Ya gotta "HAND" it to him...

[generator_rex]

Previously in Green Lantern: the Secret Origins of the Indigo Tribe is revealed to be Abin Sur's Anti-Guardian Army and is a hive of scum and villiany. So basically Sinestro Corp, but with more redemption. Then the "guardian" of the indigo power battery turned off the lights and released an army of sociopaths.
An Army whose ranks included...


William "Death Fetish" Hand a.k.a. The Black Hand!!!
So Hand wakes up and finds himself not being an avatar of Death incarnate, so he freaks out and runs off while the other now free indigos pig pile on Sinestro.

In Hand's defense if I suddenly woke up on an alien world after having just been part of a interstellar chain gang, after having just been dead, I'd run too.

Of course then the power turns back on.


Wait, was flight part of his power set?


Guess not.



So... yeah... umm... BACK IN BLACK!

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

Your pics aren't working. :(

[q99]

I'm getting nothing but 'bandwidth exceeded' signs.

[generator_rex]

Sorry, I exceed my photobucket's bandwidth, so I switched the links to another account. Hope it works now.

[q99]

Yes, it works :)

[terrykun]

Daaaaaang... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUH3JQjcweM

[md84]

Let's just hope this isn't Blackest Night 2.0. The story wasn't a bad one per se, but I'd like to see something new.

[q99]

I hope not either, but if there's *one* Black Lantern, it should be him.

[darkknightjrk]

Even if it is, at least it'll only be two issues and an annual instead of a huge mega-event.

[lascoden]

Hm, I like the developments that this arc had. I like the way that the Indigo Tribe selects their members, as it helps distinguish the Corps. Each seems to have a different method of selecting members; as Violet picking those who lost love, Yellow picking those who spread fear, and now Indigo picks those without compassion. And as long as Hand is the only Black Lantern bopping around, I'll be alright with it.

Also: Nice narration. Got a good laugh out of it. :)

[md84]

The qualifications for a Black Lantern are way too simple: dying with regrets. The only one disqualified from that in the entire universe was Dove, an incarnation of peace.

[icon_uk]

Not quite true, the Rainbow Raiders committed suicide deliberately aiming to become Black Lanterns, but they failed and just... died... Not because they had no regrets, but because their deaths triggered no strong emotion (Since Flash had barely even met them)

[thormonger]

The Black Lanterns were selected due to their emotional connections to heroes, villains, etc. As icon_uk mentioned, the Rainbow Raiders found that requirement out the hard way.

[kraesil]

And, um... that means somebody around cares about Hand enough to feel something when he died?

[generator_rex]

Hand was different. He was the physical embodiment of death. He's like Ion or Paralax.

[drexer]

They were selected then due to their emotional connection because it was that which helped Nerkon accomplish his goals. Like md84 said, the qualifications are just being dead, whether there is any interest for the Black Lanterns to resurrect the specific character is another thing altogether.

[thormonger]

Well, Nekron did choose to turn resurrected heroes (Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Arrow, etc.) who were very much alive at the time to turn into Black Lanterns. But yeah, for the most part, the victims had to be dead before the rings landed on their fingers.

[drexer]

Yeah, but he did it by opening a connection between their "death's" and their "life's" through their emotions of a dead Bruce, so he was kinda of resurrecting their corpses by connecting them emotionally to their own past mortality.

[flint_marko]

You can only post four pages from a new issue.

[shadowpsykie]

so how DID the power turn back on?

[magus_69]

The Battery was rebuilt. Hal ran into the "Guardian" and browbeat him into doing it.

[shadowpsykie]

hmmm that seems kinda easy... didn't it take forever to rebuild the GL battery?

[lascoden]

Well, they did need a spark of genuine compassion to do so, which is apparently really hard to come by.

Ah, FFFF-

[silverzeo]

You think this is going to lead to a reboot from the reboot to make things BEFORE the reboot, since the reboot killed so many storys and characters?

Re: Ah, FFFF-

[red_menace]

Well, they did it once already...

Re: Ah, FFFF-

[eyz]

Mmmh... actually, I fear a Blackest Night 2.0.....but I'm okay with it if it brings back the ol' DCU!

Re: Ah, FFFF-

[terrykun]

"Yo dawg, we heard you like reboots..."

[espanolbot]

Ah, I remember Hal's Spectre days when he just fed up of Black Hand's antics and just turned his ring hand into charcoal. This made even Ollie, who tends to maim a lot of villains with his arrows, think he went a bit too far.

Wonder how BH regrew a hand after that...

And there's the time he kidnapped the Mist 2's son because he'd decided that doing ACTUAL supervillain work is too hard, so blackmailling others to do it for him would be a lot easier. Then M2 teamed up against him with Mary Marvel, which probably must be the only time that a member of the Marvel Family ever teamed up with an actual rapist to save someone.

