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.”