thehefner | Bean Lanterns

THE BLACKEST NIGHT "DRINKING" GAME IS UNDERWAY.

So as you can see, I've had to go with team affiliations rather than strictly adhering to color. Trying to find beans to correspond to the Blue Lanterns, Indigo Tribe, and Star Sapphires were tricky. Thankfully, the great

nymphgalatea stepped up to the plate, suggesting I use light and strictly blue-blues for the Blues, dark blues and purples for the Indigo, and pink the HELL out of the Star Sapphires.

My local candy store also lacked a comprehensive selection of Jelly Bellies (they had most, but it would have been nice to get, say, "Grape Crush"), but I dare say I made do.

So what do we have here, you ask?

Well, as you know, DC is about to unleash their epic comic saga, THE BLACKEST NIGHT, featuring the war between the Color Corps. So to make things even more fun, we've come up with this "drinking" game!

Here's the goal: for every Lantern member who shows up, you eat a corresponding bean!

In case you don't know the various Corps, here they are:

And so what beans do we have to go with each Corps?

WILLBEANS

Green Apple, Kiwi, Margarita, Watermelon, Sour Apple, Sour Watermelon, Mango, Lemon Lime, Juicy Pear (all three of which really flirted with being Fearbeans, but that's the risk of all Green Lanterns, is it not?).

HOPEBEANS

Blueberry, Berry Blue, Sour Blueberry, Sour Raspberry

FEELBEANS

Island Punch, Plum, Sour Grape

LOVEBEANS

Bubble Gum, Cotton Candy, Strawberry Cheesecake, Strawberry Daiquiri, Candy Cane, Tutti-Fruitti, Sour Strawberry

RAGEBEANS

Sizzling Cinnamon, Very Cherry, Pomegranate, Raspberry, Red Apple

GREEDBEANS

Cantaloupe, Sunkist Orange, Sunkist Tangerine, Orange Sherbert, Sour Orange

FEARBEANS

Crushed Pineapple, Sunkist Lemon, Lemon Drop, Pina Colada, Top Banana

DEATHBEANS

Wild Blackberry, Grape Jelly, and a smattering of Licorice. Because much as I hate licorice in anything not-absinthe, it just had to be this way.

And if we do eventually see the rise of one or more White Lanterns, thankfully there are plenty of options for LIFEBEANS: A&W Cream Soda, Cafe Latte, Coconut, and French Vanilla. Mmm.

Oh hell, let's see this one again, but bigger!

That's the stuff.

Now, if I were truly bold and wanted to give this a serious Russian Roulette flavor, I'd have bought a pack of these and sprinkled them in with the appropriate colors. But no, alas. I want to have a good time. And really, that really requires someone else to laugh at you when you end up eating a Rotten Egg jelly bean. Besides, only about half of them are comparable with the ones listed above.

Regardless. Bring it on, DC. Bring. It. ON.