Blackest Night #1

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

The issues been posted to death but we can technically still post 2 1/3 pages more from what I can tell... so a nice two page splash from the issue.

So...who's died since Barry left and came back? Ummmm....

Wow. A lot of dead people. It's amazing looking through them all. Damn. A few that pique my interest in particular are: Harbinger who was killed by Loebsday, Pariah who's actually alive now, unless we ignore Supergirl's current run, Jean Paul Valley!, Ted Kord and Dan Garrett of course, Aztek, Hector Hall (who's body should be in another dimension) and what appears to be the first Black Canary?

Also can anyone identify the guy in the upper left who has a spider motif on himself and seems to be holdingh a gun?

Comments

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Beth Chapel replaced McNider when he retired rather than died (or vanished off to the pocket dimension version of Götterdämmerung, I forget which), and became Dr Midnight (using the more common spelling of the word) around the time of Crisis on Infinite Earths in 1985.

Ironically she died before he did, in the Eclipso series, whereas, as you say, McNider made it as far as Zero Hour.

She was also an old girlfriend of Rick "Hourman" Tyler, so I'm sure she'll show up in JSA.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

Yes, I should have mentioned "not in that order," shouldn't I? She and Wildcat II got an incredibly raw deal, picked off before their predecessors.