Comic Day Week 29 - July 15, 2009

[DoctorFinger]

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After a few weeks off, the Tiger Men are back with a double shot of goodness, fired straight into your brain.

One last week's show, we broke down the new Pilot Season from Top Cow, debated the return of foil covers and generally bemoaned the "announcement of an announcement." On this week's show, we ponder Captain Marvel's place in the DCU, debate the strength of Fear Agent as a film and talk a whole lot about Green Lantern. Good times. As always, see what you'll find at your LCS this week, head over to Diamond (http://www.previewsworld.com/public/default.asp?t=2&m=1&c=6&s=428).

DC
Action Comics #879
Batman Streets Of Gotham #2
Blackest Night #1
Blackest Night Tales Of The Corps #1
Fables #86
JSA vs Kobra Engines Of Faith #2
Wednesday Comics #2

Marvel
Agents Of Atlas #8
Amazing Spider-Man #599
Beta Ray Bill Godhunter #2
Captain America #601
Dark Avengers #7
Deadpool #12
Incognito #5
Mighty Avengers #27
X-Factor #46

Indie
Creepy #1
GI Joe Origins #5

Picks of the Week

Blackest Night #1 - The difference between how DC now runs a big event and how Marvel does the same is becoming crystal clear. The Blackest Night has will only bleed into three ongoing books: the normal Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps books as well as one issue of Titans. Everything else will be handled via a series of three issue minis spotlighting the big guns of the DCU as they confront the Blackest Night.

Incognito #5 - Brubaker and Phillips' (relatively) short story comes to an end. The good guys are bad, and the bad guys are...not so bad actually. In the end, everyone is scum and they get what they deserve. Is that noir-ish enough? The story of a supervillain put into witness protection - and by extension the "real" world - finds himself slowly drawn back into The Life. But things aren't how he left them and, of course, his world begins crashing down on him. An interesting, slightly askew take on superheroes.

Question of the Week - We spent a lot of time on this week's episode talking about Captain Marvel; a character with a surprisingly high recognition factor, but at the same time a character whom no one seems to be able to get a hook into. Captain Marvel isn't the only one in that boat however. DC also struggles, at times, finding the right spot for Wonder Woman, as does Marvel with characters like Thor and the Silver Surfer. They're all star characters, but for whatever reason creators just can't seem to find a way to consistently connect them to fans. So I ask: Which other characters/properties fall into that sort of 'dead zone', and how would you use them to hook readers?

[muddi900]

Pulls:
Action Comics #879
Amazing Spider-Man #599
Batman Streets Of Gotham #2
Blackest Night #1 (OF 8)
Blackest Night Tales Of The Corps #1 (OF 3)
Captain America #601
Dark Avengers #7
Fables #86
Incognito #5
Jsa Vs Kobra #2 (OF 6)
Lockjaw And The Pet Avengers #3 (OF 4)
Unknown #3 (OF 4)
Wednesday Comics #2 (OF 12)

QOTW:
Th JLA. While "second tier" JSA had an awesome series, JLA has been limping along, with each subsequent DC crossover pushing the stake further and further into the heart. I also would've said Superman a year ago, but the current run of super-books amazingly good.

[Savok]

Th JLA. While "second tier" JSA had an awesome series, JLA has been limping along, with each subsequent DC crossover pushing the stake further and further into the heart. I also would've said Superman a year ago, but the current run of super-books amazingly good.
Agreed on both counts. JLA is easy to fix, stop fucking with it and let the Big Three play at least some kind of role in it, no more off limits bullshit unless the characters are dead or missing entirely.

If sales are anything to go by, Spider-manchild is now in the dead zone. Another easy fix, stop assassinating the character.

[digitalErich]

After 10 or 11 months off, Blackest Night might pull me back into weekly comics.

[muddi900]

Be sure to pick last week's GL, if only for the shock value.

[AgtFox]

Be sure to pick last week's GL, if only for the shock value.
No doubt about that! In 22 pages Geoff Johns redid Black Hand's origin and made him one of the freakiest villains out there. That and the thing at the end...yeah...

