#blackest night lantern

[scarletlunarosa]

I drew this DC characters in to the following Lanterns

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

Delicious????

[stovreye]

Happy Birthday Harold 🥳🥳 !!! (shhhh pretend this isn’t like 10 days late…💀⚰️)

So um. I was travelling last week, which is why I wasn’t able to finish this on the 20th, but oh well I guess….

Credits: I used a variant cover illustrated by Daniel Sampere from Green Lantern #1 (2023) as reference for this piece

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[eightam]

Green Lantern

Green Lantern: The Lost Army #1

Art by Ben Oliver

[rayfishandchips]

Some Barry mini speeches caps.

I can so understand why Barry becomes a blue lantern. He is just so very hopeful in a brave way, and those mini speeches does instill hope in people.

From Blackest Night and Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps

[cyanide-sippy-cup]

Watching Invincible reminded me of something I completely forgot about Green Lanterns, which is that they can manipulate matter.

For those not in the know, GLs basically have the same powers as Eve, just on a much greater scale and limited time determined by both their ring charge and willpower.

Back in the Silver Age(?), Hal turned a friend of his into a bird just by dreaming. Which is probably not the most notable thing but I will be forever wondering what dream could possibly cause that to happen.

[dailydccomics]

in Blackest Night... Outsiders vol 4 #24-25

[finzphoenix]

A Yellow Lantern Crane/OC enemies to lovers commission from Patreon! Pairing him with a Black Lantern is such a fun idea - I bet he'd love the grim aesthetic of their Corps ;//;🖤🤍

Jonathan Crane (c) DC comics Art (c) FinzPhoenix

[damnation-if]

on today's episode of Hashing Out Concepts Theatre, i spent a while today while waiting for my new fridge/freezer to be installed after my previous one died and i lost all my food hashing out a bunch of concepts for another game idea i have. (rest assured i'm not actually working on it as a game yet i just like to bash out a framework for things every now and then to make my brain do happy chemicals lmao)

putting all of this stuff under a cut since it's a bunch of images and also in case people aren't interested XD

i am regrettably a huge fan of comic books (mostly DC) and i've seen a couple of comic book inspired IFs popping up lately, though when it comes to my own interest, i'm definitely more into a straight interpretation of a comic book universe than a more. the boys-style universe - i'm into the camp lol, not so much the grim and gritty stuff. (though that's just my own personal preference)

anyway the idea behind That's Just Super is something that i really like about certain comics - giving the villains more of a purpose and rounded existence than just existing to be in somebody's rogue's gallery. the joker's angry defence of the batfamily from various other DC evil forces, lex luthor's furious resistance against brainiac alongside superman because it's His planet, damn it, DOOM throwing in with the heroes in every second marvel event comic... i really like stories where villains and evil characters don't always make the Most Evil choice just Because, but have clear and explainable motivations that sometimes bring them into what we'd consider a 'good' alignment because unlike in d&d, there's no real such thing as a concrete moral alignment.

(this is my banner design for it)

the basic idea is that an inexplicable cosmic event removes all of the superheroes from the planet, leaving it vulnerable to attack by evil mindflayer style aliens - unless the supervillains who remain are able to band together despite their more unpredictable, less cooperative natures and save the planet in the heroes' absence. after all... if aliens take over the earth, the villains can't take it over themselves.

here's my fun little UI design idea lmao...

the other major thing about That's Just Super that i've been hashing out is the pc. the basic idea is that you pick your villain identity from a list but you get to customise their like. birth name and secret identity, while the villain identity comes with its own name, costume, and set history (including occasionally past romantic encounters). i like playing around with the way that IF works with the idea of mcs and customisable mcs so i just thought it'd be a fun twist... it also allows me to create nice drama by having set occurrences in the past lol.

so i did some profiles for the nine villain options - three each of the DC triad of tech/metahuman/magic origin. they're all based on a specific kind of villain archetype, and i really tried to limit myself to ones where i could definitely pin down more than one specific influence so it didn't end up like me just making too many analogues haha... even if some of the influences are probably pretty obvious.

weirdly i haven't even Thought about ROs yet since i've been so focussed on the pc... maybe i'll play around with the partially set background idea even more and only have 1 possible RO for each villain choice or something. maybe a couple that you can romance as anybody... not sure. (talionis could definitely have a messy broken romance with his superhero for example)

apologies that readability isn't great but these are mostly just made for me lmao

[tbcanary]

2023 reading list: Blackest Night (2009)

There is life after death.

Bonus: Tiny lanterns!

(ID below the cut.)

ID: Six animated panels and one still image from Green Lantern: Blackest Night.

1: A supernova of green lantern light in the middle of a black expanse. The explosion expands into a rainbow of light, with a penumbra of multiple colors around it.

2: Bruce Wayne in his Batman costume and Hal Jordan in his Green Lantern uniform stand in front of large glass windows, showing a view of Earth and the Sun from space. Speech bubbles pop up: Hal: You saw them die in front of you? / Bruce: Yes. / Hal: I didn't know. When I was a kid-- / Bruce: You watched a plane crash take your father's life. / Hal: No wonder we're both screwed up. / Bruce: Speak for yourself.

3: A display of every dead superhero, including Batman and the Martian Manhunter. Speech bubbles pop up that say, "How, Hal? Why?" A thought panel from Hal pops up and says: I don't even know where to start.

4: A Black Lantern slowly lights up and casts its sigil over the sky. Two thought panels appear: Welcome, all of you. Welcome back to the darkness.

5: The same sigil of the Black Lantern inside the expanded eye socket of a skull. Five different Lantern Corps lanterns -- green, yellow, red, purple, blue and indigo -- are suspended in front of it, held in place by the hands of different officers. Each lantern lights up its respective color in turn.

6: Six panels of the different deputized superheroes and villains receiving their temporary rings in front of a rainbow background. Barry Allen receives a blue ring of hope, Lex Luthor receives an orange ring of greed, Jonathan Crane receives a yellow ring of fear, Ray Palmer receives an indigo ring of compassion, Queen Mera receives a red ring of anger, and Diana of Themyscira receives a purple ring of love. Each one flickers from their regular costumes (or, in Diana's case, the outfit of a Black Lantern) to the costumes of their new corps.

7: A tiny transparent collection of the Green Lanterns: John Stewart, Hal Jordan, and Guy Gardner all wave to a crowd, and Kyle Rayner throws his hands up in celebration.

/End ID.

[splooosh]

“Blackest”

Joe Jusko

[jonathan-cranes-mistress-of-fear]

Untold Tales of the Blackest Night || Scanned at 300dpi

[ufonaut]

Until Abin Sur. When he was dying, he knew all of this, didn't he? That's why he came to this wretched world. You let my friend die with everyone, with me, thinking him mad.

Sinestro in Blackest Night (2009) #7

[smashedpages]

Happy birthday to Geoff Johns!

[comfortfoodcontent]

2009 Blackest Night DC Comics House Ad

[mysteryonearth52]

Blackest Night 0 (2009) by Geoff Johns & Ivan Reis

Cover: Ivan Reis