In Blackest Night #4, the power meter is filled and Scar is able to transport the Black Central Power Battery to Coast City, and the true mastermind behind the Black Lanterns is able to step into the main DC Universe: Nekron.Īfter being introduced into a primary role within the Blackest Night event, Indigo-1 recruits Hal Jordan to gather a team capable of recreating the white light of creation (chosen for having a personal connection to the most powerful members of the five remaining Corps). Throughout the Blackest Night event, each time a Black Lantern successfully removes the heart of one of their victims, a black, lantern-shaped speech balloon (used within Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps to indicate that a power ring is speaking) depicts an ever-rising power level increasing in increments of 0.1 percent. She goes on to describe how a combination of all seven lights can restore the white light of creation and bring an end to the Black Lanterns. The events transpiring throughout the titles of Blackest Night are a result of the darkness, once again, fighting back against creation. Banished at the dawn of time by the white light of creation, its fighting back causes the white light to be fractured into the emotional spectrum. She explains that the darkness in existence before the creation of the universe is what powers the Black Lanterns. In Blackest Night #3, Indigo-1 describes the premise behind the Black Lantern Corps' fictional relationship with the universe. At the end of the issue, it is shown that Black Hand uses the skull to produce new power rings at will, creating two rings for the newly deceased Carter Hall and Kendra Saunders. Black Hand is seen holding Wayne's skull in all future appearances, embracing it in a necrophiliac manner in Blackest Night #1 as the black power rings appear from the Black Power Battery, exclaiming that Wayne's death 'plays a far greater role in the Blackest Night' than anyone thinks. It is claimed the Power Battery is in Space Sector 666. Soon after, black power rings descend upon the universe and begin reviving the deceased as Black Lanterns that attack both the heroes and the villains of the DC Universe. Hand later digs up Bruce Wayne's corpse, removes his skull, and recites the Black Lantern oath for the first time. She reveals that Hand is the physical embodiment of death, and serves as the avatar of the Black Lantern Corps in the same manner that Ion, Parallax, and the Predator are for willpower, fear, and love respectively. The Guardian Scar arrives, and creates the first black power ring, which reanimates Black Hand. Hand murders his family and commits suicide. Xander roams the desert, hearing a voice instructing him to reclaim the souls of characters who were reanimated. While being transported to prison, Black Hand experiences a sudden power surge that kills his captors. The possession of this weapon soon leads him to become an enemy of the Green Lantern Corps, as he now feels a need to extinguish the light of the emotional spectrum. Hand manages to escape and pockets the weapon as he flees. Atrocitus comes to Earth and approaches Hand, recognizing him as a 'doorway to the black' that possesses the power to bring about the Blackest Night. During the arc, Hand's energy-absorbing weapon (previously thought to be an original invention) is revealed to have been constructed by Atrocitus, enemy of the Guardians of the Universe and future founder of the Red Lantern Corps. Writer Geoff Johns revisited his origin and expanded upon certain aspects of it during the Green Lantern: Secret Origin story arc (2008). Prior to the Blackest Night event, Black Hand ('leader' and the first member of the Black Lantern Corps) had already been established as a villain within the pages of Green Lantern. The group is composed of deceased fictional characters in zombie form that seek to eliminate all life from the DC Universe. The Black Lantern Corps is a fictional organization of corporeal revenants (resembling intelligent zombies or jiangshi) appearing in comic books published by DC Comics, related to the emotional spectrum. Interior artwork from Blackest Night 1 (July 2009)

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