**Reposted from the ML Archives**
While Marvel Comics was the first to take advantage of zombies’ growing popularity by zombifying some of their most beloved heroes in Marvel Zombies, DC has now joined the fetid flesh party with Blackest Night. Unlike Marvel Zombies, in which Marvel lets the action take place outside the normal settings of the Marvel universe, DC has firmly placed Blackest Night as a seminal event in the DC universe that will impact most major DC titles.
Blackest Night’s major story tie in/connection to the DC Universe is to concepts introduced in the Green Lantern series, where each of the different colored power rings represents a different emotion. The Black Lantern and the zombies that are referred to as the black lanterns are seeking to remove all emotion and life from the universe. In Blackest Night, the physical embodiment of death brings forth the black lantern corps by resurrecting dead heroes with black power rings to eliminate both emotion and life from the universe. Much like the Marvel Zombies, the resurrected DC heroes seem to be near unstoppable. The series sports fantastic art, which does an amazing job of making the resurrected, menacing undead look removed from emotion and life.
DC has taken a nontraditional zombie storyline, thrown it into a universe of superheroes, and made it work very well. Without giving away too much of the story, when the series comes out as a TPB it is highly recommended for teen and adult library collections, and will be definitely fun to trot out as part of a larger Halloween display.