So, two big questions come out of that issue:

1. Who does the voice talking to Scar and Black Hand belong to?

2. When will the voice's owner be revealed?

[Ghostbear]

No doubt about that! In 22 pages Geoff Johns redid Black Hand's origin and made him one of the freakiest villains out there. That and the thing at the end...yeah...

So, two big questions come out of that issue:

1. Who does the voice talking to Scar and Black Hand belong to?

2. When will the voice's owner be revealed?

I thought it was the anti-monitor, just an undead version?

[AgtFox]

I thought it was the anti-monitor, just an undead version?
That would be my guess...but I thought back during the Sinestro Corps event that his essence was turned into the black lantern and that he basically ceased to exist...talking or not.

[Ghostbear]

Well it wouldn't be the first time he was "dead" and then used. it could just be something using the power left in his corpse.

[DoctorFinger]

The "voice" is who/whatever captured the Anti-Monitor's corpse at the end of the Sinestro Corps War and trapped it in the Black Lantern Battery. That's also what has been speaking to Scar all this time.

[AgtFox]

Just found the page with the scene from GL #25. The Anti-Monitor (what is left of him) lands on the planet and a voice (the same voice in black as in last week's GL, Anti-Monitor's bubble is white) says, "It is him...the Anti-Monitor". The voice then tells him to rise and he is turned into the black battery while screaming "Noooooooooo"

So, it may not be the Anti-Monitor.

[AgtFox]

The "voice" is who/whatever captured the Anti-Monitor's corpse at the end of the Sinestro Corps War and trapped it in the Black Lantern Battery. That's also what has been speaking to Scar all this time.
Right...so my questions still stand. Will it be a character we already know or a new one?

[DoctorFinger]

I haven't been to my store yet so if it's in Blackest Night 1, disregard this.

I think it will end up being an existing character behind it all. It would be a somewhat awkward spot to intro a new creation.

[Savok]

I think it's pretty much the embodiment of death.

See what happens when your universe doesn't have a Deadpool? Death would be busy trying to bone him rather then trying to end all life.

[AgtFox]

I haven't been to my store yet so if it's in Blackest Night 1, disregard this.

I think it will end up being an existing character behind it all. It would be a somewhat awkward spot to intro a new creation.
Yeah, I dunno...there's been plenty of new creations throughout this ongoing Green Lantern story, like:

- Most members of the Sinestro Corps
- Many members of the Red Lanterns
- Agent Orange
- Saint Walker and the Blue Lanterns
- etc.

So, who knows.

[AgtFox]

Also, I'm going to guess we'll finally see Carol in action as Star Sapphire (once again)...that's kind of been on the back burner for a bit.

[DoctorFinger]

Yeah, I dunno...there's been plenty of new creations throughout this ongoing Green Lantern story, like:

- Most members of the Sinestro Corps
- Many members of the Red Lanterns
- Agent Orange
- Saint Walker and the Blue Lanterns
- etc.

So, who knows.Right, but none of them have been mystery characters so far, they've just debuted. To make the Black Lantern head a mystery character - as the big bad of an event - and a new character is a bit odd. Plus DC just did it with Final Crisis.

[Hawkzombie]

I don't think it'll be a character at all. I think it'll just be the essence of the Lantern. Like how the other lanterns have their rings communicate with them, perhaps the essence of the black lantern does the same thing.

[DoctorFinger]

I don't think it'll be a character at all. I think it'll just be the essence of the Lantern. Like how the other lanterns have their rings communicate with them, perhaps the essence of the black lantern does the same thing.They said in GL 43 that Black Hand himself was the Black Lantern's equivalent of Ion/Parallax.

[Midrael]

Just picked up and finished reading Blackest Night #1. It looks like DC's done dilly dallying around with Blackest Night! Definitely recommended.

[Savok]

They said in GL 43 that Black Hand himself was the Black Lantern's equivalent of Ion/Parallax.
Those are less the essence and more the avatars though.

[muddi900]

Right, but none of them have been mystery characters so far, they've just debuted. To make the Black Lantern head a mystery character - as the big bad of an event - and a new character is a bit odd. Plus DC just did it with Final Crisis.

Dc introduced a new vilian during Final Crisis? :p

Sorry, easy joke, had to be done.

