As the artist on The Flash: Rebirth, Ethan Van Sciver has his hands full this summer, redefining the Flash universe with his frequent collaborator, writer Geoff Johns.

The project is the second “Rebirth” effort from the two creators, having previously resurrected Hal Jordan in Green Lantern: Rebirth. And it was that “rebirth” that also gave new birth to the ideas now spinning toward Blackest Night, the DC’s headline summer event.

Starting with Green Lantern: Rebirth, readers first saw the concept that fear was behind the “yellow impurity” that had hindered Green Lanterns for years. Then that idea led to the creation of a much broader concept – that emotions have energy that can be harnessed, and the energy of those emotions is represented by colors besides just green and yellow.

That idea became the driving force behind the 2007 Green Lantern storyline, Sinestro Corps War, which culminated with a prophesy that is now coming true.

In this second part of our two-part interview with Van Sciver, we talk more about his contribution to the concepts and visuals that are now coming into play in the Green Lantern universe. While we talked to Van Sciver Thursday about the symbols he created for the corps in the War of Light, today we get into a little more detail about the costumes, characters and weapons of the lanterns that are dominating the stories on the road to Blackest Night. Check the link above to read more.

As the Green Lantern comics get closer to Blackest Night, the whole DC Universe is becoming further embroiled in the prophesized “War of Light.”

At the center of this war is the concept that emotions hold power, and that the energy of those emotions can be harnessed by ring-wearing “lanterns.” Each of these seven distinct emotions have a color associated with them, so when a “lantern” wields the energy of hate, that power manifests as red, or when a lantern wield the energy of hope, that power manifests as blue.

The concept came from the mind of Geoff Johns, the writer on Green Lantern since he relaunched the comic in 2005, soon after bringing Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps back to life in Green Lantern: Rebirth. As he developed this idea, his collaborator was then-Green Lantern artist Ethan Van Sciver.

Along with the colors associated with emotions are the symbols – usually worn on the chest of those Lanterns who wield the emotion’s energy. Click on the link above to read more.

In the first of a two-part interview with Van Sciver about the origins of these concepts, we talked to the artist about how he designed these symbols that have become so popular that it’s hard to walk through a comic book convention without running into someone wearing it on his chest.

DC Comics has released their previews for July 2009 as Blackest Night begins and Batman Reborn continues.

At a hotel near the Baltimore Comic Con last September, Geoff Johns and Rags Morales were walking together, smiling as if they’d just resolved something important.

“You remember seeing us and asking us what we were up to? We created a merger,” Morales said with a laugh. “We discussed many projects, but the one that we’ll be starting off with is that I’ll be working on Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps. I’ll be working on those three issues with Geoff. And then we’re planning to work together on a future project as well.”

After two years of waiting, the moment Green Lantern fans have been waiting for is almost here. This July, Blackest Night will sweep across the DC Universe, summoning a horde of intergalactic zombies to devastate the living.

IGN has been at the front line of Blackest Night coverage exclusively revealing covers and information pertaining to the big event. Today we’re debuting even more. You’ve seen the covers to Blackest Night #1 and the Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps mini-series, but new today are the covers to all three Green Lantern books shipping in July. Be sure to check out the cover for GL #43. It’s absolutely wicked.

There’s plenty more on the way from IGN, so be sure to check back often as DC’s big summer storyline approaches.

DC Comics’ new blog The Source has posted the first look at the cover pencils for “Blackest Night” #1. Check it out!

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Hal Jordan first becomes a Green Lantern. While under the supervision of senior Lantern, Sinestro, Jordan discovers his so-called mentor is part of a secret conspiracy that threatens the entire Green Lantern Corps. Directed by Lauren Montgomery.

I along with the other members of the Green Lantern Spotlight Blog recently did an interview with Cosmic Book News. Check it out on the link above.

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Green Lantern Corps artist Patrick Gleason and the artist of the “Agent Orange” arc of Green Lantern, Philip Tan, were both in attendance. Below is a video with some clips as well as a bit of the DC Nation Panel, in which three minis were announced for the as-yet unreleased Blackest Night Checklist Part Two: Wonder Woman, Flash, and JSA.