'Blackest Night' leads to "Brightest Day'

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This week saw the release of the final issue in the "Blackest Night" saga in DC Comics and holy crap was it good.

Spoilers ahead.

The assembled heroes are still trying to take down Nekron, when Sinestro as the White Lantern just rips his heart out.

But in a Agent Smith like move, Nekron just takes over the body of a different zombie.

With the help of Deadman they figure out they need to bring Black Hand back to life in order to stop Nekron. Hal Jordan jumps into the white light entity (represents all living things in the universe), brings back the living heroes turned Black Lanterns and together they resurrect Black Hand.

In a mirror image from earlier in the series where black rings came out of gross vomit, white rings appear from Black Hand and start flying around.

And this is the awesome part.

"Arthur Curry of Earth..."

"J'onn J'onzz of Mars..."

"Ronnie Raymond of Earth..."

"LIVE!"

Just like that, long dead heroes and villains are brought back to life in a jaw-dropping four page pull-out spread.

Why these people were chosen isn't known. Flash looks around to see if Ralph and Sue Dibney were brought back, but they weren't. I think it was as simple as proximity to where the white rings came from.

In the end Black Hand is a prisoner of the Indigo Tribe of compassion and everything is looking a bit brighter.

There is the issue of a white lantern appearing in the middle of a road on the last page.

It all leads into the new bi-weekly series "Brightest Day."