In Blackest Night

I've been on board with the War of Light stuff since the Sinestro Corps storyline, so I'm as excited as anyone about its culmination in Blackest Night. But I have to ask... is it a good idea?

I'm not talking about execution. I admit to having gore fatigue when it comes to Geoff Johns' stuff, but that's neither here nor there. I'm not talking about coming in late to the Zombie meme already over-exploited by Marvel. I'm talking about the ramifications this event could have on the DC Universe and its properties.

Now, obviously, I don't know how it'll end, but it seems to me that either the Black Lantern Corps members will wind up being resurrected for good or they won't. Those that are get a new lease on life, and certainly, characters that died very recently (and abruptly), are probably first in line to be reborn: Martian Manhunter, Jonathan Kent, and some prominent characters killed in Blackest Night's first issue, for example. Aquaman too.

And they can't all be resurrected for good. That would just be too much, and would undermine entirely too many stories.

However, it's still those that won't be reborn that I find the most problematic. In superhero comics, there is always a chance a character will cheat death. Note that despite a "resurrection event" like this being in the wings for the past couple years, characters have still been reborn by other means - Bart and Barry Allen, Ice, Superboy, Jason Todd, etc. But characters depicted as zombies in Blackest Night will be shown to POSITIVELY be dead, leaving not much room for resurrection later, at least not without satanic intervention or Crisis-type reboots.

Is this a good or a bad thing? On the one hand, dead should be dead, characters' deaths should be permanent and meaningful (a mixed message if it comes out of THIS series). On the other, does it close doors it shouldn't? Had Blackest Night happened a few years ago, would that have meant no Flash Reborn? No Oliver Queen? No Kilowog?

So mixed feelings here... What do YOU think?