…why does someone think this is a good idea?
Yes, it appears that Batman will become a White Lantern. This whole “Technicolor Lanterns” idea may well be jumping the shark if it’s not too late. Don’t get me wrong. Outside of the Red Lanterns puking blood, I actually don’t have a problem with the other colors getting Lanterns of their own, but does everybody we already know have to be a Lantern of some kind?
Also, when I looked at the Wikipedia entry for this series, apparently there are a series of tasks that various characters have to perform. Copy/paste…go!
Labors of the Twelve
The Entity reveals that it is dying and that the twelve heroes and villains were resurrected with the express purpose to complete a task before they can truly live again.
The tasks are as follows:
- 1. Deadman – Locate “the chosen one” that will take the Entity’s place.
- 2. Hawkman – Prevent the Queen of Hawkworld from leaving its place.
- 3. Hawkgirl – Prevent Hath-Set from killing Hawkman.
- 4. Martian Manhunter – Burn down the newly-formed forest on Mars.
I have to ask what the reason is because I really don’t want to waste spend money on this series, and I’m not a journalist. That seems kind of cruel for the entity of life to for J’onn to destroy a sign of life on his planet.
- 5. Aquaman – Locate Jackson Hyde before Xebel’s Death Squad does.
In other words, the Reptil of the DC Universe, Aqualad 2. Both seem to have been created for a show and added to their respective comic universes for no good reason.
- 6. Firestorm (Ronald Raymond and Jason Rusch) – Learn from each other and defeat the Black Lantern Firestorm (currently calling himself Deathstorm) in the Firestorm Matrix before he destroys the Entity.
I’m actually kind of curious as to how that is supposed to work. I’m not sure how the “Firestorm Matrix” is supposed to work, or if Firestorm is still supposed to be Gaia’s “fire elemental”.
- 7. Hawk – Catch the boomerang that Captain Boomerang throws at Dawn Granger.
- 8. Professor Zoom – Free Barry Allen from the Speed Force. His labor was already completed in The Flash: Rebirth.
- 9. Captain Boomerang – Throw a boomerang at Dawn Granger.
OK, new confusion. Ignore the whole “free Barry Allen” stuff, because that rant’s been done, and will probably be done again. Can somebody who is following this story tell me why Captain Boomerang has to throw a boomerang at Dawn Granger (the superhero and Hawk’s counterpart Dove), and Hawk has to catch it? Is the Entity trying to start a new game?
Yeah, I know there’s probably a reason. I just felt like being snarky. 🙂
What fate? Let’s just say it involves more screwing up the Marvel family and makes me even more disappointed that Billy Batson & The Magic of Shazam! has been canceled. Oh, and the rescue apparently involved Osiris killing people. He wants to be a hero. Counterproductive, but that’s how the new DC likes it.
- 11. Maxwell Lord – Prevent Magog from plunging the world into war.
I don’t even know where to start.
- 12. Jade – Help her brother Obsidian to “balance the darkness” and save their friends from an unidentified threat which was revealed to be her own father Alan Scott. Her labor was completed.
The Wikipedia entry on Alan Scott needs a grammar check, but I think Eclipso and the Starheart entity that gives Alan his version of the Green Lantern powers are involved.
But it all comes back to why is Batman going to be a White Lantern? Yes, I know a number of heroes resurrected over the years became a White Lantern during Blackest Night and the Black Lanterns are going to be brought back (again, why?) but did Bruce feel left out? Is there any point to this event? Is there a point to ANY event these days outside of a marketing gimmick mentality that reeks of dead horse?
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