The last thing Garfield Logan remembers was fighting Black Lantern Trigon. He had less than 24 hours of life, only so long as that deputy ring remained, but he was going to make it count. He was going to save the world.

But then... that white light. And Raven going after Trigon... and the explosion...

Am I dead? he wonders. I... felt like I ( Read more... )

Nekron has failed. The power holding the Black Lanterns together has failed. They are dying.

But Trigon, even as a Black Lantern, has never been one to give up so easily. He reaches into the very essence of the universe...

... and portals begin opening through Hypertime all around the gathered battling Titans.

Tula skids when she hits the dirt, tumbling head over heels until she collides with a particularly large rock. There isn't a part of her that doesn't ache right now, and she doesn't even have the energy to keep up her protective field. Someone - it doesn't matter who anymore, every person here is a fallen friend puppeted by a black ring - grabs her ( Read more... )

Most of the world's heroes have gathered in Coast City. But the Titans have gathered somewhere else ( Read more... )

Codville, ME

The little fishing village of Codville never had more than a couple hundred residents. The population declined as its youth went to the cities to find higher-paying work, and the big trawlers and large international corporations depleted the fish.

Amid the falling-down, abandoned houses, and boarded-up stores, there is a small marble and ( Read more... )

Filthy Lucre takes place shortly before Blackest Night:

"The Business and Heroing worlds have been rocked today with news of the death of Steven "Mento" Dayton, head of Dayton Industries and former associate of the hero team Doom Patrol. As conflicting reports come in, it is difficult to discern rumor from fact."

"Dayton started as grandson of ( Read more... )

The city of San Francisco is VERY accommodating when they broadcast that two Titans are aboard and that there's a impending terror attack at the peace conference ( Read more... )

"...continuing coverage of the events of Bludhaven, where cleanup crews led by current and former members of the hero group Teen Titans have unearthed the bodies of both the costumed hero known publicly as Nightwing and the terrorist known as The Red Hoodwithin a day of the initial attack. Repair and construction crews have worked for the ( Read more... )

Dayton is still fighting dizziness and the effects of doing way more with the helmet than he's done in years. It's going to be a short hop by plane back to San Francisco ( Read more... )

The "party" of sorts has been assembled. Mento, Changeling, Robotman and what appear to be three ordinary activists.

After making their way out of the prison wing of wherever they're being kept, they're all on their guard. There didn't seem to be anyone guarding the prison wing.

They reach the only exit - a thick metal door at the end of a long