One last Blackest Night nugget

[sigma7]

Re: the Blackest Night #5 cover and revelations, just two words: called it.

And I went off about one aspect of the myriad chromatic corps in a comment to daethkow that bears repeating, but in short: I hate the oaths --

There is nothing magical, profound, evocative or even moderately interesting about the AABBCCDD rhyme scheme anymore, Geoff. If I'm making my own Corduroy Lantern Corps and I would like it to not be a watered-down ditto-mark version of the GLC, I dare say I would (a) eschew having an oath at all (b) probably just make an oath a random garble of obscenities (c) just scream (d) at the very least I would not use the same goddamned rhyme scheme every time. I'm going to go out on a huge limb here and say that, yes, the idea of the blood-spewing, hate-saturated Red Lanterns having an oath at all beyond WHARRGARBL is insipid. The GLC oath is tolerated because it's tradition and it's corny but we forgive the things that endure. I suffer enough abysmal poetry in the real world, I don't need to see Ragecat and Ranx the Sentient City suffering from antiquated rhymes unless they're writing for the Jonas Brothers (which would explain a great deal).

Revelation: Oh, God, there already is a Corduroy Lantern Corps: the FFA. Suddenly zombies aren't quite as scary as they used to be.

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[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Said mastermind was actually used to decent effect in the Captain Atom comic, where Cap was going through purgatory and encountered Death in three aspects: as end of things (classic hooded spectre), as welcome release (Gaiman's Death making a rare out-of-Sandman appearance) and as Cosmic Threat (our mastermind).

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I remember that ish -- also notable for Rick Flagg in a posthumous appearance. (I never read the follow-up.) And from what I remember, Gaiman more or less disavowed that interpretation, saying that Death is death, essentially -- disappointing, because the aspects-of-death (including Black Racer, IIRC) tied together pretty well in that story.