The DC Universe Tastes the Rainbow
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?You’re looking at the cover of DC’s Blackest Night #7. Assuming it’s not an enormous lie, it appears that some of the DC regulars will be getting rings, and I can’t help but think it’s a little awesome. Lex Luthor with an orange Greed ring? Scarecrow with a yellow Fear ring? That’s either Wonder Woman or Wonder Girl as a purple star Sapphire, right (isn’t Wonder Woman a Black Lantern at the moment, or am I confused? Then there’s the Flash Blue Beetle with Hope (since he has Blue in his name), that Atlantean chick who I think was Aquaman’s wife with a red Rage ring, and finally the Atom with Indigo, whose color represents I have no idea. Seeing as we were all dead certain that Hal Jordan was going to wear all the ROY G. BIV rings to become a White Lantern to end Blackest Night, I am pleasantly surprised by this development.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.