DC Comics has put out the first word on a really impressive set that’s coming out on November 17th, 2020 with the Blackest Night Brightest Day collection. This box set will feature a twelve-volume series of hardcover graphic novels that make up the Blackest Night and Brightest Day events from a few years back. They come from a range of writers and artists and covers a lot of really fun event material. Though no full display of what’s included is available yet, we do know the breakdown and that the set will be priced at $299.99.
What’s included:
- Blackest Night: Prelude collects Green Lantern #26-28 and 36-43, and Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1
- Blackest Night collects Blackest Night #0-8 and pages from Untold Tales of the Blackest Night #1
- Blackest Night: Green Lantern collects Green Lantern #44-52
- Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps collects Green Lantern Corps #39-47
- Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Book 1 collects Blackest Night: Batman #1-3, Blackest Night: Superman #1-3, and Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1-3
- Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Book 2 collects Blackest Night: The Flash #1-3, Blackest Night: JSA #1-3, and Blackest Night: Titans #1-3
- Blackest Night: Rise of the Black Lanterns collects The Atom & Hawkman #48, Phantom Stranger #42, Green Arrow #30, Adventure Comics #7, Starman #81, The Question #37, Catwoman #83, Weird Western Tales #71, and The Power of Shazam! #38
- Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps collects Blackest Night: Tales of the Black Lanterns #1-3, Adventure Comics #4-5, Untold Tales of the Blackest Night #1, stories from Green Lantern #18-20, 40, and 49, Green Lantern/Sinestro Corps: Secret Files #1, Tales of the Sinestro Corps: Superman-Prime #1, and pages from Blackest Night #0
- Brightest Day: Green Lantern collects Green Lantern #53-62
- Brightest Day Book 1 collects Brightest Day #0-11
- Brightest Day Book 2 collects Brightest Day #12-25
- The Book of the Black collects sketch material (both previously released and new), series proposals, variant covers, posters, Blackest Night outline scripts, and more.
Plot Concept: A war has been brewing between the different colored Lantern Corps, with the Green Lanterns fighting the Yellow, the Red trying to destroy everything, and the Blue attempting to broker peace among the tribes. But the real battle is yet to come: the undead Black Lanterns are coming and seemingly nothing can stop them. Putting aside old vendettas, it’s up to Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps to lead DC’s greatest champions as well as their deadliest foes in a battle to save the universe from an army of the dead. Then, once dead heroes Aquaman, Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Deadman, Jade, Osiris, Hawk, Captain Boomerang and Zoom must discover the mysterious reason behind their return and uncover the secret that binds them!
