Avarice, my friends, is a many splendored thing
I am exhausted today. I've spent the last forty-eight hours running around doing nothing but nice things for other people, and I'm completely tapped out, enervated, stressed, anxious, and just freakin' DONE
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So, I just observed below that I'm pretty sure that all the Corps but the Sapphires, Sinestro, and Green Lantern will be all nuked and dead by the end of Blackest Night. But wouldn't it be cool if DC had the balls to keep the Blues around? DC and Geoff Johns now have a problem with the Blues, and that is that they're really, really interesting. I want to read stories about each and every one of the Blues. They are suddenly far more interesting to me than your everyday GL (and you know how I love the GLs), and I'm far more interested in learning everything about Saint Walker -- how the hell do you get to be THAT incredibly pure and cool? -- than I am about the Star Sapphires or even HAL at this point.
I'm sure that Johns has an incredibly cruel fate in store for the Blues. Thus he better give us LOTS of Blues before he kills them all off. Or, even more morbid, I wonder this about the Blues: if you are a living avatar and catalyst for hope, who can literally and spiritually uplift entire planets or Corps, what happens when your own hope dies, which Johns is hinting might be the fate of the Blues? Do you suicide? In other words, I wonder if Johns is characterizing the power of the Blues as finite, because hope is far more precious and rare than rage, fear, love, everything else. Hope is fragile. So you become a Blue because you're a rare and exquisite thing in the universe, you pour out hope like a fountain, but because hope is so rare, you burn out and then, lacking all hope, you lose your will to live and blow your brains out.
If Johns does that, he and I will be Having Words.
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