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Are Black Lanterns mindless Zombies? BLACKEST NIGHT Editor Eddie Berganza knows

Friday, September 25th, 2009

By Eddie Berganza

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NO.

In a very brief interlude with the mighty mite super-hero, the Atom, as he inexplicably jumped out of my phone, I was able to discuss the true nature of these creatures and assemble this list of why the Black Lanterns are not just the undead.

Zombies attack mindlessly.
Black Lanterns have all the characteristics of the living, just meaner.

Zombies growl and don’t speak.
Black Lanterns are nasty taunters.

Zombies want flesh, particular ones want brains.
Black Lanterns seek only our hearts feeding on emotion.

Zombies either shamble or run.
Black Lanterns can float.

Zombies wear the tattered remains of their clothes.
Black Lanterns accessorize their Black Rings with a dark version of their
clothes or costume.

Zombies can be stopped by chopping their heads off.
Black Lanterns reconstitute any limb that is severed.

Zombies have no purpose for rising from the grave.
Black Lanterns …. Do.

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18 Responses to “Are Black Lanterns mindless Zombies? BLACKEST NIGHT Editor Eddie Berganza knows”

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  2. kennypick says on September 25th, 2009 at 2:34 pm :

    Oooooh! That’s Niiiice! So how about spilling the beans to which book this cover belongs? JSA Blackest Night? A future Robinson JLA issue?

  3. deviantdata says on September 25th, 2009 at 3:03 pm :

    Wow, that’s my new favorite Blackest Night image so far! I’m loving all the attention to the Ray Palmer Atom these days.

  4. lanternfan2814 says on September 25th, 2009 at 3:03 pm :

    kennypick

    here ya go

    http://comics.ign.com/articles/102/1028341p1.html

  5. batmanners says on September 25th, 2009 at 5:46 pm :

    that skin is so nasty. i love it.

  6. meisterlegion says on September 25th, 2009 at 6:11 pm :

    Zombies say: “Tastes like Chicken!”

  7. zombieted says on September 25th, 2009 at 8:11 pm :

    I love this cover!! Great image!

  8. kauffinbauchser says on September 25th, 2009 at 9:12 pm :

    very educational

  9. drewber2635 says on September 26th, 2009 at 12:04 am :

    Im guessing that is the cover to either Blackest Night: JSA or Blackest Night: The Atom…hoping its BN:ATOM :)

  10. prestond says on September 26th, 2009 at 12:55 am :

    So they’re not the textbook definitions of zombie, but they’re still zombie-like.

    Marvel Zombies don’t fit half of those guidelines but Marvel still calls them zombies. Black Lanterns are super zombies!

    I’m not saying it’s wholly unoriginal or that I’m not digging Blackest Night, but I think it’s a little silly to deny that Black Lanterns aren’t based on or do not resemble the concept of zombies.

  11. asti316 says on September 26th, 2009 at 2:49 am :

    It’s the Variant for Blackest Night 4

  12. madmarva says on September 28th, 2009 at 8:57 am :

    Don’t know anything about zombies, but Atom does make a tasty treat.

  13. polly_says says on September 28th, 2009 at 11:59 am :

    marvel zombies have eye balls falling out or are decapitated heads that still talk….thats a zombie. These couldn’t be more different, or original….if you are actually reading you would pick up on this.

  14. prestond says on September 28th, 2009 at 9:01 pm :

    So, just to list one example, Psycho Pirate’s hole in the face with his eyeball dangling out isn’t at all similar to your example of “eye balls falling out or are decapitated heads”?

    Yeah, I’m pretty sure you’re the one whose not actually picking up on things.

  15. asti316 says on September 29th, 2009 at 2:45 am :

    Psycho Pirate doesn’t have a hole in his head, he was brought back fully restored, he only has a hole in his head on the front cover to intice ppl to buy the book.

    So you are the one that whose not picking things up.

  16. eldonte says on September 29th, 2009 at 2:13 pm :

    Black Adam poked psycho pirates eyes out the back of his head. thats how he died. dc showed some of the black lanterns in early advertisements with their fatal injury visible a la the early martion manhunter ad

  17. prestond says on September 29th, 2009 at 4:20 pm :

    Ok, so I was wrong about that, because yes I did just go off the covers. (I’m only buying the core title and Green Lantern).

    But that still doesn’t change the fact that their whole nature, which is coming to life and yet attaining a whole new destructive and murderous personality instead of a straight-up resurrection, mirrors the concept of zombies.

    I’m not calling Black Lanterns zombies (nor am I saying this isn’t a really cool idea and interesting series so far so no need to be defensive), but to say that they are completely unrelated to zombies is just denial, and I laugh at anyone who says this is a completely original concept.

  18. polly_says says on September 30th, 2009 at 10:30 am :

    Thank you asti316…

    Infinite Crisis, Black Adam

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