Green Lantern #51

[flint_marko]

Parallax!Hal destroys the Spectre's Black Ring, freeing him. Then Atrocitus tries to turn him into a Red Lantern.




Then the Spectre goes to take on Nekron.

"The universe will die now."

Comments

[whitecometrx7]

i understand that The Spectre is too powerful to be allowed to do anything..but must they ALWAYS have him owned so badly...

[yaseen101]

Nekron is one of those characters along with the Phantom Stranger whom I don't mind being able to own the Specter but characters like Libra, Darkseid, High Father, Dr. Fate, Metron, The Source (if it is sentient), etc should at least be able to give him a good enough fight. In Libra's case it should last only about 20 minutes or so before the Specter turns him into dust.

[nezchan]

I'm a bit fuzzy on why Necron can affect the Spectre at all. From the above, I can see him ignoring Spec, but outright banishing him doesn't make sense to me.

[theanswer]

At least when he's owned it's buy something ultra powerful and evil.

[thanekos]

first libra, now nekron

don't you know you're nothing against guys who carry around impractical-looking implements, spectre

[sarno001]

Nekron: For my will is as strong as yours, and my kingdom is as great -
Spectre: Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave!

I know I'm not the only one that thought that.

[salamangkiero]

Nekron with Connely(sp?)-boobs and Spectre with the ahtletic cup from Hell? WHY NOT?

[arysteia]

No, you were not, sir/madam. Not at all.

[pyrotwilight]

I still stick to my personal theory that Nekron is the Great Evil Beast or an aspect of him...

[yaseen101]

Since he is basically merged with God (if Wiki is to be believed), however considering Shade, Obsidian and others draw powers from it's former realm; The Great Darkness, it's not much of a stretch to say that Nekron is tapping into the power of the Great Darkness and using it to create BL Rings, it also explains his new look and everything.

Also, if I've got John's interpretation of Nekorn right, he is basically part of the natural order of things, Nekron just is. He was the first thing around when the universe was born, there was peace. Then living things appeared and ruined everything.

[zechs80]

I wonder who took Parallax that it's freaking Hammond out?

[intertobamf]

My guess? Evil Star. He was shown poking around the insides of Black Hand (for the "black power") with the alien gremlins who experimented on Hammond.

He was also referred to in an offhand comment by Blue Lantern Sister Sercy, and we all know Johns loves his foreshadowing comments.

[sinisterlink]

Aaaaargh, why did I look at this right before I'm going to bed? Parallax!Hal is going to haunt my dreams. D:

[lamashtar]

He's coming to EAT you!

[q99]

The light beasts really are playing a surprisingly small role. I wonder if their big thing is going to be brightest day.

[yaseen101]

It's entirely likely that John's wanted to keep the cast of Blackest Night small and manageable. Personally, while I think that having the various Corps Beasts taking on the Specter or the Black Hand or hell Nekron himself, I think it would have made the event look silly and cluttered plus one of the attractions of Blackest Night other than the shit-ton of 'HOLY SHIT!!' is that we have absolutely no idea how it's going to end, having 5 other beasts who are about as strong as Ion or Parallax would have been redundant.

[xammax]

Well.... this makes more sense then Libra.

[jlroberson]

Everything does.

[yaseen101]

Good Lord, can we for once have an invincible character whose job is to fight cosmic level threats actually do their jobs without getting owned in a few seconds.

I swear The Spector, Phantom Stranger and Dr. Fate are one of the most coolest yet underutilized characters in the DCU.

[intertobamf]

Well, it's a catch-22. If you have the Spectre or whoever fix everything whenever some cosmic evil comes along, then it's boring. But if you ignore them, then pedants are going to ask, "Why didn't X come in and fix the situation?"

[espanolbot]

Waiiiittt a second, how come the Spectre doesn't look like Crispus Allen?

[deepspaceartist]

Maybe BL Crispus Allen is still around somewhere?

[ian_karkull]

The Spectre is just as useless and irrelevant as the concept it represents. I like that.

[yaseen101]

There are no bad characters only bad writers.

By which I mean, I'm not calling Geoff Johns a bad writer but I happen to think the Specter is actually a very interesting concept for a character whom under the hands of a good writer and a reboot can actually fit into the normal DCU without half assed explanations or anything of that ilk.

[icon_uk]

Add me to the list of those annoyed that yet again the supposed "Wrath of God" has proved to be so monumentally sodding useless.

I'm tired of cosmic beings getting a free pass. Either the Spectre works for the Creator of the Universe or he doesn't. If the former, there should be little in this universe that can stand against him. (The Anti-Monitor being a reasonable exception as he was from ANOTHER Universe)

The Spectre nowadays seems to be the cosmic equivalent of Nightwing's role in Bat-corssovers, to basically be jobbed to show how badass the new bad guy is before someone else comes in to save the day.

[nezchan]

What does "Creator of the Universe" mean in a universe where you've got at least four or five major pantheons concerned with Earth alone? Does Yahweh outrank them or something? Did they all create the universe? Certainly they all claim to. And goodness knows how many alien Gods are out there...

[retro_nouveau]

-- while Hal Jordan is anchored to her.

I'm with Carol: What? And by "what?" I mean "squeeee!"

Curse me for not having a Carol/Hal icon available at work, have to make do with a Diana with nose-guard-tiara.

[nezchan]

Yeah, Carol's reaction should have been "Hell, yes!" instead of "What?"

[jaybee3]

Johns is dropping the Hal/Carol anvils pretty heavy throughout this event (especially with Carol staying as one of the "New Guardians" after that). I feel sorry for Cowgirl since I predict she's about to be dumped (or will be the dumper). It was nice to see Hal with a non-crazy, non-powered GF for awhile.

[silverzeo]

I always thought that HectorHammond would be an Agent Orange... after... he is orange ain't he?

[icon_uk]

You mean physically? Not that I recall, he's got standard Caucasian skintone AFAIK.

[stubbleupdate]

For the uninitiated, what is Hector Hammond?

[halloweenjack]

Dude with a big head, sort of a cross between a semi-MODOK and Professor X.

[sir_mikael]

It looks as though Spectre is trying to shove Parrallax-Hal into Carols boobs.

[jlroberson]

Well, they were close. The Spectre knows what Hal likes.

[jlroberson]

Nice to see Mahnke returning to some of the fine detail work he was doing on FRANKENSTEIN, the first time I saw his work and a style I liked. He's been relying (or inkers have) on lines that are too bold and roundy--that's really more a Patrick Gleason thing.

And if Sinestro doesn't get the message by now that Parallax just isn't that into him, well, he graduates to stalker and Parallax should take out an order of protection, I say.

[mcity]

Wait, what was Kyle doing there? Last thing I know what Hal merging with 'Lax and taking on the Spectre.

Belay that.

[mcity]

Oh, wait, that's Hal. nvm