ComicBinding.com » Blackest Night http://comicbinding.com A Community for Comic Binding Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:47:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Green Lantern by Geoff Johns http://comicbinding.com/mapping/green-lantern-by-geoff-johns http://comicbinding.com/mapping/green-lantern-by-geoff-johns#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:15:59 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=4133 This map is slightly less comprehensive than Corwin’s.  It still includes all of Johns’ work on Green Lantern, but I don’t include as many of the spinoffs.  I did a lot of this binding as the series was still going, and across three different binderies.  Obviously, the primary Green Lantern series mentioned here is the one that began in 2005.  The series that began in 2011 is in the final volume.

Green Lantern:  Secret Origin (HC)
Green Lantern #29-35

Green Lantern:  Rebirth (TPB)
Green Lantern:  Rebirth #1-6

The trades/hardcovers of Rebirth have the 6 page prologue that was originally published in Wizard, and much more easily found in GL Secret Files 2005.

Green Lantern Corps:  Recharge (TPB)
Green Lantern Corps:  Recharge #1-5

No Fear
Green Lantern Secret Files 2005 (main story)
Green Lantern #1-9
Green Lantern Secret Files 2005 (profiles)

Revenge of the Green Lanterns
Green Lantern #10-20

I kept the backups from #18-20 in place because the story in #18 shares a page with the end of the main story.  I didn’t feel like copying those pages, otherwise I would have grouped them together at the end of the book.

The Sinestro Corps War
Green Lantern:  Sinestro Corps Special #1
Green Lantern #21
Green Lantern Corps #14
Green Lantern #22
Green Lantern Corps #15
Green Lantern #23
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Parallax #1
Green Lantern Corps #16
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Cyborg-Superman #1
Green Lantern #24
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Superman-Prime #1 (backup)
Green Lantern Corps #17
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Superman-Prime #1 (main story)
Green Lantern Corps #18
Green Lantern #25
Tales of the Sinestro Corps:  Ion #1
Green Lantern:  Sinestro Corps Secret Files #1

Green Lantern Corps:  Ring Quest (TPB)
Green Lantern Corps #19-20, 23-26

Green Lantern Corps:  Sins of the Star Sapphire (TPB)
Green Lantern Corps #27-32

War of Light
Green Lantern #26-28
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #2 (story 1 – Red Lantern)
DC Universe #0 (3 page GL sequence)
Final Crisis:  Rage of the Red Lanterns #1
Green Lantern #36-37
Green Lantern #38 (main story only)
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #2 (story 2 – Carol Ferris)
Green Lantern #39-41
Green Lantern #42 (minus epilogue)
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #1 (story 1 – Blue Lantern)
Green Lantern #38 (Origins and Omens)
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #1 (story 3 – Indigo)
Green Lantern #42 (epilogue)

I am only including the Johns-written stories, mainly because those are the only ones I’m interested in. If I were binding the GLC series instead of getting the trades, I would put the remaining stories in there. Most of the material after the main portion of GL #42 could probably be ordered in different ways according to the reader’s preference. GLC #21-22 would be an optional arc to include after GL #28.

Green Lantern Corps:  Emerald Eclipse (TPB)
Green Lantern Corps #33-38

Blackest Night:  Volume 1
Green Lantern #43
Blackest Night #0-1
Green Lantern Corps #39
Green Lantern #44
Blackest Night #2
Blackest Night: Superman #1
Green Lantern #45
Green Lantern Corps #40
Blackest Night:  Batman #1-3
Blackest Night #3
Green Lantern #46
Green Lantern Corps #41
Blackest Night:  Superman #2-3
Green Lantern #47
Blackest Night #4
Blackest Night:  WW #1
Green Lantern Corps #42

The reading order of this volume was largely determined by the Black Lantern percentages sprinkled throughout the various issues.

Blackest Night: Black Skies
Adventure Comics #4-5
JLA #39-40
Booster Gold #26-27
Weird Western Tales #71
Catwoman #83
Power of Shazam! #48
Starman #81
The Question #37
Blackest Night: JSA #1-3

This was my volume of supplemental material that slows down the main narrative, but stories I still enjoyed.  It’s completely optional.

