It’s a Nice Day for a… White Lantern
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?Um. So. Blackest Night #7 came out yesterday, and… well, it ended in a way I wasn’t expecting. No, not with a promotion for another free plastic Lantern ring from DC, since we all could guess that was happening; I just needed some art to put up top because the relevant art is a massive spoiler, and the comic only came out yesterday. So if you would like to know the rather surprising ending to Blackest Knight #7, hit the jump.
So remember how we all knew — not just TR readers, but pretty much everyone who’d ever picked up a DC comic in the last 20 years, figured out that Blackest Night was going to end with someone getting the powers of all the ROY G. BIV rings, becoming a White Lantern, and destroying all the Black Lantern zombies? Well, that happened. But the person who became the White Lantern wasn’t Hal Jordan.
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?Fucking Sinestro, man. We knew there had to be a White Lantern, but I don’t think anyone ever suspected it would be someone other than Hal… and certainly not Sinestro. But if all the color Lanterns are valid, Sinestro has just as much right to
become the White Lantern as Hal or any of the Green Lanterns — maybe moreso, since he was both the best Green Lantern and best Yellow Lantern in his career. Anyways, Geoff Johns and DC — well done. (Via DC’s Source)
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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.