{"id":2392,"date":"2009-12-04T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2392"},"modified":"2009-12-03T01:04:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T06:04:34","slug":"alan-moore-blackest-night-sinestro-corps-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/04\/alan-moore-blackest-night-sinestro-corps-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Moore Inspired Blackest Night and Sinestro Corps War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I didn&#8217;t realize until very recently that Alan Moore inspired much of the <em>Sinestro Corps War<\/em> and <em>Blackest Night<\/em> stories.\u00a0 I had no idea!\u00a0 Turns out that Moore wrote a short story entitled &#8220;Tygers&#8221; in <em>Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Annual<\/em> #2 back in 1986.\u00a0 This 12-page story featured the creation of many of the elements that play heavily into the <em>Sinestro Corps War<\/em> and <em>Blackest Night<\/em>.\u00a0 Only Alan Moore could influence so many future <em>Green Lantern<\/em> comics with so few pages.\u00a0 Obviously this short story resonated tremendously with Geoff Johns, enough so that he incorporated nearly all of it into his <em>Green Lantern<\/em> run.\u00a0 Here is a rundown of the items Alan Moore created for this short story that resurfaced again during Geoff Johns tenure on the series:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Sodam Yat\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sodam_Yat\">Sodam Yat<\/a> (a.k.a. Ion)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ysmault\" href=\"http:\/\/greenlantern.wikia.com\/wiki\/Ysmault\" class=\"broken_link\">Ysmault<\/a> (Home world of the Red Lanterns)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"The Five Inversions\" href=\"http:\/\/greenlantern.wikia.com\/wiki\/Five_Inversions\" class=\"broken_link\">The Five Inversions<\/a> (of Ysmault)<\/li>\n<li>A tremendous war in which the Green Lanterns are devastated (possibly the <em>Sinestro Corps War<\/em> or <em>Blackest Night<\/em>)<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Ranx the Sentient City\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ranx_the_Sentient_City\">Ranx the Sentient City<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Children of the White Lobe\" href=\"http:\/\/greenlantern.wikia.com\/wiki\/Children_of_the_White_Lobe\" class=\"broken_link\">Children of the White Lobe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Empire of Tears\" href=\"http:\/\/dc.wikia.com\/wiki\/Empire_of_Tears\" class=\"broken_link\">The Empire of Tears<\/a><\/li>\n<li>An explanation for <a title=\"Abin Sur flying a spaceship\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abin_Sur#Post-Crisis_explanation\">why Abin Sur was flying a spaceship<\/a> when he died (also touched upon in the recent <em>Green Lantern Secret Origin<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below is one page from that story.\u00a0 This one page represents a large majority of Alan Moore&#8217;s creations that play into recent <em>Green Lantern<\/em> storylines.\u00a0 Click the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/gl_moore.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Green Lantern Blackest Night origin by Alan Moore\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/gl_moore2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"756\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can find the entire 12-page story reprinted in the trade paperback, <a title=\"Green Lantern: In Brightest Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dccomics.com\/dcu\/graphic_novels\/?gn=10192\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>Green Lantern: In Brightest Day<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 This is a good one to get because Geoff Johns selected all the stories in the trade and provided commentary on each.\u00a0 A great companion piece to the <em>Blackest Night<\/em> storyline.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Tell the world about ONCE UPON A GEEK:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2392\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/04\/alan-moore-blackest-night-sinestro-corps-war\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" 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