Blackest Night:  Volume 2
Green Lantern Corps #43
Green Lantern #48
Blackest Night #5
Green Arrow #30
Green Lantern #49
Blackest Night #6 (1-12)
Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #2 (1-10)
Blackest Night #6 (13-20)
Blackest Night:  Wonder Woman #2 (11-22)
Blackest Night #6 (21-23)
Adventure Comics #7
Blackest Night:  Wonder Woman #3
Green Lantern Corps #44
Phantom Stranger #42
Green Lantern #50
Atom and Hawkman #46
Green Lantern #51
Green Lantern Corps #45
Blackest Night #7
Green Lantern Corps #46
Green Lantern #52
Blackest Night #8
Green Lantern Corps #47
Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #3 (last story – BN #0 commentary)
Blackest Night Director’s Cut

Brightest Day
Brightest Day #0-24

This story is completely optional, as it really diverts from the main GL storylines.  If I were to redo this set, I would skip Brightest Day as a whole and just move Brightest Day #0 into the next volume.

Green Lantern:  Brightest Day
Green Lantern #53-55
Green Lantern Corps #48-52
Green Lantern #56-60
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #1-7
Green Lantern Corps #53-57
Green Lantern #61-62

War of the Green Lanterns
Green Lantern #63-64
Green Lantern Corps #58
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #8
Green Lantern #65
Green Lantern Corps #59
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #9
Green Lantern #66
Green Lantern Corps #60
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #10
Green Lantern #67
War of the Green Lanterns Aftermath #1-2
Green Lantern Corps #62, 61
Green Lantern:  Emerald Warriors #12, 11, 13
Green Lantern Corps #63

First and Last
Green Lantern #1-12
Green Lantern Annual #1
Green Lantern #0
Green Lantern #13-14
Green Lantern Corps #13-15
Green Lantern #15-16
Green Lantern Corps #16
Green Lantern Corps Annual #1
Green Lantern #17-20

The last half of this book contains “Rise of the Third Army” and “Wrath of the First Lantern”.  Most of the issues from the GL spinoff series actually did not impact the main GL series during this time.  During #17-20, Hal Jordan and Sinestro’s stories continue directly through the GL issues without skewing into the other series.  I only included the GLC issues from “Third Army” because the annual was a pivotal chapter that couldn’t be skipped, and the GLC issues before it help set it up.

I originally bound the issues between Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night in a different way:

Green Lantern:  Rage of the Red Lanterns
Green Lantern #26-28
Green Lantern Corps #21-22
Final Crisis:  Rage of the Red Lanterns #1
Green Lantern #36-37
Green Lantern #38 (main story only)

Green Lantern:  Origins and Omens
Green Lantern #39
Green Lantern Corps #33-36
Green Lantern Corps #37 (pg 1-6, “To Save Daxam…!”)
Green Lantern #40-41
Green Lantern #42 (minus epilogue)
Green Lantern Corps #37 (cover and pg 7-end)
Green Lantern Corps #38 (minus final page)
Green Lantern #38 (Origins and Omens)
Green Lantern #42 (epilogue)
Green Lantern Corps #38 (final page)
DC Universe #0 (pg 14-16)
Blackest Night:  Tales of the Corps #1-3

This book feels too choppy to me, especially since I had to bind the DCU #0 story out of order, since I had already bound the previous book.  That was a large reason why I decided to rebind and combine these volumes.

]]> http://comicbinding.com/mapping/green-lantern-by-geoff-johns/feed 0 Blackest Night cover http://comicbinding.com/art/blackest-night-cover http://comicbinding.com/art/blackest-night-cover#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:32:36 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=1056 This is the cover I’ve built for the first volume of my three-volume Blackest Night set. Volume one will be Blackest Night 0-8, Green Lantern 43-52, and Green Lantern Corps 39-46.


]]> http://comicbinding.com/art/blackest-night-cover/feed 3 Blackest Night: Tales… http://comicbinding.com/art/blackest-night-tales http://comicbinding.com/art/blackest-night-tales#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:32:08 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=1058 This is the second volume in my three-volume Blackest Night set. Volume two is all seven three-issue BN mini-series (Tales of the Corps, Superman, Batman, Titans, Wonder Woman, Flash, and JSA).


]]> http://comicbinding.com/art/blackest-night-tales/feed 0 Blackest Night: RISE! http://comicbinding.com/art/blackest-night-rise http://comicbinding.com/art/blackest-night-rise#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 19:31:39 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=1060 This is the final volume in my three volume Blackest Night Set. This volume contains all the resurrected titles and any other tie-ins for Blackest Night. (I’m not going to list them all. They’re all listed on the cover.)


]]> http://comicbinding.com/art/blackest-night-rise/feed 2 Book of the Black PDF http://comicbinding.com/art/book-of-the-black-pdf http://comicbinding.com/art/book-of-the-black-pdf#comments Thu, 15 Apr 2010 18:09:38 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=1001 Here is a 100 MB, 300 dpi PDF of Black Hand’s diary also known as the Book of the Black that I’m going to print and bind as an extra in Blackest Night.