[thormonger]

Black Hand was abducted and operated on by an alien race (the same ones who modified the Shark and Hector Hammond), and he came back able to absorb life energy, which in turn allowed him to temporarily regrow his hand. Between the black and white rings, his hand was completely restored.

The Spectre tended to be a lot harsher in punishing criminals than Hal was, and it didn't help that he was being influenced by Parallax.

[espanolbot]

I liked old school Spectre, it was like having an EC Comic character roaming around in the background of the DCU. Hal!Spectre was... not as hardline as the original, but the most recent one was just as harsh as the original but he tended to be more "fair" if that makes sense. Everyone got punished, though not to the same level of severity.

I did really like the mini-film that they made for the character, which appeared to be a combination of Seventies cop and horror movies with a dash of things like the Twilight Zone. And I would admit that I probably would watch a Spectre movie or TV show.

[icon_uk]

Didn't they explain it with something like Jim Corrigan's Spectre was the Spirit of Retribution, Hal Jordan made the Spectre the Spirit of Redemption.

[thormonger]

Yes, but Green Lantern: Rebirth showed that Parallax was influencing Jordan!Spectre to be harsher by that point (hence, Black Hand's blackened hand). Even before that, The Spectre and Hal were at odds over the new role.

[icon_uk]

Well, that was more because making Hal Jordan the Spectre in the first place was a staggeringly dumb idea IMHO...

[thormonger]

The 90s were a bad time to be Hal Jordan.

[thormonger]

Thanks for posting this. It saved me the effort, and it definitely needed to be shared. Another fine "Oh Crap" moment from Geoff Johns.

Mod Note

[salinea]

What flint_marko said, you are limited to 4 pages on any recent issue. Please, remove one of the scanned page, or we'll have to delete the whole post, which would be a shame.

Re: Mod Note

[generator_rex]

Okay. Removed the Least important page to my post.

Re: Mod Note

[salinea]

thanks!

[amaresu]

This almost makes me want to catch up on the main Green Lantern title. I do like the Indigo Tribe.

[mrstatham]

Oh for God's sake. Can Johns actually develop ANY other ideas in his run other than 'the emotional bullshit spectrum'? It really just makes him look pathetically self-indulgent, since nearly every other character and franchise has taken a hit, been remodelled or had things done to their history, and yet everything Johns worked on is still in place? Total bullshit and a conflict of interests with his position in the company.

[icon_uk]

Whilst I agree the emotional spectrum business has been done to death and we need something beyond that and the Guardians being cosmic scale prats, I think they can point to the success of the GL revamp he masterminded and the impressive sales of the Blackest Night and Brightest Day events. Sales conquer all...

[mrstatham]

Oh, no, I'm not denying that Johns is part of the reason Green Lantern as a property reached the point WB thought it was movie-worthy, but I would like to see the point where he actually tries to go beyond dealing with the emotional spectrum and actually uses villains who don't employ a coloured counterpoint to to Corps themselves. As it is, nearly every issue of Green Lantern since the relaunch has basically been shackled to the emotional spectrum.

But as you say, sales conquer all, and to a degree, I suppose it is to Johns' credit that people have continued buying Green Lantern whilst Sinestro has basically been the lead character. I just wish.. Well, that there were more ideas. But it just feels like Johns is incredibly single-minded in his approach to stories. Everything in his Flash run built to Flashpoint and then he ditched the Flash, only to pick up the threads in Justice League. Green Lantern all built up to Blackest Night, and it feels like he's been coasting since. Aquaman, so far, has been thankfully free of this.

[darkknightjrk]

I actually still really like the emotional spectrum stuff, but I do agree that it would be cool to see him do something a little different in the GL book, or at least have those in the Spectrum have to fight a different kind of enemy. Maybe the Third Army will do something like that.

[kraesil]

I don't think he's flying, just jumping off the cliff. Suicide.

And frankly. COMPASSION is bad? Either that or Green is. Or both. What has the world come to? Bleh!!!!

[generator_rex]

I was aware of that. I was making a joke based on the way his body was positioned and to set up Hand's death. Also it looks more like he ran off the cliff trying to get away from the ring, rather than intentionally juming off it.

[thormonger]

I suppose it's bad if you're a monster who's forced to feel remorse for your crimes in the process of being turned into an Indigo Lantern. For everyone else, though, it sounds like a good thing.

It does make Ray Palmer's being deputized in Blackest Night interesting in retrospect, though.

[shadowpsykie]

so wait... he generated his own ring again?

[icon_uk]

Or else the Black Lantern Corps Power Battery is still active somewhere.

[bruinsfan]

How does that even work? Wouldn't the Anti-Monitor have been outside the effects of the latest reboot?

[thormonger]

Nekron could have provided it as well, given his singular connection to Hand.