I can't see a damned thing with this black lantern

At the end of the whatever-the-hell-the-major-story-arc-was dominating the Green Lantern books in late 2007, DC ran several teaser panels of up-coming events, up to and including "Blackest Night - Summer 2009." With great excitement and anticipation, I thought, "Yay! Martin Lawrence is doing a sequel to his Greatest Movie Ever!!" But alas, it was not to be. "Blackest Night" has nothing to do with the urban(e) comedy stylings of Mssr. Lawrence.
"Blackest Night" is the culmination of several stories revolving around the rise of several other ring-bearing corps of various colours and power sources. It seems that different colours correspond to different feelings or emotions. The Sinestro Corps have yellow rings that are powered by fear. Red Lanterns are fed by rage. A veritable rainbow of lantern corps are forming, running the gamut of sentient emotion. Fear, rage, hope, love, boredom, ennui, sarcasm and, uh, playfulness, I guess. Then lastly, the absence of all feeling and emotion, the Black Lanterns, representing Death.
Since the initial announcement, the hype around Blackest Night has snowballed, steamrolling through the DCU, rolling like a big, steamy snowball, flattening extraneous plotlines and picking up leftover bits from the last five years of "Events."
And we'd expect nothing less from Geoff Johns, the Brian Michael Bendis of DC Comics. Johns did for Hal Jordan what Bendis did for Luke Cage. He's currently doing for Barry Allen what Bendis is doing for Jessica Drew. And "Blackest Night" should do for the DCU what "Secret Invasion" did for Marvel 616 (because, let's face it, "Final Crisis" left readers slightly less than satisfied and feeling like the guy with a steak knife at the vegetarian buffet).
Lately my DC pull list has consisted mainly of Geoff Johns' books and related titles. He has a sense of scope and long-term planning to his writing. Like Bendis, when he signs on to write a comic book, he seems to be in it for the long haul. "I'll write this book until I run out of stories to tell." That's a refreshing change from writers who sign a contract for a twelve issue run on a title and we're all supposed to be thrilled when, around their eighth or ninth issue, they sign on for another six, then they're done.
Don't get me wrong; I love Mark Millar's writing whenever it happens and I enjoyed Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men. I even liked Kevin Smith's stuff on Daredevil and Green Arrow. I just really love the moment when you're reading a comic and there's a big reveal of some major plot twist and you remember seeing the clues three years earlier. That's just quality story architecture and it impresses me.
Also like Bendis, Geoff Johns seems to able to adapt and absorb other writers' storylines into his longterm plots. Apparently every DCU character who has died in the last few years will be returning as a Black Lantern when "Blackest Night" gets into full swing in July. Earth-2 Superman, J'onn J'onz, that little yappy dog that got crushed under a giant robot's foot in a back up story in an unpublished issue of Blue Beetle's Burlesque Bonanza. There's gonna be a whole bunch of dead folk rising from the grave to kick the little blue asses of the Guardians of the Universe. "Blackest Night" promises to be big.
Even bigger than you might suspect.
Recently Marvel began running some teaser ads in their comics. A white star standing out starkly against a background of black. Across the bottom of the page, the ominous words, "JULY 2009." Upon closer examination, a chainmail pattern was discernible on the black background.
This can only mean one thing.
Black Lantern Captain America.
Awesome.
DC doesn't have enough dead superheroes of their own. They have to borrow some corpses from the competition.