[Ghostbear]

I just read Blackest Night #1 Holy shit, that was fucked up. Awesome, but fucked up.

[AgtFox]

I just read Blackest Night #1 Holy shit, that was fucked up. Awesome, but fucked up.
Work needs to be done now!

[Spigot]

I picked up last week's pile of comics and it was one issue of Booster Gold and that was it. And 7 volumes of Monster, the manga.

Sigh.

I'm still working through a month and a half of comics from the past 6 weeks. I wonder what is out this week for me?

Marvel
DARK AVENGERS #7 (What does DAX mean?)
DEADPOOL #12
FRANKLIN RICHARDS SCHOOLS OUT
INCOGNITO #5
X-FACTOR #46

Others
FALL OF CTHULHU TP VOL 05

Blackest Night, as a concept, really interests me. I hope that a) it turns out awesome and b) that DC gets their act together and gets trades out ASAP.

[DoctorFinger]

DAX is the Dark Avengers-X-Men crossover.

[zarathstra]

I thought this was going to a be light week, but I actually ended up with bunch of stuff:

DC:

Blackest Night #1 with plastic Black Lantern ring. WOOOOO! Take that, trade waiters! :)
Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #1
Fables #86
Wednesday Comics #2 (still going strong!)

Image:

Walking Dead #63 with Chew preview (Chew was kinda cool, I might pick it up.)

Marvel:

Beta Ray Bill: Godhunter (everyone's favorite horse faced semi-god kicking ass!)

[zarathstra]

Yeah, I dunno...there's been plenty of new creations throughout this ongoing Green Lantern story, like:

- Most members of the Sinestro Corps
- Many members of the Red Lanterns
- Agent Orange
- Saint Walker and the Blue Lanterns
- etc.

So, who knows.

Don't forget Dex-Star, the adorable Rage Kitty!

Although, I prefer to think that's he's vomiting disdain on people, rather than rage or hate. He is a cat, after all.

[muddi900]

Fucking WHAT! So that's why Green Lantern was "slow" in recent weeks: You know all the bullshit build up in event books that you hate? Well that happen before the fucking event this time. Oh and you know when Didio said it was its own series because it was a "universe encompassing" event and we bitched and moaned that they were turning away from what made the previous crossover that I can't remember the name of so awesome? Well we were wrong.

And to the trade waiters...
Ralph & Sue Dibny

[Ghostbear]

And to the trade waiters...
Ralph & Sue Dibny

DUDE, that was...holy crap.

[muddi900]

This is why I love the new [spoiler]. It's like the devil going around as Scarlett Johansson in a Red Dress saying, "You know you wanna..."

[Savok]

Scans Daily is up in arms too, but.... well fuck I liked it.

Fucked up shit people, but then when the gist is "zombie invasion of the DCU" that's what you get.

God damn, a major event I not only looked forward to but am enjoying as well, it'll snow in the desert next.

EDIT: And come on, that spoiler's been telegraphed for like a year.

What I want to know is will we see zombie Terry Long in his underwear eating brains and being creepy?

[DoctorFinger]

They're bringing back the Bug Eyed Bandit & KGBeast, like I predicted.

[muddi900]

Scans Daily is up in arms too

Well that place is a bunch of haters.

EDIT: AAAND this dude is bad grammar.

[Ghostbear]

They're bringing back the Bug Eyed Bandit & KGBeast, like I predicted.

They should bring back all the Z-list villains that Great White had killed.

[muddi900]

Ooh, ooh, Polka Dot man!

Drat, they are already using him on that Sturges book.

[digitalErich]

This is off the current topic, but I had to share.

Read this (http://twitpic.com/akcnm) to the very end.

[DoctorFinger]

That is too awesome for words.

[Spigot]

This is why I love the new [spoiler]. It's like the devil going around as Scarlett Johansson in a Red Dress saying, "You know you wanna..."They're tempting as anything in the thread, but I hate how they don't show up in the e-mail notifications. In that you don't get any indication that what you're about to read is a spoiler.

And I'm fine with waiting for the trades. My investment, intellectually and monetarily, in the DCU is so low that someone could tell me the entire plot of Blackest Night and I'll probably forget it by the time the trades show up. So long as it's a cool ride, I'm happy.

