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Well well well. I'll be if this isn't some interesting news. The return of dead titles? That's a clever bit of trickery. A great idea, really. If they have to skip a month (and I'm going to cut Ivan Reis some slack because it looks like he's actually going to finish this big event without any help) this is certainly a clever way to do it. Let us exam each resurrected title in turn:
The Power of Shazam! #48: Black Lantern Osiris? Yes please. But could that really be all? Do the members of the Marvel Family have any other serious dead adversaries? I can't think of any... But there's always Billy and Mary's parents...
The Question #37: Ah, I've been waiting for this since Blackest Night was announced. No one else could write it but Greg Rucka. I'm wondering how exactly they'll do the Black Lantern Question. Most of the Black Lanters are distinguished by their gruesome faces. That won't work with the Question...
Suicide Squad #67: Booyah! More John Ostrander Suicide Squad is always good. And there are a lot of dead guys on that team...
Phantom Stranger #42: I loves me the Phantom Stranger. And Peter Tomasi does good work. This is a definite buy.
Catwoman #83: Black Lantern Black Mask, eh? I suppose it was inevitable... But I didn't see it coming. Sometimes my prognostication skills are better than other times.
The Atom and Hawkman #46: Oh, this oughta be fun. The Atom stuck up against three Black Lanterns? One his loopy, loony, murdering ex-wife? Craazy.
Weird Western Tales #71: Black Lantern Jonah Hex will be worth the price of admission alone.
Starman #81: This is the biggest surprise, I;d say. I never thought James Robinson would ever return to Jack Knight. But there you have it. I hope it lives up to the standards of the original series.
Which one are you looking forward to the most?
Really, I can't imagine this panel being in anything other than a Starman story.
Anyway, I need to let you all know that the Absorbascon is now on hiatus. I've enjoyed it and I hope you all have, too.
No, really; Starman saved Shakespeare from being kidnapped. Starman doesn't go in for abstracts or metaphors.
Here he is telling a suspect to confess or
he'll use the gravity rod...
to RIP HIS FACE OFF.Really; you did not want to mess with Starman.
Do you think Starman is dependent on the gravity rod?
"I-- I swear, Doris: this has never happened to me before!"
You know, if this were anyone else, I'd say that sounded almost like... panic. But it can't be panic, because that's Starman. So it must be... DRAMA!We're talking about the Golden Age Starman, the hero who once defended himself against a bear by hitting it with a tiger. Starman doesn't need the gravity rod to beat the crap out of you. He'll do it with whatever objects happen to be lying around. And the more embarrassing they are the better (like Aquaman, Starman knows that it is not enough to merely defeat criminals; you must publically humiliate them).
"You cowardly rats have no understanding of conversational grouping!"
I can't recall ever seeing a hero bounce a gun off someone's face before.It's delightfully disrespectful.
Do you have any idea what one of those costs? You can tell Ted's really rich.
Whenever anyone at Joliet asked Charlie how Starman defeated him,he'd lie and say he was hit with a tiger.
Ted-- don't quit your day job. 
Starman uses a magnifying glass to burn some young O'Dares, like the ants they are.
Today's topics: the incomparable Starman!
Drama, thy name is Doog
Vurm, infuriated
Starman provides my birthday list
You fiend!
I have seen the Light
The Green Arab
Starman versus the Nameless Underling
Assist me to the couch!
Drama beyond verbs
Overshadowed by the Light
Starman's poetry cosmic
Starman did everything first.
Radio drama
The Living Death
Haiku and Farewell
I dare not relax for an instant
Hello!
Another reason to love Starman
Starman versus the bear
Starman leads the 300
Starman sasses you derisively
Starman explains it all for you
Starman requests peer review
Starman saves Colonel Taylor
Starman gets oomphy
Starman goes shopping
Meanwhile, outside the Opal City Megamall, we find the Golden Age Starman, just done picking up his weekly order of stellar cartography supplies from Starmart, when suddenly he espies a passel of the Green Arab's men, trying to heist a shipment of Crisis Heroclix on their way to the local Big Monkey. "The Green Arab's men! Probably after the highly resalable super-rares and chase figures; well, now they'll get a chase figure they didn't expect!"
After beating them senseless with his bare firsts and wit-wielding bravado, he uses his astonishing cosmic rod to levitate the truck back toward the loading bay, while instructing a local girl scout troop to truss up the bandits handily, in expectation of the arrival of Opal's Finest.
Just another ordinarily shopping trip for the Golden Age Starman, who then searches the parking lot for the Star-car so he can head back to the observatory with his purchases...
do you trust to save us from
the Terrorist Threat (tm)?
BARACK OBAMA?
Obama wades onto an enemy shore, stripped for action
and armed with nothing but Hope
and some hastily cobbled together domestic policies!
JOHN MCCAIN?
McCain's principal weapons in the War Against Terror (tm)
are Grit and a daily can of spinach.
You vote for whomever you want...
but I'm voting for:
STARMAN!
