Blackest Night

"Blackest Night"
Absolute Blackest Night's cover, art by Ivan Reis.
Publisher	DC Comics
Publication date	June 2009 – May 2010
Genre	Superhero Crossover
Title(s) Blackest Night #0–8 Blackest Night: Batman #1–3 Blackest Night: Superman #1–3 Blackest Night: Tales Of The Corps #1–3 Blackest Night: Titans #1–3 Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1-3 Green Lantern (vol. 4) #39-52 Green Lantern Corps (vol. 2) #29-47 The Titans (vol. 2) #15
Main character(s)	Hal Jordan Carol Ferris Barry Allen William Hand Thaal Sinestro Atrocitus Larfleeze Saint Walker Indigo-1 Ray Palmer Jason Rusch Mera Nekron the rest of the DC Universe
Creative team
Writer(s)	Geoff Johns
Penciller(s)	Ivan Reis
Hardcover	ISBN 1-4012-2693-0
Paperback	ISBN 1401229530

"Blackest Night" is a 2009–10 American comic book crossover storyline published by DC Comics, consisting of an eponymous central miniseries, written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, along with a number of tie-in issues.^[1] Blackest Night involves Nekron, a personified force of death who reanimates deceased superheroes and seeks to eliminate all life and emotion from the universe. Geoff Johns has identified the series' central theme as emotion.^[2] The crossover was published for eight months as a limited series and in both the Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps comic titles. Various other limited series and tie-ins, including an audio drama from Darker Projects, were published.