William’s fascination with death grew to untold heights, leading him to a life of crime and general disorder that he could not rise above. After continuity changes adjusted his origin for a new audience that saw him as the son of a couple that owned a coroner’s office and funeral home, William retained the same outlook on his family that he held before the wipe: he didn’t care for them and considered himself to be the black sheep of the family. With the entity of Death under Nekron’s thumb, the Black Lantern Central Battery begins to vomit up untold numbers of black power rings that spread across the cosmos to an army of the dead hell-bent on exterminating all life.īefore becoming the herald of the Black Lantern Corps, Black Hand was a macabre child obsessed with mortality. But in a calculated twist of fate, the now completely evil Scar, stating that William is ready to become the embodiment of the Black Lantern Corps, resurrects the man with the very first black power ring. These disembodied voices (really just Nekron messing with his head) eventually forces William to murder his family and then turn his energy absorption rod on himself, erasing his own life. While William had battled Green Lantern Hal Jordan in the past with a device that could absorb and redirect his green light of will (more on that later), William’s penchant for death could not be denied as he begins to hear voices of the dead telling him to do things that he had only ever dreamed of.
Enter Black Hand, aka William Hand, the eventual harbinger of the Black Lanterns and herald for death itself.
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