Clark (who turns 5 next week) and I have been reading Blackest Night together. Not word for word; I summarize it for him. He has plenty of Green Lantern toys, he has seen the movie, we watch Brave and the Bold every week... so he's quite a fan. After reading one of the books, he likes to draw what he remembers as the best scenes. The following scans were entirely from his memory, and I did not suggest any content. The one time I did suggest something (the finale to this week's issue 7), Clark declared it too hard because it involved a lot of white and white crayons are no good for coloring.
This is the first drawing, the one that really caught me by surprise because I told him about this scene weeks before he decided to draw it. It's when Flash (in red) and Green Lantern were escaping the flying Black Lantern rings... and Flash was carrying GL along, running so fast that the rings lost contact and fizzled out.
Here's Black Lantern Wonder Woman about to shake off the black and embrace the violet light of the Star Sapphires. Flash is now in his Blue Lantern togs (note the little blue lightning bolt earpieces!)
Scarecrow, flush with Yellow Lantern powers, runs his light-construct-pitchfork through Black Hand.
Boy, I glossed over this scene and Clark remembered it anyway. In the book, Nekron guts a Guardian and uses his organs to summon the white light Entity. Clark's version is a bit cleaner.
As we were reading, Clark was much impressed with this scene. Sinestro stops Green Lantern from approaching the Entity with a giant construct of himself. We've seen Sinestro in multiple media forms, so he's one of the characters that Clark knows pretty well... the concept of a bad guy who used to be a good guy is black-and-white enough that Clark totally gets it.
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