Blackest Night has been roaring through the minds of comic book fans this week. Yesterday Blackest Night #2, Blackest Night: Batman #1 and Green Lantern Corps #39 hit store shelves. Additionally IGN was able to

But we're not done yet. Today we're able to exclusively bring you the cover to Blackest Night #5. That cover just so happens to pull back the curtain on the big player responsible for the Black Lantern Corps.Still wanting spoilers? Fair enough. The Blackest Night #5 cover reveals the big bad guy is, as some had speculated, Nekron , a relatively obscure Green Lantern villain that debuted in 1981 in the pages of Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #2. Many of you are likely scratching your heads at this point. That's okay, so were we. To provide a little more perspective on this powerful entity, and to give some context to his role in Blackest Night, we contacted the one and only Geoff Johns . The Blackest Night writer chatted exclusively with IGN about Nekron and gave us some great clues for the future of the series. Obviously Johns wants readers to discover the biggest secrets within the event itself, but there are several really interesting clues in the following interview.And stay tuned to IGN for more Blackest Night coverage. Tomorrow we'll debut pages from Blackest Night: Superman #1 and have a second interview with Johns about Blackest Night #2.

Blackest Night #5 Cover"Who is Nekron?" He's the reason the Guardians swore to protect the universe. You'll more about that later.So many people have been asking who is behind this – long time readers are like, "Is it Nekron?!" And I've been close-mouthed, not for any other reason than I wanted the first issue to be out and I wanted people to see how kick ass he looks now thanks to Ivan Reis and Joe Prado before saying, "Yes, we'll be using Nekron!" So revealing him on this cover and spurring people to start searching the Internet and their comic shops for everything about Nekron is a lot of fun.For me it honestly was never a question. If I was going to do a Green Lantern storyline about the dead rising, the character I was going to use was going to be Nekron. He's pretty obscure, but like Black Hand, Sinestro and Hector Hammond – you know, these characters that had been a little under the radar for years or even decades – he's someone I wanted to pull out and reimagine and rebuild. And again as you're seeing, Ivan has done an incredible job, along with Joe Prado, on redesigning the character.All you need to know about Nekron is that he is one of the most powerful dark forces in the universe… if not the most powerful. He is the darkness. He's someone I've wanted to explore for a while. But you'll learn more and more about him as the series goes on. It'll all become clear as you read more… but he's not really a villain. Nekron is existence.Yeah, he's very different.That's his own personal battery. He's not that big. –laughs- The cover is more symbolic than anything. He's big, but not 100 feet tall.That's all about who he is, where he's from and his existence. Again, he's the reason the Guardians had to protect the universe – he's the first evil that they ever attempted to imprison.Yeah, Nekron's the big boy. There are a lot more surprises coming up though throughout this story.Oh, could be…No problem!