If you’ve been reading Blackest Night, something quite odd happened at the start of the series. The Black Hand, one of the first Black Lanterns dug up Bruce Wayne’s skull and had been carrying it around for no apparent reason. In Blackest Night 5, we find out why.
So the entire (surviving) Justice League has gathered around Coast City, where Neckron has stashed the Black Power battery (BPB). The “White Light” Corps (WLC) shows up to save the day (apparently, the seven colors combined are one of the only things that can destroy a Black Lantern, see right to see a black guardian actin’ a fool ‘gainst the WLC and getting abso’ scribble-fied.) by attacking the BPB. With the stage set, the following happens:
Yeah, so the Black Hand has been carrying around Batman’s skull so that he could whip up a Black Lantern Batman (BLB). But of what use would a BLB be? And why now instead of at the very beginning (I hear Batman is something of a strategic fellow).
Apparently, the Justice League loved Batman so much that they instantly create “emotional tethers,” which in turn allow Black Power Rings (BPR) to be slipped onto the person, which in turn allows Neckron to kill the person, which in this case is the entire Justice League.
Damn.
You don’t think that once the entire Justice League dies that Neckron will draft them into his Corps, do you? Surely not:
Oh shi—
