The one clue we have – assuming DC Direct has access to some style guides – was that the solicit said Nekron would be 7.25″ tall. I don’t think a height has been published for Nekron in his modern incarnation, so we’re left to look at the art and decide what size he should be. I enjoy his characters, but I tend to cringe a little bit when he’s crafting a larger DC mythos. It makes sense in the mythology Johns has been building, but honestly, I’m more a fan of Johns’ storytelling style and pacing. As for his look and his association with death? Well, since light equates with life, darkness equates with death. He’s been schooled by Hal, Kyle, Captain Atom, and Wonder Woman to name a few and to make him an ultimate GL villan, Johns had to give him a bit of an update.īefore light came into being, there was darkness, right? Well, in the way that Johns has created a variety of new avatars to be the embodiments of the various spectral colors (emotions) of refracted light, Nekron is the embodiment of darkness / nothingness – created in response to the Guardians and their harnessing of the light. He was created back in 1981 as the “Lord of the Unliving”, a decrepit ruler of the dimension where souls pass through before going to their final destination. Before Geoff Johns found a role for him as the latest architect of the DC Universe’s destruction, he was a powerful, but minor, villain with only a handful of appearances under his belt. If you just came out of a three-year coma, Nekron turned out to be the primary villain behind Blackest Night, DC’s 2009/2010 event. He offers some flexibility with his size, so I’ve opted to pick up DCD’s version. Though I’ve been tempted by the idea of a Black Lantern JLA, I’m sticking to the oversized aliens not likely to get DCUC love.
NEKRON LORD OF THE UNLIVING SERIES
Though I took a pass on the Series IV figures, I’m not done with DC Direct’s Blackest Night line.
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