Green Lantern #43

The Origin of William Hand aka The Black Hand. Wasn’t Bruce Wayne, as issue 0 of Blackest Night implied. Despite the oppositions between the character’s backgrounds.

Even from an early age, he displays his madness, making his family dog a part of stuffed animal collection, like Norman Bates.

Obssessed with the Green Lantern’s own costume after an encounter with Artocitus, Hal Jordon and good guy Sinestro, he makes his own his uniform out of a body bag. Which is more plausible to me then Batman Returns, where Michelle Pfeiffer made a costume entirely out of a black leather jacket.

Throughout his life, the alien species behind The Black Lantern where telling him to do bad things. He also has a recollection of the heroes and villians deaths and rebirths in the DCU.

The story concludes with Will blowing his family away with the Diving Rod and kills himself to prove his worthiness as the herald for the power of death.

Next is The Resurrection of Martian Manhunter. Good prologue to the mini series, my only gripe is during the flashback to Superman’s demise, Lois Lane’s hair is red. Makes it look like Lana Lang was the only cradling him after the epic Doomsday battle in Metropolis.