trevor Hall
Wildcat II Yolanda Montez
Alex (Eclipso) Montez
Nemesis Soseh Mykros
JLA
Vibe
Commander Steel
Amazing Man II
Manitou Raven
Aquaman
Martian Manhunter
Firestorm Ronnie Raymond – but there is no body.
Tomorrow Woman
JLI
Blue Beetle Ted Kord – again, no body.
Elongated Man Ralph Dibny
Sue Dibny
Rocket Red Dimitri Pushkin
Crimson Fox 1
Crimson Fox 2
Silver Sorceress
TT
Aquagirl Tula
Dove Don Hall
Hawk Hank Hall
Superboy Connor Kent
Impulse – unless he’s in the lightning rod.
Terry – Donna Troy’s husband
Golden Eagle
Pantha
Wildebeast
Phantasm
Power boy
Roulette’s games
Impala
Firebrand
SSquad
Big Sur
Capt Boomerang Sr.
FFighters
Phantom Lady
Human Bomb
Red Bee
CRisis
Harbinger
Pariah
And that’s just off the top of my head. Johns was also quoted as saying he needed more. I don’t know, that’s quite a list. I think a cool thing would be for Ted Kord to become the Blue "Hope" Lantern of Earth sector.
Let me close by saying that I’m in the camp that thinks Sinestro Corps War was better than Countdown. And I’m looking forward more to this event than Final Crisis.
Some thoughts:
Arthur Curry returning as Aquaman is a done deal.
For a guy who survived countless Crisis scenarios, Pariah had the lamest death I’ve read in years.
Since Barry Allen is back, we need Boomerbutt and Trickster I/James Jesse along with him. It’s just not the Rogues without those two.
And of course, J’onn returning with Barry to the JLA is a must as well.
SD, scratch Hourman I off the list, he “got better” under Geoff Johns’ own pen in his previous JSA series.
At the end of his recent Booster Gold stint, Geoff also teased that Ted Kord somehow cheated death and returned to the current DC timeline but is keeping a low profile over at Kord Industries.
I would love for DC to bring back Max Lord as good guy during this event, it’s been established that most of the stuff he did in the JLI series was really on the level. He only went bonkers afterwards.
And anything DC put out last year was better than the crapfest that was Countdown.
I’m really looking forward to this if it’s as good as the Sinestro Corps War was. So much better than Countdown.
I’m going to be looking out for all those listed above but also
Mirror Master 1
Kole
The Question
Dr. Polaris
Trickster I
Rainbow Raider
The Top
Golden Glider
Major Disaster
Copperhead
Direct link to the article at Newsarama:
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080927-baltimore-dcnation.html
In the Q&A section:
Solomon Grundy … with Johns hinting that Grundy will play a role in the coming Blackest Night storyline.
“Everybody’s a Black Lantern,” DiDio teased Johns.
“That’s why I want Sean (McKeever) to kill more characters,” Johns answered, “So I can bring them all back as Black Lanterns.”
Q: When will we see Aquaman?
A: Johns: “He’s a Black Lantern.”
Q: Are Ralph Dibney and Ted Kord ever coming back – and not as Black Lanterns?
A: Johns: “They’re Black Lanterns.”
Q: When will we see Hawkwoman again?
A: Johns: “Black Lantern, sorry”
Q: What about Martian Manhunter?
A: Johns: “Oh yeah – Martian Manhunter’s a Black Lantern.”
Q: Will Bart Allen be a Black Lantern?
A: Johns: “No.”
Quote: At the end of his recent Booster Gold stint, Geoff also teased that Ted Kord somehow cheated death and returned to the current DC timeline but is keeping a low profile over at Kord Industries.
He did? I read the issue, but I don’t recall any hint that Ted might be alive.
Blue Beetle Ted is still alive via the Booster Gold series.
There are lots of villains that can come back for this event:
Clayface
Ventriloquist
Hellhound
Trickster
Monsieur Mallah
The Brain
The Mist I
The Mist II
Kyle – the Mist’s son
Black Spider
The Wrath
Chillblaine (s)
Professor Zoom
Alex Luthor
Charaxes
Baron Blitzkrieg
Black Mask
Dr. Light
Fiddler
Fisherman
Grayven
KGBeast
Kobra
Madame Rogue
Max Lord
Mongul
Neutron
Orca
Plasmus
Psimon
Ratcatcher
Sharpnel
Spellbinder
Terra-Man
Warp
Plus more dead heroes
Negative Woman
Tempest
The Justice Experience
Manhunter III
Original Monitor
Azrael
Pretty much all of the New Gods
Ch’p
Commander Steel
Crimson Fox
Amazing Man
Joker’s Daughter
Hitman
Jack T. Chance
Judomaster
Karate Kid
Maxima
Marvin and Wendy
Orpheus
Peacemaker
Phantom Lady
Black Condor
Human Bomb
The Question
Tomar Re
Tripilicate Girl’s others
Vigilante
David Knight Starman
Matt O’Dare
The six soldiers of victory (Whip, Dyno-Mite Dan, Blue Boy, Gimmix, Vigilante, Spider)
Plenty of dead characters to go around!!!
And as of yesterday—
Molecule
The Ted Kord question is an interesting one.
In the original story, Countdown to Infinite Crisis, where Ted is shot dead, Ted’s body was cremated. So no body to re-animate.
Johns wrote the Booster Gold story where Ted was pulled out of the time stream, time went crazy, and Ted went back supposedly to die to set it straight. But in the last panel we see a back lit figure who could be Ted doing his signature “Bwa-ha-ha-ha” laugh.
Johns is also the one who was quoted at the Baltimore Comic Con as saying Ted will be a black lantern.
Q: Are Ralph Dibney and Ted Kord ever coming back – and not as Black Lanterns?
A: Johns: “They’re Black Lanterns.”
When did Major Disaster die? MD was originally the only one of his Injustice League to survive their recent outing in the Suicide Squad. All of the others have shown up again live since then except Big Sur. It was after this that MD joined the JLA from issue 70 thru 100 and then the JL Elite. When did MD die?
Infinite Crisis in a small panel, I believe. I think Superbrat got him.
-R
Marvin and Wendy bought it? Man, the DCU is REALLY getting dark!
The big Q is, which of these characters will return to normal after being turned into Black Lanterns and which ones will go back to their dirt naps?
Aquaman is calling it a comeback, but I’m curious about all the others on the above lists.
Dan DiDio stated that it was not Major Disaster who died during Infinite Crisis.
Will Black Lanterns look decayed? Or will their vitality appear restored? Could Multi-Man be an honorary member?