SPOILER ALERT - THIS Major DC Comics Superhero Will Become White Lantern

DC Comics has a history of letting the advertisements for their related merchandise spoil the stories in the comic books themselves.  If you remember, many people first learned that Martian Manhunter J'onn J'onnz was going to become a Black Lantern because of the ad for his action figure put out by DC Direct.

Well, they've done it again.  This time its the folks at Heroclix, who put out some teasers for their new line celebrating DC Comics 75th Anniversary.  Heroclix has really done a tremedous job in capitalizing on the Blackest Night and Brightest Day events by releasing sets very quickly. 

So who is set to become a White Lantern?  The answer is Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow. 

Now Green Arrow was a White Lantern for a couple of pages in Blackest Night as well, and while that was a cool moment, I don't think that moment alone gets you a heroclix, but maybe I'm wrong.


What I do know is that at the end of the most recent issue of Green Arrow, we see Oliver Queen laying on the ground near the tree with the White Lantern Symbol. He also coincidently has an arrow shot directly through his skull. That's hard to recover from, even if you have a good health care plan.

So, right now he is dead, but I don't really think he's going to stay that way?  Do you?

So instead you bring back Green Arrow in the next issue -- as a White Lantern.

Is this yet another case of the tail wagging the dog, and scooping the story with related merchandise advertising?  Seems like it to me.  This doesn't seem like a hard problem to solve, but it seems that DC Comics is having a very hard time figuring it out lately.  Hopefully that changes soon.

Did Heroclix Just Give Us a Brightest Day Spoiler?

Heroclix.com has just announced a Brightest Day follow up set to the just released Blackest Night Starter Pack.  (as a sidenote, gfest owns the Blackest Night set and we love it).  Click on the Heroclix on the side for a large image.

Coming in October of this year, the set will be a similar seven piece starter set. The most interesting figure of the set though is J'onn J'onnz, who is shown as being half black lantern.  

For those reading Brightest Day, its obvious that something is amiss with the heroes and villians who returned from the dead.  But are they REALLY returned from the dead?  Seems like you can't technically be alive if you're half Black Lantern. 

Awesome Set of Blackest Night Custom Heroclix

Let's be honest, ebay is full of cool stuff for comic book fans.  But this guy took more than 60 heroclix fugures, and customized them to make them members of the Black Lantern Corps.  I imagine this is exactly the kind of work Michelangelo would be doing were he alive today. 

The guy even made a Bzzd Heroclix!  That alone makes him our hero.

Have a spare $900 laying around?  Check out the full set on ebay here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/y9g5yk3

 
 
The Official Blackest Night from Heroclix - not $900!!