Zombies are hot. For whatever reason, every scary movie out of Hollywood has a distinct desire for brains. Which begs the question, what is the only thing better than zombies? Superpowered zombies, of course. The undead now walk in our funny books. This is an introduction to DC’s Blackest Night.

Blackest Night is a DC-wide crisis that spiraled out of the Green Lantern books. Green Lanterns are basically space cops who all sport a green ring limited only by the ringslinger’s willpower. Recent events have pitted the Green Lantern against a rainbow coalition of other Lanterns–Red powered be rage, Yellow powered by fear, Orange powered by greed, Blue powered by hope, Indigo powered by compassion, and Violet powered by love. Yes, I’m getting…

Y: The Last Man, a 60 issue collection of comic books by Brian K. Vaughn (Lost) and Pia Guerra, has been popping up around the mainstream this past year in a couple places. Its first issue’s cover art is one of the pop culture-infused posters hanging in Chuck Bartowski’s bedroom on the NBC series Chuck. But what really got me really wanting to read Y: The Last Man was its appearance on Lost.

Every couple of episodes, the mind-bending TV series will show a character reading something that may give a clue to the show. The fifth season episode “316″ brought a second Spanish comic book into the mythology by showing Hurley peeling through the pages of the trade paperback “Volume Three:…