This is off the current topic, but I had to share.

Read this (http://twitpic.com/akcnm) to the very end.That is awesome.

[Hawkzombie]

Batman is my fave, but that was a damn awesome send up of the Flash...lol

[Savok]

They're tempting as anything in the thread, but I hate how they don't show up in the e-mail notifications. In that you don't get any indication that what you're about to read is a spoiler.
People use email notifications?

[Xerxes]

This is off the current topic, but I had to share.

Read this (http://twitpic.com/akcnm) to the very end.

And that's why the flash should have a movie. :D

[Spigot]

People use email notifications?I sure as hell don't bother checking my CP all the time. I need to wander away from the site every once in a while!

[muddi900]

You know what I liked more than Blackest Night this week? The Saint Walker origin story from Tales of the Corps. Pleasedontkillhim Pleasedontkillhim Pleasedontkillhim

[Savok]

Hell the whole issue kicked ass.

[muddi900]

The Mongul thing was meh. Which was surprising because Tomasi has been kicking ass with the character on GLC.

[Rogue_hunter]

You know what I liked more than Blackest Night this week? The Saint Walker origin story from Tales of the Corps. Pleasedontkillhim Pleasedontkillhim Pleasedontkillhim

Saint Walker deserved the title of saint after reading that story. No wonder he was the first Blue Lantern. Mongul's side story was meh, and the introduction of the Indigo Lanterns was so uninteresting. I was sorta confused as to what they were doing too. They killed both the Green Lantern and Sinestro Corps member, but for what purpose?

But still, the final pages of Blackest Night #1, well, shit. Great to see those characters make a come back.

[Savok]

Bah, he was an adorable little despot.

[muddi900]

But still, the final pages of Blackest Night #1, well, shit. Great to see those characters make a come back.

What Johns did require a lot of balls, considering how loved Ralph and Sue are. He also did it without being cheap and exploitative.

[DoctorFinger]

The Mongul story wasn't as good because he's an existing character whose history and background are already know. Saint Walker, Indigo, etc are new creations and a bit more mysterious.

[Hawkzombie]

Hmm

Ok, I read it. WHAT THE HELL. But I have a theory: Either everyone who's a black lantern will stay dead for good at the end, OR (at least a good number) will return from the grave as Hal wields the 'white' lantern which would in essence turn everything around. I mean, they're making it a point to bring back just about everyone, and even kill a few in the process (Hawkman and Hawkwoman) WITH some of the most loved characters (Ralph and Sue)...I honestly think that something major is brewing and my guess is this might be a way of DC 'resetting' the universe in a huge, none-invasive way like Final Crisis.

I dunno, maybe I'm grasping at straws, but it seems almost like it would make sense. If nothing else, the dead will certainly stay dead after this, because I am almost entirely sure Hal will get some sort of white lantern, or weild all the other rings at once to defeat the black.

[Deadend]

I like your idea Hawkzombie.

I liked the Black Lantern book. It was well written and since I have not been paying too much attention to DC in the last year, I was still able to hop in and enjoy it.

I also picked up the first 2 issues of the Batman and Robin comic.
I wish the Grant Morrison doing it was the one who did Final Crisis, as it's a great comic with amazing art by Quitely.

[Spigot]

I also picked up the first 2 issues of the Batman and Robin comic.
I wish the Grant Morrison doing it was the one who did Final Crisis, as it's a great comic with amazing art by Quitely.For a second there I got your Grant Morrisons reversed and thought you wanted more of the FC Morrison. Just what we'd need, more convoluted messes.

If the B&R Morrison is like the Morrison who gave us Doom Patrol, I wish he was writing Final Crisis.

[muddi900]

Hmm

Ok, I read it. WHAT THE HELL. But I have a theory: Either everyone who's a black lantern will stay dead for good at the end, OR (at least a good number) will return from the grave as Hal wields the 'white' lantern which would in essence turn everything around. I mean, they're making it a point to bring back just about everyone, and even kill a few in the process (Hawkman and Hawkwoman) WITH some of the most loved characters (Ralph and Sue)...I honestly think that something major is brewing and my guess is this might be a way of DC 'resetting' the universe in a huge, none-invasive way like Final Crisis.

