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There’s a lot of ways to “spoil” a comic for readers, but most devotees don’t want major plot points revealed to them via toy advertisements. That is exactly what Diamond did this week. The distributor bloopered big time by revealing two of the Black Lanterns from DC’s highly anticipated event Green Lantern – Blackest Night. In their advance solicitation for the new Blackest Night toy line in there print catalog Previews and online listing at DiamondComics.com they revealed series 1 and 2 of the new DC Direct toys. Normally, the advance order form will black out major characters that have not been revealed in the comic, so as not to ruin the surprise for readers. The photo posted above is how it was supposed to look. Unfortunately, a non-blacked out ad made it to print, leaving many Green Lantern fans in an uproar. If you want to spoil it for yourself, here is a link to the exposed Blackest Night toy line. Without revealing the Black Lanterns, the other figures in the line include:

From Blackest Night series 1:
Alpha Lantern Boodikka
Red Lantern Atrocitus
Blue Lantern Saint Walker

From Blackest Night series 2:
Green Lantern John Stewart
Sinestro Corps. Yellow Lantern Kryb
Indigo Lantern (unrevealed character)

I’m not much of an action figure collector, but this line looks really cool. Since I’ve already ruined it for myself, I mine as well say now that I know who one of the Black Lanterns is, it is a really interesting choice of characters and has me even more excited for the series to begin this coming summer.

-Jon

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