I'm finally on to the 2010 books. Sorry! Over the last couple of weeks there's just been so much going on, and . . . the last couple of weeks of 2009 had a plethora of books published. Seriously! I had a huge stack here sitting on my desk. Anyways, now that the holidays are over, and work has calmed down a bit . . I'm hoping that I can get caught back up. Anyone who has been kind enough to read my blog . . I thank you for your patience. And with this book we start out 2010 with a bang. We saw at the end of last issue that apparently all the resurrections that have occurred with the heroes over the last couple of years have been Nekron's doing. It seems that he allowed them to come back so that later . . now . . he could claim them as is own. Which he's started to do. And all he had to do to get the whole thing started was . . to bring back Batman as a Black Lantern. His was the visage that stirred up the emotions in all of these heroes. However, Barry and Hal are trying to fight it with everything they've got . . without killing anyone. Since most of the heroes that have been recently transformed were alive when they were taken, Barry and Hal are unsure of what will happen if they try to take them out like the rest of the Black Lanterns. But Barry does outwit it by jumping 2 seconds into the future . . and severing the connection. Meanwhile, Ray and Mera, who were taken into a ring by Jean have been joined by Boston Brand. He tells them that through his traveling from body to body he's learned that every Black Lantern in the universe is heading straight towards Earth. And more specifically . . Coast City. This is bad, but . . we don't learn the reason why this is happening . . this issue. However, Ganthet decides to join the Green Lantern Corps, and in the process help them out. 'Although you each wield different light, your rings are all based on Oan technology. And thus, unknown to you, they contain the same safeguard: according to the book of OA, in the shadow of Blackest Night, the rings are capable of deputizing an individual for 24 hours.'
And since he's also enabled them to replicate themselves . . they're about to get a whole lot of help. Whether they want it or not. Barry gets a Blue ring, Luthor an Orange, Jonathan Crane gets a Yellow one, while Ray gets Indigo and Mera gets Red. But the most revealing one is when the Star Sapphire ring goes after Wonder Woman. 'The ring can't take her. She needs to accept it of free-will. The light is bursting inside her, Hal. She's beyond anyone else. The is no one on this planet who loves it more than Wonder Woman.' It finally connects, and the connection is severed with the Black. The issue ends with all these new members of the various Corps coming to the New Guardians aid. Ray shouts, 'No more worries, Hal. All will be well.' What a fantastic issue. I love the work that Geoff Johns is doing here, and Ivan Reis is just flawless with his pencils. Now the bad news. Apparently there's a break for January, and Blackest Night #7 won't be out until Feb. 24th. That stinks. But . . I'm sure we'll get plenty of Blackest Night action in-between. Remember . . this is the month where they issue another 'Final Issue' of about 7 or 8 different titles. I'm not sure how that ties in to Blackest Night, but . . I'm sure it does somehow. So, even though there's no Blackest Night for 2 months . . it still looks like it's going to be a pretty exciting month. What a way to start out 2010!
I'm finally on to the 2010 books. Sorry! Over the last couple of weeks there's just been so much going on, and . . . the last couple of weeks of 2009 had a plethora of books published. Seriously! I had a huge stack here sitting on my desk. Anyways, now that the holidays are over, and work has calmed down a bit . . I'm hoping that I can get caught back up. Anyone who has been kind enough to read my blog . . I thank you for your patience. And with this book we start out 2010 with a bang. We saw at the end of last issue that apparently all the resurrections that have occurred with the heroes over the last couple of years have been Nekron's doing. It seems that he allowed them to come back so that later . . now . . he could claim them as is own. Which he's started to do. And all he had to do to get the whole thing started was . . to bring back Batman as a Black Lantern. His was the visage that stirred up the emotions in all of these heroes. However, Barry and Hal are trying to fight it with everything they've got . . without killing anyone. Since most of the heroes that have been recently transformed were alive when they were taken, Barry and Hal are unsure of what will happen if they try to take them out like the rest of the Black Lanterns. But Barry does outwit it by jumping 2 seconds into the future . . and severing the connection. Meanwhile, Ray and Mera, who were taken into a ring by Jean have been joined by Boston Brand. He tells them that through his traveling from body to body he's learned that every Black Lantern in the universe is heading straight towards Earth. And more specifically . . Coast City. This is bad, but . . we don't learn the reason why this is happening . . this issue. However, Ganthet decides to join the Green Lantern Corps, and in the process help them out. 'Although you each wield different light, your rings are all based on Oan technology. And thus, unknown to you, they contain the same safeguard: according to the book of OA, in the shadow of Blackest Night, the rings are capable of deputizing an individual for 24 hours.' 
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