I dunno, maybe I'm grasping at straws, but it seems almost like it would make sense. If nothing else, the dead will certainly stay dead after this, because I am almost entirely sure Hal will get some sort of white lantern, or weild all the other rings at once to defeat the black.

What's wrong with all this is that you think it's going to take the predictable route. For God's sake...

Bruce Wayne's skull is a Black ring PEZ dispenser

All conventions and tropes of the genre were checked in at the door. This is something you never see from Marvel/DC. Hope it continues that way.

[Deadend]

For a second there I got your Grant Morrisons reversed and thought you wanted more of the FC Morrison. Just what we'd need, more convoluted messes.

If the B&R Morrison is like the Morrison who gave us Doom Patrol, I wish he was writing Final Crisis.

Oh it's not the DP Morrison, it's more like the Batman or X-men Morrison, who kept shit simple, but was willing to shake things up in the name of a good story.

I also am wondering why we haven't seen Black Lantern Batman yet... unless of course, Bruce Wayne isn't really dead yet.

But I do have a GREAT feeling about Blackest Night, as it doesn't feel like an event comic, but a story that just so happens to have a very large scope.

[Spigot]

I thought Bruce Wayne wasn't dead and was living in the past with Gorko The Caveman or whatever his name is.

I still can't wait to read Blackest Night (and the rest of Sinestro Corps War and the intervening stories leading up to Blackest Night). I just wonder what decade it will be when DC releases trades of most of this...

[Ghostbear]

I like your idea Hawkzombie.

I liked the Black Lantern book. It was well written and since I have not been paying too much attention to DC in the last year, I was still able to hop in and enjoy it.

I also picked up the first 2 issues of the Batman and Robin comic.
I wish the Grant Morrison doing it was the one who did Final Crisis, as it's a great comic with amazing art by Quitely.

I said something similar to a friend, but I said that I wanted "all star superman" Morrison to go back and write FC.

[DoctorFinger]

I thought Bruce Wayne wasn't dead and was living in the past with Gorko The Caveman or whatever his name is. We don't know exactly what's up with Bruce now, but Superman found Batman's desiccated skeleton during Final Crisis, which is what they buried.

[Spigot]

We don't know exactly what's up with Bruce now, but Superman found Batman's desiccated skeleton during Final Crisis, which is what they buried.I could have sworn that was revealed as being a clone or dupe or Batman from an alternate universe or something. And that Bats was in a cave writing on walls. I mean, I didn't follow FC or RIP very much and I recall seeing those images post-events.

[AgtFox]

Bruce is very much alive in the past, but I don't know if they ever explained whose bones those were. Alterenate universe Batman is probably a good guess though.

Tim Drake certainly believes Bruce is still alive and at least the first arc of Red Robin has to do with that. Not sure anyone else thinks Bruce is still alive outside of Tim and R'as Al Ghul.

[DoctorFinger]

I could have sworn that was revealed as being a clone or dupe or Batman from an alternate universe or something. And that Bats was in a cave writing on walls. I mean, I didn't follow FC or RIP very much and I recall seeing those images post-events.You're talking about time travel, who knows when the skeleton Superman found is from. But if you read that issue, Bruce Wayne is not raised as a Black Lantern, which says something.

[zarathstra]

You're talking about time travel, who knows when the skeleton Superman found is from. But if you read that issue, Bruce Wayne is not raised as a Black Lantern, which says something.

The Black Hand was probably (rightly) terrified of the idea of a super-powered zombie Batman. There's no way zombie Bruce would ever take orders from a schmuck like Black Hand.

[Savok]

Well issue #4 previews have them
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evacuating Earth

so I expect Hal will be god modding something. There's a reason he's experienced 5/7 rings so far.

[muddi900]

Oh it's not the DP Morrison, it's more like the Batman or X-men Morrison, who kept shit simple, but was willing to shake things up in the name of a good story.

I also am wondering why we haven't seen Black Lantern Batman yet... unless of course, Bruce Wayne isn't really dead yet.

