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Geoff Johns gives us one final prologue before Blackest Night with Green Lantern 43: Tale of the Black Lantern. Secret Origin showed us a tiny bit of the beginning of the Black Hand, and Hal Jordan (and the Spectre) hit him pretty hard in Green Lantern Rebirth. Now we finally get to see what happened that would make William Hand an eligible candidate for the Black Lantern Corps.

Johns’ writing combined with Doug Mahnke’s pencils make for one hell of a comic book. It seems as though Johns has been writing everything for DC comics lately; so much in fact that his name’s presence on the cover of a TPB recently inspired a friend of mine to point at the aforementioned paperback and yell “Go Away!” Luckily, I am not yet as jaded as he is with Geoff’s fantastic work, but it would be nice to see some new blood tackle some of the larger events in the DCU.

GL 43 does as it advertises in providing a good starting point for Blackest Night to take off from. I have read BN 1 and Tales of the Corps, and I can’t wait to let you know how I liked them! Stay Tuned!

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