The individual chapters were originally published in Blackest Night 2-8. The actual diary pages do not take up a full page. The image shown below is not an actual image from the PDF.

The front (odd) pages have a white line on the far left to indicate where to cut. The back (even) pages have them on the right, top and bottom. Using these as a guide you’ll have a page that is slightly larger than a comic.

You will have a much easier download if you right click and “save link as”…just clicking will open the document.


]]> http://comicbinding.com/art/book-of-the-black-pdf/feed 1 Blackest Night http://comicbinding.com/mapping/blackest-night http://comicbinding.com/mapping/blackest-night#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:04:13 +0000 http://comicbinding.com/?p=3 This is a chronological listing all the Blackest Night titles.  Once I’ve figured out how I’m going to break down my binds I will post.  Enjoy!

Key: color indicates the where the issue takes place after (in reference to the Blackest Night).
Blackest Night 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

…if there are two colors then it is in between the two issues. So Blackest Night: Batman is after BN #1 but before BN#2. This will make it much easier for people who choose only to read certain titles.

Everything in Black can be used in a Blackest Night, Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps bind.

 

Titans 15 (Not a must!)
Tales of the Corps 1-3
Green Lantern 43
Blackest Night 0
Blackest Night 1 = 0.01 – 0.02%
Solomon Grundy 7
Superman/Batman 66-67
Green Lantern Corps 39
Green Lantern 44 = 0.75 – 1.20%
Blackest Night 2 = 2.63 – 3.43%
Outsiders 24 Pages 1-4 = continued in Titans1 if you’re into splicing issues when binding
Blackest Night:Titans 1
Blackest Night:Batman 1
Blackest Night:Superman 1 = 3.44 – 3.82%
Catwoman 83
Weird Western Tales 71
Green Lantern 45 =45.43%
Green Lantern Corps 40 = 45.96 – 46.31%
Blackest Night: Batman 2 = 46.65 – 47.01%
Blackest Night 3 = 50.32 – 56.59%
Adventure Comics 4-5 (507-508) – 1st feature only
Suicide Squad 67 = 57.01%
Secret Six 17-18 = Continued from Suicide Squad
Power of Shazam 48
The Question 37
Starman #81
Blackest Night: Titans 2 = 57.03%
Blackest Night: Superman 2 = Before BN: Supes 3
Green Lantern 46 = 63.24 – 75.25%
Green Lantern Corps 41 = 85.26%
Blackest Night: Batman 3 = no clear issue it happens before…yet.
Blackest Night: Superman 3 = 93.01%
Green Lantern 47
Blackest Night: Titans 3 = or after BN:4 depending on your Bart/Barry conversation preference
Blackest Night 4 = 93.88 – 100.00%
Blackest Night: Titans 3 = I prefer having things revealed in the main series then the mini
Teen Titans 77-78 =  fits anywhere after BN1,  78 refers to BN: Titans, Batman and Supes
Outsiders 24-25 = After BN: Titans & Batman no clear issue it happens before…yet.
Green Lantern Corps 42 = 100.00%
Justice League of America 38 = Dr. Light I resurrected in BN:3  in JL Headquarters in BN: 4
Justice League of America 39-40 = no clear issue it happens before…
R.E.B.E.L.S 10-11=can move GL47 after BN:4 to align Sinestro’s appearance in GL47 &  11
Doom Patrol 4-5
Blackest Night: JSA 1-3 = issue 3 kills all Black Lanterns in NYC
Booster Gold 26-27
Blackest Night: Flash 1 = or before BN:4 depending on where you prefer the 100% reveal
Blackest Night: Wonder Woman 1
Green Lantern 48
Blackest Night 5
Green Lantern 49 = 2nd story
Green Arrow 30
Green Lantern Corps 43-44
Phantom Stranger 42 = after GL 49 (2nd story), before GL 50
Green Lantern 49 = 1st story
Blackest Night 6 (1/2) stop Mera rage
Blackest Night: Wonder Woman 2(1/2) = stop WW flies off leaving Mera
Blackest Night  6 (2/2)
Blackest Night:Wonder Woman 2 (2/2)
Blackest Night: Wonder Woman 3
Green Lantern  50 = (1/2) stop Scarecrow, “All I just need this ring.”
The Atom & Hawkman  46
Green Lantern 50 = (2/2)
Green Lantern Corps 45 = can go before Atom & Hawk
Blackest Night: Flash 2-3
Adventure Comics 7 = can be moved up depending on where see BL: superboy show up  last, can happen before BN: WW
Green Lantern 51
Blackest Night  7
Green Lantern Corps 46
Green Lantern 52
Blackest Night 8
Green Lanter Corps 47: Blackest Night Epilogue

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