But I do have a GREAT feeling about Blackest Night, as it doesn't feel like an event comic, but a story that just so happens to have a very large scope.

Read the spoiler I posted. His role in BN is due to his "special" circumstance.

Edit: Didn't anybody notice the last panel? Or the fact that the "you" being referred to in the opening is Bruce Wayne?

[Savok]

On a side note I can't help but look at the last page and hear "the Metalocalypse has begun".

[Hawkzombie]

Read the spoiler I posted. His role in BN is due to his "special" circumstance.

Edit: Didn't anybody notice the last panel? Or the fact that the "you" being referred to in the opening is Bruce Wayne?

Thing is...why is he the dispenser of rings? Why wasn't the body raised? Some interesting questions, to be sure.

And I didn't get that from the opening...I got he was talking to the Black Lantern.

EDIT: And as for going the 'predictable route' if things are getting so F'ed up...then this would be a MAJOR event, and kinda eliminate everything FC did almost. And if Sav is right with #4 having them evacuate earth...this is major.

I'm almost expecting some deus ex machina here, because this is too major to ever have it stay cannon. This would change DC comics entirely, and it's only an 8 issue mini series with a few 3 comic tie-ins from major/important players (Batman, Superman, etc). Final Crisis did less and was led up to with 52, and several huge summer tie-ins and killed off not one, but TWO (maybe :p) major characters, and one of the 'three gods (WW, Supes and Bats)' of the DC universe. No, I think this may end predictable, but have a different effect on the DC universe and do the opposite of what everyone's expecting and revive all these heroes lost. Or at least keep them all dead and buried forever. I mean hell, the guardians are pretty much fucked. Where does that leave the Lantern Corp? That alone is pretty major.

If they don't so some super powered version of White Lantern Hal or 'Ive got them all' Hal then I'll be VERY surprised, because it seems like with him trying on all the rings it's been leading towards that. Think about it: 7 colors and black. 8 rings, one for each finger. That doesn't seem a little 'premade' to you? I'm loving this book though, and am really wanting to see what happens.

[Ghostbear]

Hawkzombie, your username is very apropos considering recent events.

[Hawkzombie]

Hawkzombie, your username is very apropos considering recent events.

LMFAO

I never even realized it until you just mentioned it.

God, now DC fanboys everywhere will think this has to do with Hawkman and Hawkwoman dying and becoming Black Lanterns in BN, instead of part of my last name and my fave monster thanks to REsident Evil XD...Seriously, that's how this name came up for my AIM name like 10 years ago...rofl.

Still...BN is making me a DC fan, to be sure.

[Spigot]

Hawkzombie, your theory of 8 rings for 8 fingers is interesting, but I can think of at least 3 other appendages that he can slip a ring on...

[Hawkzombie]

Hawkzombie, your theory of 8 rings for 8 fingers is interesting, but I can think of at least 3 other appendages that he can slip a ring on...

....

I'm never going to look at ANY lantern the same way again. Thanks man. :p

[Spigot]

....

I'm never going to look at ANY lantern the same way again. Thanks man. :pJust think about when they have to 'plug it into the lantern' to 'recharge'...

[Xerxes]

....

I'm never going to look at ANY lantern the same way again. Thanks man. :p

Just like you can't look at the Hulk the same anymore?

http://x-men.marvelcomics.pl/stuff/covers/wolverine_old_man_logan_giant-size/wolverine_old_man_logan_giant-size_@p.jpg

Yeah but what color is a cock ring!!! O_O

[Hawkzombie]

Know what bothers me the most about that pic? Not the fact that it's pretty much goatse...but the fact the hulk people are bleeding red.

I need a life.

[Savok]

Alan Moore knows his cock rings (NSFW/H (http://www.ghastlycomic.com/promotional/alanmooreyaoi2.jpg)).

[Scaryfaced]

I haven't been to a comic shop in close to 7 years now, but Blackest Night has pulled me back in. I think that reflects on the potential a story like this has. Not to mention i wasn't even a DC guy to begin with. Yet, with all the build up to BN, I've been pulled right back in. All they had to do was kill Batman, Martian Manhunter and a Aquaman, then bring them back as heart craving zombies. Well I'm back and if this story's any indication of things to come, I'm here to stay.

So I've got a question... I'm pretty much completely unfamiliar with the current GL storyline. I stopped paying attention back when Kyle became a GL and I vaguely remember Hal as Paralax. I bought and read the Infinite Crisis trade, which was...interesting, but I dont really feel like i have a grip on where GL currently is. I'm hoping someone might be able to point me in the right direction to catch up so I can understand the context a bit better. So far, I know i need to read the Sinestro Corps War, so I've gotten that far. Anyone have a few other recommendations? Any help would be appreciated. If all else fails, I'll just grill my local comic shop guys. I'd just like to hear it from someone who isn't hoping to sell me a hundred bucks worth of comics (112$ on my last trip, to be exact). I must know more about the Rage Cat! Please help!

In closing, Holy shit! I know I'm a decade out of the loop, but I had no idea a DC comic could be so damned voilent. Good thing i'm a sucker for a little gore.

[Savok]

Well I'm not going to help by saying this is what's been building up since the return of the GLC way back in Rebirth (when Hal and the Corps were brought back from the dead) in 2004.

EDIT: Oh yes, and the history of Dex-Star (http://www.newsarama.com/comics/050913-Ragecat.html) (also named Ruffles the Rage Cat by Scans Daily).

[muddi900]

Reading Order:
http://www.comics101.com/comics101//news/Comics%20101/214/rebirth.jpg
Green Lantern: Rebirth

http://prettythings.pullbot.com/artworks/387039/glsinestrocorpsvol1_medium.jpg
http://www.dccomics.com/media/product/9/1/9168_400x600.jpg
Sinestro Corps. War volume 1 & 2

http://i.livescience.com/images/GL-SecretOrigin.jpg
Secret Origins.

You can read what happened in between these, but its not necessary and it's not really as good. On the other hand, you can try Any of post-SCW GLC trades.

EDIT: Also, Why did Gibbons left halfway during SCW?

[Savok]

and it's not really as good.
I say thee nay (http://i41.tinypic.com/qr0n6q.png).

[muddi900]

I say thee nay (http://i41.tinypic.com/qr0n6q.png).

I was talking about Green Lantern. I should've said any GLC trade. GLC has been solid even with a writer change mid-crossover. But you don't really need to read them for Blackest Night. The Mongul mega-arc has been awesome

[Savok]

I'd argue Blackest Night is very much about the War of Light which has mostly been on display in GLC more then GL which has just been exposition and giving Hal rings.

[Savok]

http://diamondrock.blogspot.com/2009/02/school-of-night.html

A blog post I saw over at Scans Daily with an interesting theory on Blackest Night.

[zarathstra]

EDIT: Oh yes, and the history of Dex-Star (http://www.newsarama.com/comics/050913-Ragecat.html) (also named Ruffles the Rage Cat by Scans Daily).

Dex-Star the Rage Kitty is now my favorite lantern of all time. I like to imagine that he's vomiting scorn or disdain rather than hate, though. That just seems more cat-like.

[muddi900]

The cat is angry because no body fed him. We all know what happens when you don't feed the cat.

[Hawkzombie]

The cat is angry because no body fed him. We all know what happens when you don't feed the cat.

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[Scaryfaced]

Just wanted to throw out a quick thanks to Muddi900 for the great recommendations. I ended up buying Recharge, the Sinestro Corps War and Rage of the Red Lanterns a few days ago and plan on buying Rebirth and Secret Origin on my trip to the comic shop tomorrow. I couldn't help but blaze through the Sinestro Corps books. At this rate, most of my pay check will end up in my local comic shop's register and I couldn't care less.

[Hawkzombie]

Just wanted to throw out a quick thanks to Muddi900 for the great recommendations. I ended up buying Recharge, the Sinestro Corps War and Rage of the Red Lanterns a few days ago and plan on buying Rebirth and Secret Origin on my trip to the comic shop tomorrow. I couldn't help but blaze through the Sinestro Corps books. At this rate, most of my pay check will end up in my local comic shop's register and I couldn't care less.

Savok did the same thing for me and GL, and I hate him for it because I really am enjoying it.